iancharlie Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 i auditioned for hollyoaks! (well i joined a queue with pretty girls in it with a mate and found out it was the auditions for hollyoaks!) obviously i never made it on the show.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddy Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 My band once appeared on the Richard Blackwood show. Not the one on Channel 4 though. The really terrible one on BBC2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted July 18, 2008 VT Supporter Share Posted July 18, 2008 They just keep coming. I was once interviewed on BBC Radio Leeds about unsuccessfully queueing to get Bob Dylan tickets. I think that's my favourite so far. Oh it was a belter. It was 1978, Dylan's first UK gigs since the legendary '66. Five nights at Earl's Court, and a massive demand for tickets. But London promotions genius Harvey Goldsmith decided that no ticket outlets were necessary north or west of Leeds, so the box office had people coming from Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Scotland, you name it. THOUSANDS queing all night. At one point I was being crushed against a plate glass window that was bowing inwards at an alarming curve - you could hear it creaking. The local plod were doing nothing to sort the queue out, and people were getting very stroppy. Anyway, at some point during the night, this local radio bloke came around and randomly picked me and some girl to come on their rock show the next day to talk about why we liked Dylan. OK, we said. Come the moring, and I shuffled up to the shop door - and had it shut in my face. I was the first one to lose out. So when I go to the radio studios next night I was ready to let rip about the crap planning. The DJ was pure Alan Partridge, hitting on the girl (oblivious to the fact that she hated him) and ignoring me. When I got my two minutes I really let rip with a rant of Basil Fawlty proportions, until they managed to shut me up and get me out of the studio. So I had a few beers and went off to see how many of my mates had heard it. Nobody, not a one. I had the last laugh though - a couple of weeks later they added a festival date (Blackbushe), with Clapton and several other bands for the same price as an Earl's Court ticket - no problem with queues, and laughing at the touts trying to offload their London tickets. And it was a memorable gig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddy Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 One of my teachers went to school with Dave Challinor (of long throw fame). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BennettVilla Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 I was on TV at a villa match once for about 5 secs Against man city away, fa cup replay, lost 2-1 the bastards :evil: Also, dad lives 2 doors away from gareth barry, well until he moves to liverpool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted July 19, 2008 VT Supporter Share Posted July 19, 2008 Ah just remembered another one. I was interviewed with a mate whilst standing outside of Pizza Hut in town waiting for the rest of my mates to come out last year by the BBC Asian Network, they asked me about the news that Gordon Brown was looking into more compulsory PE or something. It was pissing it down so I'm surprised they managed to hear anything over the rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddy Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 That also reminds me that I was on some crappy West Yorkshire radio station (Radio Air maybe?) after England lost to Croatia. I slagged off McLaren for giving Carson his debut in such a big game. It was a terrible decision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianrobo1 Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 I won a £10 Harry Parkes voucher from BRMB after guessing the number of goals right on a Saturday afternoon George Gavin spoke my name out !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddy Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 Just remembered that my next door neighbour (other side from the one I was talking about before) was once on a show with Clare Balding on Radio 4 talking about walking on the Lickey Hills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonno_2004 Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 my mum babysat kasper schmeichel and his sister, and my auntie plays tennis with robert plant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sled Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 One afternoon while watching Villa play QPR at Loftus Road I sat behind Robin "Confessions of a Window-Cleaner" Askwith, and just a few seats along from George "Doctor in the House/My Brother's Keeper" Layton and Tim "The Goodies" Brooke-Taylor. None of whom won the Lucky Programme Draw, a QPR training top. That was MEEEEEEEEEEE! And I once refused to play table tennis with a brother or cousin of the great Desmond Douglas. Cos he would have murdered me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Alimantado Posted July 26, 2008 VT Supporter Share Posted July 26, 2008 Earlier this year I bought some candles from Bob Carolgees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beasley Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 I was on TV for literally half a second last weekend at T4 on the Beach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted July 26, 2008 VT Supporter Share Posted July 26, 2008 Earlier this year I bought some candles from Bob Carolgees.Lying bastard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Alimantado Posted July 26, 2008 VT Supporter Share Posted July 26, 2008 It's true, I promise you. Bob Carolgees runs a candle shop called Candles Plus in Frodsham, Cheshire. http://tinyurl.com/3ncel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phumfeinz Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 I had an e-mail read out on BBC radio by Richard Bacon. My dad once stayed with a woman who appeared on the cover of a Frank Zappa album. The one in the bikini I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJH92 Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 my cousin is stephen cooke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnCresswell Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 I saw Doctor Who at Villa, once. Well Christopher Ecclestone inside the Holte Suite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 I slagged off McLaren for giving Carson his debut in such a big game. It was a terrible decision. No ..I think you were right to slag off Carson to be honest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted July 26, 2008 VT Supporter Share Posted July 26, 2008 Thought of another one. I've met and shook the hand of Alan Whiley. He was the guest of honour at the presentation of my A Level certificates. He told me to keep it up, and after the presentation was over spent the entire night talking to some kid who had just done his GCSEs who was with Walsall's youth players and meant to be a bit of a prospect for them. Actually he even mentioned the kid in his speech... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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