The thread in which PHers reveal tenuous links to famous people.
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Another good one-
A great chap I used to work with (who is in his mid 60s now) used to run a little record shop on carnaby st in London back in the day.
He was a big Pink floyd fan and used to bootleg their live shows and sell the audio/video under the table in the old days.
I'm not sure entirely how this happened, through a friend of friend I imagine, but he ended up having James Hunt round to his London flat one evening to watch a bootlegged recording of a pink floyd show on his projector.
A great chap I used to work with (who is in his mid 60s now) used to run a little record shop on carnaby st in London back in the day.
He was a big Pink floyd fan and used to bootleg their live shows and sell the audio/video under the table in the old days.
I'm not sure entirely how this happened, through a friend of friend I imagine, but he ended up having James Hunt round to his London flat one evening to watch a bootlegged recording of a pink floyd show on his projector.
Steamer said:
Ibmarkprior said:
My Mum used to date Roger Daltrey in the late 60's. Months later Mum met my Dad and i was conceived. There's an in joke in the family that i could be Daltrey's illegitimate love child. I'm not, obviously.
Tommy... is that you?! 
I worked at Liberty (the department store, not the snowflake supporter's club) in the 90s. Everyone who was anyone and lots more besides used to come in and buy overpriced tat the lovely things of the shop. My favourite memory is of going up ion the lift with Robert Plant, telling him he'd got the wrong floor for whatever it was he was looking for...his response was "oh bugger". I chortled. Had a pint with David Soul in the pub next door when he was doing a stint on the West End stage (checking his biog, it was 1995 "Catch Me If You Can") He was happy to sit and chat over a pint before ambling off to perform...
Big Rod said:
I used to work beside and live in the next village to Euan McIlwraith's Brother...
...I attended Nick Nairn's Cook School once as a birthday present...
...And I met Dougie Vipond once at a pre-Christmas drinks do next door a few years ago. (Although I didn't recognise him or realise who he was at the time!)
It's like a lad's night in when I put Landward on the telly!
(Well, the title did say 'tenuous!)
Probably says more about me than you, but I had...I attended Nick Nairn's Cook School once as a birthday present...
...And I met Dougie Vipond once at a pre-Christmas drinks do next door a few years ago. (Although I didn't recognise him or realise who he was at the time!)
It's like a lad's night in when I put Landward on the telly!
(Well, the title did say 'tenuous!)
to Google all of them, and I’m still none the wiser.
My wife was at school, and friends with, Helena Bonham-Carter and Olivia Williams. This transpired when we bumped into H B-C in Harley Street and my wife said “oh hello Helena” and they had a catch up while I stood to one side gawping.
I was good mates at school with the kid with the lead role in Time Bandits. His brother was the lead in Stig of the Dump which was on itv at the time.
I was good mates at school with the kid with the lead role in Time Bandits. His brother was the lead in Stig of the Dump which was on itv at the time.
Big Rod said:
I used to work beside and live in the next village to Euan McIlwraith's Brother...
...I attended Nick Nairn's Cook School once as a birthday present...
...And I met Dougie Vipond once at a pre-Christmas drinks do next door a few years ago. (Although I didn't recognise him or realise who he was at the time!)
It's like a lad's night in when I put Landward on the telly!
(Well, the title did say 'tenuous!)
One of my wife's friends is married to a former Landward presenter....I attended Nick Nairn's Cook School once as a birthday present...
...And I met Dougie Vipond once at a pre-Christmas drinks do next door a few years ago. (Although I didn't recognise him or realise who he was at the time!)
It's like a lad's night in when I put Landward on the telly!
(Well, the title did say 'tenuous!)
Frank7 said:
Probably says more about me than you, but I had
to Google all of them, and I’m still none the wiser.
Wouldn't worry about it, Landward is like a Scottish Countryfile.to Google all of them, and I’m still none the wiser.
Nick Nairn is a 'celebrity' chef so kind'a well known in Scotland at least. Dougie Vipond is the drummer with Del Amitri (who I like from a nostalgic aspect but as he's the drummer I'd have little to no chance of recognising him in the wild) but the link with Euan is the most tenuous I think having worked in the IT arena with his Brother about 17 years ago.
Pure coincidence they all present on the same parochial TV programme.
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