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the shizzle => shootin' the shit => Topic started by: webbo on November 23, 2006, 09:03:34 am
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heres mine.
2nd place in bonny baby competion at rounday park in leeds 1956.
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As previous, took 3/4 of Boney M water skiing is my best. Appeared briefly on local Denver TV station getting a ski lesson at the resort I worked at. Embarrasing, as getting a lesson was not cool and I never usually ski. But it was free and I was bored. Waste of time though, as I still can't ski fucking moguls :shrug:. Can rip them on a snowboard though :thumbsup:
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heres mine.
2nd place in bonny baby competion at rounday park in leeds 1956.
Do you have a photo ?!
Met Dom Joly at a seal colony in New Zealand last year. He didn't chat much though - was quite surreal!
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I was on Vets in Practice (but I was actually climbing).
My cousin is married to Katie Hill (the TV presenter).
My Mum once had a blind date with Tony Scott (film director and brother of Ridley).
And I once won a Lego building competition (I was about five at the time).
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heres mine.
2nd place in bonny baby competion at rounday park in leeds 1956.
Do you have a photo ?!
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no but my mum has the silver spoon i won.she has some photos of me competing later the same year at butlins.however i failed to make it through the preliminary rounds.
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i was in last series of doctor who the one with the wolf called tooth and claw
my kickboxing club was asked to some background fighting i was a farm hand that got beaten up
it was cut to hell but i was seen alot on the behind the scenes stuff :thumbsup:
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As previous, took 3/4 of Boney M water skiing is my best.
I once mixed sound for Bony M at a gig in Macc'. Curiously enough they mentioned that they'd had a near death experience water skiing, during which they'd been unable to get the sound of Joe Simpson whining on about crawling down a mountain out of their heads.
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:thumbsup: nice one! :thumbsup:
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I once mixed sound for Bony M at a gig in Macc'. Curiously enough they mentioned that they'd had a near death experience water skiing, during which they'd been unable to get the sound of Joe Simpson whining on about crawling down a mountain out of their heads.
Genius ;D
I once had lunch with half of Deacon Blue and I am vaguely related to Sid James of Carry On fame.
I also once won a "He's The Greatest Dancer" competition, live on stage with Sister Sledge.
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I am vaguely related to Sid James of Carry On fame.
Are you a carrier of the gene responsible for the Sid James laugh?
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Driving up to Yorkshire one morning we stopped for petrol. At the next pump along, Paul Daniels was filling up his Rolls Royce. None of us said anything to him but the rest of the journey was spent trying to come up with the best thing we *should* have said to him. The one I remember was the suggestion of dropping your trousers, bending over and shouting "Oi, Daniels, pull a rabbit out of this!"
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Are you a carrier of the gene responsible for the Sid James laugh?
Unfortunately this gene never graced my generation. It may yet surface in the next :-\
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when i was a youngster(not long ago) i was ferreting at leek golf club,my furry little twat of a friend decided to stay down the hole so thats where i left it.
the next week front page of the leek post was a story about a ferret that attacked a golfer.
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I appeared on UK's Worst Journey's circa 2004 starring alongside such heavy players as Nick Knowles and that Rianna woman.
Was dressed as a Russian Cossack to illustrate a terrible point. Basically a really old woman wanted to travel 15 miles from her home to Portsmouth (or somewhere) and the coach ended up taking her on a 120 mile round trip until it made its destination. They kept making references to how you could fly to Moscow in the time it took for her to get from A-B. Pathetic tag line really.
Knowles was the filthiest bastard I have ever met. Whenever we weren't filming, he was telling me the sickest jokes, chain smoking his balls off and just generally not being what I thought he would be like. Sound chap but a bit weird.
Lastly, I served James Skelly from The Coral in Music Zone, Birkenhead yesterday who bought an Ultimate fighting boxset and a range of old CD's.
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Thought I'd exhume this thread as I just discovered that my moments of TV stardom are online!
GamesMaster, winter 1992. Towards the top-left of the screen is a pale, sullen kid with huge glasses, a black-and-grey LA Raiders cap and some sort of yellow turtle neck. 8)
https://youtu.be/MwPRsIvwFUY?list=PLjnS472dZmYFlTGofe2Hzbsc9mAf5zEK9&t=846
I'm on at 14:06-14:09, 14:16 - 14:24 & 14:31. Fourteen seconds of fame! :lol:
It was fucking freezing in that dungeon and Dexter Fletcher was humourlessly arrogant, livening up the aeons between takes randomly insulting the assembled audience-kids and chain smoking. We'd all been given audience places as we were failed applicants for being in the teams ourselves so begrudged the kids competing, especially as they weren't particularly good at computer games and hadn't even come up with decent team names. Macho Man Randy Savage is on later in the episode but I have no memory of that whatsoever! :shrug:
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Good thread revival :)
Spent last week boarding in Italy as part of a charity auction I won which involved the week being hosted by Eddie the Eagle Edwards. I got to spend an afternoon just the two of us doing some steady off piste and a few fast steep runs (he's pretty bloody quick). Had a hosted evening at a mountain restaurant with the fella too;
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYt86YrW8AEWUVP.jpg)
Nice bloke!
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Ha! Didn't know this thread.
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Thought I'd exhume this thread as I just discovered that my moments of TV stardom are online!
GamesMaster, winter 1992. Towards the top-left of the screen is a pale, sullen kid with huge glasses, a black-and-grey LA Raiders cap and some sort of yellow turtle neck. 8)
You need to rock that look out climbing, definitely. Minus the glasses maybe.
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Tomtom, Grimer and I have all appeared (separately) on The One Show. At least one of us was funny.
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Tomtom, Grimer and I have all appeared (separately) on The One Show. At least one of us was funny.
what was the piece about? My old man was on that once too. He wasn't in the slightest bit funny
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Nice bloke!
Possibly dumb Q, who is he?
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Nice bloke!
Possibly dumb Q, who is he?
biggertuboflard :clown:
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Nice bloke!
Possibly dumb Q, who is he?
biggertuboflard :clown:
Only England's premier (and perhaps first and last) ski jumper. Came to fame at the Calgary Olympics for coming last; thereby laying the foundations for proud failures like Eric the Eel.
Slackers, he's pretty small now, he used to be a bit of a heavyweight (I was asking him about it, he competed at around 90kgs I think if I remember right) but he's down to 73kgs or thereabouts and aims to get to 68kgs in the next few months, so lighter than me!
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Ah, I remember, used to have thick glasses?
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Ah, I remember, used to have thick glasses?
Yep, that's the fella. He's got a film about him due out soon too, sounds a bit like Cool Runnings...
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I was once a roadie for the stranglers
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Shirley you weren't born when they did Something better change ?
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I was Leicestershire junior Orienteering champ as a youth.
I sang in a barbershop choir who won the British championships and sang at the worlds in Pittsburgh in front of 20,000 people in an ice hockey stadium (I was 15 at the time).
I've met Robert Plant.
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I played pool with Keith Richards once. It was doubles, but still.
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I once mistook Dame Margot Fontaine for a shop assistant.
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Terry Nutkins once told me to fuck off in the Inverness branch of Matalan. Treasured moment.
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Terry Nutkins once told me to fuck off in the Inverness branch of Matalan. Treasured moment.
Not mine but the above reminded me of it..
One of my colleagues whilst walking and reading a book at the same time in a underground station once walked straight into Anne Robinson (weakest link fame) knocking her over. She got straight up shouted 'Cunt' at him loudly and walked off :D
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biggertuboflard :clown:
Only England's premier (and perhaps first and last) ski jumper. Came to fame at the Calgary Olympics for coming last; thereby laying the foundations for proud failures like Eric the Eel.
Slackers, he's pretty small now, he used to be a bit of a heavyweight (I was asking him about it, he competed at around 90kgs I think if I remember right) but he's down to 73kgs or thereabouts and aims to get to 68kgs in the next few months, so lighter than me!
I once conversed on a bouldering forum with the son of England's premier (and perhaps first and last) ski jumper. :clown:
It was a crap joke and not at all meant as a slight on his stature or girth, I couldn't decide between that and suffixing your username with 'Snr'.
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biggertuboflard :clown:
Only England's premier (and perhaps first and last) ski jumper. Came to fame at the Calgary Olympics for coming last; thereby laying the foundations for proud failures like Eric the Eel.
Slackers, he's pretty small now, he used to be a bit of a heavyweight (I was asking him about it, he competed at around 90kgs I think if I remember right) but he's down to 73kgs or thereabouts and aims to get to 68kgs in the next few months, so lighter than me!
I once conversed on a bouldering forum with the son of England's premier (and perhaps first and last) ski jumper. :clown:
It was a crap joke and not at all meant as a slight on his stature or girth, I couldn't decide between that and suffixing your username with 'Snr'.
Aaaaah! Makes sense now ;D
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I once made a pizza for sergeant major off of it aint half hot mum. that was the pinnacle in my working life, well my working life in pizzaland anyway.
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I once made a pizza for sergeant major off of it aint half hot mum. that was the pinnacle in my working life, well my working life in pizzaland anyway.
I once delivered a pizza to Linda Lucardi..
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I once drove Frank Bruno to a gym. Didn't like him.
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Featured in the opening credits of that Saturday kids tv programme with Michaela Strachan, Timmy Mallet etc.
Got thrown in the sea by Lee Sharp - he was playing for Torquay at the time.
Served drinks to numerous Z-list celebrities when working at theatre bar in Torquay: Jim Davidson, Rod Hull, Harold Bishop, Cannon and Ball, the Crankies, various gladiators. The shit is endless.
Saw Sid Little three times in one day. Randomly, in three different places (wasn't stalking him).
This is all tragic.
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I gave Tommy ball a blow job
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Rock on.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8661984.stm
This was the front page of the BBC News site at the previous election, and that's my mum. She was thoroughly pissed off at the photographers and just wanted to get home for coffee. Bria just wanted to get home for dog biscuits.
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Featured in the opening credits of that Saturday kids tv programme with Michaela Strachan, Timmy Mallet etc.
http://youtu.be/kOa5VCCBSEw
Which one are you? :D
Watching that has tripped me out. Check out Tommy Boyd's Jordan 1s at the end of the clip! 8)
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:sorry:
Rock on.
You're thinking Bobby Ball
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:sorry:Rock on.
You're thinking Bobby Ball
Wasn't it Tommy 'Cannon' and Bobby Ball?
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Rock on.
You're thinking Bobby Ball
Rarely out of my mind.. ever since that night in Rhyl...
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I shared a pint with Richard Harris in Covent Garden. Sort of.
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I appeared, along with one Graeme Alderson with the legendary Trevor and Simon in a comedy sketch on saturday morning kids show Going Live. They were fairly good sorts as I remember.
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I shared a pint with Richard Harris in Covent Garden. Sort of.
Does that mean:
A. You sat down and had a drink with the man
B. You threw your pint over him (thus sharing)
C. You stole his beer when he got up to leave/go for a piss etc
;)
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It means he sat down at the same table as me as I was having a quick half after traipsing round Covent Garden, the Coal Hole was his local there. We exchanged a few words. Richard Burton wanted a seat too but I told him to get lost, there weren't enough stools.
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I serenaded/audibly offended Paddy Hopkirk at a fancy party in Buckinghamshire with my guitar and dulcet tones. I was the only kid there si think he was probably just being nice. It's the same party that some sheik passed me his coat and I politely directed him to the coat hooks all of ten steps away before walking off. I'm pretty sure he wasn't used to that. Needless to say, he didn't listen to any of my shit guitar skills. :punk:
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It means he sat down at the same table as me as I was having a quick half after traipsing round Covent Garden, the Coal Hole was his local there. We exchanged a few words. Richard Burton wanted a seat too but I told him to get lost, there weren't enough stools.
:D brilliant
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I appeared, along with one Graeme Alderson with the legendary Trevor and Simon in a comedy sketch on saturday morning kids show Going Live. They were fairly good sorts as I remember.
That was climbing related though fatboy!
(It was on the wall used for the Bendcrete Olympia Open 1990)
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I was present at the modest champagne reception that was held at the University of Manchester's physics department for Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov the day they won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of graphene.
The following week I attended a lecture given by Andre and on the same day I even held the door open for him... :dance1:
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The Charlatans thought we were their support act after turning up at the wrong gig venue
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I got a lift with Refused in their tour bus in the mid 90s. Sat on the floor in the back and read through their collection of punk fanzines for 10 hours. Drove the bus for the last 2 hours.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHhe6ziuo3k
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Not really sure that I should be admitting to this but I am distantly (though not as distantly as one would like) related to Danny Dyer.
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Not really sure that I should be admitting to this but I am distantly (though not as distantly as one would like) related to Danny Dyer.
Pwopah nawty!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBnW-hCS1RM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBnW-hCS1RM)
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The best I can muster is my wife’s grandfather was the captain of England and the British Lions (I think they were officially the British Isles Team then) and is on the Twickenham Wall of Fame. My side of the family is less impressive…..
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The best I can muster is my wife’s grandfather was the captain of England and the British Lions (I think they were officially the British Isles Team then) and is on the Twickenham Wall of Fame. My side of the family is less impressive…..
If it's somebody we know then...
'A student' revealed to me her guilty family secret...her uncle is a infamous Zimbabwean dictator.
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so Uncle Bob is actually her uncle Bob?
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:icon_beerchug:
If it's somebody we know then...
I would argue "my wife" is a less tenuous connection than just "someone I know"....
If it's just me, then Richard Griffiths once told me to,"Fuck off you little shit" when I asked him for his autograph on platform three of Coventry Railway Station. In his limited defence, he had had to climb the stairs to get over the tracks so was a little out of breath and somewhat red faced.
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I was best man at the wedding of the great-granddaughter of Captain Oates. Mind you some someone on here actually married her so I guess he beats me ;)
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I had the pleasure of serving Jonathan Edwards of hop, skip and jump fame when I worked at Cotswolds in Keswick. I also served some bloke off Emmerdale Farm when I managed the White Stuff shop in Keswick. Carl King apparently.
I threw a snow ball at Sir Chris Bonnington when I was a young lad.
And I had a coffee with Johnny Dawes once, and some bloke called Tim Carruthers was there too!
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I once shook Gordon Burns' hand. If you don't live in the north west you won't know what that means. If you do live in the north west, pick your jaw up off the floor.
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Who's Gordon Burns? I'm from the north west
All good these :popcorn:
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I once saw Geoff Capes in his pyjamas (it was during a fire alarm in the middle of the night at a Staffordshire hotel).
I spent Christmas Day in the pub with Rhys Ifans
I gave Johnny Marr a light in the Hacienda, I didn't have a clue who he was (I don't think he knew who I was either).
A couple more solid gold anecdotes like these and I'll have enough for an autobiography.
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I got a lift with Refused in their tour bus in the mid 90s. Sat on the floor in the back and read through their collection of punk fanzines for 10 hours. Drove the bus for the last 2 hours.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHhe6ziuo3k
Now that is a good tick right there.
I once went drinking with two of voodoo glow skulls, when their gig was canceled and me and my mate randomly bumped into them in the pub. They overheard us saying we were gutted to have missed the show and we ended up spending the evening doing a tour of the Edinburgh punk and rock pubs with them. Was a nice consolation and the sax player gave me his (tour)hoody at the end of the evening :)
I didn't post this earlier on cos it felt too serious for this thread :D
Anyway, back on track, I once refused marti pello's autograph ( needless to say also pizzaland related )
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My cousin Michael who always claimed to be in the music business and I never believed him turns out to have managed Joony Thunders of the New York Dolls and is the Kaiser Chiefs manager.
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got another...served Jim Davidson in a climbing shop in stoke once, classic
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I once eyeballed the queen over the tip of a bayonet. The chance passed.
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My cousin Michael who always claimed to be in the music business and I never believed him turns out to have managed Joony Thunders of the New York Dolls and is the Kaiser Chiefs manager.
Johnny Thunders.. I bet your cousin has some stories to tell :o
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I was in the first selection process when they were looking for someone to play Harry Potter.
This was mostly based on how you looked in primary school :geek:
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The daughter of captain Picard once fostered my half-brother when he was in care!
I was nearly on American TV because I was in a shopping mall at Xmas and they wanted some brits on saying how good the shopping was. They couldn't pronounce my name so my 'interview' was cut out by my dad and bro made it on :whatever:
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Jeru Tha Damaja and I had a long chat at his gig in Derby about my then-broken arm which was in a sling.
Derren Brown hypnotised my sister on stage in London.
On the way to Sardinia I queued up behind Chesney Hawkes in the Upper Crust in Gatwick airport.
Saving the big guns for last there...
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I got retweeted by David Baddiel.
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I got retweeted by David Baddiel.
Was that about your Alex Megos incident?
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Had a pitta gyros and a beer with a very drunk and abusive Robert Plant in Thessaloniki (exactly what a rock star should be)
Refused to serve Richard Whitely when I was an optician
Sang karaoke with Dev off coronation street
I am friends with the lad who used to play Jonny Briggs
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My brother once had a piss next to Vince Cable after a press conference. He said the filthy fucker didn't wash his hands afterwards. And he must have shaken loads of hands.
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I got retweeted by David Baddiel.
My girlfriend once volunteered in a charity shop with a woman who had a custom-made handbag decorated with photos of David Baddiel. After a few weeks she could contain her curiosity no longer and asked her colleague about this crazy bag. Turns out she'd been working alongside the comedy star's proud Mum!
I briefly spoke to Jenny Powell, star of Gimme 5, Family Fortunes and Brass Eye, at Mansfield Mardi Gras (yes Mansfield has a Mardi Gras, no it doesn't even happen on a Tuesday) when I was a teenager. I asked her to mention me on TV- when she diplomatically told me there was no way that was going to happen I verbally abused her. Not proud of that.
I own a studio mixing desk that was originally built for Hank Marvin of the Shadows. 8)
In 2007 my then-bandmate bumped into Ghostface Killah in Londis (not as random as it sounds- he was playing a gig in Nottingham that night) my man got the Wu-Tang star to record a shoutout for our band on his dictaphone which, after I'd edited the n-word out, we proudly used on our demo CD. No-one believed it was really Ghostface. :lol:
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In 1996 I enjoyed a night out with Lou from Neighbours, and in 1998 Bez crossed a pub to tell me I should be in a band. Not much since then sadly.
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Had leading badger saviour and erstwhile astronomer and guitar player Brian May at the launch of my old mans exhibition in London last year. Noticed that he has a penchant for adidas Stan smiths and finger buffets.
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In 2007 my then-bandmate bumped into Ghostface Killah in Londis (not as random as it sounds- he was playing a gig in Nottingham that night) my man got the Wu-Tang star to record a shoutout for our band on his dictaphone which, after I'd edited the n-word out, we proudly used on our demo CD. No-one believed it was really Ghostface. :lol:
My favourite so far.
I shook Method Man's hand after I saw the mighty Wu live a few years ago.
:offtopic: My old house mate sold a "bag for life" to Dave Grohl at the Manchester Christmas market (Foo Fighters were playing at the MEN arena that night).
Mr Grohl with said bag
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I'm talking in the intro to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ_2XaAgPXw
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Not entirely non-climbing, but I made the first ascent of the London Eye, televised.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAJB8IAuzfk
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No topout? Back around.
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Queued for a Burger King next to Cypress Hill at a services on the M5 in 2000.
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Got to hang out with various minor royals when I worked for a charity after finishing uni. But much better is I am related to the painter Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_%C3%89lisabeth_Vig%C3%A9e_Le_Brun) (My mum had a middle name of 'Brun')
She hung out with Marie Antoinette, managed to keep her head during the French revolution (was spared because she was an artist), then travelled all over Europe from Russia to the Isle of Wight and then back to Paris until her death at the age of 87. Her epitaph reads "Ici, enfin, je repose…" (Here, at last, I rest…). Her memoirs are amazing.
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I forgot another. Was sat in Vodka Revolution in Manchester and I got a tap on the shoulder, turned round and Terry Christian asked to borrow my lighter.
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My Mum gave my old tuxedo to Ricky Wilson to wear for an award do
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Queued for a Burger King next to Cypress Hill at a services on the M5 in 2000.
Amazing!
B to the mother fu*!ing K, home boy, B to the mother fu*!ing K! :dance1:
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Schoolfriend's dad was Lester Noel of Beats International fame :bow:
Queued for lunch at Granada Studios behind Jeremys Paxman and Kyle as a University Challenge reserve team member. Paxman was nice enough, Kyle the sleazy charmer you'd expect.
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I sat next to Lily Allen on the tube once.
Tiggy Legge-Bourke was a neighbour of parents, I stayed at their flat in Kensington once when I was about 12.
My gran was Stuart Cable's GP when he was a kid.
This was trumped by a kid in my form (I'm a teacher), who when asked to name someone he knows and what they do for a living said: "Well, my gran makes the Queen's dresses."
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Joe Johnson, snooker world champion who came from nowhere to beat Steve Davis and become world champion, was my next door neighbor when I was growing up.
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I failed miserably to chat up Anna Friel in the bar under the Everyman in Liverpool in 1993ish
I wasn't aware that she was famous until people started asking me how come I was chatting with her
I did know who Craig Charles was, but I assume that most people have had at least one night of heavy drinking with him (in Casablanca Club)
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I failed miserably to chat up Anna Friel in the bar under the Everyman in Liverpool in 1993ish
I wasn't aware that she was famous until people started asking me how come I was chatting with her
I did know who Craig Charles was, but I assume that most people have had at least one night of heavy drinking with him (in Casablanca Club)
Hmm.. I tried to get near to Anna Friel to try and chat her up in the Skyrack in Headingly in early 1993...
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This is comedy gold...I actually spat beer at the "Nutkins in Matalan obscenity" shocker. (was this thread inspired by Shaun Keaveny's 'Small Claims Court')
Guess mine would be chatting to Dermot O'Leary, who was relatively unheard of at the time, and Lewis from Hollyoaks (ben hull), who was 'famous' at the time, but now relatively unheard of, in a bar in Serre Chevalier on a boarding hol (the whole T4 crew were in there so your talking Vernon Kay, June Sapong etc)
Dermot and Ben were pissed and regaling us with tales of being delayed on the snow train in Paris and passing the time watching bestiality vids in a pron shop. No word of a lie.
Hope Dermots agents don't read this and send some of his SAS pals round to see if I'm tough enough.
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got another...served Jim Davidson in a climbing shop in stoke once, classic
What did he buy ?
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All right, I've had such a crap day that I'm nursing a glass of vino at 1:10am and apparently sleep is something that happens to someone else.
So, for purely selfish egotistical reasons....
I used to surf with Andrew Ridgeley (Wham), because we were neighbors in Wadebridge, Cornwall and I frequently mocked his long board (now I want one). The Ex and I even baby sat for him once.
I was William Hague and Ffions expeditions guide in Greenland in 2000 and took her Jet skiing and ice diving.
I got caught cheating on selection, when we (I, to be fair) broke into the Cwm Guidi battle camp for a shower and a warm bed. Compounded by stealing a Moggy minor from the civi car park at the foot of Pen y Fan (turned out to belong to a SGT Staff, not happy, even though we put it back after a quick run to Brecon for a curry). Found out after blagging a lift from a local in his pickup back to the exercise area and having to stop to let a Staff Landie pass and not really being able to hide in the pickup bed...
Selection unsuccessful at that time, however did lead to other interesting opportunities on the basis of resourcefulness and general shutzpah..
Oh yeah, got drunk with Jim Davidson and cast (we did, he was on lemonade/the wagon) after a performance of "Sinderella" . HMS Westminster was commissioned in the Pool of London and he sent the SNR Rates an invite (I was a PO Tiff then). Snogged one of the dancers too (a girl before you chime in Dense).
And, last ego boost I promise.
I was Boat Owner Magazine's feature designer once...
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I aimed some British Climbing Scene style heckling at Seal and Normski while they flailed on the snow at Le Tour in front of the cameras for Board Stupid.
Seal took it well
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I worked with Nod from Fields of the Nephelim for a short while. Probably more famous for the spoof 'Nod's corner' in Melody Maker.
Nice bloke, gave me a free cassette of his new band I didn't listen to it.
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I've met Glenn Plake (ex bad boy extreme skier) twice; once in Mammoth CA, once in Chamonix. Both times his trademark Mohawk hair wasn't gelled up.
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No mohawk no tick.
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When I wrote "glass of vino", I should have written "Bottle of.."
I humbly apologise for such an egotistical, braggardly, post (who could have seen that coming? [emoji848]).
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Got kissed/mauled by Roisin Murphy before she joined Moloko after getting leathered on her Dad's homemade Poitin. :wub:
One of my girlfriends at school was Esther Hall the actress and most well known as Jane off the BT family adverts that ran forever.
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One of my girlfriends at school was Esther Hall the actress and most well known as Jane off the BT family adverts that ran forever.
She was in Silent Witness recently.
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A guy from my secondary school was the ball boy who got kicked in the Swansea FC game.
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I drank a whole bottle of whisky at a festival once and when ex Wonder Stuff singer Miles Hunt came on stage he was introduced as 'the Sid Vicious of folk'. I repeatedly shouted 'size of a cow' in between every song. He wasn't impressed...
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Was at a party in Hozier's parents gaff just before he really took off. Think I left my shitty old sleeping bag in their front room. Was only there as a peripheral hanger on, my girlfriend sang backing vocals for him on his first american tour.
A guy I know was Prince's guitar tech for about 6 months. He got hired when prince fired his whole tour crew after a gig in Dublin. He lost the job because he couldn't get to Sydney from Dublin on 2 days notice....
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No mohawk no tick.
I think he only bothers when he's making appearances. Either that or he's actually going bald and there's a gap in it now.
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Got kissed/mauled by Roisin Murphy before she joined Moloko after getting leathered on her Dad's homemade Poitin. :wub:
I'm insanely jealous!
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got another...served Jim Davidson in a climbing shop in stoke once, classic
What did he buy ?
A vile fleece with fir trees on for a woman with a black eye
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No mohawk no tick.
I think he only bothers when he's making appearances. Either that or he's actually going bald and there's a gap in it now.
still got it https://twitter.com/mammothmountain/status/690250321059180544
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got another...served Jim Davidson in a climbing shop in stoke once, classic
What did he buy ?
A vile fleece with fir trees on for a woman with a black eye
Surprised he wasn't after a 'beater vest.
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my wife and son are on Google Street View
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my wife and son are on Google Street View
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Even better that you got them to wash the car.
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my wife and son are on Google Street View
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My wife and the decorator are on streetview....
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In 2007 my then-bandmate bumped into Ghostface Killah in Londis (not as random as it sounds- he was playing a gig in Nottingham that night) my man got the Wu-Tang star to record a shoutout for our band on his dictaphone which, after I'd edited the n-word out, we proudly used on our demo CD. No-one believed it was really Ghostface. :lol:
My favourite so far.
I shook Method Man's hand after I saw the mighty Wu live a few years ago.
I met the GZA once because my girlfriend of the time was doing PR for his tour (the gig I saw in London was awful, I remembered more of his lyrics than he did, but I was considerably less high).
Since the GZA is my all-time hip-hop hero I was only able to say 'hello GZA Mr Genius' a bit like Perry from Harry Enfield and came over all bashful rather than proving myself to be a legend and being invited to be an honorary member of the Wu.
My girlfriend and her PR mates subsequently got to hang out with him quite a bit and play pool etc. Apparently he was crap and claimed he would beat them all at chess...
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Right then, between everyone of the forum we need to get ticks for the rest of the clan. Speak now if you've ever met any of the following: RZA, ODB, U-god, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, Cappadonna or Masta Killer.
Half points for affiliates like DJ Mathematics, Redman or Killah Priest.
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I had a pint with Ason Unique last year at the Hunters.
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I've ended up having Ian Ayre (Liverpool FC Chief Exec.) as company at the bar on two late night occassions recently. I bought him a glass of my whisky which went down very well. Tenuous, sorry.
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Freddie Flintoff once tickled me so much i wet myself...
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Freddie Flintoff once tickled me so much i wet myself...
Recently?
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I have a few, I got drunk with Lemmy - very topical but also true.
I held liv Tyler in my arms when she was a toddler.
There's more but that'll do for now.
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Freddie Flintoff once tickled me so much i wet myself...
Recently?
Wet dream? ;)
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Brief conversation with Jarvis Cocker in the old greasy cafe that was in Sheffield train station... nice bloke
I am the great great great great Grandson of Henry Cort. The inventor of, and poorly patented, puddling of iron purification process. Big business was not his forte, he lost it all. Thus, I am not the CEO of an international steel fabrication business.
arse.
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Along similar lines I am something like the second cousin ten times removed from Dr Livingstone, I presume. He "found" the source of the Nile and was the first westerner to come across Victoria falls.
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OK Fatdoc started the Jarvis thing so I can come out now. As lots of people know I started Pulp at school with Jarv
I've met lots of musicians through the years going to gigs/parties and the like. The only one I've gone properly WOW at was meeting Scott Walker at Jarv's 50th.
There was a mention of Roisin Murphy. I remember at Jarv's wedding sitting on the grass with her while she was wearing a short skirt with no care to be "modest" It was extremely hard to keep eye contact. She's really nice -very friendly.
I've worked with a few TV people like Chris Tarrant (clever,potty mouthed and funny as fuck describing contestants who were maybe "less able" than others on WWTBAM) Sue Barker, Noel Edmonds (rolled up his sleeves and moved furniture, helping us to clear the set), Anne Robinson. The people behind The Cube inluding The Body.
I've had dinner with Matthew Stevens the snooker player
Mrs D has much better claims as she's related to Robert Louis Stevenson and illegitmately to Charles the first.
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Freddie Flintoff once tickled me so much i wet myself...
Recently?
No, 25 years ago?
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Not me but I've got a quality picture of my missus with Rolf Harris...
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As lots of people know I started Pulp at school with Jarv
did you specifically arrange to meet up again in the year two thousand?
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Forget to add HRH Prince Andrew who I showed round the office when he was opening it or summat
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so, you started Pulp with that tall bloke, went to uni with Shark and Seb, married into royalty, maintained royal links and finally got yourself onto a Lagerstarfish Studios video. What's left? Ninja Warrior winner?
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Celebrity big brother contestant Shirley?
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Forget to add HRH Prince Andrew who I showed round the office when he was opening it or summat
Don't get me started on him...
But that's quite common for Matelots as he was definitely part of any Ships company he joined.
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The only one I've gone properly WOW at was meeting Scott Walker at Jarv's 50th.
Ditto - I've met dozens of people in the music biz since I was a teenager. All of the Beatles bar John Lennon; most of the major rock bands; hip-hop artists; punk/hardcore/indie; electronica; jazz. BUT the only person I've been completely OMFG :o over was Scott Walker in our local boozer near here. Quietly supping a pint in his trademark cap - I just nudged my girlfriend and whispered in her ear "That's Scott Walker..... Scott fucking Walker.....".
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Brief conversation with Jarvis Cocker in the old greasy cafe that was in Sheffield train station... nice bloke
I am the great great great great Grandson of Henry Cort. The inventor of, and poorly patented, puddling of iron purification process. Big business was not his forte, he lost it all. Thus, I am not the CEO of an international steel fabrication business.
arse.
Unless he was Chinese that might not look quite so bad nowadays.
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Not a claim of fame of my own, but I was impressed when someone who just looked like a messy drunk in my Dad's local was playing the raconteur and dropping a few names. Someone else who didn't know better, challenged the toper - casting doubt on his connections. Drunk chap looks up at the telly, which was showing Channel4 racing, gets out his mobile, dials, and Tony McCoy picks-up live on screen and has a chat. PWNED as I believe the youth of today would say.
Ends up my Dad's friend was a golf caddy on the European tour - so knew lots of golf loving footballers, jockeys etc. Funny lifestyle - after extended absences he'd rock up randomly at a one of Selby's dingier pubs (which is pretty dingy), clutching some fish & chips and a half-drained bottle of wine, catch up on the local gossip, and then blearily mutter about a flight to Dubai / South-East Asia and disappear for another few weeks.
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Not me but I've got a quality picture of my missus with Rolf Harris...
Rolf's grandad was a portrait painter in south Wales. My uncle has portraits of my family painted by him more than a century ago.
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How did I forget, got Dave Graham drunk in the SubClub a few years back. Sound lad.
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Mark Williams from the Fast Show was a local at the pub round the corner from my brother's flat when he was at Uni in Brighton. He was usually very (very) drunk, and we'd sometimes try and get him to do bits from the series and buy us pints.
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My late aunt was bessy mates with Irene Ryan, Granny from the original Beverly Hillbillies. She (my aunt) was a dancer :whistle: in Las Vegas though whether this was an euphemism I never found out......
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The only one I've gone properly WOW at was meeting Scott Walker at Jarv's 50th.
WOW :jaw: Mr. Engel!
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Mark Williams from the Fast Show was a local at the pub round the corner from my brother's flat when he was at Uni in Brighton. He was usually very (very) drunk, and we'd sometimes try and get him to do bits from the series and buy us pints.
Really hope he said "I'm not pissed" a lot.
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He really used to get fucked off with it all.
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I went to school with the son of Leicester City star defender (and red card record holder) Steve Walsh, and more recently Jamie Vardy has moved in up road from my Dad. So with such strong ties, I'm supporting Leicester this season :whistle:
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In 1996 I enjoyed a night out with Lou from Neighbours, and in 1998 Bez crossed a pub to tell me I should be in a band. Not much since then sadly.
A band? I've always had you as more of a solo artist, like James Taylor.
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I think I'd have needed a band for the first couple of albums. Then solo obvs.
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I touched Peter Andre when I was 16.
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I touched Peter Andre when I was 16.
was that when you were hosting top of the pops?
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I touched Peter Andre when I was 16.
Can you show the Court, on the doll, where you touched Mr Andre?
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That doll isn't fake tanned enough...
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(http://www.anyoldtoys.co.uk/peter.jpg-for-web-normal.jpg) can you now show the court?
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before he was famous peter andre did some gigs in schools. cos i was a prefect i acted as a 'bouncer' during his lunchtime gig and he brushed against me as he walked past on the way out. that meant a lot. i still get a woodie to this day.
"ooooohhhhhhhho ooooooooohhhhhhhhh ooooooooohhhhhhhhh mysterious cofe i want to brush against youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu". damn straight peter. damn muthafucking straight.
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OK Fatdoc started the Jarvis thing so I can come out now. As lots of people know I started Pulp at school with Jarv
what Dolly didn't mention is that he played on The John Peel Show
THE JOHN PEEL SHOW!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4KM2gcKiQs
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They've all got hair so none of them can be Dolly :whistle:
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(http://www.anyoldtoys.co.uk/peter.jpg-for-web-normal.jpg) can you now show the court?
How did this post get through without an Adam Lincoln gag?
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I gave Johnny Marr a light in the Hacienda, I didn't have a clue who he was (I don't think he knew who I was either).
I spent the whole of the Stone Roses' set at Spike Island stood next to Ian McCulloch - I didn't recognise him either, despite the fact he was in full Ian McCulloch mode (long overcoat, huge barnet of hair etc.).
Sometime in the 90s I saw firehose in Leeds (one of the best gigs I've ever been to in fact). The next morning I was sat in a car on a petrol forecourt in Stoke when George Hurley (drummer of firehose and hardcore legends The Minute Men) walked by. I gave him a shout and he came over and we had a nice chat.
Robert Plant brushed by me in a festival crowd a couple of years ago. I had to try hard not to do a really obvious double-take at that one.
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fIREHOSE. Get it right ;)
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I wondered if someone was going to pick me up on that.
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Saw them in Newcastle with Hippy Martin. Awesome gig.
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8) so cool I flipping love fIREHOSE, the Minutemen, anything involving Mike Watt and his thunderbroom...
Seems like a lifetime ago but when I was younger I ended up playing bass in a thrash metal band called Arbitrater. Did tours with grind core legends Bolt Thrower and semi famous thrashers Xentrix.. Lurked round the Midlands 90s metal scene, Napalm Death, Cerebral Fix, Impaler etc...
Then lodged with a friend who roadies/tour manages. Came home from work one day to find Amy Winehouse in the front room ( I had no idea who she was at the time Or what the future held). Very impressed to hear her voice that evening at the gig she was doing. He gigged with Carter USM so Jim Bob and Fruit bat were visitors too..
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A UKB member has been developing footwear with a major manufacturer.(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160502/b2fe9d572e269c33dc65837479a84c06.jpg)
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Rumbled! I did almost buy some of these a few months back just for the name.
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Right then, between everyone of the forum we need to get ticks for the rest of the clan. Speak now if you've ever met any of the following: RZA, ODB, U-god, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, Cappadonna or Masta Killer.
I met Cappadonna outside the Hope Street Hotel a few years back. He was sound! I posted a photo on the Hip Hop thread at the time but it is now lost to the web.
In other news, I once appeared delivering a session on a Panorama expose about Britain's Missing Dads. I was working with single mum's at the time, not a missing dad...
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I used to play on Iestyn Harris' (rugby player) five a side football team.
I was on one of itv4's tt programs last year stood in the pits at the start of the senior race.
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I've had cuddle with Jane Fonda.
It was 1973 and I was less than a year old at the time though.
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Plus side, she was a lot fitter back then
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I insulated Werner Herzog's attic while he was away in South America checking out possible locations for his film Fitzcarraldo. While we were working there, there was a knock on the back door. I opened it to find Klaus Kinski standing there. To my eternal shame, the only thing I could say was, "Fucking hell, it's Klaus Kinski!". To which he replied, "Yes, I know."
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thatis fucking brilliant!
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Agreed with Duma, that is deserving of top waddage.
I need more details, where was it? Was it during the time he lived in Moss Side??!! Did you meet the great man? And what else happened with Kinski????
Shame on you for leaving it so long to mention...
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I insulated Werner Herzog's attic while he was away in South America checking out possible locations for his film Fitzcarraldo. While we were working there, there was a knock on the back door. I opened it to find Klaus Kinski standing there. To my eternal shame, the only thing I could say was, "Fucking hell, it's Klaus Kinski!". To which he replied, "Yes, I know."
We have a winner! That's an amazing anecdote :clap2: cmon tell us more!
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thatis fucking brilliant!
It wasn't that brilliant. Just a few general purpose polystyrene sheets and a bit of plasterboard. Bit of a lash-up, actually.
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I'm struggling to remember a better anecdote from anyone...
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Dynamite!
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Just remembered that I was once The Greatest Dancer live on stage with Sister Sledge!! Feeling old....
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Just remembered that I was once The Greatest Dancer live on stage with Sister Sledge!! Feeling old....
http://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,6509.msg92744.html#msg92744
That old age getting to you? ;)
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Ha!!!! Clearly ;D
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Give him a break, he can't remember what he said this morning, let alone 11 years ago.
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I've got barely anything for this thread. I used to get the school bus with Bob Carolgees' son. Never watched Spit the Dog when I was a kid so this meant nothing to me at the time.
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Can't believe I've only just discovered this thread: brilliant.
My uncle drew Evil Eddie for Iron Maiden (cover design, gig set design, the lot): iron maiden sent me a bottle of wine (eddie's evil brew) for christmas once.
I had a picture shown at the Natural History Museum once. The small print is .... because I won third place in a Blue Peter dinosaur drawing competition.
and, at number 3, (which is a near miss, but i'm counting it) ... came within a whisker of a car crash with Paris Hilton outside Vegas. She swore a lot for a nice looking girl.
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In a similar vein, I once got run over by Willow from Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
Less surprisingly I once also got in a fight with Bobby Gillespie from Primal Scream. The notable thing about that incident was it ended with a dozen Japanese people chanting "Bobby Gillespie wa Cunto Desu!!" in my favour.
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I got hammered with Placebo and Bush after a gig in the Krazyhouse in Liverpool. Brian Molko was very chilled but Gavin Rossendale, unsurprisingly, loved himself.
On a very different note, I showed a rather haggard looking Alan Hansen where the whisky was in the booze isle in Safeway, Southport. It was around 8.30. In the morning...
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On a very different note, I showed a rather haggard looking Alan Hansen where the whisky was in the booze isle in Safeway, Southport. It was around 8.30. In the morning...
was he very defensive about it?
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In a similar vein, I once got run over by Willow from Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
"There was this one time, I was driving in my car to band camp"
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I was surrounded by the Scissor Sisters on a Ryanair flight from Gatwick to Dublin, my smugness for getting the window seat was palpable.
I've sung on stage at Brixton Academy with Lamb, Faithless and Dave Stewart simultaneously.
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Had a five hour, seven course, boozy lunch with Jonathan Meades, his publisher and a few others yesterday.
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Had a five hour, seven course, boozy lunch with Jonathan Meades, his publisher and a few others yesterday.
Awesome. Was he wearing sunglasses? 8)
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He cooked (along with the chef) lunch for a bunch of us. Us being Unbound funders of his new book A Plagarist in the Kitchen.
I'm normally a bit wary of meeting my "heroes" in the flesh but he was exactly as you'd hope him to be. Charming, funny, generous and very smart.
I sat opposite Jonathon and next to John M who runs Unbound and also writes QI.. spent ages talking about Alan Garner, Jung and Meister Eckhart - it was ace..
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I don't think there's ever been a restaurant that I get more excited about visiting than St John. In the words of Anthony Bourdain, "Fergus is my favorite – he’s a hero to me, one righteous, solitary soul-surfing, daredevil motherfucker. A meal at St. John is not just one of the great eating experiences on the planet – it’s a call to the barricades.”
Back to the thread - I once had a conversation with Will Self about the outside bit of the Westway climbing wall. He was writing a short story about someone becoming impaled on one of the pointy concrete pillar things. I don't think it was his best work...
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We're hosting Channel 4's "4 in a bed" TV series at the Bunker tomorrow. I'd never watched it, but apparently the two teams always have to take part in a competitive "challenge" and we're it for this episode.
So, how do you set a traverse for two couples, where one couple are in their 30's and "ex-military" and the other couple are in their 60's?
Me, doing my "2000AD Robo Hunter impression":
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I've been told I have to look smarter tomorrow on camera...
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We're hosting Channel 4's "4 in a bed" TV series at the Bunker tomorrow. I'd never watched it, but apparently the two teams always have to take part in a competitive "challenge" and we're it for this episode.
So, how do you set a traverse for two couples, where one couple are in their 30's and "ex-military" and the other couple are in their 60's?
Me, doing my "2000AD Robo Hunter impression":
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I've been told I have to look smarter tomorrow on camera...
That's not going to be hard. :dance1:
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Had a five hour, seven course, boozy lunch with Jonathan Meades, his publisher and a few others yesterday.
This is great, we haven't been there for ages and i'm living super close at the moment. Just getting used to restaurants in our new area and Ive forgotten some classics...
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I and my mate Donald were interviewed by Laura Koensberg when The PM came to eat(pre-arranged) chips in our village. We led the 6pm and 10 o'clock news nationwide.
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I and my mate Donald were interviewed by Laura Koensberg when The PM came to eat(pre-arranged) chips in our village. We led the 6pm and 10 o'clock news nationwide.
Iplayer link? :)
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Met legendary tour manager Sam Cutler (the Stones - including Altamont and the Hyde Park free concert - The Grateful Dead, and more) at a show in Philly last night. Total geezer, rock and roll legend, and, seemingly, really friendly bloke. We bought his book off him and he wrote a lovely dedication. They offered to keep it behind the desk until the end of show. We then went on to have a bit of a rock and roll evening ourselves and totally forgot to pick it up at the end of the evening. Bugger.
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From the RIP thread, David Axlerod being a rock climber.
The inverse of non climbing claims to fame: notable people of the world who are also climbers.
Anyone know of any interesting ones?
Aside from the 'actor' Jason Momoa, and well regarded sci-fi novelist and Guardian contributor M John Harrison...
There must be loads...?
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I used to climb with Joe Gilgun off of the telly/films (Emmerdale, This is England etc.).
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David Lee Roth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FlZEAjesmE
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Thats a good one.
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I posted Dave Lee Roth in answer to cowboyhat's other post in the RIP thread (oops)
Other than him: Mike Kosterlitz now, obvsly.
And I've seen Daniel Bruhl at the wall, although I have no idea if he climbs regularly,
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He was great in Inglorius Basterds.
But yes it could be that thing like, I used to see Jude Law and Keira Knightly down the castle, (not together), but they aren't climbers. Stanage? etc
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From the RIP thread, David Axlerod being a rock climber.
The inverse of non climbing claims to fame: notable people of the world who are also climbers.
Anyone know of any interesting ones?
Aside from the 'actor' Jason Momoa, and well regarded sci-fi novelist and Guardian contributor M John Harrison...
There must be loads...?
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Me and Mike at Stanage last year... his first time on a rope for several years. We had a great day...
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I remember Sharlene Spiteri mentioning she climbs once in an interview, but can't find much reference on line though
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Met legendary tour manager Sam Cutler (the Stones - including Altamont and the Hyde Park free concert - The Grateful Dead, and more) at a show in Philly last night. Total geezer, rock and roll legend, and, seemingly, really friendly bloke. We bought his book off him and he wrote a lovely dedication. They offered to keep it behind the desk until the end of show. We then went on to have a bit of a rock and roll evening ourselves and totally forgot to pick it up at the end of the evening. Bugger.
That was me Andy, got you hook, line and sinker ;D
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David Lee Roth
Thought it might be some new clips, but just footage from the Livin' in Paradise video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4qh_9vH1Ww
Aiding Separate Reality at the start?
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Jared Leto too.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/jared-leto-is-still-very-1476311787667510.html
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Just bumped into Ian Brown in my local vegan co-op. I did a double take then just stared, he kindly just gave me a wry grin and kept on shopping.
A step up from the standard Badly Drawn Boy sighting......
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Just bumped into Ian Brown in my local vegan co-op. I did a double take then just stared, he kindly just gave me a wry grin and kept on shopping.
A step up from the standard Badly Drawn Boy sighting......
At the Unicorn?
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At the Unicorn?
The one and only, yep.
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Football related ones.
I bumped into Giggs and Ince in the Hacienda in c.94... literally and accidentally.
Peter Taylor in a garage near Brough (nice bloke)
Shook hands and had a brief chat with Steve Bruce at Charlton (had a longer chat to his son who was quite funny)
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In the past I have walked past Johnny Depp in the street. Meh. Who cares?
Yesterday I said good morning to Alan Bennett in Clapham village and I'm still buzzing about it.
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I put a picture of a grouse on Instagram and Paul “princess Diana’s rock” Burrell liked it. Turns out my man’s just surfing Insta at 5:36AM looking at things he could shoot. :lol:
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The inverse of non climbing claims to fame: notable people of the world who are also climbers.
Anyone know of any interesting ones?
One of the most significant must be William Shockley, Nobel Laureate and eugenicist shithead.
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David Lee Roth I believe
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One of the most significant must be William Shockley, Nobel Laureate and eugenicist shithead.
Had never heard of him but just read through his Wiki entry, which is quite a rollercoaster! A+ in Physics, F in Biology.
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One of the most significant must be William Shockley, Nobel Laureate and eugenicist shithead.
Had never heard of him but just read through his Wiki entry, which is quite a rollercoaster! A+ in Physics, F in Biology.
His work, particularly on semiconductors, has had a massive impact on all our lives, not only through the scientific breakthroughs but also for their commercialization. Shockley Semiconductor was the incubator for Fairchild Semiconductor, itself the incubator for dozens of pioneering Silicon Valley firms. For those who don't want to bother going to Wiki, in climbing he was most associated with the development of the Gunks.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0b092tm/top-of-the-shop-with-tom-kerridge-series-1-2-cheese
Two of Yorkshire's finest chat cheese with a chef at 46mins ish.
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Pretty disappointed with Dan’s hair TBH. I was expecting some epic styling to have taken place before the camera crew joined them at the crag, but it had clearly just emerged from under a hat. He should have texturising paste and cordless tongs in his sack at all times.
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I saw Howard Jacobson (novelist and booker prize winner) on Tottenham Court Road on Friday morning and did the awkward “I know who you are and Thankyou” nod and smile thing.
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A Hollywood film star, whom I shall refrain from naming, lent us his Manhattan apartment for a night last year. Which was nice.