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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?

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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!

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Twangothan | 18 March 2008 - 5:21pm

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?

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Vulpes Vulpes | 19 March 2008 - 9:50am

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....

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Jason Carter | 18 March 2008 - 5:48pm

Isn't there a House of Commons band?

With the ex-guitarist from Runrig, now an MP, and various others?

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Retropath2 | 19 March 2008 - 7:51am

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...

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Vulpes Vulpes | 19 March 2008 - 9:44am

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

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Harry Puckering | 22 March 2008 - 10:39pm
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