Claims to fame

[flumpsy]

I have just been googling. Honestly, I thought he died in the seventies

[kirbycrackle]

Originally Posted by Laird McFlumpsy

I sort of lived next door to fearne cotton for a while. I went to one of her parties.

You jammy bastard tell me you made a drunken lunge at her at least!

[kirbycrackle]

I once did some work in a building where Catherine zeta Jones and Brad Pitt had been filming the day before...how shit is that! Hahaha.

[Omar Little]

^^I don't know what happened to him during the time he was gone.

The best gig I've ever been to. Seemed like there was only 300 people there, all of them smoking weed. No mad hustle, easy to get drinks, and Arthur Lee was right there, just a few feet away, the entire time. Ah, it was ****ing great.

This thread has brought back a good memory for me. Cheers, Merritt.

[flumpsy]

Originally Posted by Animal mother

You jammy bastard tell me you made a drunken lunge at her at least!

Nah, not my type. She is nice an all, much more down to earth than she appears on telly but terrible taste in music and musicians. Her parties were full of fame academy skinnyboys with jackets and no shirts on.


I have met a few music stars I guess but then again I worked in a recording studio it was hard not to. Morrissey, brian eno, kylie, Madness, robert fripp, phillip schofield (was recording joseph) . Mainly saying "studio 2, down there on the left" or perhaps ordering them a pizza or a cab.

Oh, I made tea for chrissie hynde once. She complained about it. Bitch.

Ooops, dropping so many names I must have arthritis or something.

[Omar Little]

^Okay, shut the front door. You met Morrissey?

[flumpsy]

^ "Met" is such a strong word but yeah. I almost had to move his car but in the end somebody else did it. He didnt talk to me much but then again I was just a young numpty at the time, he had no idea I would grow up to be Laird McFlumpsy. If he knew now he would be gutted he didnt make more of the situation. Oh, and saint etienne too. they were all lovely. I gave sarah cracknell 50p to get a coke form the machine. That is a can of coca cola (you know what these music types are like). My front door is always shut, shut locked and bolted !!

[kirbycrackle]

Originally Posted by Laird McFlumpsy

Nah, not my type. She is nice an all, much more down to earth than she appears on telly but terrible taste in music and musicians. Her parties were full of fame academy skinnyboys with jackets and no shirts on.


I have met a few music stars I guess but then again I worked in a recording studio it was hard not to. Morrissey, brian eno, kylie, Madness, robert fripp, phillip schofield (was recording joseph) . Mainly saying "studio 2, down there on the left" or perhaps ordering them a pizza or a cab.

Oh, I made tea for chrissie hynde once. She complained about it. Bitch.

Ooops, dropping so many names I must have arthritis or something.

Phillip..schol...tell me you wanked him off!??

[flumpsy]

Originally Posted by Animal mother

Phillip..schol...tell me you wanked him off!??

It was a far more bilateral agreement than that but yes, obviously !!!

[Dougella]

When I used to volunteer in a charity shop Jon Snow came in to donate some books, he was wearing a yellow jumper

KT Tunstall also came into the shop and bought some scarves.

[kirbycrackle]

I think I saw Gary Oldman once in a nearby village. He was wearing shades but it really did look like him, so I'm claiming it. You can't stop me.

[SpaceMonkey]

I waved at Ian Botham once when he was a guest at my schools fun run

[Merritt]

Originally Posted by Animal mother

I think I saw Gary Oldman once

Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey

I waved at Ian Botham once

This is the kind of thing I was hoping for when I made the thread

[Dougella]

^ That was what my face looked like at the time!

[Clementine]

Originally Posted by Omar Little

Arthur Lee once stared at me for a good minute during the instrumental part of one of his songs. I just stared right back. It was Arthur ****ing Lee, staring at me.

That happened to me with Carey Willetts from Athlete, our eyes were locked and I felt like we shared a deep and beautiful moment (I was probably a bit stoned, to be fair). I appreciate that that's far less impressive than yours

[Clementine]

Oh and Tim Burgess once chatted to me on MySpace, I used to brag about that to everyone. I was the biggest Charlatans fan.

[Omar Little]

^Unlike yours, my encounter did not feel like a beautiful moment, so you've got that over me. It actually felt like he was trying to will his consciousness into my body and put my consciousness in his. You know, because he was sick of being old and sick. He'd chosen me. I think we both lost out. He'd have done so much more with a young body, and I would have had a great 2 or 3 years as a rich, old rock star.

So, swings and roundabouts.

[Clementine]

Just remembered! Years ago some old guy who was apparently from The Moody Blues asked me if I wanted to go onto his yacht to Portugal and that I could get a suntan on my 'white bits'. I had no idea who he was, other than a pervy old drunk dude. My mum was furious with me for snubbing him.

[Rianne]

I've got Paul Gambachini and Ed Stewart's autograph................... (!!)

[Omar Little]

^^Sounds like one of my granddad's lines. And it wouldn't have been a yacht you'd have been going on, it would have been a ride in the back of his Ford Cortina.

Speaking of my granddad, he once sang on stage with Rolf Harris. In a choir, but still. I think it was, rather ironically, on Children in Need.

[kirbycrackle]

^ I think I'd keep that one secret tbh

[Omar Little]

^Hey, granddad's no nonce (although he might be, who knows what people keep hidden). My town used to have a big relationship with old Rolfie. He was here all the time. He would come and paint great big pieces for the local museum. All gone now. Burned and binned. His name erased from the plaques. And it's no longer the bogeyman that parents warn their children about, now it's the dreaded Rolfaroo...

[Omar Little]

^I think I saw him live in Butlin's, or it might have been Bobby Davro. He was very aloof. He charged £5 a ticket. Michael Barrymore was there the next night for free. There was an old Jamaican fella in a pork-pie hat sat at the bar, laughing like a loon. Barrymore jumped off the stage, grabbed him by the scruff of his coat and threw him out the fire doors, saying he didn't want 'his kind in here'. Midway through his act, the guy crept back in towards the bar. Again, Barrymore flew off the stage, grabbed him by the scruff of his coat and threw him out the fire doors. He didn't come back again.
I should say that the Jamaican fella was loving it, as was Michael. It wasn't a racist incident, I just led you down that path purely for dramatic effect. Although, in hindsight, maybe it was a racist incident...

[Mr. Nobody]

Originally Posted by Omar Little

There was an old Jamaican fella in a pork-pie hat sat at the bar, laughing like a loon. Barrymore jumped off the stage, grabbed him by the scruff of his coat and threw him out the fire doors, saying he didn't want 'his kind in here'. Midway through his act, the guy crept back in towards the bar. Again, Barrymore flew off the stage, grabbed him by the scruff of his coat and threw him out the fire doors. He didn't come back again .in hindsight, maybe it was a racist incident...

,.. I was waiting for the punchline, so sure that was joke,.
oh dear,. that is rather odd behaviour

my claims to fame are meagre,.

my Dad won one of these TV game shows 'Now You See It' (it was in Scotland so no one will have heard of it)
my sister was on one of these TV game shows,. (it was years ago, so no one will have heard of it, suffice to say it was hosted by Jimmy Tarbuck)

I won a national art competition when I was 8 years old,

me and Alan Holdsworth sat alone together at a bar having a drink, side by side, he had a cold and was blaming the Scottish weather (unless you're into jazz guitar you'll probably have no idea who he is)

[kirbycrackle]

Originally Posted by Omar Little

^Hey, granddad's no nonce (although he might be, who knows what people keep hidden). My town used to have a big relationship with old Rolfie. He was here all the time. He would come and paint great big pieces for the local museum. All gone now. Burned and binned. His name erased from the plaques. And it's no longer the bogeyman that parents warn their children about, now it's the dreaded Rolfaroo...

Yea I wasn't suggesting your grandad was.

Good. The dirty tosspot deserves to be burned and binned.

[Omar Little]

^^It was odd, but the guy was loving it, like keeling over with laughter loving it. Who knows?

^I know you weren't, fella. I'm so ignorant of certain news stories that I don't even know what Rolf did, something to do with fiddling kids/a kid is all I know.

[Dougella]

My uncle was once on The Weakest Link and won.

My cousin was on mastermind once, he didn't win.

When my Mum was growing up her family lived a few streets away from Ronnie Wood's family. I think I remember my Nan saying they were 'big drinkers' lol.

[Sphinx]

Got barged out of the way at the clothes show in Birmingham by Justin Timberlake's security he looked so ordinary in real life.

Saw Michael Barrymore at a shopping centre in Wolverhampton filming, he was proper miserable when the cameras weren't rolling.

Was at the theatre somewhere and Paul Daniels threw a ball into the audience, my Mum caught it and then had to talk to him then chuck it back. Can hardly remember what it was all about now

[flumpsy]

I drove past a shaved ewok on a segway in st albans once.

The shaved ewok was on the segway, I drove past in a car.

[MLP James]

I was in a video about the charity shop I volunteer in that went on the BBC website. I still have never watched it because I don't want to die of awkwardness.

A streamer read my donation message on Twitch once. My message was that I liked his taste in music, the donation was $5.