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Popstars who went to your university

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by prole-art-threat

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..........

prole-art-threat | 21 Feb '08, 13:22 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i really hope not

that is a terrible name.

"lets name ourselves after a road sign"
"yeah great idea"


damon albarn

graham coxon
alex james
john illsley
brian molko


^5


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


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


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?


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!


well blow me

turns out i'm wrong.

emmy the great, eh? good stuff


Various members

of Radiohead went to my school (I haven't been to university yet).


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


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


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.


Liam Lynch

is about it I think.

Crap crap crap.


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


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 dunno

Bristol? Someone do it for me.


Nicky Wire

and Richey Edwards. Yes, I go to Swansea University.


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 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