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[TFO]

I’m David Carr, and so is my wife

[F-ZeroOne]

Someone posted this on Twitter from an old copy of Look-In. I'd like to think David Carr is on this forum somewhere.

Given what I've been told about his post-Snooker activities, it would not surprise me at all to find out that Steve Davies repairs old arcade machines or something in his spare time.

[Ratsoap]

Went to a Steve Hillage gig a few months ago, Steve Davis and friends were the support...

[Thoughtcat]

Sorry, not an image, but:

[tufty]

Jeremy Robbins' bathtub strip routine. Photos courtesy of Sam Mahayni.

[RiK]

Given what I've been told about his post-Snooker activities, it would not surprise me at all to find out that Steve Davies repairs old arcade machines or something in his spare time.

Funny enough, I've been mates with Steve for a few years now and you're not far off, Steve's really into modular synthesizers and has a band called 'The Utopia Strong' :-)

[WiteWulf]

Yeah, I saw 'em a few years back (late 2019). Got some nice pics of Steve, Kavus and Mike that night...

[SuperMappy]

[venusian]

"carpeted". Whut now?

[Harlequin]

"carpeted". Whut now?

Did you never wonder why he always seems to be wearing a woolly jumper?

[F-ZeroOne]

Given what I've been told about his post-Snooker activities, it would not surprise me at all to find out that Steve Davies repairs old arcade machines or something in his spare time.

Funny enough, I've been mates with Steve for a few years now and you're not far off, Steve's really into modular synthesizers and has a band called 'The Utopia Strong' :-)

Yeah, it was finding out about his band that I discovered that he has a career outside snooker that is... for want of a better word... "interesting".

Something else I may have recently discovered about him - and bear in mind I grew up when snooker in the UK was up there with the Olympics and when there were only four TV channels (on one of which the snooker was always overrunning and causing me to sit cursing that "Doctor Who" was going to be postponed yet again), so I'm reasonably familiar with his physical form is that unless other BBC snooker presenters are quite small, he appears to be pretty tall?

[KlaxonCow]

"carpeted". Whut now?

This is the best explanation I can find online.

servants’ Slang. When a domestic is summoned by the master or mistress to receive a warning or reprimand, he or she is said to be carpeted.

This is dated to 1860-1870, so it was hardly current in the '80s. And it's about reprimanding your servant, so not exactly common parlance down the Dog and Duck either.

[F-ZeroOne]

I'd always thought it was a fairly common term in English, media uses the terms for politicians etc being given a telling off?

[Dio]

Source is "dragged across the carpet". Not an uncommon phrase in UK English.

[WiteWulf]

Yeah, it was finding out about his band that I discovered that he has a career outside snooker that is... for want of a better word... "interesting".

Something else I may have recently discovered about him - and bear in mind I grew up when snooker in the UK was up there with the Olympics and when there were only four TV channels (on one of which the snooker was always overrunning and causing me to sit cursing that "Doctor Who" was going to be postponed yet again), so I'm reasonably familiar with his physical form is that unless other BBC snooker presenters are quite small, he appears to be pretty tall?

If you want to know more I can highly recommend the book he wrote with Kavus Torabi recently, Medical Grade Music. It talks a lot about their early years, growing up and exploring all sorts of weird music, and finally meeting and starting the band together. I was already aware of Kavus from his work with Cardiacs, Knifeworld, Mike Vennart, etc. over the years so it was interesting to read his history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_Grade_Music