Nottingham's most opinionated greengrocers on... The Cold War, Broadmarsh and stand-up comedy
The Cold War
Who was that fat man in charge of Russia? Not Gorbachev. Brezhnev. We know about the bunker in Aspley, but there’s a whole city under York in the airfield and everything’s there. And if you go to Number 10 and the Ministry of Defence, they’ve all got it downstairs. We were a bit young at the time, but we didn’t take much notice. We liked pop music. That was much more fun.
Bored Marsh/Broadmarsh
Are they a new band? We can’t remember much of Broadmarsh before it was built, we never ventured down to that part of town. Are they keeping the derelict building derelict, or is it like a work of art? They can’t have an eyesore in the middle of town. The council have had very little choice, they should have been helped by Central Government. But there was no need to build it in the first place. Of course before there was Dury Hill, which you could just get a mini up and down. And they wrecked that, for what?
Stand up comedians
The best one we’ve ever seen is Jimmy Tarbuck, donkey’s years ago at Derby Assembly Rooms. But it was so poorly attended. The first thing he said was, ‘Have you all come in the same car?’ We saw Michael Macintyre in Nottingham too. It was no great shakes. He got a smile but no fits of laughter.
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