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Is everyone at Word so blasé about being in a band that they don't think Mark Kermode's Dodge Brothers rates a mention?
Posted by Harry Puckering on 18 March 2008 - 3:27pm.
I know that his day job - obsession - is a film reviewer of taste and commitment, but Mark Kermode is also a better than decent string bass player in the band Dodge Brothers. Backing vocals, Harmonica and tea-chest skiffle bass too.
Who else in the public eye maintains a share in a drink-sozzled Dad's band, I wonder?
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Fiona Bruce
I read the other day that Fiona Bruce used to sing in a band - dunno if she does now though!
The Beeb press office claims:
"Fiona is no stranger to singing, having been in a number of bands during her studies at Oxford University. She admits: "When I was at university, I sang in rock bands and dyed my hair blue.""
Cripes. Do you think there are pictures?
More importantly
has anyone in the public eye ever actually been in anything resembling a decent band? Jamie Oliver's motley band of pals spring to mind first, with Russell Crowe's spectacular '30 Odd Foot Of Grunts' dragging up behind.
Keanu Reeves was given a crack at the whip with 'Dogstar', but again there wasn't an awful lot to get excited about.
Now, as for that Mark Ellen chancer....
Isn't there a House of Commons band?
With the ex-guitarist from Runrig, now an MP, and various others?
Anyone know if Pat Cash and John McEnroe
make anything approaching a decent noise? Their guitar playing and yelling-into-microphones antics always seem to get a mention during Wimbledon week, but they're never invited to knock out a few tunes on Later...
Camberwell Carrot and Brighton Beach Boy
Ralph Brown - who's in everything, but is best remembered in this house for Withnail and I and Life on Mars - is one of the keyboard players, one of the saxophonists, one of the singers and the principal between-songs-talker in the hardy perennial (and spot-on) Brighton Beach Boys, who are next to be seen at the Brighton Festival on 8 and 10 May.
See http://www.myspace.com/thebrightonbeachboys and http://www.brightonbeachboys.com