Binokular Veteran Member Posts:1665  
| 7/16/2006 11:22 PM |
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Bob Stanley was a music journalist before forming Saint Etienne with Pete Wiggs (Sarah Cracknell joined later). Still writes for the Sunday Times and other publications I believe.
Giorgio Moroder, aside from his music and film involvments managed to find time to setup a car company called Cizeta-Moroder. The car called the V16T (because it had a 16 cylinder engine, for non petrol heads, imagine 4 ordinary family car engines joined together to make one massive engines and you have some idea) was not a commercial success and production was halted. Doesn't mean he should stick to the day job, you can hardly call building something that spectacular a failure. I'd be pretty pleased to have that on my CV.
http://www.giorgiomorodergallery.com/cizeta/m_cizeta.html
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nerraw Basic Member Posts:475
| 7/18/2006 12:28 PM |
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Bruce d**kinson, lead singer of Iron Maiden is a fully qualified pilot and flies regularly to Sierra Leone, alas he wasn't the pilot when I went there. How cool would that be
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benni Advanced Member Posts:947
| 7/18/2006 12:33 PM |
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hahahaa! It astrixzzeded his name!
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MullyAdvanced Member Posts:849
| 7/18/2006 1:07 PM |
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Originally posted by nerraw
Bruce d**kinson, lead singer of Iron Maiden is a fully qualified pilot and flies regularly to Sierra Leone, alas he wasn't the pilot when I went there. How cool would that be
IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce d**kinson flew a chartered plane filled with MAIDEN fans on Tuesday, June 7 from London, England to the band's gig in Reykjavik, Iceland. Bruce, MAIDEN drummer Nicko McBrain and band manager Rod Smallwood were on board, and helped keep the fans entertained during the flight. Check out pictures taken during the trip:
http://www.downloadmyarse.co.uk/thumbnails.php?album=44 |
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palaceBasic Member Posts:392
| 7/18/2006 2:41 PM |
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all these jobs are too closely related...
...apart from bruce d**kinson - that's funny...
...and nick cave wrote the script and soundtrack to the proposition, yes... but probably more impressively wrote a highly critically acclaimed novel some years back.
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nerrawBasic Member Posts:475
| 7/18/2006 3:11 PM |
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In the inflight brochure there is a feature about him, with a pic of him in this pilot unifor. Not the best advertisement I would've thought. He is also qualified to land of one of the most difficult runways in the World.
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palaceBasic Member Posts:392
| 7/18/2006 3:41 PM |
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talking of difficult runways, did anyone ever fly into the old hong kong airport... the wave at the office workers either side before taking a sharp 90 degree bank one?
bit off topic, i know...
...wonder if bruce d**kinson was qualified to fly into that...
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UnaVeteran Member Posts:1721
| 7/18/2006 3:48 PM |
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no, I never flew there, but my mate did, said it was bizarre. The new one is on some island that's slowly sinking, innit?
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nerrawBasic Member Posts:475
| 7/18/2006 4:07 PM |
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Originally posted by Una
no, I never flew there, but my mate did, said it was bizarre. The new one is on some island that's slowly sinking, innit?
I watched a full hour documentary on that sinking airport. Fascinating, even with self medication. They gave it a lifespan of 30 years or so and I think they plan to build another. It has massive lift thingies all around the airport that they raise every so often. It showed a staircase that was several steps below the floor it was supposed to reach, such was the the sinkage |
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palaceBasic Member Posts:392
| 7/18/2006 4:34 PM |
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hong kong's new airport is indeed on an island but it is kansai airport (on a reclaimed artificial island) in japan that is the sinking one
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| 7/19/2006 11:10 AM |
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leonard cohen novelist, poet, singer song writer. he won a butt load of awards for his literature in the late fifties and early sixties doesnt publish as much nowadays.
kris kristofferson... not sure about prestige though
i heard jeff bridges released an album recently
neil young has his own company that makes hitech toy trains that apparently have the most realistic sound and smoke effects on the market he,s also made some crappy films with dennis hopper
mos def has started an acting career to rave reviews aswell
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petethedrummer New Member Posts:38
| 7/19/2006 11:21 AM |
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Bruce d**kinson was 'the seventh-best foil fencer in Great Britain during the 1988-89 fencing season'
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/5619/bruceSI.htm
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| 7/19/2006 11:33 AM |
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...and so hot his name gets censored on the cluas forums, what a man!
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BinokularVeteran Member Posts:1665
| 7/19/2006 7:22 PM |
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Originally posted by alio
mos def has started an acting career to rave reviews aswell
He was great in Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy  |
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strollerAdvanced Member Posts:576
| 7/19/2006 10:35 PM |
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Originally posted by alio
mos def has started an acting career to rave reviews aswell
Mos Def was an actor before he was an MC. His first major acting role was in a made for TV movie called God Bless the Child back in 1988 but his first crew Urban Thermo Dynamics didn't release a record til 1994. |
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AntistarAdvanced Member Posts:544
| 7/20/2006 8:08 AM |
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Originally posted by petethedrummer
Bruce d**kinson was 'the seventh-best foil fencer in Great Britain during the 1988-89 fencing season'
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/5619/bruceSI.htm
He also does a bit of presenting on Sky One, he recently fronted a programme on spontaneous human combustion. He was very, very good- a real natural at it. Didn't he write a novel a long tome ago also? 'The Missionary Position' I think it was called. He's also a pilot!! Phew!!! |
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