Reply With QuoteThat brings back memories!Originally Posted by Liner33
I’m a direct descendant of the last person to be burned at the stake for heresy
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That brings back memories!
Don’t forget we also had John Finnemore (of “Cabin Pressure” fame) at school. I used to sit next to him in the library balcony that overlooked Tower Park every lunch time. He’d be doing the cryptic crossword.
Another! I escorted George Best off the pitch at Ayresome Park once. Also met Sir Geoff Hirst whilst he was waiting to board his team bus again at Aresome Park, and another time on Putney High St canvassing for the Conservatives with David Mellor.
I was telling my son about going to watch bands in Bristol in the 80's and mentioned Colonel Kilgores Vietnamese Formation Surfing Team (Catchy name eh? )
He found this , with me in the crowd , so I wouldnt hold your breath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JcQ...l=GarrySmatick
Oh I went to school with two of Bananarama (Sara and Keren)
Phillip Seymour Hoffman once bummed a light off me post-show outside the Garrick Theatre
Oh, and I went so school with Jack Bruce’s sons. One Easter holiday I was staying with my Nan in Wimbledon and arranged to meet Malcolm at home in Crouch End. We were in the kitchen smoking and his Dad came home with a mate and gave us a royal bollocking! (We were 14!). Good times.
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My mother kneed Paul McCartney in the balls.
Ah wow I'd not realised but having looked at his pics he does look very familiar. I think he was the year below me and therefore in your year group?
Why?
He groped her on a double date when her friend went to the toilet and his friend went to the bar.
(he was on the date with her friend)
That brings back happy memories. I went the school cruise on the Uganda. France Spain Morocco and Portugal. Happy memories.
My pals wife is Albert Pierrepoints neice.
I was walking in Formby woods when John Parrot and his kids came the other way on bikes. He said "alright" to me 1st recognising I'm more famous than him.
I'm not sure how he knew I work with the cousin of the actor Stephen Graham though.
In the 2000's he was on a table adjacent ot my wife's in the Rat and Parrot in Southampton (next door to the [-]Gaumont[/-] Mayflower where he was appearing). He food wasn't good so she didn't finish. Jim taps her on the shoulder asks if she's going to leave it & proceeds to scoff the lot.
As for my personal claim to fame...
My Grandmother's (God rest her soul), sister's (R.I.P.), husband's (God rest his soul) neice is married to a Egyptian gynaecologist, who's uncle is Hosni Mubarak. The neice wasn't told, but became suspiscious at the unusual amount of security at her wedding.
I visited Egypt in the 90's, backpacking. I was given a telephone number to call in case of "trouble" with the authorities. It wasn't too unusual for the police to try to shakedown tourists at the time. I didn't need it, but I can only imagine how it would have altered someone's day.
I used to work with Lenny Masters, the brother of Eddie and The Hot Rods singer, Barry Masters.
My eldest son used to get clothes that had been outgrown by Liam Brady's son.
I am an ordained Minster in the Universal Life Church.
Don’t leave us hanging, tell us more…
A few lighter episodes:
Took a warm beer out to Graham Gooch on the pitch, when he scored a 100 for Essex.
Sang we are Champions to Freddie Mercury at his house.
Danced the Time Warp with Richard O'Brien in the street in London
Talked about Toilets with Princess Anne
Told Alan Minter to F... Off!
Beat Terry Marsh, in a chess tournament
Watched cartoons with Ozzy Osbourne
Kept Alison Moyet watered with Pils Lager, or she would not sing!
Talked Wilko Johnson into playing, at Lee Brilleaux's Birthday
Danced in the mosh pit at a Backyard Babies gig, with Ginger Wildheart and Andy Cairns.
Took a pee with Hugh Cornwell
Tried to explain who Lemmy Kilminster was to my ex after I had introduced them......she was German and had never heard of him?? Lemmy thought it was brilliant!
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When I swam competitively, I shared a (communal) shower with David Wilkie and neither of us dropped the soap for the other to pick up :-)
Wow!!!
From the thread 9 years ago.............
My claim to fame............my cousin was Heinz Burt, 60's pop star with the Tornado's
My ex-wife used to babysit Helen Baxendales kids.
I used to shoot rabbits on Steve Gibsons land.(Middlesbrough FC owner).
Richard Branson flew a Cayley glider replica on my ex-father in law’s land, (site of the supposed first manned glider flight) he also had one of his 747’s fly over the farm house! Pretty cool and a great day, the glider was made by British Aerospace at Brough, impressive it was too.
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That is cool.
First band to have simultaneous number 1's in the US and Britain.
Matt Bellamy from Muse's Father was in the same band.
Cheers,
Neil.
I sat in Ronnie Wood's mansion at his bar while he entertained us & served red wine (amazing quality) which was brought up from his cellar by his roadie.
Dr Feelgood were his backing band at Wembley in 1972
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Played bass in an early incarnation of a Scottish Indy band in the 90s (AC Acoustics) who went on to become reasonably famous in Indy terms in the 90s (Peel Sessions, various LPs, tours festivals etc). Also gigged (in another band) in the local pub in Sussex near to Ridge Farm studios Oasis used for one of their earlier albums, our guitarist Dave peed next to Liam Gallagher…
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The man is a cad.
I teached Pi-Air van Hooijdonk (Celtic, N' Forest) how to sail.
Pierre is still a TV celeb overhere and having lunch with him halfway through the sailing day made me aware how lucky I am that I'm not famous! He cannot have a quiet lunch in a Dutch pub.
Fran Kirby was a regular at our house from the age of 8, she was great friends with my daughter.
Even then she'd always turn up kicking a football!
Victory Parts is one of my favourite albums. Presumably after your time?
Cheers
Foggy
Yeah, made the decision to stick with Uni rather than going down the musical route. Was delighted to see them doing well, think Davie Gormley the drummer may still be playing in Glasgow with Monica Queen, ex singer of Thrum. And my 15yo is now a much better bassist than me, my only issue these days is getting playing time on my old gear…
Vicky C, wowsers!!!I struggle to put dates on poker tourneys, I played for about 3 years pretty much none stop - big wins, big losses, anti-social hours, the lot but I'd say that one was 2008/09-ish, I've hardly played live at all since having kids (2011 onwards!). This will have been a Ladbrokes event, it was almost all UK players on there and they had a ton of celeb players (Vinnie Jones, Robbie Fowler etc) who had bounties on them in the tournaments and often used to attend the live events. I wanted a bigger site though so I left there when I got a rake-back deal with Full Tilt but that was a complete disaster, all the live games you could satellite into were in the US so useless to me and I was pretty shocking online against the Americans and Canadians, never really got any sort of momentum going, cost me a fortune trying to relearn the game to beat the Yanks.
Vicky Coren spent approx 98% of the tournament outside having a crafty cig and Devilfish spent 94% of his time signing autographs and taking photo's, so they weren't much trouble if I'm honest but the whole table held their breath when Devilfish got properly involved in a hand.This was a side event, either Ł70 or Ł55 to buy in so not really a big-league game. You should have seen the list to get on a cash table afterwards though! It felt like every time the tourney broke up a table it was taken with cash game, everyone desperate to get sat with one of the pro's. There were two of us went down - with the cash tables being our main reason for going really - but in the end we just went into town and spewed a load of cash in the fruit machines instead. No problems like that these days, last time I went in Grosvenor after midnight there were half a dozen old fellas pushing the same Ł1/Ł1 blinds back and forth between them.
Roland De Wolfe was in the same game when I played with Devilfish but on a different table. Roberto Romanello as well, I seem to recall. Those two were my absolute heroes in the game, never hear from them these days but I still have Sam Razavi on facebook, he's always good for a laugh.
Devilfish, what a character and much missed!
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Many moons ago I beat the late Eric Bristow, I have to confess it was at snooker, not darts!
He was a class act indeed. Was gutted when he left Celtic. He played alongside Paulo di Canio and Jorge Cadete.
J K Rowling bought MY book.
I've done remixes for Pet Shop Boys and New Order.
Jake Humphrey and Graham Linehan are clients of mine.
That's about it for me. 😀
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Confusion, by any chance? I've always liked the acid version of that.
I'm the reporter in the black leather jacket chasing Jimmy Nail down the stairs in this clip from Crocodile Shoes.......
I shared a house with the guy who wrote Smooth Operator for Sade
I had a girlfriend who was a contestant on gladiators
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I was a Brighton Mod in the sixties. Lol.
Nothing special but I flew as part of the British team in the World Helicopter Championships in 1986. Got some time with Frank Whittle, Eric brown and Karl Zimmermann to talk about some of the great things they had achieved.
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Nope, although I love that track.
I did a remix of Someone Like You. It was essentially a cut down version which eschewed pretty much all the vocals and the off-pace guitar section; making it a drum and bass version only.
I was at a charity ball years ago, just after having left the Navy, where I spent a lot of time overseas or at sea and out of range of BBC Radio. Celebrities had gold names badges on; I and others had silver badges, including a guy called Gary I was chatting to.
When he told me he worked in radio I asked if he was a producer. He told me, no, a presenter, so I asked if that was hospital radio or a local radio station. He said, no, Radio One. I checked his name again, and had to tell Gary Davies that, sorry, I'd never heard of him.
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I was on the first ever series of The Crystal Maze
I was in the first programme of Fifteen-to-One.
My reply to the question "What is unusual about the motion of a camel", which was "You can make cigarettes with it", brought production to a halt for several minutes, and was cut from the broadcast.
I thought that was true Unc!
My Dad used to get Camels brought in from the states when I was a kid.
Cheers,
Neil.
Cool, will check it out. :-)
Ooh!
Sat behind Rod Stewart at a school play and met him after when everyone was introducing themselves. When he said his name was Rod I laughed and said "that's funny". He asked why it would be funny and I said "because you look just like Rod Stewart". His next line was "ask me my name again" and the penny dropped.
Bumped into one of the Proclaimers at a Morrisons just off the A1 near Edinburgh a couple of weeks ago.
Probably not that exciting really. As you were….
His wife dropped?
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