| Minor claims to fame 12:26 - Mar 5 with 11640 views | Dubtractor |
Inspired by a thread on bluesky, share your most trivial claim to fame.
Back in the early 00s, when DJing in Brighton, Chris Eubank parked up in his big lorry and insisted on carrying my record bag to the club for me. |  |
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| Minor claims to fame on 19:37 - Mar 8 with 493 views | multiplescoregasms |
Went to see Derby v Wolves in about 1994, and after the game we were queuing up in a fish and chip shop behind Roy McFarlane. My mate asked him what he was having, and Roy just said 'cod'. I assume he was having chips as well, but didn't notice. |  | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 19:39 - Mar 8 with 488 views | bluefunk |
Shared a lift on successive days in 2005 at a fancy hotel in San Francisco with first Daniel Craig, the next day with Helen Mirren
Chatted football with Martin Peters in a Building Society in Brentwood circa 1991/2
Was next to SBR and his family in Madame Tussaud’s (didn’t talk to him, he was with his family)
And spent an evening drinking with Tony Adams after we bumped him and his girlfriend on the way into a club in Chelmsford on the night of the third place play off at Italia 90. He was very bitter about not being in the England squad and was drowning his sorrows, very effectively I might add. My wife said she’d never seen me so drunk, 2 weeks later he had the drink drive incident that sent him eventually sober. |  | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 19:40 - Mar 8 with 485 views | ClareBlue |
My Dad was a vet and ran a practice in North Yorkshire that overlapped the practice area of James Wight (better known as pen name James Herriot). He used to visit from time to time but as a 5 to 8 year old lad when he was around I didn't know who he was. One time when he was at our house and my dad was on the phone (landline in the hall in those days) one of our dogs was chocking on some plastic wrapping of some meat she had stolen from the worksurface. He went to pull it out of her mouth. I said to him I'll get my dad as 'he knows what to do' with sick animals. I think it was included in one of his books with his usual artistic interpretation. |  | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 07:25 - Mar 9 with 356 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Minor claims to fame on 20:58 - Mar 6 by GlasgowBlue |
In some sort of chronological order and I've probably missed a few but......
My mum was a singer in the early 60's. Her boyfriend at the time was another singer called Paul Raven (Real name Paul Gadd). My mum met my dad on a train travelling to London where she introduced him to her boyfriend. My dad got Mr Gadd very drunk and when he passed out unconscious he took my mum clubbing. They started going out together and she dumped Mr Gadd. 10 years later she is married with two kids and Paul Gadd is in the charts under the name Gary Glitter.
At the age of 11 I trained with Denis Law in West Germany before an international match.
Sade came into my dad's pub to get a bottle of wine to take to her mum's on Boxing Day in 1985. I told her how her mum had put a plaster cast on my arm when I broke it six years earlier.
I was on the same dancefloor as Maggie Thatcher when she danced with Denis to 3 Times a Lady, after she won her third successive general election in 1987.
After an IRA bomb scare at the Old Ship Hotel in Brighton, I stood on the pavement at 3am chatting to Michael Heseltine whilst he was wearing his silk pyjamas whilst I ignored the married woman who had been in my bed when the alarm rang out.
Maggie Thatcher (her again) congratulated me on my speech at the Tory party local government conference in 1988. She had the coldest eyes I've ever seen.
I met Chas and Dave, Mud and members of the notorious Richardson family at my dad's pub in the late 80's.
When I lived in Tenerife in the early 90's I went out with the step daughter of Glen Dale (lead singer with the fortunes and a family friend). I also went out with the step daughter of Glyn Edwards (Dave the barman from minder). Through Glyn I got to know Ruth Madoc and Ron Atkinson reasonably well,
I used to play at the same snooker club, Spencers in Stirling, as Stephen Hendry and played him a couple of times in the late 90's when he was big. I also met Jimmy White there but never played him.
Met Paul Weller a couple of times through a friend at his after show parties but only for a few seconds.
A couple of years ago met DJ Spoony at the Ibiza Ocean Beach Club. I had a table to watch the england international and he asked if he could join me as all the other tables were reserved. It cost him a bottle of bubbly. Can't remember much more about that night as I was completely and utterly pissed having been there all day. |
This is meant to be a 'minor claims to fame' thread, not a 'show off about your entire life' thread! |  |
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| Minor claims to fame on 07:29 - Mar 9 with 337 views | Benters |
My dear old dad whilst drinking in the Rose and Crown in Colchester got talking to a young Irish band at the bar and bought them a pint .. it was good old Ferargal Sharkey,they were playing somewhere close by probably the Uni. |  |
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| Minor claims to fame on 07:38 - Mar 9 with 319 views | noggin |
I attended a few minor celebrities while working for the London Ambulance Service, but the one that stands out was a pretty famous musician who had overdosed on heroin. We administered Narcan, he woke up and without apologising or thanking us, he warned us not to "say anything to the media". |  |
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| Minor claims to fame on 07:54 - Mar 9 with 274 views | Churchman |
| Minor claims to fame on 07:29 - Mar 9 by Benters |
My dear old dad whilst drinking in the Rose and Crown in Colchester got talking to a young Irish band at the bar and bought them a pint .. it was good old Ferargal Sharkey,they were playing somewhere close by probably the Uni. |
My mate who I’m seeing on Wednesday was chums with Siouxsie Sioux and the dear old Banshees. He fronted a terrible band that sometimes did warm ups for them in the early days.
He’s a crazy person and at that time whilst prone to extreme violence alcohol and the odd ‘aspirin’ dressed as a woman. He reckoned dressed like that he attracted more women than at any other time in his life. Fighting them off with sticks, he was.
He loves Donald Trump, Farage, Brexit, conspiracy theories, snakebite and getting hammered. Only ever wears black, carries the satanic bible, tarot cards and is a martial arts black belt in something. Mind you, he’s calmed down a lot in recent years, despite still looking like he’s been released from bedlam. |  | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 07:54 - Mar 9 with 275 views | BlueBoots |
Can have 2 for the price of 1 - I won the Golden Boot when my team won the Chiswick Veterans 5-a-side league back in 2019, and we brought in Ben Shepherd as a ringer for a couple of games  |  |
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| Minor claims to fame on 07:58 - Mar 9 with 253 views | DJR |
| Minor claims to fame on 07:54 - Mar 9 by Churchman |
My mate who I’m seeing on Wednesday was chums with Siouxsie Sioux and the dear old Banshees. He fronted a terrible band that sometimes did warm ups for them in the early days.
He’s a crazy person and at that time whilst prone to extreme violence alcohol and the odd ‘aspirin’ dressed as a woman. He reckoned dressed like that he attracted more women than at any other time in his life. Fighting them off with sticks, he was.
He loves Donald Trump, Farage, Brexit, conspiracy theories, snakebite and getting hammered. Only ever wears black, carries the satanic bible, tarot cards and is a martial arts black belt in something. Mind you, he’s calmed down a lot in recent years, despite still looking like he’s been released from bedlam. |
Was he part of the Bromley Contingent?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ |  | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 08:11 - Mar 9 with 230 views | Churchman |
I’ve never heard (or remembered) the term, but the dates are about right and he was certainly in the Bromley area around that time.
I’ll print this and ask him. Interesting. | | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 08:13 - Mar 9 with 226 views | DJR |
| Minor claims to fame on 08:11 - Mar 9 by Churchman |
I’ve never heard (or remembered) the term, but the dates are about right and he was certainly in the Bromley area around that time.
I’ll print this and ask him. Interesting. |
The term always stuck with me because the last place I could imagine being involved in the early punk movement is Bromley! | | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 08:33 - Mar 9 with 181 views | Churchman |
| Minor claims to fame on 08:13 - Mar 9 by DJR |
The term always stuck with me because the last place I could imagine being involved in the early punk movement is Bromley! |
Exactly!
I know Bromley well and actually worked there in the 80s and knew nothing about any of that. It was more The Good Life suburbia than Sex Pistols etc. | | | |
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