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Robbie Coltrane: Harry Potter actor dies aged 72
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<blockquote data-quote="Stopspying" data-source="post: 1007658" data-attributes="member: 69368"><p>Many, many years ago I was in a disused warehouse next to the old Royal Victoria dock in London along with several thousand other people. I forget what the performance was called, it involved various semi-anarcho-theatrical performance groups ( think Archaos which followed later), lots of very loud music and plenty of pyrotechnics; a lot of the performers were Spanish/Catalan and they do seem to enjoy things that sparkle and go 'bang'. Every so often someone walking on stilts and carrying a huge flaming trident was liable to appear right behind you, there was no stage to separate performers and audience, we were all a mass of people circulating in the space, it was very slightly manic. All of a sudden out of the swirling smoke and darkness another large figure appeared right next to me and my girlfriend, he muttered something in a strong Scottish accent about not wanting a quiet night in and looking for something wild to do that evening and deciding this Spanish production was possibly worth checking out. It was Robbie Coltrane, I recognised him immediately as he'd started to appear in various TV productions. He made some comments about noisy Spanish people and got put in his place about the difference between Spanish and Catalan cultures. My girlfriend was Catalan, from just north of Barcelona. I can't remember much of the details of that conversation but we all got on really well and we persuaded him to come to a party we knew of later that night. This was at a time before warehouse parties had really taken off but it was in a semi-closed down community centre in the midst of a local authority housing estate that was in the process of being demolished, much like London's docklands where we'd run into him were, so the venue had much that resembled later warehouse parties/raves etc. He'd been living in a squat until fairly recently, so despite his quite posh education, which he had hated, he seemed very at home. He was as many of the published tributes to him have conveyed, very funny but often with a hint of menace lurking somewhere. We saw him on and off over a couple of years at various similar events, but haven't seen him for many years, Comic Strip Presents...,Cracker, Bond, Harry Potter etc kept him busy.</p><p></p><p>He really was a larger than life character, a really nice person who could 'gie it laldy' which if my Scottish to Sassanach translation is correct means ' give his all' to many things, he certainly liked to party back then.</p><h2><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaos[/URL]</strong></span></h2><p></p><p></p><h2></h2></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stopspying, post: 1007658, member: 69368"] Many, many years ago I was in a disused warehouse next to the old Royal Victoria dock in London along with several thousand other people. I forget what the performance was called, it involved various semi-anarcho-theatrical performance groups ( think Archaos which followed later), lots of very loud music and plenty of pyrotechnics; a lot of the performers were Spanish/Catalan and they do seem to enjoy things that sparkle and go 'bang'. Every so often someone walking on stilts and carrying a huge flaming trident was liable to appear right behind you, there was no stage to separate performers and audience, we were all a mass of people circulating in the space, it was very slightly manic. All of a sudden out of the swirling smoke and darkness another large figure appeared right next to me and my girlfriend, he muttered something in a strong Scottish accent about not wanting a quiet night in and looking for something wild to do that evening and deciding this Spanish production was possibly worth checking out. It was Robbie Coltrane, I recognised him immediately as he'd started to appear in various TV productions. He made some comments about noisy Spanish people and got put in his place about the difference between Spanish and Catalan cultures. My girlfriend was Catalan, from just north of Barcelona. I can't remember much of the details of that conversation but we all got on really well and we persuaded him to come to a party we knew of later that night. This was at a time before warehouse parties had really taken off but it was in a semi-closed down community centre in the midst of a local authority housing estate that was in the process of being demolished, much like London's docklands where we'd run into him were, so the venue had much that resembled later warehouse parties/raves etc. He'd been living in a squat until fairly recently, so despite his quite posh education, which he had hated, he seemed very at home. He was as many of the published tributes to him have conveyed, very funny but often with a hint of menace lurking somewhere. We saw him on and off over a couple of years at various similar events, but haven't seen him for many years, Comic Strip Presents...,Cracker, Bond, Harry Potter etc kept him busy. He really was a larger than life character, a really nice person who could 'gie it laldy' which if my Scottish to Sassanach translation is correct means ' give his all' to many things, he certainly liked to party back then. [HEADING=1][SIZE=4][B][URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaos[/URL][/B][/SIZE][/HEADING] [HEADING=1][/HEADING] [/QUOTE]
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