Vic Reeves owes me a pint.
One night in a local music/watering hole, my band was playing. After the break the singer came back and said, "we've had a request." I said, "yeah? What? Get in the van and don't come back?", "No" he says, "someone in the audience wants to come and do a song with us."
Of course, it was Vic Reeves (with a bloke who looked and dressed exactly like him by his side. I can only assume it was his less-famous, but jealous brother). Anyway, he comes up and does a few songs, some in the style of a club singer and struts his stuff - at the end of one song he dramatically threw the mic-stand down on the ground - straight into a brand new gleaming pint that a mate had thoughtfully bought for me and popped up on the side of the stage.
I looked him in the eye, expecting a "Sorry about that; let me get you another...what was it you were drinking?" ....and the twunt looked straight through me without a word.
Apparently, a few years before, our singer was on holiday in Greece and had dived into a pool.....not realising that the water was only a couple of feet deep and cracked his skull open. The only other person near the pool was Reeves. He jumped in, laid him on his side, then went for assistance...presumably saving our singers' life.
After this they became friends and he could be seen in the audience of our gigs quite frequently. This was the only time he came and sang with us. We were booked to play at his sister's wedding, but I'd left the band before that gig transpired.

....but also:

I used to have Anthony Hopkins' granddaughter as a 'friend with benefits' for one.
I've been on that Tonight with Trevor McDougal programme too, the director (who was also the current director of something called Coronation Street) got a numb arse crouching down in my garage -which doubled up as an office...and also BBC's Working Lunch.
My Nan's cousin is Hank Marvin.
I once spat in Michael Howard's pint in my local when he wasn't looking. This was shortly after he'd passed the 'Criminal Justice Bill Amendment - or whatever it was' which gave police the power to close down anywhere with no notice if it was playing music with 'a repetitive beat', so it seemed somewhat deserved at the time.
(dchurch bah, Fri 21 Sep 2012, 16:06, Reply)