I think this thread is the perfect excuse for these again from Roy George’s retirement party at Salisbury Cathedral…
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Upmarket hotel in Sheffield ? You must be joking. 
Martin
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Read that as Boy George and thought he looked okay without the headwear and make-up.
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I did say it was quite a long time ago
I forget the name of the hotel, but it was upmarket at the time
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I ran across him myself back in 1982 backstage at a festival in Belgium.
My own thinking was a little more judgemental.
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Just reminded me, we once shared a lift with Sam & Mark at an ill advised Butlins weekend some years back. Seemed nice enough. I mean they weren’t rude to the kids while off duty or anything.
The thread didn’t suggest we have to recount meets only with musicians of a standard right..?
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Tony Christie was pointed out to me in The Queen’s Head, Lichfield. Didn’t recognise him.
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Not the way to Amarillo?
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Have you worked in the music industry?
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Many years ago I shared a table and pot of coffee with Gerry Marsden and some of the Pacemakers.
I had been dropping something off at some studios on the Wirral and was in the canteen,they were recoding a Xmas special.
Also shared a urinal with Duncan Chisholm on a caravan site on the Black Isle.
Also Yvette Cooper MP bought me a coffee on Leeds station when she was presenting a defibrillator to, the station that we had supplied
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Sorry.. had you supplied the station…or the defibrillator? Or perhaps both.
Sat on the beach at the Findhorn Foundation in NE Scotland 1974ish next to Arthur Brown who was rambling on about geodesic domes and living through your dreams. We had been up all night partying in their meditation shack, he was on ‘retreat’ apparently.
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Back in the very late 70s a work colleague invited me to a “private gig in Camden by this band I really must hear”. Anyway a couple of evenings later we headed to this address and when we went into what would have been a lounge there was this array saucepans, electronic stuff and one guitar, and in the kitchen was Cosey wearing just…well..underwear!
After a few minutes the word was that the Met were on their way, it transpired we were visiting a squat. We made our way to Belsize Pk tube very quickly!
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Had the misfortune to spend far too much time in vague proximity to Andrew Eldrich. The drug dealing and cassette bootleg business was one thing but just the general nature of the guy was another thing altogether.
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You lucky sod! I wonder if it was around the same time they played the Roundhouse in September ‘77? I only saw the Gristle once, at Heaven (London) in December 1980, when I was 18…
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The defibrillator
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Back in 1992 I was at the Hammersmith Odeon, watching Gary Moore. We were in the seats and sitting in front of me was a tall bloke with broad shoulders and an enormous bouffant hairdo. At the end of the end of the show he got up, turned round and smiled at me. For a fleeting moment I thought it was Richard Gere, but turned out it was Roger Waters. A couple of months later I was sitting opposite him, interviewing him (about the time ‘Amused to Death’ came out) and asked him if he’d enjoyed the Moore show and he said yes. Didn’t remember me though 
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Sat next to Art Garfunkel and his companion at Ronnie Scotts once. They didn’t say a word.
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I’ve mentioned before I went to the bar in a pub on a folk night (Ian Campell). Bloke sitting on a bar stool next to me was Paul Simon. The only other close encounter was with Dusty Springfield when I was but a boy , working a holiday job as a truck drivers mate. I had a box of eyelashes, knocked on the door of a London gaff and Dusty answered.
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