Son of a Tutu takes to the road this May, with shows all over the country and abroad. As she prepares to load up her Priscilla-style tour bus, Jason Reid found out which essential items she NEVER travels without…
Cocoa Butter
White people have it easier with some things and not with others. It costs a fortune to maintain a tan but then on the other hand, you don’t have to stress about concealing nasty white dryness marks on your skin if you haven’t greased-up your body from head to toe. An independent black woman’s independence begins after moisturising.
‘On the Origin of Species’ by Charles Darwin
I’m a good Christian woman but sometimes when I have time to kill before or after a show, I like to go knocking on Jehovah Witnesses’ doors; it confuses the bejesus out of them.
iPhone Charger
In the 21st century, you need your iPhone more than you need oxygen. Without Facebook and Twitter how would you know who or what other people are: wearing, eating, cheating-on, bitching about, stalking, liking, hating, threatening, about to bitch-slap. You have to stay connected or you’d disappear into irrelevance. I’d rather cancel a gig and return home than continue on the road with a dead smart phone.
Passport
It’s essential for a girl like me to take a passport with her everywhere she goes nowadays; not because I fear the onset of Nazi-style identification protocols for all foreigners, which could happen if UKIP get a workable majority in Westminster (God forbid) but because in this current climate of in-out referendums and the growing prominence of separatist political parties like the SNP and CNP (Cornish National Party), I fear I may go to bed in a lovely bijou Cornish B&B one night and wake up the next day needing to fight my way through immigration to get back to a less-than-Great Britain.
Mzz Kimberley’s ORIGINAL Birth Certificate
It took a while but I dug it up from underneath the pyramids of Giza. That old cow is a liar; whenever I’m feeling homesick or have had a bad show, I just take it out, look at the date of birth and SMILE!
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