What is 'Fringey Brushes With Fame'?

Finding Famos

Now let's make one thing very clear, the emphasis here is on brushes. At no time is there to be any touching of the famos, that would be wrong and could possibly get us arrested but if you happen to be walking past one and just happen to accidently brush past them, there's no harm in that...right?

The thing is we all know that for every sleb spot you make you get points and points mean (all together now) ...prizes! Collect enough points and you can trade them in for your own personal famo. Imagine the fun you could have playing Drs and Nurses with your very own Johnny from Dogs or the endless hours of pleasure to be gained from mucking about with a couple of bunsen burners and the Scientists. So go forth and find those famos and then let us know who you've been stalk... errrm spotting.

We Are Scientists - the Lock Tavern

Oh yes indeedy!

So there was Fringey having a quiet 8 or 9 gins in the Lock Tavern on a nice sunny Friday evening, when who do we happen to see?

Not one, but TWO Scientists!

Murray


and Tapper!

(aka - Singey and Beardy Scientist)

Just wandering around the pub and sitting and drinking like they belonged there or something. Honestly!

Weirdly noticed that the Tapper has very, very skinny upper arms, with no discernable biceps on display at all. Very strange for a drummer.

Also there were Tabitha Queen (sitting next to the Tapper) and Alex Zane, who we see out and about so often we don't even bother putting it in here.

STOP STALKING US ZANE!!!!

Arctic Monkey at the Metro club

Alex Turner, with some (pri)-mates, at the Shitdisco/Klaxons gig in the Metro Club last night. And lucky us we got to witness a succession of bleached Shoreditch harpies (deffo old enough to know better) chatting him up and stroking him. Vomit.

Also there were a couple of Roland Shanks chaps, but as they've only had one single out and aren't in NME every week you won't know who they are.

Mike Leigh goes to the cinema!

Just like a normal punter!!

Mike Leigh was spotted at the Tottenham Court Road Odeon in the back row with a lady friend!! The director of 'Secrets & Lies' and 'Vera Drake' etc, was watching the Johnny Cash biopic, 'Walk the Line'.

I couldn't tell if he'd enjoyed the film as he just looked a bit sad, but then he always looks slightly gloomy, like his favorite sheepdog has just died or something.

Wonder if he gets in for free, or even a discount??

'Walk the Line' - is a good film though.

Fringey finds Fielding!

Mission Impossible? I think not!

'The Fringey – Make a Wish – Foundation' had its first successful mission on Saturday 5th November at the Barfly. We were assigned with bringing together a random member of the public (ok, a fringey little sister) and a famo. - The sleb in question being Mr Noel Fielding of Mighty Boosh fame.

When Fringey recently heard he going to dj at the Barfly, calls were made and tickets were purchased, for what turned out to be a rather enjoyable evening of music and dancing. This culminated in a tense 20 minutes of 'hanging around', before the *successful touching* of a famo by our first 'Make a Wish' beneficiary!

And we have pictures!

There were bonus points all round with Mr Alex Zane there, also doing the dj thing. - And you know how crowded the barfly can get on a saturday night. - Oh yes, there was much famo brushing throughout the evening.

If you too would like to stand next to/touch a sleb please email and let us know. We may be able to make it happen! Although the Fringey Foundation can only promise to put you in the same room as the famo in question. (this is, after all, what fringey is best at!). Anything else is up to you.

Not a lot people know this...

...but Michael Cain is a big fan of electrical goods.

Well at least he was pretty engrossed in the window display of an electrical store when I saw him one September lunchtime on the Road of Tottenham Court. I saw Michael bloody Cain. Oh yes I did la la la la- that's got to be worth of a whole heap of points, right?

ps this totally made up for the fact that I'd also seen Big Brother's Nasty Nick Batement earlier on- ewwwww.

Seb & Jesse DFA1979 - Astoria - 16th May 2005

This was at the Futureheads gig in the Astoria. They were stood at the bar behind the lighting desk. - Yes, that's right, down with the rest of the punters and not up on the VIP balcony bit.

Fringey might not have recognised them separately, but together they are an easy spot, even though Seb Grainger had his all new mohican style hair cut.

a lovely visual treat.
(that'll be Sebastian, not Jesse)

Bernard Butler - ULU - 3rd November 2005

• He was at the bar in ULU getting a drink before the Cribs came on stage. (He's produced one of the tracks on their new single, so why he exclaimed "this wasn't what I expected" I don't know. Maybe he was talking about queue for the bar being 5 deep.)
  
• he was wearing a duffle coat, and it was boiling.
  
• his hair was very dry and out of condition, looked like he'd washed it in the sea!
  
• I don't think any of the young whippersnappers who'd come to see the Cribs had a clue who he was, although he's aged alot better than the 'other one'.
  
• It took me 20 minutes to get served, and him only 10 minutes - and I'm a GIRL!! Outrageous.
  
• His arm brushed my arm. A genuine Fringey brush with a famo!

Paul Weller - Hammersmith Apollo - June 2005

A very sweaty and disheveled Weller was spotted at the Kings of Leon gig, trying to get served at the upstairs bar - without actually touching any of the other punters!

It was the hottest day of the summer and his beautiful feather haircut was plastered to his head. Fringey just pushed past him - its every man and rock star for themselves when it comes to getting served at the bar - but some sap eventually bought him a drink.