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@dooks
Stand by to be underwhelmed.
I once played an "american packpacker" and did a sex-scene in a Thai soap opera. I had to wear a pair of pants and a pink feather boa. I bought a portable cd player (it was the 90s) with the money.
I recently found an album I played on in the bargain bin of a local second hand record shop. I have yet to receive a penny from the presumably meagre sales of this record. I did however once see myself in the video of the single being played on a big screen in Top Shop. Every cloud.
I once met Tommy Vance backstage at the Brixton Academy and we had a really nice long chat. He was very nice.
I was unsuccessfully prosecuted by the BTP in a case that resulted in pedicabs becoming legal in London. Years later I met the magistrate who aquitted me, doing magic tricks at a 60th birthday dinner.
Whilst a pedicab rider I took Suggs out of Madness from Soho to an album launch in Kensington. I went under the hyde park underpass and the chain came off at the bottom. He and his companion had to get out and walk out of the underpass. He was late for the party and annoyed that all the photographers had gone. Two years ago, a band I was in opened for Madness at an outdoor gig. Someone told him who I was and he still appeared to be grumpy about it. We also got told off for drinking madness' beer. Their roadcrew were also a bunch of twats so we stole the beer and left without watching Madness.
Marc Riley played a 7" single I self released with another band. He also once read out an email from me and played my request (+81 by Deerhoof).
I was in an advert for EF Language Schools. This was a clip from one of their educational videos in which I played a surfer teaching two Swedish girls how to surf (although I couldn't really surf either). One of them had their wetsuit on back-to-front.
Gary Lucas (ex Magic band and Jeff Buckley collaborator) borrowed my guitar to play "Grace" at a party on a boat. He was a cock and no one paid any attention to him. He wrote about it in his blog the next day saying how amazing it was. The cock.
Most of my friends work in telly and have squillions of "had a pint with" stories. My missus knows loads of famous people too, mostly politicians. But that little lot is about the sum of 34 years worth of brushes with minor celebrity.