LoveTheBobby 1 Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 Btw MF when you say you were down to the last 10 , which part was that for ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 41453 Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 I think the Ginger Kid. Told us we'd get parts as extras but didnt. Bastards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveTheBobby 1 Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 (edited) Eeh y bugger eh . Good going nontheless Was that the end of your acting career then ? (Chas Mcgill , lead character) Edited August 12, 2012 by LoveTheBobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 41453 Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 The start and finish. My cousin rang me up and said the auditions were on ( in the Ellison building at the then Newcastle Poly iirc), we thought it would be a laugh, and I'd read the book so we went along. Asked us back the next day. Loads of Theatre School kids there, me and my cousin didn't have a clue what we were doing, just read the parts in our normal voices. Kept my BBC rejection letter for years, but it's long gone now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveTheBobby 1 Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 (edited) good craic . My Grandad was in Spender .Just a background gig. Walked down the stairs at a scene shot in Station Hotel Got 50 sovs and a slap-up lunch Not trod the boards myself although I was 'on' Wogan once . Was in audience and Tony Bennet was on. Terry says 'wow its your 75th album Tony, has anyone out there got them ?' I said I had 74 of them and Terry pointed me out to him and he smiled up and waved. Gave him back a Shearer head-bowed arm up celebration type 'ney bother mate' wave. Edited August 13, 2012 by LoveTheBobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 41453 Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_Clark 12 Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 1. it's sid waddell's funeral today, in pudsey, west yorks. 2. kevin sheedy has announced he has been diagnosed with bowel cancer. 3. a bloke who used to post on another newcastle forum (old Rivals one, iirc) was the kid in the Tudor crisp advert who delivered the papers 4. my dad was in Spender; week after he retired from graft, he got a role as an extra, as a jury member. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 I was in Spender too, I walk behind Jimmy Nail to my seat in the Milburn, when he's there against Ipswich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 The Spender tune was absolutely mint, I loved Spender. "Stick" was as good as Jimmy Nail, I think Stick died of cancer too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 41453 Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 He did. Sammy Johnson, there's a Sunday for Sammy fundraiser concert every year ( I think?) at the City Hall with the Auf Wiedersehen cast , Brendan Healy and other " luminaries" of the northen stage and screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Sammy Johnson died while on a jog, massive heart attack I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_Clark 12 Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Sammy Johnson died while on a jog, massive heart attack I think. in spain i seem to remember Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 He did. Sammy Johnson, there's a Sunday for Sammy fundraiser concert every year ( I think?) at the City Hall with the Auf Wiedersehen cast , Brendan Healy and other " luminaries" of the northen stage and screen. He had a role in Auf Wiedesehen Pet as well, he set about Moxey and Oz chinned him iirc, then he nearly ended up working with them in Spain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy 12 Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Turned up in a white leotard and a bonk on instead of a football strip and wonders why he wasn't picked? Hahahahahaha, crying with laughing here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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