Bette Verte: Bette Midler Goes Green
GLOBAL warming quote of the day: Bette Midler…
“Over the years, the number of trucks that I have behind me has grown exponentially and I don’t really like that, I don’t like wasting the gas,” she told me on a promotional trip to London.
“Fourteen trucks, that’s a lot of gas. So I decided I’d stay put for a while,” she added.
It gets better…
Surely moving equipment in trucks is unavoidable for a touring show, I ask her?
“I can avoid it,” she says, shaking her head, and going on to provide an impressive list of her green credentials that would put most celebrities to shame.
“I don’t drive much, I have a Smart car, I have a hybrid, I drive a [Toyota] Prius,” she says.
It’s the wind beneath her wings that powers her on…
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October 3rd, 2008 at 5:39 am
Yep! It pisses me off that celebrities need all the trappings of a US Election these days.
Why bands have to have their very own amps and speakers and lighting rigs and cyclarama and mike stands and chairs and mobile homes and kids and creches and husbands and boy-friends and more wardrobes than they can wear and their own thousand litres or so of their favourite bottles of water and curtains and stage-sets etc., etc.. etc. is a complete fucking farce.
If a band or a singer is any good or remotely charismatic - that’s good enough to get their arses up on the stage without all the fancy lighting and stage sets and the entourage of bollocks to support their increasingly mediocre acts.
They should treat everything like a jam session and live without all this sh*te nowadays. Or just cast something onto the web that we can load down.
Half the stadia see people sat so far away from their idols that they would be better off watching them at home on a portable TV anyway!
Good for you Ms Midler! Let’s hope people take a leaf out of your book - or use the perfectly adequate equipment that is in-house in virtually every town and city in the World!