Post by GasMacc1 on Jun 18, 2015 7:56:37 GMT
It’s only a month since Wembley, but the close season is starting to drag. So watching my recording of the play-off first leg at Forest Green went some way to slake my Rovers thirst.
As BT Sport listed the home-team line-up on an info-panel along the bottom of the screen, I noticed that the first two names were Arnold (the FGR keeper) and Bennett (their right back). According to Wikipedia, “Arnold Bennett (1867 – 1931) was an English writer. Born in Hanley, his most famous works draw on his experience of life in the Potteries”.
I wondered what other famous people the Gas line-up that day would suggest (bearing in mind that Wikipedia is not always the gospel truth).
Puddy Lockyer
An American blues guitarist and singer, Puddy Lockyer is an exponent of Kingswood Blues and has influenced Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. Interestingly, he is one of the few artists never to have recorded “Goodnight Irene”.
McChrystal Parkes
Perhaps best known for his collaborations with the Beach Boys genius Che Wilson, McChrystal Parkes (real name Clarke Taylor) is a singer-songwriter and record producer. He is widely thought to be the inspiration behind “We’re Bristol Rovers, we do what we want”.
“Brown” Lines
In 1903 Professor “Brown” Lines from Stuttgart produced the world's first soap powder with a bleaching agent.
Mansell Gosling
British dare-devil Mansell Gosling broke eight absolute world speed records on water and on land in the 1950s and 1960s. In 2009, he became a driver on the Southampton Park and Ride to St. Mary’s.
Sir Harrison Monkhouse
A British modernist composer, Harrison Monkhouse explains his pieces by comparing them to a walk down Gloucester Road; “they evoke the artisan bakeries, organic cheese emporia and fair-trade hardware shops, sadly lacking human presence as there’s nowhere to park”. Though well established and widely respected in the classical music world, Monkhouse was relatively unknown to the general public [] until 1990, when a single event brought him to the attention of a wider audience. Monkhouse’s saxophone work "The Second of May" was premiered at the Last Night of the Proms to an estimated worldwide television audience of 100 million. His great artistic rival from South Bristol, Wilbraham Flint, claimed to have surpassed this total when "The Ragged-A**ed Rovers Philanthropist" gained 101 million viewers.
As BT Sport listed the home-team line-up on an info-panel along the bottom of the screen, I noticed that the first two names were Arnold (the FGR keeper) and Bennett (their right back). According to Wikipedia, “Arnold Bennett (1867 – 1931) was an English writer. Born in Hanley, his most famous works draw on his experience of life in the Potteries”.
I wondered what other famous people the Gas line-up that day would suggest (bearing in mind that Wikipedia is not always the gospel truth).
Puddy Lockyer
An American blues guitarist and singer, Puddy Lockyer is an exponent of Kingswood Blues and has influenced Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. Interestingly, he is one of the few artists never to have recorded “Goodnight Irene”.
McChrystal Parkes
Perhaps best known for his collaborations with the Beach Boys genius Che Wilson, McChrystal Parkes (real name Clarke Taylor) is a singer-songwriter and record producer. He is widely thought to be the inspiration behind “We’re Bristol Rovers, we do what we want”.
“Brown” Lines
In 1903 Professor “Brown” Lines from Stuttgart produced the world's first soap powder with a bleaching agent.
Mansell Gosling
British dare-devil Mansell Gosling broke eight absolute world speed records on water and on land in the 1950s and 1960s. In 2009, he became a driver on the Southampton Park and Ride to St. Mary’s.
Sir Harrison Monkhouse
A British modernist composer, Harrison Monkhouse explains his pieces by comparing them to a walk down Gloucester Road; “they evoke the artisan bakeries, organic cheese emporia and fair-trade hardware shops, sadly lacking human presence as there’s nowhere to park”. Though well established and widely respected in the classical music world, Monkhouse was relatively unknown to the general public [] until 1990, when a single event brought him to the attention of a wider audience. Monkhouse’s saxophone work "The Second of May" was premiered at the Last Night of the Proms to an estimated worldwide television audience of 100 million. His great artistic rival from South Bristol, Wilbraham Flint, claimed to have surpassed this total when "The Ragged-A**ed Rovers Philanthropist" gained 101 million viewers.
