As well as Phoenix Nights, comedian Dave Spikey based his comedy series Dead Man Weds on, and filmed most of it in, Chorley.

* Dave Spikey ( comedian )

In 2009 he put together and hosted a highly successful benefit show at the London Palladium featuring comedians Dara O ' Briain, Sean Lock, Lee Mack and Dave Spikey.

After she left Coronation Street in 2006, Gulati played Nisha Clayton, a recurring role in the final series of Where the Heart Is and made appearances in New Street Law and the one-off comedy drama Magnolia which was written by Dave Spikey for the BBC's Comedy Playhouse series.

His first stand-up was a competition in Manchester hosted by later co-star and co-writer of Phoenix Nights, Dave Spikey.

Following the series ' success, Kay and his co-writers, Neil Fitzmaurice and Dave Spikey, used the episode " In The Club " as the basis for Phoenix Nights.

Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights was his notable TV programme, written by him, Dave Spikey and Neil Fitzmaurice and set in a newly refurbished social club run by wheelchair-bound Brian Potter.

Notably this did not include the characters portrayed by his former co-writers Neil Fitzmaurice or Dave Spikey, the latter's character instead being represented by a body double in brief scenes.

Despite having co-written Phoenix Nights with Dave Spikey and Neil Fitzmaurice, Fitzmaurice spoke of his dissatisfaction with Kay taking sole credit when he left their names off the script book.

After an eleven-year hiatus, Bullseye was revived and a new series was recorded for the digital channel Challenge, produced by Granada at Yorkshire Television in the Leeds Studios, and was hosted by Dave Spikey.

On 14 March 2006, it was announced that the show was to be hosted by comedian Dave Spikey, despite tabloid rumours that it would be presented by Ant & Dec or Peter Kay.

A cartoon version of Dave Spikey replaced Jim's in the titles.

The revived series presenter Dave Spikey had appeared as a contestant on the show in the 1980s versions.

* Jerry St. Clair ( Dave Spikey )-Part-time builder and compère at the Neptune Club.

Dave Spikey ( born David Gordon Bramwell on 6 October 1951 ) is an English comedian, actor, writer and film producer, currently residing in Chorley, Lancashire.

Dave and Rick were known as Spikey and Sykey.

Dave Spikey is patron of the non-profit radio station Chorley FM which is not the fictitious radio station made famous by That Peter Kay Thing and Phoenix Nights TV series.

The series was written by Dave Spikey who played the part of Jerry St Clair in Phoenix Nights.

There are two lead parts, one being Dave Spikey and the other being Johnny Vegas.

* Bullseye ( UK game show ), hosted by Jim Bowen ( 1981 – 1995 ) and Dave Spikey ( 2006 – present )

Sean Lock has appeared as the first team captain since the show's inception ; the opposing captain was originally Dave Spikey, who left after series 4 to pursue other projects and was replaced by Jason Manford.

Its original host was the late Jeremy Beadle, followed by Andrew O ' Connor, Allan Stewart, Ted Robbins, Vince Henderson and Dave Spikey.

* Lowest Confluence: in Matrūh, Egypt at-255 feet (- 78 m ), first visited by Dave Morrison, Steve Price and Tony Carlisle on December 4, 2004.

While Sheffield led Florida to a World Championship in 1997, Hoffman would be the next franchise player behind Dave Winfield and Tony Gwynn.

The Redskins defense was led by 6-foot-7 296-pound defensive tackle Dave Butz, who anchored the line, along with defensive ends Dexter Manley and Tony McGee, who each recorded 6. 5 sacks.

According to the pianist ’ s son Dave Guaraldi, Vince was adopted by Tony Guaraldi, after Vince ’ s mother, Cannella Guaraldi, née Marcellino, split with his biological father, Vince Delaio ( sp ?).

A few of the many Carolina League players who have gone on to star in the Major Leagues are: Johnny Bench ( Peninsula, 1966 ), Wade Boggs ( Winston-Salem, 1977 ), Barry Bonds ( Prince William, 1985 ), Rod Carew ( Wilson, 1966 ), Dock Ellis ( Kinston, 1965 ), Dwight Evans ( Winston-Salem, 1971 ), Dwight Gooden ( Lynchburg, 1983 ), Andruw Jones ( Durham, 1996 ), Chipper Jones ( Durham, 1992 ), Willie McCovey ( Danville, 1956 ), Joe Morgan ( Durham, 1963 ), Dave Parker ( Salem, 1972 ), Tony Pérez ( Rocky Mount, 1962 ), Andy Pettitte ( Prince William, 1993 ), Jorge Posada ( Prince William, 1993 ), Darryl Strawberry ( Lynchburg, 1981 ), Bernie Williams ( Prince William, 1988 ), and Carl Yastrzemski ( Raleigh, 1959 ).

The Granville County Commissioners are Hubert L. Gooch Jr. ( Chair ), Edgar G. Smoak ( Vice-Chair ), Zelodis Jay, David Smith, Dave Currin, Tony Cozart, and Tim Karan.

The term VRML was coined by Dave Raggett in a paper called “ Extending WWW to support Platform Independent Virtual Reality ” submitted to the First World Wide Web Conference in 1994, and first discussed at the WWW94 VRML BOF established by Tim Berners-Lee, where Mark Pesce presented the Labyrinth demo he developed with Tony Parisi and Peter Kennard.

He often worked in small collaborative groups with semi-humorous names such as the Johnny Rondo Duo or Trio ( with pianist Dave Holland-not the bassist of the same name ), the Melody Four ( characteristically a trio, with Tony Coe and Steve Beresford ), and the Recedents ( with guitarist Mike Cooper and percussionist Roger Turner ), known as such because the members were ( in Coxhill's words ) " all bald ", though the name may additionally be a play on the American band The Residents.

At this same time BS & T were said to be recording tracks for an instrumental album with a personnel of Tony Klatka, Forrest Buchtell, Dave Bargeron, Bill Tillman, Larry Willis, Danny Trifan, Roy McCurdy and Mike Stern, but this album never materialized.

In 1971, guitarist Kim Simmonds, leader of blues rock boogie band Savoy Brown, lost the rest of his band-guitarist Dave Peverett, drummer Roger Earl and bassist Tony Stevens-who left to form Foghat with ex-Black Cat Bones guitarist Rod Price.

Milo left after the back-to-back " All " and " FinALL " tours in 1987 and the remaining Descendents reformed with singer Dave Smalley ( later replaced by Scott Reynolds, who was followed by Chad Price ) and reformed under the name All, and continued the legacy until 1995, when they reformed again with Milo Aukerman, now a full-time research biochemist, to record and tour in support of the album Everything Sucks, a bit of a return to their early-80s punk style ( with Frank Navetta and Tony Lombardo making appearances on " Dog House " and " Eunuch Boy ").

A few of them include Joey Kramer, Lee Kerslake, Tony Thompson, Dave Grohl, Tommy Lee, Peter Criss, Stewart Copeland, Chad Smith, Dave Lombardo and Brad Wilk.

The current line-up is: Tony Crane ( founder member ) lead vocals and lead guitar ; Billy Kinsley ( founder member ) lead vocals and rhythm guitar ; Bob Packham ( joined 1974 ) backing vocals and bass guitar ( born Robert Packham, 17 July 1944, Anfield, Liverpool ) ( ex The Galvinsers ); Dave Goldberg keyboards and lead guitar ; and Lou Rosenthal ( also joined 2000 ) drums.

Art plates were illustrated by William Stout, Mike Mignola, Terri Windling, Bryan Talbot, Jill Thompson, Paul Chadwick, P. Craig Russell, Mark Crilley, Elizabeth Johns, Michael Zulli, Robin Mullins, Lisa Snellings, Terry Moore, Tony DiTerlizzi, Linda Medley, Lorenzo Mattotti, Zander Cannon, Dave McKean, Jeff Smith, Trina Robbins & Steve Leialoha, Gary Gianni, Janine Johnston, Stan Sakai, Michael Kaluta, Moebius, Rebecca Guay, Geof Darrow, Brian Froud and Charles Vess.

In 1978 Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus, later partners in Factory Records, assembled a band around the remnants of local punk rock band Fast Breeder: drummer Chris Joyce and guitarist Dave Rowbotham.

* Fire ( a band with future Strawbs member Dave Lambert on guitar ) released two singles in 1968, Father's Name Was Dad, ( produced by Tony Clarke ) and Round The Gum Tree, on Decca with Apple publishing credits

After that Dave Edmunds was in Crick Feather's Hill-Bill's formed in c 1960, with Feathers ( Edmunds ) on lead guitar ; Zee Dolan on bass ; Tennessee Tony on lead vocals ; Tony Kees on piano and Hank Two Sticks on drums.

Blackstreet now consists of Teddy Riley, Chauncey Black, Dave Hollister and new members Glenn Adams aka Lenny Harold & Tony Tyler have joined them.

* Tony Way as Dangerous Dave

Edith Bowman co-presented its hour-long swansong, along with Jimmy Savile ( who had presented the first show ), Reggie Yates, Mike Read, Pat Sharp, Sarah Cawood, Dave Lee Travis, Rufus Hound, Tony Blackburn and Janice Long.

Rae's supporters in caucus were Marion Bryden, Brian Charlton, Dave Cooke, Odoardo Di Santo, Tony Grande, Donald C. MacDonald, Robert Mackenzie, Elie Martel, Ed Philip, George Samis and Mel Swart.

Design work was done by Charles Cecil, Dave Cummins, Dave Gibbons and Dan Marchant, while the Virtual Theatre design work was done by Tony Warriner.