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Sutent · December 2014

@Arkady Lib dem or Labour Douglas Alexander?

Arkady · December 2014

You're thinking of Danny Alexander.

NorthNineteen · December 2014

He's one of those names I struggle to place - he's quite senior in the shadow cabinet isn't he? Former Transport Sec too.<br><br>I shared a lift with Boris on Tuesday at City Hall, not SG I know but he did compliment me on my hat.<br>

Sutent · December 2014

@N19 - what kind of hat were you wearing?

Arkady · December 2014

He's shadow Foreign Secretary.

graeme · December 2014

Saw him trudging up Crouch Hill a few months back after he'd just been hammered by Andrew Neil on Daily Politics. Guess he lives in the big 'high fence/curtains never open' corner house not far away.<div><br></div><div>Also, Minty in the Harringay Arms (which is apparently going to have some hipster beer brew thingymy in the snug)</div>

NorthNineteen · December 2014

A green bobble hat, with a very large bobble.

kreuzkav · December 2014

David Bowie in Vagabond. He was on his laptop. I passed by and did a double-take. Then thought, what the hell. I went in and said hello. He was a bit stand-offish at first. Then I apologised and he was warmer. I asked him why he was here? In Finsbury Park, rather than in existential terms. He said he was checking out old haunts like the old rainbow and he wandered. He's thinking of buying a place round here because it's interesting and he's fed up of New York. I didn't linger but he was polite and said 'happy christmas'.

NorthNineteen · December 2014

Bliney, that's quite impressive! Is the Rainbow the place that is now the mega-church on Seven Sisters Rd?

ADGS · December 2014

WOAH.

Toddlesocks · December 2014

Double woah.

conformable_kate · December 2014

we are all awed.

Mirandola · December 2014

You are joking, right?

kreuzkav · December 2014

Sorry guys,you probably guessed it was a joke. I never see anyone famous and I thought we could do with a bit of glamour on this thread. Even New Yorkers rarely see him. Perhaps he might at one stage pop into the World's End and sing a duet with Ray Davis. Something about Christmas and London.

miss annie · December 2014

I thought you had made it up. Bowie being in Vagabond is almost believable, you being in there is not.

gardener-joe · December 2014

...

Toddlesocks · December 2014

I never see anyone famous either, or have any clue who most of the ' famous ' people in the thread are. Saw Santa in a Tescos but think he may have been another imposter , wearing the red suit instead of green!

Mirandola · December 2014

leg-pulling ain't lying

krappyrubsnif · December 2014

I actually really and genuinely did see David Bowie in Granita in Islington once. He came in with about three minders and the whole place fell silent. Some people were impressed, in a cool kind of way. Me, I couldn't give a fuck.

Arkady · December 2014

We're you negotiating the Blair-Brown deal at the time?

miss annie · December 2014

Many years ago Detritus was helping set up backstage at a gig and David Bowie walked in. Detritus didn't recognise him and thought he was some odd job who'd just wandered in and told him to do one. Although not as politely as that. I met Cary Elwes, Dread Pirate Roberts himself, a couple of weeks ago. He was utterly charming. Also Debbie Harry and Chris Stein.

krappyrubsnif · December 2014

Arkady, I was the third person at the table. Didn't you know? I'll tell the story one day.

Papa · March 2015

According to Top Gear on Sunday - which she was on - Gillian Anderson grew up in Crouch End / Harringay. Could she have been in Stroud Green?<div><br></div><div>Edit: Had I have used Google first I could have found the answer.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Andersonhttp://">Lived in Albany Road according to Wikipedia</a></div>

Arkady · March 2015

NO WAY

kreuzkav · March 2015

Yes, Gillian Anderson is from Crouch End. I remember an article around the time X-files (late 90s) was on and her going on about her first years there and that it was rough (I think). Different place back in the 60s/ early 70s.

Arkady · March 2015

If she's from Albany Road she's not from Crouch End.

NorthNineteen · March 2015

From wiki:<div><br></div><div>"<span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8888893127441px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Soon after her birth, her family moved to </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8888893127441px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Puerto Rico</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8888893127441px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> for 15 months; her family then moved to the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8888893127441px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">United Kingdom</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8888893127441px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> where she lived until she was 11 years old. She lived for five years in Rosebery Gardens, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crouch_End" title="Crouch End" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8888893127441px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Crouch End</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8888893127441px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, north London, and for 15 months in Albany Road, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroud_Green" title="Stroud Green" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8888893127441px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stroud Green</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8888893127441px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, north London,</span><sup id="cite_ref-Gillian_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11.1999998092651px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Anderson#cite_note-Gillian-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8888893127441px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> so that her father could attend the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Film_School" title="London Film School" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8888893127441px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">London Film School</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8888893127441px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. She was a pupil of Coleridge Primary School. When Anderson was 11 years old, her family moved again, this time to </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Rapids,_Michigan" title="Grand Rapids, Michigan" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8888893127441px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Grand Rapids, Michigan</a>"</div>

conformable_kate · March 2015

Anne Boleyn (the Wolf Hall incarnation) appeared in a cookery shop in Crouch End a couple of days ago. I know, not SG really, but still.

miss annie · March 2015

You should give 'Most Haunted' a call.

dandare · March 2015

Sally Phillips southbound on Fonthill Road. About 3 months ago.<div><br></div>

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