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Following on from the MUSE thread, which band came from your school?
Mine was Stand College in Whitefield and Elbow.
St. Ambrose Barlow, Swinton. Paul and Shaun Ryder from't Mondays.
Shed 7.
Chemical Brothers
Temposhark
Pure Reason Revolution
(and Natalie Dormer)
None that I know of but the actual school band used to play at internationals at Murrayfield
Mine. 😃
The proclaimers and Jimmy Shand.
And various Scotland Rugby players.
Posh Spice.
And they wouldn't have called her that if they'd seen the shit comprehensive she went to, I'm sure.
Only ‘famous’ former pupil I can think of was Sid Waddell and only found out about that when he died.
Northside 😥
Well, Paul and Timmy Walsh anyway.
Mine
Never heard of them.
Early 90s indie / baggy outfit? Short band names were in style then, eh?
@derek_starship: You're from St Ambrose Barlow in Swinton?!? I used to live right around the corner! Small world.
As for my school, I can boast the Crash Test Dummies.
Also a few recorded jazz musicians.
Shed 7.
What years were you there ?
I did indeed go to St. AB in Swinton, Salford.
So you went to school with Brad Roberts and Ellen Reid?
I loved CTD back in the day. I saw them at the Manchester Apollo in 1993. One of the best gigs ever.
Pity they went a bit crap after God Shuffled His Feet. What a fantastic album that is.
Was Ellen Reid popular? I always fancied her!
John Helliwell. Supertramp
Manuel and the music of the mountains. Geoff Love
And 2 Nobel prize winners
None that I'm aware of but my mate Andy Poole who was in the same band as me at school is now the keyboard player with Peter Hook and The Light. 35 years ago we were playing Joy Divison covers and he still is 😀
Bregante - you've just reminded me.
I also went to school with Dave "Pottsy" Potts of Monaco, RAM and currently playing lead guitar with Peter Hook and the Light.
Ha! Small world. Andy was in Monaco too and I also work with Peter Hooks' brother.
Lad from my year ended up in a band with John Squire, another from the seahorses and a couple of the Verve. Saw them perform at Leeds one year, the tent was packed as people were keen to see John squire, but the tent soon started heamorrhaging people once they started!
No band from my school but one guys brother was in Principal Edwards Magic Theatre.
So you went to school with Brad Roberts and Ellen Reid?
Don’t forget Dan!
Anyway, I have to admit I was a few years behind them, so I don’t know exactly how popular Ellen was at the time. I know that, even before they became big, we would admire their pictures in the Alumni gallery. 🙂
They got their start at the Blue Note Café, where any band that was starting out pretty much had to play... including my own. Alas we went nowhere, other than to our respective lives in different parts of Canada.
Radiohead, though they're all about 5 years older than me. I saw them at the Jericho tavern in Oxford a couple of times.
Napalm Death
&
Cancer
🤷♂️😂😎
They didn’t all go to Stand. Jupp the drummer was at Peel with me. My band supported them a couple of times. They were called Soft in those days.
Biffy Clyro. The twins were a couple of years below me at school
The only one I can think of was The Claim, where at least one past member went to the same school a few years ahead of me, but not sure about the others (I only personally knew one)
Not school related but Jason Bonham was a regular at local schoolboy MX meetings and used to ride BMX with us.
You may know his dad John a bit better...
I believe he was in a famous band.😉
Always took his turn standing out in the rain marshaling though and helped quite a few people along the way.
Proper cool guy.
When I was at school Francis Dunnery from It Bites “babysat” me a few times. Does that count?
Eddi reader of fairground attraction.
Also nippy nicola sturgeon.
I can’t remember meeting either of them, but of course, they weren’t famous when at school.
but of course, they weren’t famous when at school
Similar here...David Mitchell was the same year as me, and I have no memory of him.
No bands from any of my schools apart from mine, but we were shit and didn't last long!!
Gok Wan was in the year above me in junior school and Parminder Nagra was in my year at senior school.
The lad who played flute on Landscapes 'Einstein A Go Go' his dad taught me at Primary School. Talk about clutching at straws!
Ride - I am friends with Mark Gardener and Andy Bell and we were at School together in Oxford the other 2 members were in the year above me.
Bilbo was at school with me couple of appearances on totp then back to obscurity oh and some ofthe bay city rollers
David Coverdale - Deep Purple/Whitesnake.
Steve James - Dogs D'Amour.
I think that's it.
Was hoping the question was going to be which band on the back of my Haversack - Rainbow 🙂
We did metalwork and tech drawing.
Robert Smith from The Cure. His locker was a shrine IIRC.
I used to love ride windy great band
Senior J - was just about to post about Francis Dunnery. You a Wyndham old boy?
I taught at Jarvis C's school.
Andy McClusky went to my school....of OMD fame. I think!
Kid Carpet
I was in the same class as Steve Harris of Iron Maiden at primary and secondary school. A nice quiet lad.
@boxelder - no - but I did go there a lot for the sports facilities...and the old Hall!! 😉
The best thing to come out of my secondary school was asbestos.
If we’re allowed University claims, I shared my history and politics degree years with Will Young and, far more excitingly, Raph from Season, er, Something of the Apprentice
Who was your school band?
Am I the only one who went to a school that had an actual school band? It was the art teacher on vocals, pe teacher on bass, cant remember who used to play lead and drums.
They were at every school disco, and every and of year assembly.