incorporating the DRAM AWARDS 2020
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ell, the first-ever Scottish Bar and Pub Awards virtual event actually was a great success... mainly because, I think, it captured the surprise of the recipients as someone rocked up to their door... someone from within their tier. It was certainly one of the most stressful nights of my life... it was live, there was no second takes... once we got going, we got going. When our award winners were two floors up, we waited with baited breath to see if they made it to the door in time and sometimes we had to go past and then go back. I think the very precarious nature kept everyone glued to their screens. I would like to say massive thanks to everyone involved – to Emma Speirs who volunteered to help with the tech, to my brother's team at the Drum – Director Nick Creed and Dani Gibson, my sister Nicola and to the team at Sparkle who designed the platform which ran on zoom … it allowed us to be sociable. And to everyone that doorstepped - the two Jamie’s, Rachel, Katrina, Mike, Amanda, Fiona, Cheryl, and the two Jennifers who coincidentally also had the same surname (and that got coifnusing!) To our room host the Wm Grant’s team who ran a terrific ‘Play your DRAMs right’ Lynn Kelly, Josh Barr, and Emma who took on the karoake room... And of course to our sponsors who continued to support us, and you, through this and I hope you will continue to support them. To everyone that attended, those that mastered the complexity of table and room jumping, well done. To our winners, in fact to all our finalists – you all deserve a medal. And to Beverley Lyons who kept it all together. I asked her to present because I know how good she is at ad-libbing – she definitely had to do a bit of that. I sincerely hope that now a vaccine is on the way that we can plan for next year and I hope that our next awards are totally live – or my nerves may not cope! Here's to next year, well-done everyone.
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