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codyaitch, Nope, missed that one
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Shared a table outside Salaas bar,Ischgl last Friday with Chris Done.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I don't think I would recognise most of these people if I did bump into them, but....
I did give Barry McGuigan his first ski lesson, and Annabel Croft her first snowboard lesson
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The (historically) most important person I ever met (when I was young) was probably Alexander Kerensky - one of the leaders of the 1917 Russian revolution who became prime minister of the provisional government and was later forced out by Lenin and the Bolsheviks. He was staying with my friend's father Frank Soskice - Labour Home Secretary (later Lord Stow Hill). 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Patch, I taught Annabel Croft to play the Pyramid Game
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holidayloverxx, what is that? is it anything like a pyramid scheme?
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The (historically) most important person I ever met (when I was young) was probably Alexander Kerensky
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Well I wouldn't have recognised him, probably, but at least I would have known who he was, unlike most of the people in this thread. I did the Russian Revolution as my special subject for my degree.
I think that trumps everybody else on this thread. snowball!
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^ Clearly Steve cleaned up his act a bit after the infamous Bill Grundy interview.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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holidayloverxx, Nice !
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Patch, Indeed - great fun and winning money too (that episode wasn't me BTW)! My other partner was Simon Williams, who was still as dashing as Captain Bellamy in those days, now he's more like Captain Mainwaring!
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You know it makes sense.
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Thornyhill, You win 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| swimandski wrote: |
| Shared a table outside Salaas bar,Ischgl last Friday with Chris Done. |
Ehh who is he/she???????
Even google seems to draw a blank
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Poster: A snowHead
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| pam w wrote: |
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The (historically) most important person I ever met (when I was young) was probably Alexander Kerensky
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Well I wouldn't have recognised him, probably, but at least I would have known who he was, unlike most of the people in this thread. I did the Russian Revolution as my special subject for my degree.
I think that trumps everybody else on this thread. snowball! |
Certainly the only person on this thread who could claim responsibility for imprisoning a family in their own home, ultimately leading to their murder (women, children and servants included.) Still, celebrity is mostly notoriety...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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albinomountainbadger, you probably need to read a bit more about the Russian revolution.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| pam w wrote: |
| albinomountainbadger, you probably need to read a bit more about the Russian revolution. |
Really? Then tell me who was the head of the provisional government that imprisoned the royal family at fixed bayonets in the Winter Palace?
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The Kerensky government put them under house arrest in the Alexander Palace but the Bolsheviks, when they took over after the later, October revolution, made their imprisonment much more severe and later killed them.
pam w, I was introduced when I visited my friend: I would have had no idea who he was otherwise.
laundryman, Frank Soskise's son Oliver was the one I knew best. He later became an artist.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Thornyhill wrote: |
| "It was brilliant, but Cypress Hill weren't great." |
hmmm, I have a didn't-meet story about them.
I used to work in live touring and was rung last minute to look after them in Auckland - basically it was baby sitting with free meals in great restaurants. I went to the venue and was walking down a long corridor backstage to their dressing room when the Asst. Tour Manager started walking up the corridor towards me, discreetly waving his hands in a 'no' gesture (sort of across each other back and forth). I stopped, he reached me, turned me around and said "I'm really sorry, I don't how to say this but you can't work the tour." Me, "What's happened?!". Him, "all I can say is - no white chicks". And with that I was back out of the venue and off the tour.
To this day, I'm incredulous about what was said (really? 'white chicks'?! in NZ?!) and what really happened between being booked so last minute and getting to the venue. I have no idea if it had anything to do with the band or their management or who? Shame, I really liked their music and the last band I'd worked with that was like them was Living Colour a couple of years earlier - they were lovely!
On the whole, my experience working with some big acts was that if anyone was going to be a jerk on a tour, it was usually someone in management. 
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| snowball wrote: |
| The Kerensky government put them under house arrest in the Alexander Palace but the Bolsheviks, when they took over after the later, October revolution, made their imprisonment much more severe and later killed them. |
None of which is in disagreement with what I wrote and Pam w so arrogantly dismissed. If the royal family had not been imprisoned by the provisional government of which Kerensky was part and quickly became leader, they would no doubt have fled abroad (as Kerensky himself later did to avoid his own murder), or been captured by the Germans. Either of these would have denied the Bolsheviks opportunity to execute them.
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albinomountainbadger, yes, but you can't very well expect the moderate provisional government to anticipate from the start that they would lose (or, for that matter, anticipate the horrors of the purges etc). If he had escaped the Czar might well have come back with an army (even without him there was a fierce civil war). When Charles 1st was beaten in our civil war he escaped and raised another army and had to be beaten all over again. Ditto Napoleon. I can't see how you can seriously fault the Provisional government for putting the family under house arrest.
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snowball, I'm not faulting them (that would be a debate far too long for these pages); for national security it was probably a good idea to not give the Whites their figurehead nor to let him fall into German hands and become a sort of martyr, but keeping them captive was undeniably a domino on the path to the executions.
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If you help organise gigs, I presume it doesn't count when you bump into the bands 
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Mosha Marc, indeed, which is why I haven't posted until now. Not meeting them was a bummer 
If I had, I wouldn't have posted about it.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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holidayloverxx, saw her in a restaurant once. Is she as much of a snooty cow as I remember ?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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bladeskier, Annabel? She was alright, but lost me £50 in the final so I couldn't win the maximum. She was very apologetic
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| bladeskier wrote: |
| holidayloverxx, saw her in a restaurant once. Is she as much of a snooty cow as I remember ? |
She is not snooty at all. Very small.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Mosha Marc, I have to do 'notes to self' these days too. 
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Poster: A snowHead
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This thread should now be moved to Apres but yesterday afternoon I bumped in to Mick Jones on the tube. He was jumping off at Shepherd's Bush Market I was going on to Hammersmith. Top fella and a rock legend 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| laundryman wrote: |
| Mosha Marc, I have to do 'notes to self' these days too. |
LMAO
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| flowa wrote: |
| On the whole, my experience working with some big acts was that if anyone was going to be a jerk on a tour, it was usually someone in management. |
In their time big acts (from my days behind a mixing desk at Uni), and at different ends of the jerk scale:
Let Loose (boy band from early 90's) - turned up 15 minutes before they were due on stage (no sound check), moaned that the levels were all wrong, played 3 songs and left in a hissy fit
Bad Manners - top band and hung around for ages after their set drinking with Uni crew
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I met Bad Manners too during my University working security/drinking on a free bar tab days. Top guys as were Geno Washington and his band and numerous others of the "gigging band" type. It was the ones who had had recent and sudden chart success that tended to be assholes, probably due to the whole "Hell yeah we've definitely made it" attitude.
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Pierce Brosnan recounts a story about being out one evening having a quiet drink in a Dublin hostelry , when a guy comes over to him and greets hims with
'Pierce Brosnan great to finally meet you, can I shake your hand?'
Pierce being the obliging gentleman that he is, duly obliges. His new found friend grabs his hand in a fullsome grip and continues to shake it for some time. Then he gazes at his hand with a star stricken, almost idolising expression on his face. Finally the guy utters the immortal line
'thanks very much Pierce, that's probably as close as I'll ever get to Halle Berry's bum!!'
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I met Richard Branson in Euston a few months ago. I think he was doing some Virgin promotion stuff around the West Coast Mainline franchise debacle. I didn't really get to speak to him, I just shook his hand and said I thought Virgin were very good (I use that train line a lot).
I also met Bill Bryson when he gave me my degree  . And then later when he was mingling with the grads. He was pretty mild mannered, and also rather hoarse from giving so many graduation speeches that week.
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| fatbob wrote: |
| I met Bad Manners too during my University working security/drinking on a free bar tab days. Top guys as were Geno Washington and his band and numerous others of the "gigging band" type. It was the ones who had had recent and sudden chart success that tended to be assholes, probably due to the whole "Hell yeah we've definitely made it" attitude. |
I bumped into the lead singer from Badmanners when I was student. He was pushing one of the other band members up the street in a shopping trolley as he was a little " tired and emotional"
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Jonathan Bell, buster bloodvessel!
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FAQ
Wrong concert - We went clubbing with them anyway 
