It was no an extravagance.

There's no other way of reaching four or maybe five halls in a nicht.

You've just time to dash from one hall, when your last encore's given, and reach the next for your turn.

If you depended upon the tube or even on taxicabs, you could never do it.
It was then that my brother-in-law, Tom Vallance, began to go aboot everywhere wi' me.

I dinna ken what I'd be doing wi'oot Tom.