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I appeared on the quiz show 15 to 1 (original William G Stewart version) in 2003. 

I have also been interviewed by local news in Scotland a couple of times on a vox pops kind of thing- weirdly one of them popped up on a programme on BBC Alba of all places a year or 2 back- I don't speak Gaelic but it was one of those looking back at certain years programmes.

I have also featured on the Chain on RadMac's show on 6 Music

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Won the "who's on my t shirt?" competition on Marc Riley 6 music in July 2014 so spoke live on radio with him, bit under the influence, when he asked what was memorable of glastonbury I replied "kasabian were better than expected" which I think he found amusing. T shirt was woody woodmansey, but no idea who drew it 

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Had letters published in the melody maker and NME complaining that the Osmonds and David Cassidy were ruining music and demanding they shouldn’t be included in the album charts and those charts should be for real musicians such as Zeppelin, Sabbath , Floyd etc.  

They published my address and I was inundated with hate mail from teenyboppers!  And I have to say some of them used very industrial language , even the envelopes were covered in insults. But I was a hero at school with my mates! 

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Mine was the 1st message to be read out on Radio 6 music in 2015 when the (And I can't remember which) DJ asked people to message in regarding "Who is going to Glastonbury" it was read out at approximately 0330hrs on the given Wednesday morning and detailed that we were currently on the M6 Southbound..!! 

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13 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Went to see Ween 20-something years ago and the singer liked my Bowie T-Shirt so much he swapped it for his Ween T-Shirt. They were pictured in Melody Maker and the NME on the next two nights on the tour, wearing my T in both.

The singer of Ween was wearing a Ween t-shirt? And I thought wearing a t-shirt of the band you were going to see was a bit far!

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Granada news talking about the fact that students had had to be put up in a hotel due to a shortage of accommodation (with a horrendous hangover. Which you could tell

Northern Ireland TV news giving blood

Philadelphia TV news  as part of a piece about a museum exhibit about Benjamin Franklin

Brazilian travel show in a piece on snowmobiling  in Whistler

Extra (as 'white bloke') in an Egyptian period drama

 

The last two, I don't actually know if they went out. I prefer to think that they did as my part in them was so compelling it would have been wrong to not show them 

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i was on the front page of the staffordshire newsletter for a whole week due to being called up for the under 13s England chess team

I also was interviewed when i went to see Steve Bull be announced as the manager of Stafford Rangers back when i was in school, before my teacher saw it on midlands today and gave me detention for the rest of the week

 

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2 hours ago, Neil said:

Peter Gabriel once gave me the nod and "hello mate" as we both filled our cars with petrol.

He had a nicer car than me.

If we're doing the "mate" thing, then I'm friends with Carl Cox.

He was finishing up doing a DJ set in the middle of the day in the Virgin Tent in 1999 (Isn't it terrible how commercialised it's become since the fence went up?) and as he was packing his records away, I said "Carl - nice set".  And he said "thanks mate".


Carl Cox is my mate.

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I've just remembered something. I once spent an hour or so sat in a pub talking to Roland Gift, who like me, was sat there on his own. I'd been on the all dayer and was spectacularly drunk. I don't think Mr. Gift was fairing much better. Anyway, after about an hour or so, two of my female friends walked in to the pub. They saw immediately who I was talking to, and came over to us straight away. A little while later he left with the pair of them, and shagged them both. 

 

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2 minutes ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

I've just remembered something. I once spent an hour or so sat in a pub talking to Roland Gift, who like me, was sat there on his own. I'd been on the all dayer and was spectacularly drunk. I don't think Mr. Gift was fairing much better. Anyway, after about an hour or so, two of my female friends walked in to the pub. They saw immediately who I was talking to, and came over to us straight away. A little while later he left with the pair of them, and shagged them both. 

 

Presumably he had the gift ? :) 

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41 minutes ago, O'Doyle Rules said:

I've been on Desert Island Discs...

Wow!! Is your episode still around. I love listening to them and would happily listen. 

I have had a few random shout out's on 6 Music. Clint Boon loved my dog. I've appeared on Glastonbury footage and things like that a few times but I've always said I'd rather be rich than famous. Being famous just seems like a pain in the arse. I've met a fair few famous people and never envied any of them the fame part!!

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11 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

If we're doing the "mate" thing, then I'm friends with Carl Cox.

He was finishing up doing a DJ set in the middle of the day in the Virgin Tent in 1999 (Isn't it terrible how commercialised it's become since the fence went up?) and as he was packing his records away, I said "Carl - nice set".  And he said "thanks mate".


Carl Cox is my mate.

I once shared a plane back from Homelands Ireland with Carl Cox.

He was perfectly dressed with clean shiny shoes; me and my mates were mud monsters. How did he do that? :D 

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In January I was on CCTV 1* evening news for being the outstanding foreigner in the province of 70 million people... doesn't speak well for the quality of laowai in China, right?

*the Chinese tele channel, although I'm sure there are plenty of expolits on CCTV in all sorts of places

 

This one didn't appear in any newspapers or online but Mick Jagger's brother got pink-eye because of me. He was a massive knob and totally deserved it!

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