radfordred 6,284 Posted October 2, 2005 Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 I took a slash next to the darts player Bobby George in the chequers inn chillwell . Once kissed Kate Garner out of Haysi Fantayzee in rock city My best mate was the rock city DJ and was going out with Clair Grogan altered image Met West Ham legend Trevor Brooking twice once in a car showroom Saab on wollaton street second time in Ladbrokes on Mansfield road. Nearly ran over boon star Michael Elphick as crossed the road coming out of the walkabout pub Spoke to Des Walker in the corner shop on Cobden street where he was buying some fags Had a few drinks with three of the blokes out of the Beautiful South before there gig at the RCH spoke to Nigel Cough the same night in Forman's bar. Got a locking in a pub with Shane McGowan in Irish bar just of Alferton road forgot the name . Grimsby Town boss Russell Slade was at my school Johnny Rotten / John Lydon told me to fcuk off on the steps to rock city Its not Nottingham but once sold some 70s tin badges to red or dead designer Wayne Hemingway on ebay I know it's crap and we all pi55 in the same pot - but i'm interested 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted October 2, 2005 Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 Johnny Rotten / John Lydon told me to fcuk off on the steps to rock city An Honor Indeed :D 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted October 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 I was going to post what I had said to him 1st but it's quite embarrassing it was after PIL played there he jumped in some taxi . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest scooterboy Posted October 3, 2005 Report Share Posted October 3, 2005 As most of you have seen the photo of me and Kilroy we wont mention that one. Ive met buster bloodvessel a few times. had a few pints with Rick Butler drummer for the Jam. after the jam split up he played for a psychobilly band called the Highliners for a while, drunk with them in ritzy. I've tried to sell t-towels etc to Paul Wellers mum, also at Mick Jaggers house got no sales off either of them. saved the best till last Bob Geldof put me flat on my back in the midland hotel in derby. he walked round a corner one way as i came the other. helped me up he apologised and off he went. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ilkolad 9 Posted October 3, 2005 Report Share Posted October 3, 2005 I once saw Elvis serving behind the meat counter in Tesco's.. when challenged, he denied any knowledge of the king, stating his name was merely Ernest Pike from Grimsby. he gave the game away though when he happened to drop a chicken pie on his blue suede shoes, exclaiming ' now and then there's a Fewl such as I" .. and on reaching down to pick up the remains, I heard him mutter something to the effect of how he wished he was back in Dixie ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Barnze 27 Posted October 5, 2005 Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 I got to slip Johanna Lumley the tonge when she opened the Burtons shop just outside Broad marsh a few years back! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 25 Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 You did not then??? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Actual Shedfixman 4 Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 Yeah. Brian May, Kim Wilde, Linda Lusardi, Jimmy Summersault, Jake Thackeray, Judas Priest, Paul Usher(still see him for a beer in Wimbledon now+then), Derek Jacobi, Bernard Bresslaw, Peter Butterworth, Jonathan Dimbleby, Terry Scott, Brian Clough, John Robertson, Gary Birtles, Alan Hull(Lindisfarne), Cheap Trick, The Macc Lads, The Members, Leslie Judd, Carl Howman, Peter Howitt, Roy Barraclough, Craig Charles, Roy Hattersley and Fig. And they've all met me. That's all I can remember for now. The Actual Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 25 Posted October 10, 2005 Report Share Posted October 10, 2005 Jeez boy you've been around a lot,around a lot of what i'm not sure? but not bad for a lad from the Medduz I once went to Top Of The Pops & saw Blondie,Lynx,Kid Jensen,& a few others who obviously weren't that famous or I could remember there names,but I didn't meet them only saw them perform in the studio AND...............I caught a glimpse of myself when the show was aired,i'm sticking my chest out now like a turkey lol!! laughing Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Charlie 11 Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 back in the 70s Errol Brown was often seen around town. Calvin Palmer moved back there in the early 80s and lived at his ex-wifes house on Georg Road for a while - he wore my 'The Wall' LP out! Also I did a gig with Kit Jensen at the Brit and entertained the Chairmen of the Board up at Scamps! PS - if anyone knows Calvin's ex - Norma Palmer (Norton) or (Leivers) or her Son Robin or any of her daughters Joy, Julie and - and - oh bu99er! - tell them i think about them often but don't have an address after Lutteril road. Cheers, Charlie Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 I worked for a little time in the mid-seventies at Trent Bridge cricket ground and so met many famous cricket players including Garfield Sobers, Colin Cowdrey, Geoff Boycott, Clive Lloyd etc. Probably the greates honour however was meeting Bill Voce, the old 'Bodyline' partner of Harold Larwood. Also at the ground thered be many famous non-cricket playing folk taking the ten-bob tour. I got to meet John Le Mesurier (Sgt. Wilson from Dad's Army). I have to say he was exactly like Wilson - I almost expected him to 'I say sir, do you think that's wise' a la is character. Very much a gentleman. I also saw Jimmy Cricket in a paper shop at the bottom of Friar Lane. As he would have said 'There's more'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 DJing various places I met most of the great Forest team and Notts players too Loads of others ,including the late great Edwin Starr ,I snogged Carol Decker (T,Pau) for a free chip butty at the Mardi Gras (I didn't tell her that the boss had already told me to feed them and he would pay) Another list to follow I'me just cooking the kids dinner Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob237 89 Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 Probably the greates honour however was meeting Bill Voce, the old 'Bodyline' partner of Harold Larwood. Had the great pleasure of working in the same office as Bill at NCB Area HQ, Bestwood, from '58-'63. Wonderful bloke...my ex-wife and I (who also worked with him) would often call in to see him at his house on Nottingham Road, Hucknall, when we lived on Ogle Street in the early 70's. He and his wife Elsie always made a great fuss of our two young children. My abiding memory came in 1977. Was attending a course at the Victoria Station Hotel on the opening day of the Trent Bridge Test v Oz. Same day that Boycott ran out Randall in front of the Trent Bridge faithful, and the day that Brenda came to Nottingham to mark her Silver Jubilee. Bill Voce walked in to the hotel bar accompanied by this small shambling old chap...saw me sat with a couple of colleagues, came over and had a drink with us for a while...also introduced me to his little companion - Harold Larwood!, who was making his last ever visit to the home country. Was also the last time that I saw Bill...he died a few years later, following a long cancer battle. Cheers Robt P. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 Met Tim Healy at Arrabellas, or whatever the new Ariba after station st was called? Also Jim Bowen There. Cozy Powell @ The Slipper in Bridgeford Bob of Bob and Cyril fame asked me directions, As did that skinny ginger girl off 70's TV, now Pantomime? God whats her name? Princess Di in Nottingham Not Nottingham Stevie Wonder at Frys Electronics Los Angeles Gaz Top @ Kenedy space centre Helen Sharman (Astronaught, first britain in space) @ D*rby Got a picture with her. Passed Dirty Den on the escalator @ london underground. And a few people have met me in Nottingham Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Frank 13 Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 I met Leslie Crowther in the lobby at the Albany hotel once - he stayed there when he was recording The Price is Right at Central. Spoke to him about Phil Lynot of Thin Lissie who was married to his daughter, as I had been to see them at the Intercon. A real Gent. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 Not Nottingham - but I did get to spend an entire evening drinking with the members of Uriah Heap and Def Leppard in a hotel "club" in Salt Lake City a number of years ago! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 I met Leslie Crowther in the lobby at the Albany hotel once - he stayed there when he was recording The Price is Right at Central. Spoke to him about Phil Lynot of Thin Lissie who was married to his daughter, as I had been to see them at the Intercon. A real Gent. Seems like we were at the same Lizzy gig all those years ago, Frank. See the Berni Inns thread. It's a small world eh? (But I wouldn't want to paint it). The Thin Lizzy song 'Sarah' was about Lynott's and Leslie Crowther's daughter's baby girl. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Met Tim Healy at Arrabellas, or whatever the new Ariba after station st was called?Also Jim Bowen There. Cozy Powell @ The Slipper in Bridgeford Bob of Bob and Cyril fame asked me directions, As did that skinny ginger girl off 70's TV, now Pantomime? God whats her name? Princess Di in Nottingham Not Nottingham Stevie Wonder at Frys Electronics Los Angeles Gaz Top @ Kenedy space centre Helen Sharman (Astronaught, first britain in space) @ D*rby Got a picture with her. Passed Dirty Den on the escalator @ london underground. And a few people have met me in Nottingham I was there with you for Gaz Top and dont forget on that same Jolly we saw Green Day before they were famous, at that Ramada in Fort Myers Fla?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 I was there with you for Gaz Top and dont forget on that same Jolly we saw Green Day before they were famous, at that Ramada in Fort Myers Fla?? Yes you were there as well. ("my friends call me") Garreth wes making a documentary about NASA. I saw it onTV a few months later. THe name Green Day is familiar, but I could not tell you what they sing? I remember the group, but cant remember which hotel we were at. Some people we did not see in Florida that year The England Team! (Sounds familiar dont it) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Ha bloody Ha !! Green day did a great album called Dookie not long after we saw them Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Another one FRANK BRUNO o/s the theatre royal, gave me an autographed photo. You might have been with me Ian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Yup got one too Tim Healy and Garreth (Magic the beans) Hunt + Patrick Mower in Arrabellas, all in the space of a week Marylyn Manson ,in my bar (Tivoli) the night his gig at Rock City was cancelled (Dec 96) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Charlie 11 Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 OK two things in one post! If we can count famous people outside of town, once when I was in Toronto, Cassius Clay was staying in the same hotel! I was waiting to get into the lift one time and as the doors opened there he was. I always thought he was a big guy - but in real life he was a BIG GUY! Then the mention of the Theatre Royal reminded me of one night when one of the PF Choir got really, really drunk. So drunk he couldn't even stand up any more, so his friends put him in his car - which was a Triumph Spitfire - to sleep it off and came back into the club. He of course woke up and decided to drive home. If you all remember there was a car park just up the street from the PF door. So, he drove out of the car park and headed down Wollaton Street but couldn't quite negotiate his way onto Parliament Street - instead he drove straight up the steps of the Theatre!! !rotfl! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Muhammed Ali (Cassius Clay) lives in Detroit - Mary and I saw him a couple of years ago in the airport. I would not have recognised him, but Mary did. You could tell he was a big guy, but he isn't anymore, and can hardly walk. It was kindof sad to see him that way when my memory of him was of an athletic young man. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 I have seen a picture of Cassius clay jumping up to match Tug Wilson's height Might be on Bob's Nottscops site? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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