Bob gets first ‘tipsy tequila tattoo’ at 77
Encouraged by a 23-year-old country musician Jackson Dean, the broadcaster now sports new ink on his right wrist.
The backstage “inkfest” happened at the end of the first day of this year’s “Country to Country Festival” at the O2. It’s been suggested that small quanitities of tequila may have been involved in the decision making process.
“Tipsy tequila tattoo. It’s a long story...”
“So there’s an artist who played over the weekend called Jackson Dean and he’s got a lot of tattoos. He’s only 23 years old. He was on my show and we got talking.
There was a backstage tattooist and I’ve always wanted to get the word ‘skylight’ tattooed somewhere on me because years ago I did an interview with Mike Oldfield and we were in the studio at the bottom of his garden and it was a very, very wet day and he had a skylight that was open.
Before we started the interview, I said to him that maybe we should close the skylight because the rain was going to get in. And he said, ‘I couldn’t possibly do that.’ I said, ‘Why not?’ and he said, ‘Because that’s where the ideas come in.’
“And I thought, ‘Actually, I really like that.’ It’s also symbolic of an open mind. It has great connotations for me.”
Photo by Tricia Yourkevich, C2C Festival 2024
