Sinister: Possible brush with fame (incorporating tenuous links to Crackers)

[Pete Ramsdale]

Mornin' to one and all. Well, 'xept for those of you lucky enough to
be in foreign climes where it's probably not morning at all.

Anyway, I was hoping you could all help me with something. All these
brushes with famous people has set me wondering. The important
question is this: Is the bloke who sits next to me on the 7:05 from
Colchester to London Liverpool Street every morning really who he says
he is? Or rather, has he done what he says he's done? Listen, this'll
make sense in a wee while, I promise you.
The bloke who sits (la-di-da, etc., etc.) is called Adrian Spriggs.
And he claims to have been part of the later line up of the Field
Mice. Apparently, he played guitar with them for about two or three
years until they split up, and sang a bit at a few gigs. He would have
been about seventeen at that point, he had a bowl haircut, and would
have had ('cause to be quite honest he still does have) a rather
prominent jawline. (The tenuous link to Crackers, which I shall
elaborate upon at this point, is that he claims to have been involved
with the writing of 'Lets Kiss and Make Up', which, as quite a few of
you will know, was originally a Field Mice number).

So, is this guy for real, or is he just an impostor, a fake, a
charlatan who is preying upon my love of the Field Mice?

Mind you, it would be bloody excellent to say that I travel into work
with a fella who was part of the band that wrote my favourite ever
song (which, for those of you with an inquisitive nature, and who
don't get bored easily, is "If You Need Someone").

Answers on a postcard to....

Cheers, folks,

p.
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