“Interesting (and beautiful) item as a telegram seems such an ancient thing now. It was our first Japanese tour and nice classy touch from our old managers Ian Grant (and I’m guessing Alan Edwards too).
It shows how different things were back in the mid 80s... emails and texts were a thing of the future and a phone call would have been ridiculously expensive too haha.
We flew to Japan via Anchorage, Alaska and I first experienced the Japanese passengers running to a noodle shop in the airport and enjoying a noisy old slurp fest which was a bit of an eye opener culturally but totally normal for them.”
Billy – August 2026