*ahem*

[lnr]

I've just been whinging at Amazon for the fact they said they were going to dispatch my 5 CDs more than a month in the future, despite them all being in stock. I'd even tried switching to first class and back to free delivery and it didn't make any difference. Then I tried seeing what it would be like with Express Delivery. Decided it wasn't worth 8 quid, but when I switch back to free delivery again suddenly the dispatch date was January 11th. Maybe I won't have to wait forever for them after all.

A discussion on irc of famous people you want to school with led to a bit of Googling. I can't find any proof that Blue Peter Presenter Mark Curry went there, though I'd always heard it was true. I did however find the website of The Music who I think were around Emily's year, maybe younger. I once wrote a book for the brother of one of the members of the band. Well, a spiral bound hand-illustrated short story. Rather plagiarised from little shop of horrors really.

Still, the special edition of their second album was dirt cheap from an amazon reseller, so I seem to have indulged.

• The Music - Welcome To The North

I expect it'll probably arrive before the others do.

Edit: Oooh, and John Finnigan (Finnegan?) from my form is still playing football, currently apparently captaining Cheltenham. I remember him getting the place in Notts Forest's junior team. I've played footie with him I have (at Junior School). And Danny Orr was in Steph's form and is a pretty good rugby league player, having at one point been the youngest super league team captain.

What famous people went to your school?

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[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

My old school is well-served for famous folk, including Phil "Phil Oakey out of the Human League" Oakey, John "Jilted John" Shuttleworth, Matthew Bannister the ex-controller of Radio 1 and Emily Mailtlis off Newsnight to name but four.

[aardvark179.livejournal.com]

Amazon's expected delivery dates are the biggest work of fiction on their entire site. They are frequently in the past, or weeks (or even months) in the future, and when they do seem reasonable for an item that isn't in stock but they say they can get within a few days, it's just an excuse for them to play a cruel game of slowly pushing the date back until they finally admit that they can't get the itme, or try to claim it never existed in the first place. The worst ones are the items they acknowledge might be hard to find, and want a fee for finding, which always seem to be readily available on abebooks.

Christ, I'm beginning to sound like Marcus Brigstocke.

Oh, and my ipod only has two tracks by The Music on it right now, pity as I wouldn't mind listening to the first album right now. :-(

[lnr]

I have to admit I did go and look on Play, but 2 weren't in stock there and all 5 were slightly more expensive. I do only usually buy stuff that's either immediately available or says "2 to 3 weeks" since they usually can deliver those eventually. But they're not *usually* quite that barking. I may have to start doing more shopping around.

I'm glad you like The Music anyway, nice to know they're only obscure, and not completely unheard of :-)

[aardvark179.livejournal.com]

On a topical note Magnus Magnusson's son went to my school, unfortunately he didn't look both ways before crossing the road.

[noradre.livejournal.com]

Mark Curry is a superstar compared the most famous person I went to school with: Carl Leaburn, who had a fairly undistinguished football career, mostly at Charlton Athletic. I did meet him once though, when he was visiting because he fancied my sister.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

According to Wikipedia, Carl had an unfortunate reputation as a striker who could not score goals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Leaburn). Whoever edits the English football section of Wikipedia really has a downer on Charlton Athletic (http://burkesworks.livejournal.com/115347.html), don't you think?

We had a famous(-ish) footballer too, in the year below me; Carl Shutt of Bradford City, Sheffield Wednesday and that team from Beeston whose name we dare not mention in polite company.

[innocencest.livejournal.com]

I'm currently in school with one or two people who will probably be famous to some extent in the next century or so =P

[natural20.livejournal.com]

Well, I managed Denis Hickie, Irish international winger. Also a bunch of other people who now play rugby for money, but as the school I went to was one of the premier rugby schools in Dublin that's hardly surprising. I don't think there was anyone else particularly famous in or around my year.

[noradre.livejournal.com]

Maybe Iain Dowie's been at Wikipedia with a few embittered edits? I'm very surprised Carl ended up in the media, didn't know him well but he always seemed quite shy.

Carl Shutt

Didn't he once score a goal in the Nou Camp for a...err, certain team?

Apologies to LNR for all the football chat.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I went to school with the guy who got sent to Africa on safari as a young offender. There was a big fuss about it at the time, and people seem to remember.

[lnr]

Mark Curry left before I arrived. And the lads of The Music are mostly after my time. Doesn't have to be people from the same time as you.

[nja.livejournal.com]

Sid Vicious briefly attended my school a couple of years before I started (for less than a year, I think, and none of the teachers could remember him). I think Phil Pope (who did the music for Spitting Image among many other things) also went to the same school but several years earlier - he certainly grew up in the town. Nobody even remotely famous was at school with me, or at university either as far as I know.

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

The Verve went to my sixth form (but before my time). As did various people from Hollyoaks and Two Pints of Lager And a Packet of Crisps.

[pm215]

My physics teacher at Colchester 6th Form taught Damon Albarn from Blur. And Blur did a gig at the 6FC (just after coming back from their world tour, between doing something for MTV and Jools' Hootenannay)...

[mhoulden.livejournal.com]

Stuart Fielden (the rugby player) was in the year below me at school. I knew him pretty well because he was friends with one of my friends. Dunno if he remembers me at all as I left the place 12 years ago. Andy Hobson (another, less well known rugby player) was in my year and I also knew him pretty well, mainly because his form used to line up in the same corridor as mine. Not sure of any other famous people, although Lindsey Rimer became pretty well known when she was found murdered.

My school (Calder High in Mytholmroyd) was also in the Guinness Book of records for being the first comprehensive school in the UK.

[littlemissgoth.livejournal.com]

TeeHee.... I'm gonna be lazy and just say "the same ones!" ;-)

I've also heard that the Curried one went there.... was never sure whether to believe it.

Does Mr Sanderson count as atleast being notable, having written a musical that played at the Playhouse (I think it may even have toured... although how far, I'm not sure... )...? I mean, he did go to the school at the same time as we did... even if he was a teacher... he was just a big kid! ;-)

[ceb.livejournal.com]

What she said. Lemn Sissay (http://www.lemnsissay.com/) went to my high school.

[lizardc.livejournal.com]

According to Wikipedia, Virginia Wade (who I knew about) and Jo Brand (who I didn't). I seem to remember my brother telling me that Gilly Gouldon's (that women who used to do the wine tasting on Food and Drink) daughter went there too.

[imc.livejournal.com]

There's a list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton_School#Notable_Old_Boltonians) on Wikipedia of famous people from my school (though you should probably only count the males), but it misses off the only semi-famous person I actually knew, footballer Julian Darby (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Darby) who was in my class in the fourth and fifth forms.

[mpinna.livejournal.com]

My headmaster at Oundle previously taught Tony Blair English.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

What famous people went to your school?

Peter Wright of Spy Catcher fame
2 directors of MI5 and one of MI6
Hugo Barnacle, litcrit of The Spectator (a year younger than me)
Jamie Duthie, hockey player and BBC pundit (also a year younger than me)
Ben Clarke, England and British Lions flanker (I once played a club match with his dad!)

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

What famous people went to your school?

Cat Deeley. That's about it.

[reddragdiva]

I went to the top private school for boys in Western Australia, so most of the famous people who went there are former millionaires who are now in jail.