Biggest opportunity I've blownNot Alan Partridge tells us: "I was once offered the chance to co-present a programme on national radio. Audience of millions, but blew up spectacularly, my entire contribution being the rustling of paper in the background. I was that bad, I have since burned my copy of the pilot show." Tell us about your big break, and how you messed it up.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 14:22)
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Another opportunity missed to make loads of doshI went to Reading Festival with Banksy in 1991. This was the pre Banksy normalish guy we shall call RG. We weren't bosom buddies he was a friend of a friend but we had a laugh together.
Fast forward a few years and some great graffiti started appearing around Bristol. I liked it, it was funny, anarchic and looked great I didn't know it was RG, until I met him at a communal graffiti wall at Ashton Court Festival. He told me about his Bansky work and about running from coppers and the price of paint ;o)
Fast forward a few more years, it's no longer RG I bump into it's Bansky. He had a studio next door to another art ponce that I knew. I was going to ask him for one of his rat stencils sprayed onto a bit of wood, but this was in the early 2000's and I was taking a stupendous amount of MASSIVE's and I kept on forgetting.
Fast forward to recently when someone sold a piece of wood with a rat stencil on it for some ridiculous eye watering sum of money.(20 grand or something like that)
I know the inevitable response will be 'Banksy is a load of shit' 'he's a wanker' etc. It doesn't matter how much of a dick you think he is or if he painted CDC's in various shades of magenta. I could have sold something he would have easily have given me for free for a stack of cash. Free money is always good. I could have invested it in loads of shades of pink paint and some art canvas and started a new avant garde guerilla CDC campaign
Although I probably would have sold it when it was worth a few hundred, unaware he was going to make the world piss themselves as soon as he even looked at a spraycan.
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Don't be silly Banksy isn't real.
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monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 18:23,
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Shit off, if you knew who Banksy was you'd make a fucking mint selling his identity to the press.(
BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 18:54,
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plenty of.people have claimed to have known himI couldn't prove it to the press any more than I can prove it to you. It'd need a picture of him painting holding his birth certificate and that is unlikely.
It is a true story...it would be a lame line of bullshit. Although I do understand lame bullshit is du rigur here I promise it's true or I'll ear the contents of my dad's incontinence pad.
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the joy of typing on a phone while walking and being drunkAll that from a baseline of spaz it's a wonder it made any sense at all
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"It doesn't matter how much of a dick you think he is."Actually it does.
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edjogs Collared doves are shit., Fri 4 Apr 2014, 21:59,
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No it really doesn't(, Mon 7 Apr 2014, 9:04, closed)
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