With a population in excess of 140,000 the district of Newport is larger than the Boroughs of Kettering and Corby combined! Not that we’re suggesting the Kettering and Corby should be combined……
The most infamous event in the history of Newport was their football team going belly-up in 1989 and costing mighty Poppies the chance of getting into the Football League. That and the fact the Maidstone, who were full of bristling attacking intent, as opposed to our Peter Morris led team of grinders, were a much better team than us I suppose!
Famous people from Newport include Desmond “Pay attention Bond” Llewellyn, the miserable sod who used to give 007 all his effective tools for killing people, and snazzy cars which he always managed to wreck.
Gareth David-Lloyd was in the BBC series Torchwood, where, part way through the run his character suddenly decided to be gay! Overnight he went from having a semi-cyber buxom hottie, to fancying Captain Jack’s brown starfish!
Given that the programme was produced by famously "theatrical" producer Russell T Davies, one can only assume this sort of abrupt sexuality change was seen as a “perfectly normal”, everyday occurrence in Daviesland.
And let’s face it, we all know absolutely tons of people who suddenly decide to play for the other team, don’t we?
Another notable son of Newport is misery-guts lead singer / guitarist of po-faced Manic Street Preachers fame - James Dean Bradfield. It is rumoured he smiled once, but it didn't agree with him or his strongly held views.
On the subject of grizzled, over-rated musicians, it is widely believed that Grunge-meister Kurt Cobain proposed marriage to the rough hell-cat Courtney Love at a bar called TJ's in Newport. It may have been better in the long run for the angst-ridden mumbler if she had turned him down.....
But then again, would dreary, shuffling 14-year olds have Kurt's face on their T-shirts if he'd lived long enough to perform Disney duets with Elton John and become the public face of Oil of Olay and the N.R.A?
On the subject of grizzled, over-rated musicians, it is widely believed that Grunge-meister Kurt Cobain proposed marriage to the rough hell-cat Courtney Love at a bar called TJ's in Newport. It may have been better in the long run for the angst-ridden mumbler if she had turned him down.....
But then again, would dreary, shuffling 14-year olds have Kurt's face on their T-shirts if he'd lived long enough to perform Disney duets with Elton John and become the public face of Oil of Olay and the N.R.A?
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