every town has em... but these were mine for a while...
My favourite ever ‘celebrity’ in Nottingham was the giant black guy who had made a collar out of cardboard, mounted crap little portable speakers into it and walked around, strutting and posing (finger pointed and everything) to famous theme tunes. The 1st time I saw him he was walking to the theme from the Indiana Jones movies... brilliant!

Other celebrities include:

2 stick man – a very old gentleman who wears all of his clothes at the same time, carries loads of bags and walks with 2 sticks letting out a small moan with each small step. But he walks miles and miles each day, even though it clearly hurts.

The Colonel (and his wife) – he looks like Colonel Sanders, she has a huge array of different coloured wigs. They tend to just sit in pubs.

Donna King – she has a quiffy hair do which is black at the bottom and grey at the ends, she talks to herself quite a lot.

And the sadly departed Xylophone Man (Frank Robinson) – he played a metallophone (so I therefore get irritated with him being called Xylophone Man) most entertainingly outside C&A/H&M for years, every year I would come back to uni and be cheered by the fact that he hadn’t gone over the summer/winter. I saw Ross Noble in Nottingham, he mentioned Frank in a gig and got a massive cheer and round of applause. He was a major part of street life in Nottingham, when he died they put an engraved paving stone outside H&M. That makes me really happy. Here’s a Wikipedia article on him en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Robinson_%28Xylophone_Man%29
(Ross McBingobangobongo bingobangobongo, Thu 21 Apr 2011, 16:16, 6 replies)

hah!
I remember the speaker man.

And billy two sticks - is he still about then??
( rofl harris, Thu 21 Apr 2011, 16:28, closed)

I hope so
but I live in Brum now so I haven't been around in Nottm enough to see him, I used to see him all over Ilkeston Rd/Derby Rd... the poor lamb.
(Ross McBingobangobongo bingobangobongo, Sat 23 Apr 2011, 9:48, closed)

I used to work at H&M and we'd have tourists come in and ask about that plaque all the time so a few of us started telling them he was buried under there and every single one of the daft buggers believed us.
(Official Sarc, Fri 22 Apr 2011, 11:42, closed)

good work
hopefully that's something that keeps being passed on in there, soon it will be an urban myth.
(Ross McBingobangobongo bingobangobongo, Sat 23 Apr 2011, 9:49, closed)

Two sticks McGraw!
Thats what we called him anyway. Always on Derby Rd. Poor two sticks.
(larrymullensnr, Tue 26 Apr 2011, 12:38, closed)

seems
everyone else had a much more inventive nickname for him than we did!
(Ross McBingobangobongo bingobangobongo, Tue 26 Apr 2011, 14:47, closed)