“When I was a lad, our holidays were always during Oldham wakes week wh...” — Bernard Cribbins Quote

When I was a lad, our holidays were always during Oldham wakes week when the cotton mills closed down and everyone decamped to the seaside. We'd go to Blackpool, Southport or New Brighton.

The origins of my recording career go back to a revue show in 1961 or 62, something like that, called 'And Another Thing.'

I did think of becoming a ballet dancer at one point. I had a girlfriend who was teaching in the ballet school. I was 16, 17, very fit, but it was too much like hard work.

My parents didn't read to me. My dad was a jobbing labourer, my mother was in the cotton mills.

What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.

I went to Brighton College, Shoreham College for one year, then to Spring Valley High School in Las Vegas for a couple of years.

I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, 'You should give it a go in London.'

It's very white in Guernsey, not racist, but there's not a lot of understanding about different cultures there. So I grew up there then moved to Brighton and found all these other people with different experiences, different narratives.