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no singers AFAIK but we have a couple of famous alumni
David Tennant was in my sisters year
Fred Goodwin
Andrew Neil
Peter Howitt
The long haired one out of Tears For Fears was from the same town as me (Yay! Leigh Parkers!). Dunno if he went to the same school as he's a few years older.
Don't know of anyone else famous, but then it was quite a shit area/school 😀
remember the metalworker teacher dragging (it was the 70's) a lad to front of class....
"Jeremy tell the class what you are going to do when you leave school"
"Play keyboards in a band"
Jaz Coleman, Killing Joke - stuffed the old ****!
Are we stretching this one out a bit ?
no singers AFAIK but we have a couple of famous alumni
If so..
Onviously long before I got there (and only in the 6th form for my A Levels)
No bands/musicians went to our school that I know of, Poynton County High School was not exactly the New York Academy of Performing Arts. However, its alumni include within their ranks an entertainment hyperglobal megastar: Yvette Fielding.
Radiohead, though they’re all about 5 years older than me. I saw them at the Jericho tavern in Oxford a couple of times.
i think you might be the same age as me! although i never went to abingdon boys college - i was at fitzharrys. i saw them at the old gaol though. supprting Carter USM i think it was.
Our school was too shit for a band.
Iain Anderson, Jethro Tull. The chemistry lab bench with his name carved into it was still there 10 years after he was expelled.
Our school was too shit for a band.
That, basically (although our 6th form beat the local grammar, that's no longer a grammar, at A-Levels, up to just after I left when it then got put on report by OFSTED).
If one is allowed to count the boys and girls grammar schools as a single school, then my mother's school band was The Rolling Stones. An my cousin's alumni include people like Nana Moon and Gemma Arterton etc.
I honestly cannot think of anyone from my school that was even remotely famous. And wikipedia seems to confirm. That's true for the primary, middle and upper schools.
Uni, however is totally different, and that list of famous alumni is almost endless (although I can't think of any that were bands). And a colleague's sister was Millie from This Life. And my dad used to drive Jools Holland up to town. I can think of more tenuous than that, too.
Our school band kept John Lennon / War is Over off the Christmas top spot!
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
I did A level Art with Lamp from Bang Bang Machine.
Bad News.
Rik Mayall.
A long time before I went there it was Steve & Muff Winwood - Spencer Davis Group.
Not musician but also Martin Shaw.
My Mom was secretary at Ozzy Osbourne's former school (after he left) but met him several times when he would go back when in Birmingham.
Slightly more than half of Groove Armada (the tall one).
While we're all broadcasting "what school I went to" can we also get mothers' maiden names, make and model of first cars, and names of first pets?
Asking for a (Nigerian) friend.
Weird Sisters
Evans
Ford Anglia
Hedwig
My school had quite a few famous alumni, including the inventor of viagra and Roger Black the 400m runner who was a complete tool (Portsmouth Grammar School - i was the assisted placed kid with the second hand blazer and patches on the elbows!), the only famous musician though was Paul Jones of Manfred Mann
couple of years above - The Mourning After
my year - Cereal Killings
Overstepped
fairly sure I'm safe from edlong's nigerian friend with those!
Posh Spice.
And they wouldn’t have called her that if they’d seen the shit comprehensive she went to, I’m sure.
You went to St Mary's??
Jarvis Cocker
Pretty sure I'm the highest profile musician from my school! Not saying much haha, although I do play/teach for a living.
To link to Yvette Fielding, I used to teach her eldest....he's in a band called White Eskimo...their original vocalist was a chap called Harry Styles. One of my former students went on one of the One Direction tours as Harry's personal guitar tutor. Think it may have been the last tour before he went solo actually.
dirkpitt74
Not musician but also Martin Shaw.
He lives just down the road from me, never met him but he's not a popular man
My Brother was in the same year as Mark Owen.
I was in the year below (and played with him as a younger kid as he lived around the corner from me) the trumpet player from Simply Red (Tim Kellett) - he went on to have a big hit with his own band Olive - the song was ‘You’re not alone’ IIRC
From my era, half of Everything but the Girl (and later on, one of the sons of Mumford - sorry ‘bout that).
Gilbert Gabriel (what a name!) the keyboard player from (Life in a northern town) Dream Factory. And ironically, the video was shot in Hebden Bridge...
Er... I think that's it. Though we did also have Jane Eavis, of the Glastonbury dynasty there while I was there.
I used to sit next to Squarepusher in GCSE History.
Calvin Harris, though not strictly speaking a 'band', per se.
I used to sit next to Squarepusher in GCSE History.
This is impressive 😀 Bass hero
My mates dad went to my school with roger Taylor and my brother had aphex twin in his year.
Following on from the MUSE thread, which band came from your school?
Muse. Seriously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Seaside_Rendezvous
Another Ned’s Atomic Dustbin here...
Not Thorns though. Which Ned were yours?
Ours was Alex/Kingswinford.
Never classmates, but Chris Rea went to our secondary a good while before me, but he didn't pick up his guitar until later. Bob Mortimer was leaving my sixth form college as I was arriving. When I was very young, David Cunningham from The Flying Lizards was our next door neighbour. Louis Tomlinson went to my kids' school. My daughter was acting on the stage last week at Imperial College Student Union, where Queen played some early gigs.