Was that in the Talardy,North Wales?
It was indeed, many moons ago
Mrs Monkeysfeet was an "exotic" dancer in that there club (at the time Mike Ahearn aka Warrior) was a "friend "of hers,
Many many moons later she still points this out to me...
David Bowie puked in a cupboard in one of our flats.
I went to a gig in Cheam in the 1980's of a dodgy band known as the 'Flared Generation' who comprised of a couple of my schoolmates (Clive C and Simon W) plus Jeremy Vine and Tim Vine.
I don't remember either of them.
EDIT: Ooh and on more band-related nonsense that reminds me, my cousin Sarah had a date with Lemmy from Motorhead, again in the 80's. Apparently he was a sexist pig. (I mean really, what did she expect)
My mum went to school with the lead guitarist of The Animals.
A friend of mine is guitar tech for Joss Stone when she tours.
I now live in the home city of the band GWAR.
David Bowie puked in a cupboard in one of our flats.
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My Mum was at college in Manchester. Her flatmate went out with George Best.
Slept in Ian Browns bed!(he wasn't staying at the hotel that night but I got his room, even crapped in the same Loo Ian probably crapped in) as it was the room he had just stayed in after Glastonbury .
Ponced a ciggie off Fish in a bar in Liverpool without cracking on I knew who he was.
Any climbers out there?
Years ago, a mate of mine of mine went with one of his mates to a climbing wall with no real idea of what they were doing. Some old bloke wandered over, grabbed the knot tied to his harness and looked at it, said "yep, you're going to die" and wandered off.
The old bloke? Chris Bonnington.
(so he claims anyway)
I've met the queen.
Played snooker with Jimmy White, Willie Thorne and Andy Gray.
Was briefly on Central News when I was an RAF cadet.
Served Nigel Kennedy and Robert Plant beer in the pub I used to work in.
Sat on the table next to Patrick Stewart in the local curry house.
Best of all, got a kiss off this fine lady when I was about 12 when she opened our school fete. I got the job of showing her round and I got a kiss because "it will make all of your school mates jealous"...Indeed it did 🙂
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Other half's brother held the school 400m record until it was broken by Iwan Thomas.
Her Father who also worked at the same school taught music to one of the fellas out of the prodigy.
Another gf's grandfather taught some of the Supergrass lads out to fish as children.
I live next door to Once the worlds highest paid porn actress' Gemma Massey and her stupid excuse for a dog. On the other side is a football player who has more cars than I have hot meals I a week.
I was interviewed for radio and TV a few times when the protests started in Ukraine last year.
Oh, and Charlotte Church's parents are my next door neighbours.
Not a tenuous link but a chance encounter. I was waiting for a friend at Heathrow when out strode Alice Cooper with a huge grin, had to say hi. He was very chatty, then he said 'Iggy should be through soon'. Next thing I'm standing chatting with Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop!
Tenuous indeed, and could be a coincidence but... Circa 2k-01 I was wheelchair ridden after developing a systemic disease following injury. My school job being effectively over I took to doing what I did before, ie graphic design, photography etc. An old cycling pal visited me this one day, saying someone he knew had a bike company and could I come up with a logo design. I put something together, just one design, very distinctive font. He took it with him next visit and then dropped off the scene, and I moved so didn't see him for years, in fact never see him. Never heard of the bike company at the time either, but the first time (and now every time) I see one of those frames I wonder if it was a 'coincidence ' or if my old pal got paid instead of me. Not bitter!
Mrs MR was in a famous 'cycling' music video, but that's not my claim to any fame, I just spent about two hrs pausing the youtube version to work out which pixel was her 🙂
I'm also in a movie starting Christian Slater, Marissa Tomei, and. Rosie Perez.
But you'd have it know what my arm looks like to know it is me.
When I had a petrol station I once filled up Sir Norman Tebbits Range Rover with fuel ( I knew him from somewhere but when he handed me his credit card I realised who it was)
I once had a part in Emmerdale when they were filming a prison visits scene.
Edit, I realise neither claims are anything like 'fame' but It's as close as I can get.
Musical connections first.
My schoolfriend Emma is now known as Scout Niblett and has recorded with Steve Albini and Bonnie Prince Billy. Tony Soprano's daughter Meadow had a poster of Emma on the wall in her college room.
I was also at school with the bassist from the Darkness (not the original one). I'm less proud of this.
When working behind the bar at Hull University the [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_MC ]Rebel MC[/url] got shirty with me because I served him a pint in a plastic glass.
Gerry Love from teenage fan club was in my Spanish class. Took me about 2 months and about 30 after class pints before I knew who he was! 😆 Sound guy though.
30 years ago I was in a Robert Plant video..
that is me on the left at 1.47 🙂
Sir Paul bought the band 10CC to my house when I was a kid
used to go to his house quite a lot, xmas parties etc
D28boy - Member
ti pin man.....out drink Lemmy ? are you mental?
No I was drunk, he knew he was on a winner as he saw I had a head start, otherwise I'd have had him ... cough.
I stimulated myself by hand as a teenager looking at pictures of Pigfaces ex.
Frank McAvennie used to visit my neighbours house alot in the mid 90s. Needless to say he stopped visiting when the neighbour got chinned for 18 million quid in heroin(He got 18 years, I'd imagine he's out now)! 😆
My brother snogged 80's one hit wonder Princess in a night club, and my son sold Martin 'Wolfie' Adams a bike.
Been trying to think of climbing stories for gravity-slave but the climbing world is sufficiently small that there are all sorts of random encounters you can make the most of (e.g. I climbed with X when actually all you did was fall off the problem he'd warmed up on one-handed).
One of my mates (no, not me) was the subject of disparaging comments from Ron Fawcett while sat by a boulder smoking. Getting told off by his hero was not a high point 😆
EDIT: I've got another one - my workmate's husband pushed Steve McClure's daughter on a swing...
DIRT (double page spread, shot from behind!)
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Mr Nice. Indeed. I thought I was strong, back in the '90's. Bouldering down the Foundry one day, 4 people on the wall. Big Ron doing laps on features on one side, Ben and Jerry doing a photoshoot on the other. I got my coat. But par for the course in Sheffield.
I showed Leo Houlding a sequence at a comp there once. He was 14. Flashed it.
Shared Subway Sects (great band) chips with them after a gig supporting the Buzzcocks.
Met Lance Armsrong (it was cool at the time)in a spar shop in Tenerife with Cheryl Crow.
I got thrown out of the amusement arcade by Kirk Brandon (Theatre of Hate SOD fame) that he used to work in, before he was famous, for rocking the machines.
My mum pushed Sean Connery out of the way to throw up in a bin in Hong Kong when she was pregnant with me. She kept her head in the bin when he asked if she was ok...
I also saw Jarvis Cocker in the Magna Centre a few years ago.
This is great
I've had dinner with Des Lynam, been to Richard and Judys house , had a member of 10cc to my BBQ, told Björk she was in the wrong toilet , oh and my friend saw a member of the royal families left breast then smoked a spliff off Windsor castle.
David Cunningham of Electroweird type band Flying Lizards was our next door neighbour when we were kids.
Queued with Clarkson at kiddies theme park Sundown Adventureland near Donny.
I'm on the cover of a book called "Bike and Hike", with Sir Dave B's dad.
I went to school with Ed Clancy
My great aunt made the queens wedding bouquet
My great uncle (husband of the above)!was in the same class as Harold Wilson
I've had a very pissed piss next to an equally pissed Alan pardew
I sat next to travis pastrana on a chairlift in whistler.
Eorl Crabtree (of Huddersfield Giants and being the nephew of big daddy fame) is probably going to be at my sisters wedding.
I've got another one! You know that Carter story up there?^^^
It's Carter's last ever radio gig tonight on 6Music and they want stories so I wrote in Steve Lamacq just read it out. Proper famous!
Went to school with David Coulthard, i raced motocross and he raced karts so we used to go to each others events around the country, went to his first few F1 races with Williams after Senna's tragic death.
Know quite a few DJ's etc through organising dance music festival stuff over the years along with a few producers - a few could be considered friends but mostly we just meet up on the nights in question. A couple of years ago i shared a bottle of champagne with Nils Rodgers as he was playing our festival - was very cool meeting him.
Know Alex Kapranos as his house is near to a mates pub (i used to work there and we got talking about music/production as i was working on my laptop) , been to a few parties and sessions back at the house/studio and out for a couple of bike rides around the area, met the rest of the band and stuff - Bob is pretty cool.
Been to a few decent music/party gatherings through close friends who have a complex in Deia (mallorca), one works in film finance, one is a musician, got drunk with Richard Branson, Bob Geldof, Robert Graves, Irvine Welsh, Howard Marks, Lily Allen, Anna Friel, Rhys Ifans etc…. (the Deia crowd).
Most are tenuous claims as the only reason i really got to know/meet them is through my friends, it's quite a small clique that i would otherwise not have access to.
I once blocked Sade's drains. And on another visit to her house, my car alarm woke up Clive Anderson. He was annoyed.
IU had a piss on Rolf Harris' drive (but it was back when he was still widely loved so people used to think that made me a bit of a **** - who's having the last laugh now?)
Oh and I lived next door but one to Limahl from Kajagoogoos gran!
I was at Shugborough hall on a school trip when Anneka Rice come bursting through with a camera crew in tow. I eventually appeared in the back ground on treasure hunt.!
My dad went to school with Pat Roache.
Once gobbed into an M&S sandwich I prepared for Hugh Cornwall of The Stranglers when I was a young slip of a lad. He was a right rotter.
Also met Bruce Dickinson who was less than stellar and Stuart Adamson who was lovely. RIP.
All in the 90s whilst working for a large Record chain with a Dog and a Gramophone.
Cubist wins it.
My dad did some security installation work on Roy Chubby Brown's house.
Regularly servered Eric Bristow when I used to work behind the bar in a pub. His 'driver' used to bring him in his old roller. Waving £50 notes did not get him served any quicker, and I always used to make a show of checking them.
Once shared the same plane back from Dubai with Ronnie Corbett and his missus. They where in the posh bit up front where you get free drinks and stuff.
Jonny Dawes 'stole' my seat at a climbing comp in Leeds back in '89. Being a star struck 15 yr I didn't say anything.
Met Ari Vatanen when spannering on a Rally Raid event in Dubai (possobly the same year as the Ronnie incident above). Ari was driving for a pro team who had same sponsor, said sponsor arranged for Ari to come over for a chat. Primarily to the driver/co-driver, but us lowly spanner monkeys still got say hi.
The back of my head and left ear appeared on the local tv programme 'Counterpoint'
Pierced Sean Goff's nipple with a safety pin
Once held the record for the highest score for Asteroids on the Atari console
Appeared in the David Holmes vid for 'Slash the Seats'
Held the UK record for the longest field goal and most interceptions in one season (American football)
Played football for six years with Mickey O'Neill (N.I manager and former Newcastle player)
My dad was on the news - he was the last person to leave the Michelin factory in Mallusk when it closed
Unofficially* held the world record for most front hops on a bmx (* at the time the official record was 52 and i did 116 at a demo)
Got a 'Castella wink' from Russ Abbot outside Harrods when i called him Russ ****in Abbot.
Met Bill Hicks in a shop - we were wearing the same jacket. He was buying smokes and i was buying cheese.
Snogged Jade Jagger at a party
More than snogged Miki from Lush
Ex girlfriends dad co wrote wrote Brazil, Jaberwocky, Time Bandits and loads of Monty Python sketches. She was one of the children in the 'Every Sperm is Sacred' song in Meaning of Life
One of my mates is married to Max Sebalds daughter
Damn, forgot - slid my car in the snow into a hedge of nice picture postcard cottage. Out comes Gary Numan with a 4x4 to tow me out
The other month I bought the wife of one of the guys from Mogwai a beer (actually, not that tenuous, she's my mates daughter).
I was phoned up at work by Johnny mad as a frog Dawes. He was only really trying to flog me a personal training day, but it still counts!
I actually got paid(!) to sell t-shirts for three nights on the Sonic Youth Daydream Nation tour, sharing the merch desk with Susanne Sesnic (of Two Cool Rock Chicks Listening to Neu fame) and Dan Peters (drummer of Mudhoney). Completely blew any cred I might've had with Susanne when I completely failed to recognise Eugene and Frances of the Vaselines when they wandered past in Glasgow. However, on the plus side, she told me how Kim Gordon and her made their glitter 'pants'. Thurston Moore is a ****ing giant. I *might* actually have mentioned this to him when I met him. I'm sure I was the first to do that... 😳
Oh, and I also told Steven Pastel to get his nose out of the Dinosaur Jr t-shirts box (I didn't know who he was or that he was there to interview Dinosaur....).
Oh, how could I have forgotten, my dad claims he intercepted the radio message where the Russians talked about sending off the Sputnik rocket for the first time (ultra high frequency apparently) when he was stationed in Berlin in the 50's 
I used to deliver Tina (I love to love) Charles' newspaper.
Gail from Corrie comes in my shop.
I had completly forgotten about this one , as an apprentice i helped install all the windows in Jim Bowens house .
Just inside the front door he had his copy of "This Is Your Life"on a pedestal , i had a sneaky peak and it only had some recent holiday snaps in it and not a single written word.His bathroom was full of freebies from hotels and my impression of him was that he was as tight as a ducks arse in water.
Nearly shoulder barged Theresa May when she came to visit work. My need for employment stopped me.
Spent a weekend skiing with the OC of the SAS squadron that attacked the Tora Bora caves. He was wearing a pink TNF onsie from the 80's. He thought it was still fashionable. Lets face it, I was not going to tell him otherwise.
James Blunt sat next to me at an Indian restaurant in Gex, France. He got served before me, even though I was there first.
Nigel Mansell had a good stare at my wifes chest when we were in Gatwick North terminal. I was chuffed, the wife not so.
A girl I worked with was told that she could not go topless in the daily star as it would bring the army into disrepute. She did. She got kicked out. The daily star sold out within a 5 mile radius.
Oh, I was on singled out back in 1998. It's fixed.
Not really claims to fame but I'm bored.
At a conference for young (18-28yo) folk with diabetes in Stoke many years ago I got off with a young lady who later appeared on Pop Idol X-Factor doing a very memorable version of a very popular discotheque hit.
Some of these are so bad/good, I shall include my other one:
Me & my brother went backstage at a Kelly Osbourne gig and I gave her a t-shirt.
Could of snogged her, but she was too ugly.
I have got the photos 😀
Oh yeah I used to live on the street where all the characters in last of the summer wine lived! (Next door to cleggy, as you are asking)
My grandad invented the jaffa orangey bit in the jaffa cake, and also helped make the queen's wedding cake
(we think this is him on the left, but we're not sure)
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Mmm. Not tenuous enough? Ian Richardson, the actor best known for the original House of Cards, stole the credit for inventing the jaffa orangey bit, on the Jonathon Ross show! His dad, Johnny Richardson, was my grandad's assistant.
I've mentioned this one before.
Julie Goodyear (Bet Lynch off corrie) has known my mum and dad for 50 years or so. She used to drink in our pub and would often pull pints behind the bar.
Sometimes if she passed me walking home from school she'd stop and give me a lift in her MG.
Oh and now and again some bloke off the telly comes out with us on a Monday night.
My dad once held a door open for the snooker player Cliff Thorburn
Tenuous - I walked into a small cafe in Torquay, aged 13, with my parents and noticed a certain Linda Lusardi was sat there.
I don't remember much after that.
My boss's dad is royal correspondent Tim Ewart
Been in 2 Tv programs
Starred in the first series of Thunder Races. We turned a red Manta Gte into a Pikes peak look-a-like rally car in 48hrs and competed against 888 racing and a team of motor vehicle lecturers. We lost.
Infamously involved in 'Gerrys Big Decision' where Sir G met businesses run by nincompoops and invested in them . Amazingly still gainfully employed , chhrist knows how.
Served Nick Haywood a pint whilst working in the Bell at Godstone.
Worked out in a small gym in Aldershot with no other than Jet of Gladiators, but never knew it was her till she'd gone.
Stepping backwards to have my photo taken at the great north run I knocked the bloke who plays Eric Pollard in Emmerdale on the floor.
Having a pee in the urinals during the Euro 2012 tournament. Dickie bird stands at the side of me and starts talking football.
I had an altercation with that ***t Clarkson earlier this year, that got on a lot of websites and in a couple of newspapers (and it was on here but I used a different username) 😀
Your weren't in his way, perchance?
I post on the same Internet forum as one of guy martins mates.
He seemed to think so.
Tim Vine lives about 6 doors along from me in Banstead, he drives a proper banger and parked across my gate so I couldn't get my motorbike out. Tweeted him and his 125,000 followers asking him to move it.
Spent a lot of the weekend in my teenage years drinking with Ben and James Johnson, aka 2/3rds of biffy clyro and went to quite a few of there first gigs.
Old flatmate became a dancer and ended up on one of kylie's world tours
School friend was on take me out for a while (didnt get picked)
Was on a really dodgy dating show when at uni called dial a date (Was stopped in the street and asked to go in) Wasnt picked, the ladys comments after seeing my video was "quite good looking but seems miserable"
Ex girlfriend was Dan Browns publisher and spent about a years working on the da vinci code. Was given pre publication copy to read and pointed out several this about the section set in london that didnt work.
Dan sent me a very nice message in one of his earlier books that I couldnt get ahold of.
Work at GOSH so see numerous famous people around including, Nick Clegg, Alistair Campbell, John Terry, David Cameron, John Snow cycles past all the time.
Commuting through south london alongside a geezer on a scooter and realised it was Phil Spencer (Location, Location, Location)
Had breakfast next to eddie cahill (actor from friends and CSI) in LA and a young guy he was with had on a west ham top so made small talk.
Think that's it!
Just realised that the building across the Thames from Lucy's flat in Not Going Out is my old office in St Katherine's Dock 🙂
My wife's Aunty is Jenny Agutter
Ive never met her
My wife is also teaching the baby of one of the ITV Midlands weather women to swim
I don't know which one but she keeps pointing her out to me every time the weather is on
As a kid I had a painting featured in Tony Harts gallery
My wife has never seen it
My great great grandad, Willie Blair, used to play the fiddle for Queen Victoria when she stayed at Balmoral.
I was taught structural engineering at Nescot by Dr Vine, Tim & Jeremy's dad.
Just remembered. I went to a BBQ hosted by Roger Daltrey at his trout farm. He is very short.
Some more: I went out with Mike Oldfields niece for a couple of years. Also went out with one of the actors from 'Teachers' who is now married to Keith Allen!
[i]the crapper family name is where the word crap comes from.[/i]
[i]No it isn't. It's derived from something Germanic IIRC, and Crapper is a corruption of Cropper. Wholly unrelated words, anyway.[/i]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper
One for the engineers and bluegrass fans.
A friend of mine and handy bicyclerists' great grandfather invented the 3 point linkage. His boss stole the idea and made a mint.
Here he is singing all about it 😀
At school I went out with a girl who used to live next door to Gerry Rafferty.
I got to speak on the Adventure Show one year at the Puffer.
I once worked with a chap who is Bill Bailey's cousin. Same chap used to know Frankie Howard's nephew.
I worked briefly as a joke writer for a Radio Scotland programme.
I used to live quite close to Andy Gray, panto regular and City Lights star.
Some French folk asked me for my autograph because I was wearing a kilt, totally ignoring the two Scottish rugby internationalists in our group who weren't. Early hours of the morning and much drink had been taken. By all involved.
MrsKenny's sister's boyfriend is the cousin of Radio 4's Eddie Mair.
RaveyDavey - Member
I've been physically ejected from a night club by Warrior from Gladiators he's not a fan of 'banter'
Your name made this claim to fame work so well!
When I was about 6 years of age I sat on Gary Glitters chopper. My brothers mate had bought it mid 70's - late 70's, drove it round and I got to sit on it.
Lived next door to Kenny Everett at college.
Supervisor denied last year's Nobel Prize.
Friends with someone on Eastenders - i had known them a year before i found out, never watch it.
Teen2's classmate reads Sky News and lives across the road.
I had Pam Ayres on my sofa and was interviewed for Radio 2.
Sport, archaeology and music related:
My mother's parents knew [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Morgan ]Cliff Morgan (he was v good friends with their neighbours)[/url]
I was fly half to 2003 England World Cup player [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Gomarsall ]Andy Gomarsall's[/url] scrum half at prep school
A friend's parents were friends with Bob Marley (she was cradled by him as a baby)
At the same prep school, [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jago_Cooper ]Jago Cooper[/url] and I were in the same class and were good friends. I have a neatly embarrassing story about him….
A few weeks ago I went on the lash with [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Brazil ]Alan Brazil[/url] and Ray Parlour
Last prep school one - my sister was in the same class as Daniel de la Bedoyere (son of [url= http://judydyble.com/content/going-flow-interview-gill-oliver-oxford-times ]DJ and scenster Count Simon de la Bedoyere and Judy Dyble, singer with Fairport Convention - they were very nice people)[/url]
EDIT…
I used to work for Stuart Hall's son
My mate TonyPlym's parents were the Queens florist's in Windsor Castle.
My mum was an extra in Dr No whilst pregnant with me- I'm in a James Bond film!
Later on when once I was able to breathe air she took me to see Rev Martin Luther King Jnr make a superb speech.
I have no recollection of it whatsoever, I was only 16 months old. It is however one of the best things that I've experienced. Cheers Mum, I thank you 🙂
martinxyz - Member
When I was about 6 years of age I sat on Gary Glitters chopper....
It's as well you didn't stop the story there... 🙂
I was just disappointed it was the wheel rather than the rotor kind.
My dad went to school with John Lennon (several years apart) and John (who was a prefect) once told him off for talking on the stairs
My mum was friends with Paul McCartneys cousin
Epicyclo,I told that story at work and Andy nearly spat his lunch over me!