Well there's always creatives everywhere isn't there?
Well for me (university of Liverpool) is this:
Bass player of Embrace
Robots in Disguise
Ladytron
Chris Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys
ignoring Embrace you'd think based on the 'electronic' people mentioned in this list that liverpool would create more inventive musicians than The Coral wouldn't you?
Well? Am sure someone can top this slightly tawdry list..........
Ben Elton
went to my college. Does that count?
Unless we're talking about people who should never have been born then no.
i dont think many went to hatfield
There's a famous band from there called 'Hatfield and the North'
though isn't there Methers?
i really hope not
that is a terrible name.
"lets name ourselves after a road sign"
"yeah great idea"
better than naming yourself after a street fighter move i guess
they were sort of famous in the 70s pub rock blah I think
oh I don't know - wikipedia anyone?
damon albarn
graham coxon
alex james
john illsley
brian molko
^5
Yeah I went to Goldsmiths too
goldsmiths ftw!
Also for Goldsmiths
John Cale
Chris Corner from Sneaker Pimps/IAMX
Gareth 'Jacknife' Lee
and others but I got bored just typing that
Mark Knopfler
Everything But The Girl
errr....no, that's it!
^the same
does Phillip Larkin count?
Hot Chip
Meanwhile Back in Communist Russia
Foals (some of)
errrr probably some toffee-nosed 70's prog-rockers
you must have gone somewhere posh then?
If we're talking college as well as uni
then I can say Polly Harvey, drummer of erm Kula Shaker and bassist of Reef and Dominic Masters.
Oh dear.
I didn't go to school with anyone famous
I forgot Thom Yorke's brother out of the Unbelievable Truth though
where
did you go?
Oxford university
what did you study?
psychology
study applied loosely
mylo also
he did PPP at brasenose.
and kris kristofferson went to merton on a rhodes scholarship.
KT Tunstall
One of the prats in Eliot Minor
i'm sure fuckloads went to Nottingham Uni
but seeing as I'm doing a masters at Westminster now, I'd put my money on a big. fat. ZERO.
Westminster
Apparently:
Jehst
Emmy The Great
One of Vicent Vicent and the Villains who isn't Vincent
only Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Nick Mason
oh and Emmy the Great!
plu syou have Carlos the Jackal which pwns all else
well blow me
turns out i'm wrong.
emmy the great, eh? good stuff
thom yorke
and will young ahem.
I missed off someone from the Blue areoplanes and Pete Wylie
Oh God it gets worse and worse and worse.
oh and one of basement jaxx
WIN
I wish I didn't know what university Thom Yorke went to
why?
Various members
of Radiohead went to my school (I haven't been to university yet).
you posh sod
sorry just being facetious
don't
worry...
not abingdon school thouhg
unless they started letting in girls without telling me. hmmm
and members of foals
went to abingdon as well.
Oh
and a member of 10cc.
Siobhan the ginger one from Sugababes originally
Was in my year at school. She used to sit in front of me in science. She was a right bitch.
My uni I think only has Mick Jagger and Judge Jules (so called because he studied law!). Everyone else was political/financial
i <3 her
her recentish album is awesome
i <3 'Ghosts'
i havent heard it yet!
i remember you said you'd got a preview copy
yoink
http://www.myspace.com/siobhandonaghyparlophone
he's not a real judge!
OH! AND
The bassist from Suede
Frank Turner
.
ymss
the drummer from hope of the states
one of the kids with hair in towers of london...
win.
Heres mine...
Noble and Silver
Barry 7 - from Add N to X
One of the Young Knives
Nick Park - Wallace and Gromit guy
Andy Akinwolere - some guy off Blue Peter
Jacqui Oatley - First woman to present Match of the Day
Dawn Mckenzenie - She directed the kylie video when she wears those tiny gold hot pants
Steven Hall - wrote The Raw Shark Text
Zero. Not a single one.
where did you go?
Lincoln.
I was in the third full year to have graduated. BRAND NEW UNIS FTW!
To My Boy when I was there.
Probably some shit old bands.
oh I read the heading wrong...
just the young knives guy and barry 7 - thoughts it debatable if he's a musician.
Michael Ball went to my 6th form
Liam Lynch
is about it I think.
Crap crap crap.
you go to that paul macartney place??
Yep.
But I'm doing a techy course so it means I'm still cool...possibly.
that's awesome
:D
awesome!
Darius Danesh
was in a philosophy tutorial with one of my friends at uni. Ah, if only we'd got to know him better...
my school:
blaine from mystery jets
my uni:
ben and sarah from cats in paris
Mark Knopfler
Corinne Bailey Rae
The one from the Kaiser Chiefs with the white boy fro
Andy Kershaw (not quite related but notable nonetheless)
and Harold Shipman. LOLZ.
my school
spawned rubbish early 90s fake stone roses copyists Whiteout, but richard wilson of victor meldrew fame went there.
I was at uni with most of snow patrol, belle and sebastian, mogwau and uresi yatsura
I think you win
ain't got a clue
none that i know, but the guy who played Gollum went to my uni. he's not a popstar as such...
Will Young
And Thom Yorke apparently wrote the lyrics to 'Creep' on the wall in our Uni nightclub toilets...
i thought he just wrote them whilst he was in there
I dunno
Bristol? Someone do it for me.
Nicky Wire
and Richey Edwards. Yes, I go to Swansea University.
roads and roads and roads and roads
according to the website
martin fry of ABC is the only pop star to be a notable alumni of sheffield university.
syd barrett and roger waters went to my sixth form college when it was the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys...and also one from G4. signed photo in the music department. wow
I think most of Monkey Swallows the Universe went to Sheff
^i believe so
I though MJ Hibbett might have as he always seems to appear for Fuzz outings, but it seems not.
apparently alex kapranos went to my uni.
i did not actually know that until today.
and john logie baird who, although is not a popstar, is much cooler than alex kapranos.
none
:(
I read somewhere that Johnny Greenwood
dropped out of his course at Brookes before Radiohead took off. That'll do for me.
James Blunt!
Hurrah!
some good, some bad
Coldplay, Brett Anderson, Justine Frischmann, Jack Penate, 2/3rds of Keane, some of My Vitriol, Simon Basement Jaxx, Josh of The Horrors, Katie Sky Larkin, Jack Friendly Fires and I forget her name (Cathy?) but the one who's in Fanfarlo/My Sad Captains.
does school count?
I was a serial dropout so can't claim to have basked in the after-glow of any famous alumni.
Squarepusher at primary school
Ceephax (his brother) at primary school and FE college
Glasgow Caledonian's
Only notable "famous" student is apparently Pat Nevin.
HOWEVER, current Prime Minister Gordon Brown did used to lecture there in days gone by. Beat that.
You're from
Chelmsford? Or lived there for a while?
Yeah...
For the first 18 years of my life. You?
Yeah...
same.
the long blondes
and they're playing at the union on thursday (shhh it's a secret apparently)
this fact would be more exciting if I liked them.
From my school was
Laura Marling, Nic Dawson Kelly, the bassist from Jamiroquai who married one of the All Saints. And um... Pitchblend?
I went to school with Jamie T
I went to primary school with the guitarist from late 90s also rans Snug.
The drummer from Razorlight went to my sixth firm college as did the singer/rhythm guitarist from Longview and the delectable Alexa Chung who isn't musical, but, she's shagging an Arctic Monkey so I'll include her on that technicality.
I didn't go to University
I fully expect my DiS access and username to be removed shortly
me too
Well, I did, but dropped out. By DiS standards, that might be worse.
it probably isn't, you still went
I'm off to Lipster
Aphex Twin
and Eric Clapton both went to my uni, (Kingston) though I think Clapton got kicked out.
lead singer
of iron maiden and pete doherty apparently!
lead singer
of iron maiden and pete doherty apparently!
and
bernard butler and bill o'reilly (yeas that one) for a while
what a horrific bunch of individuals
oh i missed
the popstar bit...still bill o'reilly though. what a cunt.
there where no pop stars but
famous actors
John Sim (from human traffic life on mars dr who)
vickey enwistle (janice battersby in coration street)
I just read this as poptarts..
Alex Garland
Chemical Brothers
Meera Syall
Chief Exec of Tesco haha