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Re: The best/worst things to come out of your home town?

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:49 pm
by noam
Mr Hyde wrote:
noam wrote:
Mr Hyde wrote:The XX, Burial, Four Tet, Pierce Brosnan and some of Hot Chip and the So solid crew all went to my secondary school.


....so there.
Emmanuel??
Nah Elliott, although I know people that went to Emmanuel.

Not Britt school or anything particularaly arty, was just a standard big south London comprehensive back in the 90's (perhaps its changed since?), think its just by chance being a lot of pupils and mixed south london that a lot of musician types went there.

ahhh yeh knew it began with an E

Re: The best/worst things to come out of your home town?

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:45 pm
by clifford_-
faust.dtc wrote:Croydon also blessed the world with Tracy Emin, Francis Rossi, Captain Sensible, Kirsty MacColl, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, someone from JLS and the girl group Eternal. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ronnie Corbet, Dot Cotton, Noel Fielding and Ian Wright live around here.

Croydon is also used for a lot of TV and film work - parts of The Da Vinci Code and the new Batman movie was filmed here. It is also the location of the flat used in Peep Show.
dont forget the bill!

oh, noam, whats the best thing to come out of manchester then?









i reckon its the m6 south.... :6:

Re: The best/worst things to come out of your home town?

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:57 pm
by belalala
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john and joan cusack
jeremy piven
aaaaaand.... prohibition :oops:

Re: The best/worst things to come out of your home town?

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:31 pm
by LA_Boxers
scattybeanhead wrote:Morden - literally the most pointless place on the planet. Nothing but houses and corner shops.

The only thing to actually come from here is an indie band called Good Shoes who sum the whole place up in this song



Pretty crappy song but tells you lots about the place. Also that little stage in the park at the end of the video, they actually played a free gig there which was pretty cool...

That's how rubbish where i live is...
I went to that gig in the park......it rained!! Think they played the Watershed in Wimbledon after too........think i went po na na tho!!lol.

Re: The best/worst things to come out of your home town?

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:43 pm
by LA_Boxers
Wallington, South London.

The episode of peep show when mitchell goes to the off license and gets called a paedo by the kids on the bike was filmed there.
The Bill was filmed lots too before they knocked roundshaw down.

Jeff Beck
Lindsey Dawn Mckenzie
Nick Ross (off of the TV)
Gary Mason (Former british heavyweight champion)

Re: The best/worst things to come out of your home town?

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:44 pm
by LA_Boxers
Croydon is also famous for the graff crew FBC (Ser & Jae etc).

Re: The best/worst things to come out of your home town?

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:50 pm
by kidshuffle
I've just learned that the town I lived in, during high school, has just produced a Hooters employee. Thinking we only have one in the city, I'd say its impressive :cornlol:

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Re: The best/worst things to come out of your home town?

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:49 pm
by Pada
Fredrick Delius & David Hockney aswell

Some of the "every sperm is sacred" sketch/song by monty python was filmed down my road

People keep telling me example lives in Saltaire and drinks in the Rosse pub that I go in sometimes - but I've never seen him... thinking about it though I doubt I would recognize him

Re: The best/worst things to come out of your home town?

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:15 pm
by tacospheros
Ossining NY has birthed to the world:



Black Rob is from my town

aaaaaaaaaaaand

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Sing Sing Prison . The term "up the river" , getting "sent up north" as slang for going to jail ... yep that's my town

Re: The best/worst things to come out of your home town?

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:34 pm
by anadin_xtra
ashton-under-lyne -
3 world cup winners and half of the coronation street cast

Re: The best/worst things to come out of your home town?

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 12:56 am
by nousd
BEST: Gough Whitlam, Brett Whitely, Acca Dacca, Severed Heads, your average Sydneysider, sydney oysters & dagginess,
WORST: Tony Abbott, James Packer, Germaine Greer, Sherbert, private school elitism & real estate obsession