Topical one for Glastonbury week. Kae Tempest asked to jump us in the queue for the bogs in NYC downlow in 2019. A request that was agreed to by one of my starstruck friends, much to my annoyance as we’d had to wait in the queue for about 45 mins. 
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The adulation is what gets me up in the morning!
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I just watched Celebrity Bear Hunt and genuinely thought he was going to die at some point.
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This
Reminded me of Ian Ossia ( Renaissance Mansfield warm up regular)
His girlfriend worked at our place & I had her company car for a week
The ace trays were full of roaches which wouldnt have been good to get pulled up in
This reminds me. The driving instructor that I passed my test with way back in 1991 was a guy called Mike Warwick. We got chatting about music during a lesson and he asked me what I was into. I reeled off a bunch of House and Rave stuff that he’d never heard of, so I started on Sixties stuff… Small Faces, The Who, The Kinks…
He tells me he is one of Ray and Dave Davies Nephews. I’m very impressed! So I ask him what they were like as Uncles…
“I dunno” he says “hardly ever saw them growing up… pair of wankers”
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Superb
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Once saw Christopher Eccleston in The R Store in Barton’s Arcade in Manchester. 2019, I think. I never really liked the new Doctor Who’s, but he was well dressed, so he’s all good to me now.
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Years ago taught Meatloaf’s daughter. She took acid in the woods and got her head stuck between boulders. Had to be rescued by the fire department. Never met him.
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Sounds like an episode of South Park…
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We used to get a Christmas card every year from Jimmy Saville as my nan was friends with his brother, Vince. Dodged a bullet there…
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I was working in Leeds at the time and getting the train in. When he died I remember his body ‘lying in state’ in the Queens hotel by the station with actual queues to pay respects.
This is not a submission for the claims court btw.
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RIP Cleo Laine. My band used to rehearse in The Stables main auditorium in about 1996/7 (Alan our Bassist worked there in booking office). It was a semi-legit arrangement that he’d got verbally with someone or other, as long as when there we kept the noise down…
Aside from being in there one time with our attendent cans of Stella being placed on the top of a (covered) Steinberg Grand Piano (which had also graced some World class stages apparently) before realising (and once uncovered doing our best Chas & Dave impressions on it) it was one of the weirdest, spookiest spaces I’ve ever experienced (Alan refused to work alone at night there). Numerous people had reported weird occurrences, and the atmosphere was just off…(not that I really believe in the supernatural).
Anyway, Cleo and Johnny Dankworth weren’t generally in attendance at their house adjacent to the theatre, but one morning after one of our band rehearsals Alan was summoned to see the Manager and was asked if there’d been a band in the night before. He played dumb as he knew this guy didn’t know if there had been or not.
He says with a knowing look “Well Cleo complained about the godawful noises coming out of the auditorium last night so whoever it was needs to either get better or stop doing what they’re doing”
Harsh!
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I’ve been in his house twice. Which sounds like boasting. but really isnt… I thought all the stories werent true. Genuinely made me rethink my man attitude to all of that once it came out.
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In Jimmy Saville’s house?
How? Why? how old were you?
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Making (2) TV shows. and i was about 42 the first time and a bit older the next.
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