Friday, 12 October 2007

The Adults Only Show Report



The Adults Only Show is organized by ETO and was held in Birmingham at the National Indoor Arena (NIA for shot) on the 5th- 7th October. This is the first time I have attended any of their events so it came as a pleasant surprise since I was there on a mission anyway promoting Wrist Action TV on the Play TV UK stand and to meet up with the various producers who had signed up.

To find out more about The Adults Only Show see here AdultsOnlyShow It was a trade show with plenty going on including various stage shows featuring the Spearmint Rhino Girls, The girls from Eric Prydz video "Follow Me" (You know the one with all those fit birds doing the aerobics) An all girl rock band and a glamor photo shoot lecture.

Those I saw with stands were Anna Span promoting and selling her book on how to make your own erotic home movies (do people make erotic masterpieces at home?) Phil and Cathy Barry, Linsey Dawn McKenzie (was she selling herself? In that case I'll buy two then) and Ben Dover promoting his new Hard Wear merchandising. I was definitely impressed with the gaggle of cute ladies teetering on high heels with his name on their pert bottoms. Well if anyone was going to pull this off it was definitely going to be him pardon the pun.

I had a stroll around and met many a familiar face and some new ones too. As always with these events there are always new girls coming into the business on one level or another and one such girl was Caroline pictured here in the hot tub. She won the Miss Adult Show award, picked up the crown and pocketed the thousand pound prize too. Not bad for a days work.

Even better was the after party that ETO kindly threw for trade in Tricky Dickys with free drinks and entertainment. Though I thought Phil and his crew stitched me up as there was an awful amount of muscle bound man flesh on show with the variety of male strippers flashing and swinging their bits spraying us in baby lotion. It was all to get the girls going which was fair game and was made up with a racy lesbian show with tongues in full contact action to keep the more straight audience sweet.

Jerry Barnett was stitched up but was humorous enough to go along with a lap dance from one of the male strippers...well it wasn't as if he was going to be buggered live was it!? It was all good fun and he played it straight. I like the way he thought I had something to do with it. That sort of vicious, cruel prank is normally the preserve of Johnny Rebel but he wasn't there so who knew who was responsible?

I was dragged up on stage with one of the guys from Play TV to dance in a line up to a crooning drag artist. Someone captured the event on their mobile phone so no doubt it will end up on somewhere like You Tube. Not to mention my impromptu pole dancing towards the end. Someone had to show these girls how it was done....Oh and not to mention my impromptu photo session with Lacey Maguire behind the curtains. Photographer Nick Field has the evidence.

The whole thing was a blast from start to finish. I had a great time. Even though it was fairly well attended I got the impression that a lot of people were confused with the ETO Show a couple of months before this. Maybe next time it will be less confusing and be more of a success than the first time round but as far as beginnings go, I was impressed. Had fun and did some good business too.