Oh Stourbridge, I pledge to thee...
Once was in a pub quiz team with Jonn from Ned's Atomic Dustbin. However this is not that surprising as my brother had a house share with the Ned's live sound engineer.

One of dad's friends was opening up a new garden centre in Brettel Lane, and for the official cutting of the ribbon he acquired the services of Hi-de-Hi's own Ruth Madoc, who very patiently, kindly and professionally posed for some photos that I asked for as I was on a photography course at the time.

My mum was a governor at the school where Johnny Briggs (ITV's Mike Baldwin)sent his daughter, he must have been a new dad at age 60 for that one...

And- dad's company used to sponsor Celebrity Lectures at the town hall, through which I briefly was introduced to Patrick Moore- I asked if he enjoyed the bacon flavoured lettuce he prepared for other celebrity guests on Tomorrow's World and he professed to not recall the incident- having used up my one question allocation I was moved on. Bugger.

Finally, (and this is complicated) the producer and sound engineer Simon Efemy (credits include Wildhearts, Napalm Death, Diamond Head, Wonderstuff etc) used to run Wreckless/Icicle Works recording studio in Stourbridge, hired my brother to be in his band 'Stinkin' Fish' and then fired him in favour of a MIDI sequencer.

and here it is, much to my surprise....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmYyLzhKh6c
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