Copyright 2003 Gale, Cengage Learning. I'm going to use my middle name and legally become Janey Godley. The voiceovers were not a big career plan, she insists, but she enjoys the comedy potential of the cameraphone: Im the opposite of what everybody says about older women: Im a tech whiz. This blog is the 6th best UK Satire Blog on the planet allegedly Yerwot? And I saw what my mum went through to break into comedy. When its your reality, its not unconventional, Shania MacNaemees Christmas Advent Calendar, The dedicated officer restoring faith in the police with a laptop and wheelie bin, The search for missing people in Britain's biggest police beat, The challenge of attempting Ramadan fasting for the first time. And I think that it makes people uncomfortable sometimes when I talk about it. FERRIS: I FEAR I'LL BE KILLED BY POLICE; 'Dirty cops' are last enemies of gangster. "I don't regret my years in that pub. A helicopter and police officers with torches were seen scouring the area after four other youths were helped by emergency services. She wanted justice, not revenge, and not the dubious refuge of a blacked-out photograph in a newspaper. As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. ", More than that, however, Godley feels it is time to move on and widen her horizons. She had always known she had a gift for writing, and jotted down comedy sketches and vignettes when the pub was quiet. This social divide, however, created inner conflict. Storrie Family Glasgow Family Photography at Home. I was seen as strange and odd by my own family. Apparently she finds them funny, she says with the deliberate vagueness of someone who knows all too well that she does. Accounts of trials and police records from the time revealed theyd have additional pockets sewn into their trousers to conceal such weapons.. With years of five-star reviews and sold-out gigs behind her, recent months have brought her a huge new audience as a result of the political voiceovers she posts online. Local reaction to the relaxation of the heroin/cocaine drug laws inVancouver. The ancient Scottish well once believed to be haunted by evil spirits and cause boils. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience the local community. It was quite a shock to have a working-class, older woman I was 35 and a mum do this, and it got a few backs up. But promoters were also suspicious because she was talking about subjects that people didnt normally make jokes about. Janey Godley, Storrie's partner, was born in January 1961 and is now 61. Why are they not having dramas every five minutes?.. The only family who haven't let me down are the Godleys because I don't know them.". It was all part of their craving for recognition and status. Theres laws that have changed. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. Police are also hunting a red-haired teenager who is believed to have been involved in the attack. In the past, the journalists job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. [15][16], Godley began her stand-up career in 1994. Has Twitter changed my life? The ancient Scottish fire festival this weekend celebrating the start of summer. Feedback | Because amid such dark subjects it's easy to forget that Godley is very much a limelight sort of woman. See every wrinkle, says the Glaswegian comedian, who is 58. But then we dont have many satirical shows, and the ones we do have are like Have I Got News for You. Read about our approach to external linking. I think half the world was shocked I used that word, she says, but there are worse words. James was born circa 1820, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire. Godley remembers her eldest brother-in-law telling her as she left: Youre fuck all but a barmaid. I turned round and said: Im not your barmaid. Her eyes glitter with delight. . She talks about saying the unsayable, escaping her gangster in-laws and taking on Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, Janey Godley prods her chin lovingly, as she talks about ageing. She rolls her eyes: I saw a lot of cock back then. At one show, a couple of male comedians came out naked, carrying a plank of wood, and the promoters were like: This is genius. And I was like: This is NOT genius, I dont understand any of this. And the audience werent laughing, they were bemused. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can "But, as you can see, I'm just an ordinary wee wifey who happens to like performing and writing. War of nations over Scots underworld; RIVAL GUN GANGS ON OUR STREETS. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google, This website and its associated newspaper are members of Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). Her daughter, Ashley, is about to start university, her marriage to Sean has survived, and they celebrate their silver wedding later this year. World media reacts as Rangers served up crushing Celtic truth from Croatia to Malaysia amid madcap new moniker. Ashley is the daughter of Janey Godley, a comic force of nature from the east end of Glasgow, whose one-liners are as cutting as the broken edge of an Irn-Bru bottle. The first 15 years of her marriage to Sean Storrie were spent running a pub in Glasgow's East End, the Calton. Which is why I assumed that Janey Godley, now 44 and a successful comedian and playwright, just might have developed a shoe fixation. He was still organising things, even speaking through his oxygen mask giving us all our orders and writing out things that had to be done. Janey Godley was herself arrested in the mid-1990s for possession of firearms a veritable arsenal of weapons and she too was released a sanitised but still fascinating version of why she was released appears in her gob-smacking autobiography Handstands in the Dark. I had nits, scabies, we were poor, she says bluntly of her childhood. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can And the woman who ran every morning around Glasgow Green in the chill grey dawn to channel her frustrated energies prefers not to stand still in any sense. "The director of nursing actually said to me she doesn't think he realised just how many people's lives he touched.". The effect was dreadful. In this case, the name may from the Old Norse name Stari, which was a nickname from stari, meaning "starling." Does John Ward have THE No 6 badge from cult TV series The Prisoner?? All rights reserved. Posts about George Storrie written by thejohnfleming. (i.e. Erin Reid has designed a portable kit for menstrual hygiene. While the brothers mutual chaos has continued across the decades, the couple have not had further contact with them for 27 years. Ashley was pulled in opposite directions, by a natural love of writing jokes and performance and her funny mother but also by the need to live in a sensible, balanced world. Explore the latest videos from hashtags: #glasgowfamily, #familystories, #familystore, #familystor . More Short Stuff: Shania MacNaemees Christmas Advent Calendar. Around 600 people are expected to attend Mr Storrie's funeral service at Orchardhill Parish Church, Giffnock, on Saturday at 11am, which will follow a private family committal. The Scottish comedian has drawn on her horrific Glaswegian childhood to create comedy gold. For a glancing moment, she sounds a little awestruck. Its not surprising she was straddling the line between conformity and dysfunctionality; that had been her life up to this point. But the bosses didnt like it at all. "My Mammy stood still, put both her hands firmly on my shoulders and looked me directly in the eyes as she hissed: 'If you ever tell this to your Dad, he will kill my brother and then he will go to jail and you will have no daddy! The 69-year-old, who sold his estate agency in 1987 for 15 million and later became known for his charitable work, had been suffering from pulmonary fibrosis for five years and took ill five weeks ago while on a cruise with his wife May. If you can learn to read Shakespeare and theres a Burns club in every country, you can understand my accent. Has she ever been confronted by one of her voiceover subjects? Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, 1st Floor, Chartist Tower, Upper Dock Street, Newport, Wales, NP20 1DW Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. I then worked for Etam Plus, selling clothes for fat women, and got saleswoman of the Year after Michelle McManus wore one of our ponchos and it sold thousands. 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Im fiscally aware, she says. Don't you ever talk to me like that again! Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours. More recently shes found a large online audience for her videos, including If Harry Potter was Scottish, which has received over 25 million views. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. You can make a complaint by using the report this post link . [30][31] Godley apologised for the tweets. THE wife of one of Scotland's most notable businessmen and philanthropists has paid tribute to her "kind, charitable and devoted" husband after his death from lung disease. Last year. Ashley does not appear in Killer Bitch. [37], In February 2016, Godley joined a group of comedians on a tour of the UK in support of Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn, although she is a supporter of the Scottish National Party. When she tells me that the uncle who raped her as a child was found dead in his bed last year, she fixes me with an even gaze. [22] In 2002, 2006, 2008 and 2009, she was nominated as "Best International Guest" by the New Zealand Comedy Guild. But now that Ashley has accepted her comedy fate, does that suggest a competition for air space at home? Within hours of Boris Johnson visiting Nicola Sturgeon at her official residence last month, for instance, Godley had posted a video that articulated the first ministers imagined interior monologue in an irritable Glaswegian accent. [27] In December 2020, the Royal Society of Edinburgh commended Godley's voice-overs of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's COVID-19 briefings for helping engage the public with the warnings. Arthur (alias James Brown), 16, and Edward (alias Thomas Brown), 15, both newsboys from Glasgowand presumably brothers, were jailed for four days on March 7, 1905, for theft by housebreaking. Janey Godley and her husband Sean Storrie ran a bar in the Calton in Glasgow's east end. Secrecy equalled shame, and she knew she had no reason to feel ashamed. He added: Being in a gang, you wanted to be noticed and fashion played a big part in standing out. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. I like that I didnt have to change, says Ashley. Having already excelled at open-mic nights, she progressed quickly on the comedy circuit. She appears in the film Wild Rose. Retrieved from. I survived rape, I survived my Ma being murdered, this is my face. Ashley adds: I tried hard to avoid the lure of getting up there on stage only to have your heart broken. Ashley fronts a series of comedy sing-a-long shows, such as Frozen and The Sound Of Music and shes back at the Edinburgh Festival this year. From teenage housebreakers and knife-wielding enforcers to skilled criminals jailed for forgery and safe-blowing in the early part of the 1900s, they are the first pictures of the criminals taken by police. The white raven visits Scotland to prepare the locals for Winter. [11] Their daughter, Ashley Storrie (born 1986), who also has autism spectrum disorder, is a stand-up comedian and BBC Radio Scotland presenter. Kris Boyd bristles at Rangers budget question as he flips the script and claims 'Ange has spent a fortune'. Joseph was born in 1860, in Glasgow Scotland, Lanarkshire. This month, Godley has brought the format to the Edinburgh fringe, where her shows are packed out in advance of a UK-wide tour. Carl O'Keeffe, 49, was rescued from Kong Adventure Centre in Keswick following the incident on April 22. I wanted her to get an education because I never got one.. Godley is never lost for words, but she pauses here for a millisecond when I ask her about this. I was told comedy isnt a real job. After years of bullying, she walked out on her gangster in-laws and forged a successful international career doing something Id never seen anyone like me doing. Donald Trump arrives in Aberdeen to open new golf course and visit estate. Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards at the Edinburgh Fringe organisinganarchy, Bye Bye Baby: Hello thrills and comedy and two new British movietalents, What happened when I produceda Jerry Sadowitz TV comedyspecial, What UK comedy Godfather Malcolm Hardee thought of JerrySadowitz. A load of Japanese visitors were arriving one day and my job was to present the Coke and sandwiches nicely, so I stacked all the Coca-Cola cans into a giant pyramid. Are you sure you want to delete this item from your shopping cart? We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself. [24], Godley often makes spoof voice-overs of videos. Weird, eh?. When her grandfather, whom she described as a criminal died, the family were forced to leave their home in Glasgows east end. "Thank you for bringing John home to his family." What is blazingly obvious, listening to her life story, is the way Godley has taken direct action, with great courage, often in the face of male power. "My palms were sore from small hard biscuit crumbs on our kitchen floor digging into the skin, but my legs still leaned against the wall. In Scotland, William Storie was a charter witness in Dundee in 1281. Godley is sitting in the kitchen of the elegant Edinburgh tenement flat she has rented for the duration of the fringe with her daughter Ashley Storrie, a successful comic too, of whom her mum is glowingly proud. I think other people should have that attitude.. Both teenagers were described as growing with James having a cut on the left side of his head and Thomas having a mark on the back of his head and a cross tattoo on his right forearm. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, 1st Floor, Chartist Tower, Upper Dock Street, Newport, Wales, NP20 1DW Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. I would get shipped in to this posh school from the Calton in the back of a van used to humph booze into the pub. All the men that fuck me about die alone. Instead of accepting the "new terms" outlined by the warring brothers, they decided to quit and build a more wholesome future somewhere else. A werewolf footnote to her already gothic biography might just be a headline too many. Who Is Traitors host Alan Cumming? Occasionally, my east end uncles would pick me up at the school gates, with their Rottweiler dugs., A wry smile emerges: The other childrens parents were wary. I was a big girl but I didnt like to punch people Ive got small hands so Id use my rotund weight to push the bullies over and sit on them until they calmed down.. But the great thing about social media, she says, is that people speak out. We use cookies to enhance your personalized experience for ads, analytics, and more. Amy and Kirsten take a bold risk to grow their business. "Waiving the right to anonymity" was crucial to Godley. He was a busy man right up till the end even managing the Saints and Sinners race night at Hamilton just days before he died. Storrie, who has Asperger syndrome,[10] was born into a Glasgow gangster family. I loved the world upside down. First reindeer baby of spring born in Cairngorms as staff share photo of 'gorgeous' calf. The 30 year-old can be proud of her achievements. To describe Godleys route to comedy as unusual is an understatement. People in America, Venezuela, Australia have all written to me and said it doesnt matter what culture you belong to, whenever theres a death, a birth, a homecoming, people get out the big soup pot. Before, if you stood in a pub and spoke about domestic violence, youd be shut down in a minute. For her mothers generation, it was normal to see a woman walking down the road with two black eyes. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. ", But this secret and its soreness stained Janey's life, and darkened both the surnames she has used, so that she eventually told her husband: "I don't want to be Janey Storrie any more, because your family let me down, and I don't want to be Janey Currie [her maiden name] because my family let me down. He had already done 30-day and three-month stints in prison. Because I talk about these things so flippantly and candidly.. Suddenly, on Thursday, 18th April, 2019, John, a much loved son, brother and uncle, who will be sadly missed by all his family and friends. 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These photographs reveal faces of Glasgow criminals in the early 1990s, New book City of Gangs looks at the history of gangs and gangsters in Glasgow, Historian Dr Andrew Davies explained why Glasgow was so rife with gangs in the 1900s, (Image: Mark Mainz/Newsquest Media Group), Arthur Morrison was jailed for four days for theft, Edward Gallocher was jailed along with Arthur. Im a natural worrier. She learned to write and draw with her left hand, because her right hand was the one that her uncle forced her to touch him with. And some of the men were posed beside a mirror to capture their profiles and save expensive camera film. I realised in that moment there were two types of comedy: comedians who people called genius, who only the promoters laughed at, and comedians the audience loved, and the promoters didnt. Then when I went back to the east end a girl called Noreen would put on her sovereign rings and punch me on the face. Paper Subscription to the Daily Record and Sunday Mail, Paper Subscription to the Paisley Daily Express, 2023 Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail Ltd, Whisky chasers .. National tipple puts Glasgow on tourist trail as US hails new single malt distilleries, Scottish castle which inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula 'must be protected from flats plan', 15 beautiful Scottish words and phrases that are bound to make you smile. [7][8], Godley and her sister, Ann Crawford, were sexually abused by their maternal uncle, David Percy. The 31 Rangers players at risk of the Grim Reaper as Michael Beale actions rebuild of a lifetime. Alfred (alias James Stanley), 20, an ex-soldier from Hawick, was sent down on July 12, 1904, for housebreaking, forgery and stealing. When its your reality, its not unconventional. An adorable photo of a baby reindeer and its mother has been shared by The Cairngorm Reindeer Herd as its calving season begins, and others have called the picture "gorgeous". [5], Jane Godley is the youngest of four children born to Annie and Jim Currie. Ashley Storrie Julia Sutherland gets personal with one of Scotland's most fascinating comedy talents, digging into the darkest corners of their psyche, while they keep us laughing along the way.. John Storrie, 18, went missing on Tuesday while walking his dog in Riddrie Cemetery. Im rebelling against my upbringing.. Maybe my secrets and sore bits would disappear if I were to stay like this. [8] She formerly supported the Conservatives in her youth and once met Margaret Thatcher at a Scottish Conservative Party Conference in Perth. Janey Godley (born Jane Godley Currie, January 1961) is a Scottish stand-up comedian, actress and writer from Glasgow. So that is a global icon of community., She is bullish about requests to subtitle her broad Scots delivery: I say, no, learn my accent. Ashleys stand-up career began with her first show at the Edinburgh Fringe aged just 13. See Terms of Use for details. Revealing grit behind the glamour at the influencer agency, How a judgemental detox could change your approach to life, The best support to give people learning to live with grief. Handstands in the Dark by Janey Godley is published by Ebury Press, priced 14.99. Not just courageous, but mouthy and irrepressibly funny. When the doctor mentioned the hospice, Donald said that's where he wanted to be. "He was a patron of Marie Curie and the man who raised the 16m for them to build the new hospice. *Ashley Storries Morning Glory, Laughing Horse is at the Counting House, Venue 170, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 3-27 at 6.45pm. Trusted by millions of genealogists since 2003. . I liked doing handstands. Are conspiracy theories my nextstop? "He was a hugely charitable man and everyone I've spoken to over the last few days has said he was a kind man, a good man, always ready to help anybody who was down on their luck. But Godley insists they have never met, or spoken. SNP MP Joanna Cherry slams Edinburgh comedy club for 'no-platforming' her in trans row. I made a concerted decision to never let it affect me. The screenwriter's tough journey with All Quiet on the Western Front. Godley's life began to change direction after 'Old George' Storrie, the patriarch of her husband's gangster family, died suddenly, leaving his seven sons fighting like cats in a bag over his. Ex-call centre worker wins top Edinburgh comedy award, Jordan Brookes is disturbingly funny and a worthy Edinburgh Comedy awards champ, Jordan Brookes review refuses to play by the normal rules of comedy, 'I want everyone to pay attention to me!' She added that her husband was a devoted family man who doted on his sons, Stuart and Grahame, and grandsons Jack, seven, and Bruce, five. Jeremy Vine cracks up over Celtic X-rated chant as coronation defiance sparks morning TV debate. [6] Her parents were alcoholics and her mother was also addicted to tranquilisers. Am I turning paranoid? I flyered for her at the Fringe and that was the world set out for me. Jane was born on December 31 1862, in Glasgow Scotland, . The crisis which forced Godley, husband Sean and their young daughter, Ashley, to quit their pub was the death of Sean's father, Old George Storrie, the "Don" of the clan. The six brothers began to quarrel and conspire over the vagaries of Old George's will and the pub, which was still in his name, became just another area of conflict and claim. He was 5ft 8.5in and had blue eyes and brown hair. Rare medieval coin depicting Scottish king to go on display in honour of coronation. Godley hated booze as much as she hated drugs, but she watched the effects of both with a clear-eyed candour which would later mark her out as a unique comic voice. What would happen if they left - maybe got a job? She was systematically abused by an uncle throughout her childhood, left school without any qualifications and was married at 19 to the son of a local gangster.
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