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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: Bentley Bullet on April 15, 2013, 08:47:05 pm
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I was the last person to kick a ball on the Belle Vue pitch. (I think!)
Beat THAT!
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I've been interviewed in The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent and The Times?
Cheers
BobG
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I'm related to Brian Blessed.
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Martha Reeves singing Jimmy Mack................I was Jimmy Mack
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Did you find out who the phantom trumper was, Cussy?
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I had a First place at the Budgerigar World Championships in 1977, Geoff Capes had a Budgie unplaced in the same category.
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I had a letter read out on "Ask Aspel" in 1980
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I worked the Lasers at Camelots pub in 1982/83.
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I once had 20 minutes in Jimmy Savilles BBC changing room and played some games with him
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I once had 20 minutes in Jimmy Savilles BBC changing room and played some games with him
Snakes and Ladders?
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Nope, milk the goat.
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I worked the Lasers at Camelots pub in 1982/83.
Sorry, I'm calling "bullshit" on that one. The lasers didnt go in until 1985
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I was the first person to get a Brentford ticket, Ponte-Rickey and meseen had them reserved for us because of the bike ride and got it day of the Swindon game.
www.justgiving.com/doncaster-brentford (http://www.justgiving.com/doncaster-brentford)
www.facebook.com/doncastertobrentford (http://www.facebook.com/doncastertobrentford)
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I was the first person to get a Brentford ticket, Ponte-Rickey and meseen had them reserved for us because of the bike ride and got it day of the Swindon game.
www.justgiving.com/doncaster-brentford (http://www.justgiving.com/doncaster-brentford)
www.facebook.com/doncastertobrentford (http://www.facebook.com/doncastertobrentford)
SHHHHHH! don`t tell Belle Vue Ghost!
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I was the first person to get a Brentford ticket, Ponte-Rickey and meseen had them reserved for us because of the bike ride and got it day of the Swindon game.
www.justgiving.com/doncaster-brentford (http://www.justgiving.com/doncaster-brentford)
www.facebook.com/doncastertobrentford (http://www.facebook.com/doncastertobrentford)
SHHHHHH! don`t tell Belle Vue Ghost!
Well now he knows what to do to get one!!
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I worked the Lasers at Camelots pub in 1982/83.
Sorry, I'm calling "bullshit" on that one. The lasers didnt go in until 1985
I left the pub in 1983. The Lasers were installed in 1982.
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I was once 10 yards ahead of Peter Elliott in a school cross-country race. I jump the gun at the start. He won by about 3/4hour in a 3 mile race...
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I worked the Lasers at Camelots pub in 1982/83.
Sorry, I'm calling "bullshit" on that one. The lasers didnt go in until 1985
I left the pub in 1983. The Lasers were installed in 1982.
You can protest all you want, I'm still calling it.
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Iam in a major Norwegian rock band video,and i got paid for me 15secs Of fame.
Even Thou it was Much less Than 15secs after the final cutt
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On a similar note to Oslo's I am in the video for Sam Fox's pop tune "Touch me", filmed at Heaven Nightclub in that there London
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My Mums cousin married Kevin Keegan's sister. :coat:
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On a similar note to Oslo's I am in the video for Sam Fox's pop tune "Touch me", filmed at Heaven Nightclub in that there London
I'll never look at that video in the same way again. :)
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I got John Ryan to do his 'An Evening With John Ryan' at Doncaster Little Theatre! Nice to go with a Rovers theme!
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Alright, I'll too these video stories.
1992. England played France at Wembley. Alan Shearer's debut. Me and our kid went to watch it and stayed in London overnight. Next day we went on a bender. Got shitfaced in the West End. Rolling downOxford St mid-afternoon, we staggered into a bunch of made-up puffs being video'd as they swaggered down the road singing. Cameraman called us Kitsons and shoved us out the way.
A month later, I saw the video of the same made up puffs singing in Oxford Street on ToTP. Midway through, the puffs went out of shot as the camera aimed at the sky, some cockney shouted "Kitsons" and a couple of Yorkshire voices slurred "f**k off!"
It was the Manic Street Preachers.
Basically true, although I might have gilded the lily just a bit...
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I got John Ryan to do his 'An Evening With John Ryan' at Doncaster Little Theatre! Nice to go with a Rovers theme!
Yes, that was a good show Al!
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I was on challenge Anneka. we refurbished Healy City Farm in Sheffield. Only for some scrotes to burn it down a few years ago killing a lot of the animals. and for Nudga and Cussey yep she looked better in real life.
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I was on challenge Anneka. we refurbished Healy City Farm in Sheffield. Only for some scrotes to burn it down a few years ago killing a lot of the animals. and for Nudga and Cussey yep she looked better in real life.
She lives about 5 miles up the road from me Nutwell. See that ass in Lechlade some Saturday mornings - doing her shopping!
Cheers
BobG
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I've got a scar on my left shin from Ian Snodins dirty tackle. I even saved the scab for a couple of weeks.
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Mine is a bit more Grisley....I used to sleep on Maxine and Ian Huntly's settee when my friend rented a room from them when they lived in Scunthorpe....You would never have known that he was evil..... :(
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Mine arent that worthy, and all football based:
I won the Allan Johnstone Paint Trophy last season, which was a quiz on the "We Are Going Up" Podcast. Basically a fan of all 72 clubs faced off against each other on their own clubs knowledge.
I also won the Doncaster Free Press prediction league last season (the less said aboutmy performance this season, the better).
Also got a close up shot for 5 seconds on Sky Sports getting caught up with the atmosphere in the Stevenage/Torquay play off final.
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I forgot about that! I also did the Doncaster Free Press prediction league for three years running in the Championship.
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I once saw Steve Strange of Visage in Munich Hauptbanhof at 6am. I'd just got off the overnight train from Bologna. Absolutely knacked and fetid. Then along struts this perfectly made-up New Romantic. He was quite a an impressive sight.
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I was cramming for Finals at Uni in 1972 - amid all those the electricity strikes. 9pm one evening the lights went out and I decided to hit the bar. I ended up hitting something else in the pitch black at the bottom of the staircase - an octogenarian man to be precise. It was JRR Tolkien and I spent the next three hours walking around the college gardens with him. Lovely fella and saw him several times after that - and he signed my copy of LOTR.
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I was cramming for Finals at Uni in 1972 - amid all those the electricity strikes. 9pm one evening the lights went out and I decided to hit the bar. I ended up hitting something else in the pitch black at the bottom of the staircase - an octogenarian man to be precise. It was JRR Tolkien and I spent the next three hours walking around the college gardens with him. Lovely fella and saw him several times after that - and he signed my copy of LOTR.
Are you sure you that wasn't a dream Dutch, maybe just a case of Tolkien in your sleep?
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Simon Weston mentions me in his autobiography as a Doncaster Rovers fan as I served with him in training.
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On January the 5th 2013 I was fan of the day on the Colchester Prog
33 Gary Woods was the other "Cover Star" .... I bought a Prog for the first time for ages and dropped it
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My mum nearly crashed into JR and his Bentley around the Galpharm a few years ago.....
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I had a letter published in the 100th issue of Star Wars comic in 1979
I won a pair of Reebok football boots in a 90Minutes magazine competition.
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I was once in Rolfs Cartoon Club :coat:
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I had a beer with Mani from the stone roses in Bangkok airport
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I once had a beer with Hooky from New Order in the Hallamshire in Sheffield
I say I had a beer with him. Actually, I was stood at the side of him at the bar. I said "eh up Hooky."
He said "f**k off."
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Actually, I forgot my biggest claim to fame.
About 6 years back I got a call from Mrs Stubbs-Tears at work. She asked if I was going to be home early. I asked why. She said, just be careful if you do because there's 5 armed police in the back garden.
Turned out the 3 Spanish lads in the house next door but one were a Basque terrorist cell who had holed up in Sheffield while they were plotting a bomb attack in Madrid.
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Actually, I forgot my biggest claim to fame.
About 6 years back I got a call from Mrs Stubbs-Tears at work. She asked if I was going to be home early. I asked why. She said, just be careful if you do because there's 5 armed police in the back garden.
Turned out the 3 Spanish lads in the house next door but one were a Basque terrorist cell who had holed up in Sheffield while they were plotting a bomb attack in Madrid.
So you did n`t bother coming home early and waited while the...............ahem..............5 armed Police had departed? ;)
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I once had a chat with Sir Ian McKellan and Sylvester McCoy. We were in a bar near Chrysallis studios watching England. In they walked and sat next to us, they wanted to know what the team was and how I thought they were playing.
For a couple of old luvvies they were quite well up on their football.
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I also once helped Ian Brown of the Stone Roses fame fill out a Euromillions lottery card.
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I made the ropes for the Millennium Dome (02 arena).
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Actually, I forgot my biggest claim to fame.
About 6 years back I got a call from Mrs Stubbs-Tears at work. She asked if I was going to be home early. I asked why. She said, just be careful if you do because there's 5 armed police in the back garden.
Turned out the 3 Spanish lads in the house next door but one were a Basque terrorist cell who had holed up in Sheffield while they were plotting a bomb attack in Madrid.
So you did n`t bother coming home early and waited while the...............ahem..............5 armed Police had departed? ;)
Yeah. Funny that it was never in the papers...
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Freddie Trueman scruffed up my hair when I was a bairn in Bradford city centre. And I've played cricket against Dean Jones who made a guest appearance for Nostell in the Whitley Bridge cup when he was playing for Derbyshire.
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In terms of cricket, I scored a run off the bowling of the late Don Wilson (Yorkshire and England). I also hit Franklyn Stephenson (Notts) on the glove. He just smiled- and hit my next delivery over the pavilion!
On the same trip (to Barbados) I spent the outward flight talking to the late Colin Milburn- a lovely man whose cricket career was sadly cut short. I even managed to keep up with him in terms of units of alcohol consumed- some achievement, I can tell you!
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Actually, I forgot my biggest claim to fame.
About 6 years back I got a call from Mrs Stubbs-Tears at work. She asked if I was going to be home early. I asked why. She said, just be careful if you do because there's 5 armed police in the back garden.
Turned out the 3 Spanish lads in the house next door but one were a Basque terrorist cell who had holed up in Sheffield while they were plotting a bomb attack in Madrid.
So you did n`t bother coming home early and waited while the...............ahem..............5 armed Police had departed? ;)
Yeah. Funny that it was never in the papers...
You would be surprised at what should be in the papers that doesn't get in ;)
Going back when I was down the Falklands I had an amazing number of photos not printed and the negatives amazingly blank after they were developed,
Tornados were not used in the Falklands according to the government hmmnnn on a personal basis i saw them and they were ........i think ;)
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In terms of cricket, I scored a run off the bowling of the late Don Wilson (Yorkshire and England). I also hit Franklyn Stephenson (Notts) on the glove. He just smiled- and hit my next delivery over the pavilion!
On the same trip (to Barbados) I spent the outward flight talking to the late Colin Milburn- a lovely man whose cricket career was sadly cut short. I even managed to keep up with him in terms of units of alcohol consumed- some achievement, I can tell you!
I have a few cricket related ones.
I played with Franklyn Stephenson when he guested for the team I played with on a few occasions- he was quick.
I once carted Ted Hemsley for four and he said "good shot" It wasn't the fact that he had been an ex-pro cricketer, more that I remembered him playing for Rovers that it meant something. To put it into some sporting context, it was a friendly and Ted was in his 50's.
Interviewed Geoff Boycott for a school newspaper, It ran to one publication,- he hadn't long been released by Yorkshire- and he was a right miserable git.
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I won 220 quid on sky sports "take it like a fan" after the final whistle at the city ground, a couple of years ago after rovers drew nil nil with forest.
I am also Spartacus.
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No... I am Spartacus!!
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Dagenham.
It WAS in the papers. I was just indulging Filo in the suggestion that I was being cuckolded. Bit of a laugh. Although if he suggests it again, I will kick his cyber head in.
This was the ETA story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/6600551.stm
"Undisclosed address". I love the way the Authorities think they keep control of information like this. Deluded. It's like they assume simpletons in the general public can't put two and two together.
Spanish lads in a house that gets raided by armed police. Then the police announce that they have arrested ETA terrorists. And they think that the address won't leak out?
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Dagenham.
It WAS in the papers. I was just indulging Filo in the suggestion that I was being cuckolded. Bit of a laugh. Although if he suggests it again, I will kick his cyber head in.
This was the ETA story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/6600551.stm
"Undisclosed address". I love the way the Authorities think they keep control of information like this. Deluded. It's like they assume simpletons in the general public can't put two and two together.
Spanish lads in a house that gets raided by armed police. Then the police announce that they have arrested ETA terrorists. And they think that the address won't leak out?
The thought did n`t enter my head ;)
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You lot can decide which is the best
I've been a film extra in a number of films including V for Vendetta where I was one of the V's. Also was in Children of men. I'm the last soilder in the entire film. Clip was used at the Oscars.
I led the London half marathon a few years ago. It was only for about 20 seconds after first 400 metres. I kept up with all the club runners for about 7 miles and then struggled badly the rest of the way.
I played beach cricket against the Barbados school champions. My side comprised a bunch of tourists (some of whom were American and had never played the game) as well as West Indies international Pedro Collins and Sir Garfield Sobers. Unfortunately we lost as the Barbados lot kept hitting the ball into the sea. Sobers only fielded but it was still a great experience . It was filmed for TV but don't know if it was ever shown in this country.
Fatboy slim once mistook me for Robbie Williams.
I once recieved an award where the guest speaker was Prince Philip. I met Johny Ball at the same event. I forgot to mention to him about his son in laws mistake.
The lady who did the voice of George from rainbow came to my wedding.
By the way River Don it is a funny old world I have met both Sylvester McCoy and Sir Ian McKellen but seperately. McCoy was doing some miners benefit thing during miners strike. The pub in Stainforth he was in has since been knocked down. He told me he was going to be Dr Who but that I had to keep it to myself. Sir Ian McKellen sat and had a drink with myself and a fellow rovers fan in the Coal Hole on the strand. Never met Ian Brown so you have one on my there.
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I played football with Phil Robinson (Rovers 1961-66) for a season at Broddie
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You lot can decide which is the best
I've been a film extra in a number of films including V for Vendetta where I was one of the V's. Also was in Children of men. I'm the last soilder in the entire film. Clip was used at the Oscars.
I led the London half marathon a few years ago. It was only for about 20 seconds after first 400 metres. I kept up with all the club runners for about 7 miles and then struggled badly the rest of the way.
I played beach cricket against the Barbados school champions. My side comprised a bunch of tourists (some of whom were American and had never played the game) as well as West Indies international Pedro Collins and Sir Garfield Sobers. Unfortunately we lost as the Barbados lot kept hitting the ball into the sea. Sobers only fielded but it was still a great experience . It was filmed for TV but don't know if it was ever shown in this country.
Fatboy slim once mistook me for Robbie Williams.
I once recieved an award where the guest speaker was Prince Philip. I met Johny Ball at the same event. I forgot to mention to him about his son in laws mistake.
The lady who did the voice of George from rainbow came to my wedding.
By the way River Don it is a funny old world I have met both Sylvester McCoy and Sir Ian McKellen but seperately. McCoy was doing some miners benefit thing during miners strike. The pub in Stainforth he was in has since been knocked down. He told me he was going to be Dr Who but that I had to keep it to myself. Sir Ian McKellen sat and had a drink with myself and a fellow rovers fan in the Coal Hole on the strand. Never met Ian Brown so you have one on my there.
Out of that lot I'd say the appearance in V for Vendetta. It is a film that will endure.
Ian Brown isn't the only musician I have met, I used to play five a side in West London, one night the game on the next door pitch included Ant and Dec and Robbie Williams. I got changed in the same changing rooms as that lot, not much to boast about but I suspect many ladies would have loved that opportunity.
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Picked up Paul Chuckle from the Chuckle brothers in my taxi and took him to Elachi in Armthorpe last year. I also picked up a very pissed Sean Thornton a few years ago from the Old Club in Stainy and dropped him off at Punch`s hotel in Bessacar, could n`t get an ounce of sense out of him and did n`t tip either
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Old school friend of Mrs S-T got married 12 years back. She'd been in Footlights at Cambridge. All her luvvie friends came along, including a couple if ugly geeks who amused everybody by telling shit jokes.
How the all laughed. The Footlights bell ends.
A couple of years later, I saw the same two ugly geeks on their own programme on the telly. Peep Show or summat like that. They were shit. It'll never catch on.
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You lot can decide which is the best
I've been a film extra in a number of films including V for Vendetta where I was one of the V's. Also was in Children of men. I'm the last soilder in the entire film. Clip was used at the Oscars.
I led the London half marathon a few years ago. It was only for about 20 seconds after first 400 metres. I kept up with all the club runners for about 7 miles and then struggled badly the rest of the way.
I played beach cricket against the Barbados school champions. My side comprised a bunch of tourists (some of whom were American and had never played the game) as well as West Indies international Pedro Collins and Sir Garfield Sobers. Unfortunately we lost as the Barbados lot kept hitting the ball into the sea. Sobers only fielded but it was still a great experience . It was filmed for TV but don't know if it was ever shown in this country.
Fatboy slim once mistook me for Robbie Williams.
I once recieved an award where the guest speaker was Prince Philip. I met Johny Ball at the same event. I forgot to mention to him about his son in laws mistake.
The lady who did the voice of George from rainbow came to my wedding.
By the way River Don it is a funny old world I have met both Sylvester McCoy and Sir Ian McKellen but seperately. McCoy was doing some miners benefit thing during miners strike. The pub in Stainforth he was in has since been knocked down. He told me he was going to be Dr Who but that I had to keep it to myself. Sir Ian McKellen sat and had a drink with myself and a fellow rovers fan in the Coal Hole on the strand. Never met Ian Brown so you have one on my there.
Great stories Dave, and love all the others as well. Sadly, I have no claims to fame me, met some famous people - some of whom it was a true honor, mostly in London when my daughter worked in Parliament.
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I've walked past filo when he is leaning against the wall at the keepmoat before a game...never liked to disturb him tho..
Not a claim to fame, but filo is a legend on the forum bless him.. :)
Oh and saw Andi Peters in Hamleys years ago, so long ago he was with a gladiator...... He had a big warty mole in his hair..lol
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I met Carling!
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I met Carling!
Then you are the winner. The greatest trick Carling ever pulled, was convincing the world he didn't exist.
What did he look like?
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I was once on a ferry to germany in 2008(i think), i fell asleep on the seats aboard and woke up next to Sean Thornton, had a full blown conversation about how i was one of his big fans, the Aston Villa game/goal and his Rovers career, then met the whole Leyton Orient team...
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I was cramming for Finals at Uni in 1972 - amid all those the electricity strikes. 9pm one evening the lights went out and I decided to hit the bar. I ended up hitting something else in the pitch black at the bottom of the staircase - an octogenarian man to be precise. It was JRR Tolkien and I spent the next three hours walking around the college gardens with him. Lovely fella and saw him several times after that - and he signed my copy of LOTR.
Are you sure you that wasn't a dream Dutch, maybe just a case of Tolkien in your sleep?
Nah - what I do in my sleep is more Hobbit forming...............
The other College tale I have is of telling Alec Jeffreys (now Prof Sir AJ, FRS and founder of DNA fingerprinting) in 1969 that he nearly had a famous name................
Have a more recent claim - in 2001 I sold our last house to Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. She bought it for one of her staff - she didn't turn up in person but I do have the piece of paper with her signature authorising Power of Attorney.
And right now I am trying to sell our current house to move back to Blighty during the worst housing slump in memory in the Netherlands - and I thought she might be interested again. What does she do......... darn well abdicates! It's not on.
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And I once sang on Songs of Praise. Not sure that's a claim to fame tbh.... Sang in the European premier of Leonard Bernsteins Mass - if that means anything - in the Albert Hall too.
Bob\G
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Oh. And I know (or used to know...) Dutch Uncle!
BobG
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I was once in the national papers for setting fire to a fridge with a blow-torch.
Don't ask...
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Shaun Ryder once asked me to sell him some 'e' (although thinking about it he's probably asked half the population of Britain the same question).
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Playing in a Dads v Sons cricket match , had my son caught off my bowling by Neil Innes of Bonzo Dog fame
........then proceeded to drop a caught and bowled chance off the next delivery !!!
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Not sure if it counts but met Copps, Mark Wilson, JOC (and not forgetting Paul Mayfield of course) at Machu Picchu.
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Shook hands with Nelson Mandela when he was on a walk about in Trafalgar Square in 1996.
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I too met Nelson Mandela when I was in the RAF, he waved all the press, station commander and officers away to come over shake my hand and speak to me (I was pondlife in terms of ranks) he was class...great memory from meeting a great man...station commander wasn't too happy though!
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I was 11 or 12 yrs old, on holiday at Butlins Filey, only time we ever went full-board. There was one empty place at dinner first night but it was allocated with a name card.
Next morning a black guy was sat there tucking in to his breakfast when we all rolled up, Mam, Dad and five kids. I was put next to him - black folk were a rare sight for us from Bolton on Dearne in 1966, apart from my dad when he had to get home from't pit in a hurry and missed his shower.
Anyway, this guy was just the funniest bloke in the world, he'd have the whole place in uproar with his quips and relentless teasing of the waitresses. Mealtimes quickly became the highlight of the day.
It was the closing week of the season and he was there on a freebie to compete in the final of the talent competition after winning his round earlier in the season. We went to see him perform, sang some song, but didn't win.
That was it really, until a couple of years later when that new Saturday evening show was launched - The Comedians - it was Charlie Williams of course. As an entertainer he hadn't made it big until then so we didn't know him but it was a real thrill to see him become such a well loved celebrity.
And to think, I had been a Rover for a few years by the time we had that holiday but had missed Charlie's time at Belle Vue and so didn't know him, which is just as well as I'd probably have mythered him to death for the whole week.
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Maureen Lipman's uncle repaired my suit...I snogged Belinda Carlisle...I met Red Baron at Hayes. It's been a roller coaster...
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I spent a day being a groundcrew extra on "memphis Belle" but try as i might never did recognise myself..Keep waiting for it to come on sky again so i can freeze frame the bits i knew i was about somewhere..there were hundreds of us us though dressed the same...lol
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I once had THREE topics deleted in the space of about half an hour on the Viking chat site for having a bit of a laugh during our celebratory period following our championship winning season!
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Maureen Lipman's uncle repaired my suit...I snogged Belinda Carlisle...I met Red Baron at Hayes. It's been a roller coaster...
You snogged Belinda Carlisle??? What? Wi tongues and all ' biz? Was it in her early solo days when she was airbrushed smooth and cleavage? Or in the Go-go days when she looked like a better looking version of the lass out of Hayzee Fantayzee? Or more recently when she started to look like a crocodile who had run out of Oil of Ulay?
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Maureen Lipman's uncle repaired my suit...I snogged Belinda Carlisle...I met Red Baron at Hayes. It's been a roller coaster...
You snogged Belinda Carlisle??? What? Wi tongues and all ' biz? Was it in her early solo days when she was airbrushed smooth and cleavage? Or in the Go-go days when she looked like a better looking version of the lass out of Hayzee Fantayzee? Or more recently when she started to look like a crocodile who had run out of Oil of Ulay?
Would love to say it was during the solo days but it was Go-Go time. I was after Jane Weidlin but she told me 'go f*** yourself'. Belinda was willing to step into the breach. Jane Weidlin joined an impressive list of female stars who told me where to get off in those days...Gaye Advert, Viv Albertine and the cute bassist from Telephone. Not even a peck on the cheek.
A few years ago I saw BC interviewed about their wild Go-Go days. One day they dared each other to lick a public toilet floor when on tour in the UK. Which probably accounts for the slightly unusual post-snog taste.
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I once sat next to Martin O'Neill on an early morning Alitalia flight out of Heathrow to Rome. Very casual he was. Had a rather tasty youngish woman with him too. I hope she was his daughter!
BobG
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On the Stone Roses tales, here's mine.
Stone Roses played Bridlington Spa theatre, promoting the Second Coming album. 3 of us made our way over and after the gig we ended up in the pub over the road. A bit of a lock-in ensued til about 2am. Obviously the designated driver wasnt too pleased with the late hour, but we got on the road home and immediately got the munchies so pulled into the first services we found. Imagine our delight to find Mani (in full length fur coat and sunclasses) and John Squire in there stocking up on goodies too.
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Ian Brown shops in my local Sainsburys.
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Featured on the front page of the free press this year as well as two other occasions. Was also on t.v, only a few seconds clip mind
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Ian Brown shops in my local Sainsburys.
Bloody hell Stu!!! Can I come stay with you a few days????
Cheers
BobG
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My Aunty Helen's hairdressers in Balby was where they filmed Open All Hours.
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A work colleague from Barnsley was an extra in the film 'Deliverance '.
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You lot can decide which is the best
I've been a film extra in a number of films including V for Vendetta where I was one of the V's. Also was in Children of men. I'm the last soilder in the entire filhm. Clip was used at the Oscars.
I led the London half marathon a few years ago. It was only for about 20 seconds after first 400 metres. I kept up with all the club runners for about 7 miles and then struggled badly the rest of the way.
I played beach cricket against the Barbados school champions. My side comprised a bunch of tourists (some of whom were American and had never played the game) as well as West Indies international Pedro Collins and Sir Garfield Sobers. Unfortunately we lost as the Barbados lot kept hitting the ball into the sea. Sobers only fielded but it was still a great experience . It was filmed for TV but don't know if it was ever shown in this country.
Fatboy slim once mistook me for Robbie Williams.
I once recieved an award where the guest speaker was Prince Philip. I met Johny Ball at the same event. I forgot to mention to him about his son in laws mistake.
The lady who did the voice of George from rainbow came to my wedding.
By the way River Don it is a funny old world I have met both Sylvester McCoy and Sir Ian McKellen but seperately. McCoy was doing some miners benefit thing during miners strike. The pub in Stainforth he was in has since been knocked down. He told me he was going to be Dr Who but that I had to keep it to myself. Sir Ian McKellen sat and had a drink with myself and a fellow rovers fan in the Coal Hole on the strand. Never met Ian Brown so you have one on my there.
Out of that lot I'd say the appearance in V for Vendetta. It is a film that will endure.
Ian Brown isn't the only musician I have met, I used to play five a side in West London, one night the game on the next door pitch included Ant and Dec and Robbie Williams. I got changed in the same changing rooms as that lot, not much to boast about but I suspect many ladies would have loved that opportunity.
RD
So who are the other musicians you have met?
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...I snogged Belinda Carlisle...
You win and deservedly so.
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You lot can decide which is the best
I've been a film extra in a number of films including V for Vendetta where I was one of the V's. Also was in Children of men. I'm the last soilder in the entire filhm. Clip was used at the Oscars.
I led the London half marathon a few years ago. It was only for about 20 seconds after first 400 metres. I kept up with all the club runners for about 7 miles and then struggled badly the rest of the way.
I played beach cricket against the Barbados school champions. My side comprised a bunch of tourists (some of whom were American and had never played the game) as well as West Indies international Pedro Collins and Sir Garfield Sobers. Unfortunately we lost as the Barbados lot kept hitting the ball into the sea. Sobers only fielded but it was still a great experience . It was filmed for TV but don't know if it was ever shown in this country.
Fatboy slim once mistook me for Robbie Williams.
I once recieved an award where the guest speaker was Prince Philip. I met Johny Ball at the same event. I forgot to mention to him about his son in laws mistake.
The lady who did the voice of George from rainbow came to my wedding.
By the way River Don it is a funny old world I have met both Sylvester McCoy and Sir Ian McKellen but seperately. McCoy was doing some miners benefit thing during miners strike. The pub in Stainforth he was in has since been knocked down. He told me he was going to be Dr Who but that I had to keep it to myself. Sir Ian McKellen sat and had a drink with myself and a fellow rovers fan in the Coal Hole on the strand. Never met Ian Brown so you have one on my there.
Out of that lot I'd say the appearance in V for Vendetta. It is a film that will endure.
Ian Brown isn't the only musician I have met, I used to play five a side in West London, one night the game on the next door pitch included Ant and Dec and Robbie Williams. I got changed in the same changing rooms as that lot, not much to boast about but I suspect many ladies would have loved that opportunity.
RD
So who are the other musicians you have met?
Laughs, I concede those 3 might not be musicians.
I have also met Bez from the Happy Mondays, he DOES play the maracas!
The most talented musician I have met though is Graham Fellows a.k.a John Shuttleworth. He can really play the electronic keyboard.
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Does putting up Attila the Stockbroker in a spare room here count - as a musician, or a funny man, or a poet?!!
Cheers
BobG
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Nice one Bob.
A reminder of a time when Brighton fans weren't all Kitsons.
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Actually Billy, he's still a mate - along with a few others from that era. I got some nice words from them after the events at Griffin Park :)
By the by, for anyone who's not aware of Attila, (aka John Baine) I give you my word, you won't regret spending a few quid going to one of his gigs. He's still a real top quality, funny, brilliant, acerbic, angry socialist. And he's from Brighton at that too!
BobG
He was full of stunts during the time the Seagulls were being stiffed by Archer and Bellotti. One of 'em was to take a fairly sizable party after some away match in the NW on a bit of a detour. Oddly, they ended up outside the house of Archer whereupon Attila stood on a box and began reciting poetry! As you might imagine, the poetry was vicious, the atmosphere was humorous, the plods were confuddled and Archer was not amused! If you search the net, there'll be pics and write ups about it.
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Earlier this year I picked up the future IBF World Bantamweight Champion in the Taxi, I now like to think that my pearls of wisdom contributed to him winning the world title :)
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You taught him all he knows Filo. You musta done!
BobG
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Taught him how to start his victory interview, I reckon.... "I'm f*cked!"