Zitat des Tages über Fife:
From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.
'The Asylum Dance' was written after I'd moved back to Scotland and was a response to moving to my old home area of Fife.
The son of a Fife mining town sledder of coal-bings, bottle-forager, and picture-house troglodyte, I was decidedly urban and knew little about native fauna, other than the handful of birds I saw on trips to the beach or Sunday walks.
Cinema dominated the Fife coalfield towns. We lived in Lochgelly, but my mum was caught up in Hollywood. She was in love with the style and glamour. Sometimes she would come with me to the cinema in the afternoons, and she would say things like, 'I wouldn't mind a peck with Gregory.'
I want to do something for Kirkcaldy and Fife. I am a full-time MP, not a businessman.
Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.
The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him.
When I was ten years old, my family left a cold, damp prefab in West Fife and moved to Corby, Northamptonshire, where my father quickly found work at what was then the Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks.
