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Will the Massive help me spend £45,000,000?
I've just had a win on the lottery and am wondering how to spend my winnings *
Just what can I do with all that money?
I have already got my eye on Nicholas Cage's Midford Castle near Bath. Handy for a VIP tent at Glasto next year. I've put a bid in on eBay for one of Christiano Ronaldo's old Ferraris. Better not be the one he crashed on the way to training. Then there are the VIP tickets at the O2 Arena for Bon Jovi next June. Mere petty cash at £1300 each AND I get to go backstage and mingle with the roadies.
But I am stumped on what else any self-respecting old rocker and Word reader would spend that sort of cash on. Who would I have to play at my 55th birthday party? The Who? Do I buy a box at an arena for entertaining my Massive chums or should I just buy an arena?
While you are thinking up some worthy causes for my largesse perhaps you would like a glass of whisky. I've just opened a bottle of The Macallan Fine and Rare Collection, 1926, 60 Years Old. Would only set me back $38,000. Cheers!
* I can dream, although I did win £1 on a scratchcard last week...
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I used to get people to play
I used to get people to play "my 3 dream houses", and mine have tended to be:
1. Left bank-near Place de la Sorbonne
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sorbonne_.jpg
2. Aspen-near the Independence Square Hotel, which has a rooftop jacuzzi
http://aspen.indysquare.supertour.com/#p=172608&f=359&th=10
3. Russian Hill
http://www.russianhillvalues.com/
Not much change (if any) out of 45 million, or much originality, but it's still probably what I'd do ...
Good game
I'd like
1 Great Pulteney Street in Bath
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pulteney_Street
2 Grand Canal, Venice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canal_%28Venice%29
3 Nob Hill, San Francisco
Same deal really as your Russian Hill
Even less original but equally, exactly what I'd go for if money was no object
I would timeshare
but I think we'd both want Paris and Venice at the same time ...I'm just glad I've been to these places, really.
PS can't locate either Barb Jungr singing Quarter Latin
or Julie Christie in the prow of a funeral gondola but take them as read.
10 Million in the bank
for essentials!! The rest to be ploughed into Brentford Football Club, I'd be Chairman, Manager and centre forward.
The Bees
When you're planning the new stadium, could I request that you name one of the stands after Alan Hawley or Chic Brodie.
That's fine with me
for my era though I would insist on a Terry Hurlock terrace and a Stan Bowles Bar and Casino!
Those waitrose
essentials do add up, don't they--one minute it's just a few porcini mushrooms, next thing you know it's the think end of 45 mil ...
slip us a Mil son
then I can retire and stop hating my bosses and the government, plus there's some King Crimson remasters I need
Give it to Lloyd's
come on - they need it more than you do
well, I won £17.70 on the Euro this week
albeit on 2 lucky dips, total price £3.00, but I also won £15 on an instant online lottery win for a £1 stake, taking my total to approximately £30.00 FOR NOTHING! So long, suckers!
Get in Chabs!
I won £87 on last night's lottery - must be something in the Geordie water!
Do I know you?
who are you?
Don't think so
Just noticed you're from my neck of the woods, that's all.
I've got an idea
Why don't you buy a few thousand subscriptions?
£45M
Surely if one of the Massive was the winner s/he could do a bit more than just "buy a few thousand subscriptions". S/he could buy a stake in Development Hell (on condition that only bearded men appear on the cover), finance an Egg Friday album, make sure that The Love Trousers headline Glastonbury and still have enough left over to buy Van Morrison a new harmonica that is un-sullied by any member of his band.
Yes, I will discuss it with my accountant
and take a charitable interest in The Word, leaving all decisions in the hands of the current team/board/minions. I would follow the example set by Rupert Murdoch and respect the editorial independence of his publications.
Here is next month's cover photograph. Crun is the bass player of Stackridge and a jolly good chap. Y'hear?
What, with 87 quid?!
Ok, If I win a sizeable amount on next weeks Lottery, I'll buy subscriptions for all my friends: literally spreading the Word.
For that money
I wouldn't buy the remasters, I'd buy the masters.
I would also buy a Premiership footballer, put him in the back garden, and just look at him every so often.
Oh, and that would also pay for the insurance premiums on a selection of knackered old cars which I would reinforce and then drive deliberately into anyone parked on double yellow lines with their hazard lights flashing.
Why is everyone
so coy about squandering their lottery millions all this tasteful property buying why tie up all the cash when it could be spent on hotels and room service (4k a day interest)?
The appeal of the lottery is predicated on the power that untold fortunes will bring and people waste it on buying a house one street away from the sea at Sandbanks!
So in my intemperate youth I would have had Keane whacked but I'll settle now for buying Moonface and the boys musical silence.
Next up years wading knees deep in flesh and excesses followed by a penitent trawl round the great pictures of the world. Possibly excoriating the flesh on the crawling pilgrimage to Chartres.
Then return to the sins of the flesh just to see if there's anything I've missed followed by retirement to a square somewhere the swallows screech in the setting sun and the beers cold and people have sparkling laughter filled eyes and they know how to butcher and salt a pig.
Oh and Cud on tap to play at all major life events
I'm with Chris G.
You wouldn't catch me buying much. I'd be renting / leasing a lot, though..
I'll be staying here for a couple of weeks, though.
http://www.oxfordski.com/viewchalet.asp?chalet=aurelioclub
As you can see, there's a fair bit of space. Members of The Massive get first dibs on filling the spare rooms. Form an orderly queue..
Excellent LL
let's book it for xmas week and recreate the last christmas video bagsy Pespi or do I mean Shirley? I mean what could possibly go wrong.....
Book U2 to play a gig in Berlin
And pay everybody not to show up and go to the pub instead.
Top of the list
How do you spell U2?
Canalside house in
Canalside house in Amsterdam
Faithfully recreated 1960s Mayfair penthouse
New York Brownstone overlooking central park
..and and ski lodge/lakeside cabin in Vermont
That's all, thanks.
Well
the first half would go on the divorce, after that, go bananas
One of the winning syndicates
is from an office in Liverpool. I imagine they could afford to pay Morrissey to return AND be pelted all night long...
Sorry, where was I...
Top of my list for holiday destinations has to be the Tokyo Disney Resort, particularly the DisneySeas park. Acknowledged by Disney nuts to be the best Disney park in the world with the best show, Braviseamo. It's like Disney-meets-prog-rock-with-fireworks.
The hotel I would stay in would overlook this nightly show in the harbour, The Mira Costa. The most expensive room, Il Magnifico Suite, is a snip at 500,000 yen. Or £3,315 to you. Per night.
http://www.disneyhotels.jp/dhm/english/room/suite.html
Food tour
I'd want to check out the Fat Duck at Bray (Heston Blumenthal), Nomo in Copenhagen (Rene Redzepl), El Bulli in Catalonia (Ferran Adria) and something madly, stupidly French, maybe the eponymous Pierre Gagnaire in Paris ... then I'd go to Toyko and start there
would also need a membership to some international gym chain so you can burn off 2000 calories the next day on treadmill/cross trainer/swimpool
sample main courses
Fat Duck: ROAST TURBOT, Mushroom Carpaccio, Morels and Asparagus, Jelly of Verjus, Turbot and Langoustine Royale
Nomo: Lamb and horseradish, Fresh salads and pickled ramson onion
el Bulli: soy sauce macaroni with egg yolk, miso, sesame and green shiso (the concept of a 'main course' doesn't really apply)
Pierre Gagnaire: Haddock petals with celery root, Maco artichoke and black truffles
May and June each year i'd spend touring Scotland, i could give away chunks of the investment income to places like Amnesty, RNLI, Breast Cancer charity etc ... wipe out Aberdeen FC's current debt ... hell, it would be *fun*
The wines, Glenbervie, the wines..
I've got most of them worked out but what, exactly would you have with the lamb at Nomo? I'd normally think burgandy, probably a 1978 Clos De Vougeot seeing that you're paying but I'm not sure if it'd stand up to the horseradish. Possibly a St Emilion might be a better choice. Best go for a 1990 Cheval Blanc seeing you've got £45,000,000 to play with..
Sod that. I'll have them both.
a decent Bordeaux surely ...
... but wouldn't it depend on whether the lamb had been roast or not? ;-)
actually, although i might make a decent fist of the food choice, i don't pretend to be a wine expert by any stretch ... i'd always ask the sommelier OR sneak in a copy of Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book ...
Sommelier?
Why not ask the wine waiter?