News from 2002/03/04/05

14th December 2005

Jerry & Kate

6th December 2005

A very sad night on Saturday, the wonderful Chico was voted of the X-Factor despite a truly amazing performance! :(

Here is a short clip of Gemma Taylor as seen on ITV's 'This Morning' today with Philip & Fern, the worlds 2nd strongest woman. Gemma broke a world record on the show, take a look!

Don't miss this...a new box set of DVD's called 'Dave Courtney's Gangland', released recently by ILC, for full details hit this link and buy it now at Amazon for the incredible price of £14.99 Free delivery too!!!

Another date for your diaries: ON SUNDAY 11TH DECEMBER JOEY PYLE SNR & WARREN BAMFORD PROUDLY PRESENT...

BAMMO'S BASH 'EM UP BONANZA 3

 AT CAESAR'S NIGHTCLUB
156 - 160 STREATHAM HILL, STREATHAM, LONDON SW2
DOORS OPEN 6.45PM BOXING COMMENCES 8PM

 TICKET PRICES:
VIP UNRESERVED RINGSIDE £55
RINGSIDE £45
BALCONY STANDING £30

TICKET HOTLINE 0208 2960080 OR 07967 286887

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS... THE 'CHAPS', JOEY PYLE SNR, ROY 'PRETTY BOY' SHAW, DAVE COURTNEY, FREDDIE FOREMAN, JOEY PYLE JNR, WILF PINE, SNOOKER'S "PEOPLES CHAMPION" JIMMY WHITE, MIDDLEWEIGHT LEGEND ALAN MINTER, CASS PENNANT, TEL CURRIE AND MANY OTHERS.

MC ON THE NIGHT... TOP UK COMEDIAN/ACTOR JOHNNY McGEE
 

29 November 2005

Another Date for you: Dave will be 'holding court' on Saturday 10th Dec at the Morgan, Worcester Road, Malvern. Start time 7.30pm. Tickets £5 from The Morgan pub or by calling Jo on 07792 092497 or £6 on the night.

27 November 2005

Big Hi to you all, we have just returned from travelling, well we needed to test out the Motor Home in the cold weather! Minus 7 and thick fog but warm as toast inside so now confident about our Xmas trip to Austria!

A date for the next Audience With: 19th Jan 06.The Lemon Grove, Exeter University, £15. For details go to www.davecourtneyinexeter.co.uk or phone Mark on 07980804695. Check our the audience with link for more.

Congrats to Chico, still going strong in X-Factor, vote Chico. On that note here is an article that appeared in the Sun about Chico and his role in 'Hell To Pay' Great publicity for all we think!   

Click here to buy Hell To Pay

Here is what the Sussex Film Review had to say about the film:

Shot on D.V. with a from-the-hip guerrilla sensibility, "Hell To Pay" is a gritty foray into the heart of urban darkness; the sort of bare knuckled trip that can only be achieved with a well-managed shoestring. What Gomez has achieved is a cheap and nasty two-fingers up to the bigger budgeted genre contenders that have flooded the market over the past decade; a deluge of mostly sub standard "mockney" pantomime that threatened to drive the British Gangster flick into extinction. 

With a few exceptions, like the excellent "Gangster No. 1" and "Sexy Beast", the genre was bloated and subsequently deflated by those film makers ready to jump on the Guy Ritchie crime wave, clumsily treading down a cliché riddled path that reflected more a Tarantino than a Hodges sensibility, and for a while there, it seemed that there was no distinction between the mean streets of New York and London.

Gomez steals back the ground lost to the likes of Ritchie and his clones by managing to create that rare gem of a thing … An honest-to-God-balls-and-all British gangster film…

We had an email from Lee saying that the filming of Dave's latest project 'Don of the Dead' was going very well. He also sent us the following articles and photograph from the Air Entertainment signing session: Thank you again Lee and Dave says a huge thank you to Air Entertainment.

What a Queue!	Local Paper	Another one!

Here's a big shout going out to Gemma,  the UK's strongest woman who won The European Strongest Woman cup recently in Gdansk. Gem also stars with Dave in another of his latest film projects 'Six Bend Trap'. Some of you may have seen an article in News Of The World all about Gemma today. We should have a copy soon but as Gem herself said 'its a bit our of date!' We are awaiting details from Gem's previous webmaster and then we can get to work on her site in time for the forthcoming competitions to be held at Camelot, watch this space for more details.

Well, that's all for now folks! We will be seeing DC before we travel again and will update you before we go.  

11 November 2005

Well, another busy week for us, its all go here! Hi to Diann, Steve and Rik, hope you are all well, give us a bell as we can't seem to get through to you. If you haven't got Hell To Pay yet on DVD hit this link the reviews coming in are all good so don't miss out, grab your very own copy now!

Dave is doing his bit for Children In Need and its free entry! Take a big wedge though as you will be expected to dig dip and donate generously for the charity during the evening! The venue is The Blag Club in Notting Hill, right next to the Tube Station, 18 Nov 05, arrive early as its first come first served but by 7.45pm at the latest.

We hope you are all now looking forward to a happy and peaceful Christmas and that your plans are going well. We plan to be in Europe and celebrating the big day in Disney, Paris after visiting The Black Forest, Germany and Tirol, Austria. The joys of Motorhoming....try it....you'll love it! We will be back to celebrate New Year with friends and family.

01 November 2005

Just had a call from Dave, the big news for today is............wait for it........for the next 7 days the Camelot Castle webcams are absolutely FREE!!! Simply follow the link below, when you get there click on the enter/buy it now link and complete the form which takes about a minute. You will not be asked for any credit card details, you just register and watch. If the cams are off for any reason then you will be able to watch documentaries starring the man himself. Click on the duster below!

Here is a link for you to buy Hell To Pay:

Did you see Dave on Men & Motors last night? It was a cracking documentary all about Dave's launch party, one of the best ones we have seen. Dave was also on Most Haunted at 9pm, we missed that one so any feedback from it is very welcome!

We had an email from our friend Lee Phillips that we are sure will interest you, here it is:

Legendary ex-gangster turned actor Dave Courtney is to star in 4ground Media’s latest feature film "DON OF THE DEAD". This will be the second time Dave has worked with producers Lee Phillips and Matt Ware, who also cast him along side Craig Charles (Coronation street, Red Dwarf etc) and John Thomson (Cold feet, Fast show etc) as the lead role in The Dealer. "DON OF THE DEAD" is a comedy zombie film with a gangster theme and has been likened to a cross between cult classics Shaun of the Dead and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels. Shooting will commence next month and will take place throughout London and Kent. The film has an all-star cast and has already been offered UK distribution and a future television broadcast.  

We hope you all enjoyed your Halloween parties, we went to one on Saturday and held one for our son on Monday. Both were great fun for all who attended. Role on Christmas....we will be off to Austria!

Congratulations to Chico, who once again made it through to next weeks X-Factor, thanks to Simon Cowell! Please support Chico! We have applied for tickets to next weeks show and are waiting to hear, fingers crossed!  

24th October 2005

What a busy week we have had, to top it all off today Dave called today us and asked us to meet him at Bexhill for a heat of the strongest woman competition. Dave is sponsoring Gemma Taylor and he wanted us to meet her, take some photographs and video footage. Gemma is a truly lovely young woman with amazing strength and a wonderful personality, she is already number two in the world! Dave presented the medals and was very well received by all who attended. We really enjoyed the event, a first for us, we met all the strongest lads and Gemma's parents, all are great people, even our little Ben loved it!  We have been asked to take over Gemma's website by Dave and are looking forward to doing so and helping in anyway we can to promote her. Dave is even planning to hold one of the heats at Camelot, live on cam! The photo's will be uploaded over the next couple of days. Jerry is with Dave & Kev this evening at the unlicensed boxing event at Caesars in Streatham so I'm expecting photo's and news from there too.

Gemma lifting top weight to win	Gemma & Dave	Ron Myra, Gemma's Proud Parents

www.gemma-taylor.com

Massive cheers and congratulations to Chico who survived the public vote on the XFactor on Saturday, did you see his face, what a picture of surprise and shock, loved it! I am going to try and locate four tickets for next weeks live show, fingers crossed, then Dave, Storm Jerry and I can go and cheer Chico on! I wonder if Simon is wishing he had kept Forth Base in the group section? Having seen them live so many times I know they would have still been there now if only they had been given the chance, they already have a huge following.

On to other news; Dave's good friend Dave Legeno is fighting Alan Murdoch at the next Cage Rage event on the 3rd of December at Wembley Conference Centre. Tickets can be bought from www.cagerage.tv  

The CD of Heroes and Villains is due out in about two weeks time, details to follow asap

12th October 2005

Just been informed that the release date for Hell To Pay on DVD is now the 21st Oct and you can pre-order from Blockbusters or HMV. We will be visiting Dave next week and should have some goodies up for sale/auction on our return.

Commiserations to Forth Base who narrowly failed to make the final four in Simon Cowell's group section on the X-Factor. Having seen the guys live many times and knowing them personally we have no doubt that they will pick themselves up, dust themselves down and get on with it. We believe they have what it takes to go a long way in the industry and expect them to release their first single later in the year. You can visit their website at http://www.4thba5e.com/index2.htm

On a brighter note Dave's mate Chico did make it to Sharon's final four and we look forward to seeing him live Saturday night. He gets a lot of stick, so OK he may not be the best singer in the bunch but he does have the X-Factor! Good Luck Chico!

Here are a couple of photographs of a new addition to our house! Click to enlarge.

 It is our new wall plaque which has pride of place outside our front door, bet that made the postman stop and stare! lol our neighbours find it hilarious, after our wedding a friend of the next-door neighbour rushed round to inform her that she was living next door to gangsters lol Luckily they know us well and saw the funny side of it, as did we, us gangsters, I don't think so! Now if you love the plaque as much as we do and want something similar for your own front door contact us or our friend Phil at Creative Innovations who made this one specially for us and a cracking job he made of it to! Thanks Phil! 

06th October 2005

Read all about it in the Sun, Charles Bronson's Art up for sale, over 100 pieces expect to raise up to £1,500 each.

See other works of Charlie's, hit the duster.

05th October 2005

Who's is watching X-Factor then? Did you notice that Forth Base are through to the final seven in the groups category? Great group and great mates of ours and Dave's, big Hi to Blair and the guys! You will remember them from the Bowood House and other such events. Tune in Saturday to see if they make it to the Live shows. (DON'T ask the outcome and yes we do know already!!) Here is a reminder of the lads for you, the first pic is of Dave with four of the lads. (when they were called Iyce) The second pic is the one of the line up now, as Forth Base.

DATE CHANGE: Bammo's Bash em up Bonanza. The date has been changed from 2nd Oct to 23rd Oct. 

Just heard the Gumball truck is up for Sale...yes, the very one Dave drove in the rally! Seriously interested? Then you can contact Andy on 07921857992  The price is £15950 ono No Timewasters!

03rd October 2005

Finally managed to catch up with Dave on the phone tonight, he says sorry to anyone who has been trying to reach him but he had a problem with the phone which is now fixed. Obviously he is still busy filming Six Bend Trap during the day which is going great. Dave says he has almost finished filming his scenes and is working well with Paul Usher. He expects to be home on the 11th of October and has promised that he will be making up for lost time on the web cams........he promises some real treats for 30 solid days after his return!

Here is a link for the up and coming release of Hell To Pay on DVD, release date 21/10/05

We chatted about Charles Bronson and the news that he is on the Home Office non-return list, this led us on to chat about Ronnie Biggs, we heard recently on the news that Ronnie was going on hunger strike and yet since then we have heard nothing. Is this a news blackout?

Why not take a visit over to www.gangstervideos.co.uk and grab yourself a copy of the new DVD, 85 minutes of Dave's launch party.

Anyway, we will be travelling up to Dave's just after his return home and should return with plenty more news.

29th September 2005

See who won the photo caption competition

21st September 2005

Check this out....there is a very cool video over at chatshow.net called 'event of the week' featuring Dave's launch party including interviews with many of the guests, look out for our good friend Barely Connolly. Just click on the duster below for a direct link to the video.

Why not check out our latest competition on the launch party page, it's funny and will really get you thinking....to win a signed copy of F**k the Ride and a selection of posters hit this link:  Thanks to all of you who have entered so far, we have had great fun and plenty of giggles reading your ideas!

Also we had a telephone call from our mate Adrian yesterday and he passed us on to Matthew who is organizing an audience with D.C. on the 25th of October 2005 at The Surrey Hills Hotel, Horsham Road, Capel, Dorking, Surrey. For full details you can visit his website by clicking this link: Tickets are £20 and can be booked via Matt's website or by calling 01306712832 or 07921359772.

Tel has also emailed us regarding his and Charles Bronson's book, Heroes and Villains, grab a copy now, it is available from Amazon on this link:

Its a great read, here is what some of the chaps are saying about it:

"Tel & Charlie have written a cracker! I don't usually have the attention span for books but this one I read cover to cover. I recommend 'Heroes and Villains' to everybody."
Roy 'Pretty Boy' Shaw

This book is fantastic. My close friends Tel Currie & Charlie Bronson finally tell the truth and venture into controversial territory that is usually shied away from. A must read for anyone remotely interested in the history of Britain's underworld"
Charlie Richardson

"Well done Tel and Chaz on an absolutely blinding book"
Carlton Leach  

"A great book packed with the truth. Well done Tel and Charlie on a fantastic book." Freddie Foreman

"Tel and Charlie have written a blinder! I'm not just saying that because they are both close friends but because this book is a real winner... I loved it" Ronnie Knight

19th September 2005

We had a call from Dave today, he is enjoying the filming of Six Bend Trap up in Middlesbrough and is staying in a nice hotel nearby. Dave wants to say thanks to Steve from the Harley Davidson franchise in Newcastle who have kindly supplied him with a Harley Davidson V-Rod for his stay, this will also feature in the film. Dave also said that on Sunday he went to a Hot Rod show and that there were loads of amazing machines.

Don't forget to check out the launch party page where we have added guest comments and emails, more pictures to follow as soon as we get them.

16th September 2005

More photos of the launch party added courtesy of Lee Philips.

We also received a lovely email from Rik Waller's record company today which we will add to our message board along with a few others tomorrow.

Hit the link below to join up, £4.99 for 24 hours or £29.99 for a month.

13th September 2005

See Photo's of The Launch Party & now full story too!

Watch & See Dave live now in Camelot

7th September 2005

All set for tomorrow's 24 hour launch party at Dave's? If you have an invite see you there! If you haven't got an invite then you can watch live via the webcams placed all around Camelot. Hit this link:

We have had some fantastic telephone calls and emails supporting us over the events at Bowood House on Sunday 4th September, Thank you all.

We will update the site upon our return from Camelot. 

2nd September 2005

We have received a lovely email from a lady called Terina who was at The Emma Carter appeal in Hayling Island last Sunday, it was so moving that we wanted to share it with you all. We have had nothing but positive and impressive feedback from the public who attended, any more emails are most welcome. While remembering the great day a big hello to Emma's Mum who we chatted to, we hope you are OK and love to the little one. (Wish we could all have neighbours like yours xx)

To Dave, Jerry, Kate,

 I don’t know whether you remember me my name is Terina, Diann & Steve's next door neighbour. I am writing to thank you for a brilliant day, I moved down south from Manchester for a new life. I met Kate, Jerry, Ben which you are lovely people and easy to get on with it was a pleasure to be in your company. Then I have never heard of Dave Courtney except what people say. When this man walked on the field that day so relaxed in himself great personality, brilliant sense of humour and held himself what a GENTLEMAN. He was a pleasure to be around, my son Dillan was in his company and he took time out and was so nice to him I couldn’t believe it. I have been through plenty of bad situations in my life, so I am an honest person and not a lick arse I just say it how it is. So it will be a day myself and my youngest son will remember. Dave you signed my book saying I was the bollox, well no Dave your are the bollox babe, I hope yourself and your friends have many happy days and plenty of luck in the future and your nearest and dearest. So what I am trying to say is Thank you for a lovely memory and a really nice picture of us two together and yourself and my son, so f**k them that don’t know the Man I met. Good luck Dave, Storm and Jerry, Kate, Ben you look the perfect married couple and close, go Kate. Also a Big Hello to Mel chin up girl life has loads to throw at you but it only makes you a stronger person, so good luck in the future babe and your little boy. Right that’s it I could write a bloody book, be good, be safe, and loads of happiness for you all it was a pleasure, Thank you Dave for the memory xxxxxxxx Also I wouldn’t of had the pleasure of all your company only for Diann and steve thank you xxxxxxxxxx

love Terina

Terina & Dave.

1st September 2005

 Bank holiday Monday Kate, Ben and I met up with Barely Connolly (click to see his site), nick name Billy-Bob, as we had asked him a few months ago if he could help out on a fun day to raise funds to improve the estates and grounds for the kids  in Eastbourne, Sussex.

It was a great success and Billy-Bob really made their day, they had lots of good fund raising ideas, from breaking plates, fortune tea reading by Tracey, highest goal scorer to burgers, hotdogs & a beer tent. They also had a Karaoke competition, over thirty people entered and the winner was a sweet little girl called Hayley, just 12 years old. Hayley is a natural with real talent, she has top ratings at school and her Mothers full support, in fact she is so good that I am now asking for your help to sponsor Hayley. Hayley really needs to go to Stagecoach, a performing arts/drama school who will be able to coach her and direct her talents. Many of today's big stars/soap stars have come via Stagecoach. This of course costs and needs to be paid a term ahead, but we promise you Hayley has the potential to one day be a huge success. Below you will see a few pictures of the day & one of Hayley, we had no say in her winning but still thought she was the best by far. Her dreams are to sing in her own right in front of a live audience, we can make that come true, that's the easy part but as mentioned above we need to get her booked in with Stagecoach to train her voice and teach her how to perform professionally. We are looking to get a one year sponsorship for Hayley, which works out to be £285 per term. This is paid quarterly, we will have the exact figures soon. We here at Knuckleduster could have the next Britney, can you help us? Contact Jerry & Kate at jerrykate2002@hotmail.com if you can sponsor Hayley. If you are in the business your advice is also welcome. I will be arranging a video recording ASAP. Watch this space. 

We will keep you all updated on our little star.

We had a really hectic week, last Sunday 28th August, we all went over to Hayling Island for the Emma Carter Appeal in support of The British Heart Foundation.  Dave helped to raise hundreds of pounds by auctioning off items collected by Diann & Steve. Dave also sold off two tickets to his 'Big Bro' day at Camelot on September 8th followed by signed copies of all of his books.

Here's the e-mail we received the following day from Steve and Diana;

Dear jerry an Kate

 Thanks for all your help and advice on Sunday we really enjoyed meeting you two and Ben of course. Hope he enjoyed himself. We raised nearly £2.000 on Sunday. Myself and Di took onboard all your comments and have learnt a lot from you both. Thank you Jerry, Kate, Ben, Dave & Storm for being there it made our day. Hope it was not to boring for you ha ha we all look forward to seeing you very soon

                                              Love

                                Steve Diann and Boys

                                xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Keep up the good work guys, we are looking forward to helping you with next years event all we can, see you on Thursday at Camelot!

Finally don't forget that Dave will be appearing with us at the Crimestoppers family fun day at Bowood House near Chippenham on Sunday 4th September 2005 so be there if you would like to meet him. Last year it was a massive success with 20,000 attending and this year they are expecting double that number. G4, Two 2 Go (X-factor) and Gary as Robbie Williams are just three of the acts appearing.

And remember all of our  look-alike friends & even Dave himself are for hire if the price is right, just contact us.

24th August 2005

We had a very nice email from Phil at Creative Innovations recently, he has kindly donated a pair of fine crystal goblets engraved with a knuckleduster and names/artwork of the winners choice to the British Heart Foundation Emma Carter Appeal. The auction, to be held on Sunday 28th August in Hayling Island now has a wide variety of wonderful items up for grabs including donations from Football Clubs, sports stars, celebrities and pop stars. See below for full details of the event and the list of auction items donated so far. I fancy bidding on the trip to Anfield football ground! Dave will be at the event all day with his own very special prize and will be conducting the whole auction, so come along, meet Dave and help raise money for a very worthwhile cause in memory of Emma. You might even get a ticket to the launch party!

So a very big thank you to Phil (and all who have donated) Please pay a visit to Phil's website at www.creativeinnovations.co.uk its a great site full of amazing things and unusual gifts!

During our recent travels we went to a Fontwell race meeting where not only did we have a great time and win a bit but Ben also got to meet one of his hero's; champion jockey Tony McCoy (yep he won for us too!). This has encouraged Ben with his own horse riding and ambitions to follow in his Great Uncle's footsteps and one day win the Derby! (Ben's Great Uncle is Geoff Lewis, former champion jockey and most famous for riding the horse 'Mill Reef')

Once again a very big thank you to you all, we are now getting an average of 1500 hits a day, our figures have doubled in the last few months. Keep the emails coming, we enjoy your ideas and input, answering those we can and passing on others to Dave for his very own personal reply to you.

16th August 2005

Well, we just got back from our first long travels enjoying our Motor Home to the fullest, so sorry the site has not been updated for the past couple of weeks, but hey, we deserved the break! In fact we enjoyed it so much we are off again soon for another couple of weeks! We chatted to Dave as soon as we got back, it was very difficult while we were away, well parts of Wales have no mobile signal at all! Dave is great, he was very busy in meetings all day yesterday, organising various events for the big launch party of September the 8th! Dave has some awesome guests lined up for the big day, or should that be the big 24 hour party! We can't wait!

'Hell To Pay' is being shown to the press today in Soho, they have all been invited but already three reporters have declined to attend under their newspapers instructions. It appears that the 'establishment' are still determined to thwart everything Dave tries to do at every turn. It also seems that they have it in for Steve McFadden recently, happy to print anything Angela says about him but unwilling to print anything in Steve's defence or favour. Even Dave, amongst many, many others, tried to talk to the papers about the saga to give their side of things and despite giving full and frank interviews none of them have ever been published. We understand they may not have wanted to print anything from Dave but to ignore other peoples versions and fail to give Steve himself the right to reply is just not right. 

We also chatted about the disgusting approach made to Tel by a supposed 'publishers' offering money for him to support a new book slating Dave being written by three people. (Three guesses who!) All we can say is they had better not approach us!!! No doubt some greedy swine will put their name to it and lie for the money. However, we were there on many occasions both before and after Dave's car crash, in  fact we were there the very day after the crash and stayed at Camelot on and off for weeks following the event. So we really do know the truths from the lies, anyone who ever doubts Dave in anyway should just ask us, we would be happy to enlighten them.

Don't forget Dave is appearing in Hayling Island on the 28th August, 12 noon until 6pm, supporting a charity fun day in memory of Emma Carter and raising money for two new British Heart Foundation nurses to work in the Eastleigh and South Test Valley areas. This should be a great family fun day and includes a charity auction filled with fantastic donations from many celebrities and football clubs etc Don't miss it, or your chance to bid on some super items!  Click on the pictures below to find out about the day/venue and see the up to date list of auction items.

Also we just received an email from Tel detailing the next big boxing event at Ceasars Nightclub on Sunday 2nd October 2005, for full details see the Audience With link on the front page. Don't miss it, book now to avoid disappointment!

27th July 2005

See a live interview with Dave Courtney

Hosted by Joanna Sheffield

22nd July 2005

Out Now! Available in all good book shops or direct from Amazon, click on the book cover below to order! Having been privileged enough to have received a copy last weekend from Dave we can promise you a great read, catch up on all the latest goings on in Dave's life over the past four years. That's one ride that is full of twists and turns and never ends! The countdown to the Sept 8th launch party for Dave's book 'Heroes and Villains, his film 'Hell To Pay' on DVD, his single The Commandments and his live web cam launch  starts now!

22nd July 2005

Our wedding made it into Pick Me Up out now!

19th July 2005

See Dave at Detling Kent County Show, 15th 16th & 17th we had a really cool time.

13th July 2005

Just to remind all DC fan's that Dave is appearing at the Kent County Show, Detling Hill, on the 15th and 16th of July. Dave has his own stand next to the organizers tent where you will be able to meet him for autographs, books, posters and other merchandise. Dave will also be on stage with 'Del Boy' Dave Byrne's from 6pm each evening hosting the live event, don't miss this, it is the largest show in the south of England and last year attracted 70,000 visitors over the two days. Live bands will be performing and the varied entertainment provides for everyone! During the event Dave will be on local radio stations and look out for him on Meridian TV news too. We hope to see you there!

Dave is busy readying Camelot for the live web cam launch on the 8th Sept, installing jacuzzi's, pool tables etc and generally making sure that the place looks 'the bollocks' as he would say. We are looking forward to the launch party. No doubt there will be a lot more news from Dave after we have spent the the weekend with him. 

1st July 2005

On the 28th of August 2005 Dave will be attending the Emma Carter Appeal 'fun day' in Hayling Island. Please do your best to attend for a very worthwhile cause with a fantastic charity auction. You can see her own web site for the full story.  

Click on the duster for full details of the event.

29th June  2005

Had a chat with Dave yesterday, he has answered quite a few emails so if you have emailed us recently the replies should be with you shortly. We will be updating the dates page very soon as we have secured a few big shows/party in the parks for him throughout the summer.

Click on the banner to see the new film being made with yours truly Mr. Dave Courtney. OBE. We will let you know as soon as it hits the market.

Thank you all for your support, we have just had our first 700+ hits in one day set at 1.32pm today & it may reach 800 by midnight, fingers crossed and please keep on coming back. Thank you all. Dave is pleased for us, surprised but pleased, after all this could not have been done with out him. Oh well, onwards and upwards, Kate will be chatting to Dave later today to get the latest news so watch this space, she will also be updating the dates page.

We would like to hear from you if you have any ideas as to what you would like to see on knuckleduster in the future.

See and hear Dave sing at our Wedding for the first time in public.

Click on duster

Click on the duster to see the full story of our Wedding Day where Dave was Best Man.

19th June  2005

Hello peeps, I got back from Dave's yesterday but needed to catch up on sleep as always, since there is so much going on when you are up at Camelot you don't want to hit the sack and miss out on anything. Really he should have a revolving door fitted! The whole of Camelot has had a new coat of brilliant white paint and stands out like an iceberg beacon that can be seen for miles. The mural on the side of the building has now been completed, see the pictures below, plus the two pictures hidden inside the main one.

Click pictures to enlarge

Another really wicked surprise waiting for Dave's return from the Gum Ball rally was that Storm had arranged for the conservatory I helped build a few years ago to be cleared out for a pool table & fruit machine, one of our dreams as kids. See pictures below. Things seem to be going so well for us both at the moment, Dave has his Castle, Army, Rolls & Fame, ok yep and his own pool room! I have my new wife and Dave & Kev as my best mates with Camelot as a second home who could ask for any more.

Dave playing Adrian, "yep one handed"	Web Cams one in each room, yep Bedroom & Bathroom too!
We had a late night session too!	Thanks for your hard work Danny

Camelot is buzzing at the moment, Storm is getting her four poster bed made on site and the whole room decorated by Danny, see pic above.  The rear garden area is getting decked out shortly, new light fittings and chandeliers have been fitted throughout and the dinning room has now been completed. Dave looks really well and is on top form, both Storm and Dave are working out in their new gym each day to shed those winter coats and getting ready for the big day when the web cams get switched on, September the 8th.

Thanks Dave & Storm I had a great time. xx

16th June  2005

Just returned from a day at Camelot with Dave, it is really coming together and looking more amazing every time we visit, we took some photographs of the newest developments which we will upload ASAP. Storm is doing a fantastic job all round, we have never seen Dave look so content and happy.  There are camera's everywhere, its just like being on Big Brother, you have to remember not to pick your nose when you think no-one is looking!! Dave was buzzing with news but took time out to play pool with Jerry and watch our wedding video which of course includes Dave himself singing 'Treat Me nice'

I have left my new husband in Dave and Storms capable hands for a few days and returned home to keep you all up to date but the video of Dave's first live performance singing in public will get top priority for uploading to the site just as soon as he returns. (I'm just not quite experienced enough to upload it myself, sorry!)

Well, on to the really important news: On the 8th of September 2005 Dave will be doing something no-one else has ever done before....intrigued? Here it is: On that very special date Dave will be launching his new book, 'Heroes and Villains', his film 'Hell To Pay', his record 'The Commandments' and going live via webcam on the internet directly from inside from Camelot! (Hence all those blooming cameras!) You will be able to watch the launch party and celebrations live from Camelot, it will be almost as if you are there yourself! So don't miss it, put that date in your diary, on your calendar and a huge note on your fridge door would do the trick too! lol

Let's see what the 'establishment' makes of that lot then!

Last but not least a huge thank you to all our visitors to this site, you have made it very successful and if you have any comments, questions or ideas for improvement do email us, we don't bite (unless asked!)  Here is the graph of our latest hits:

This chart is for 10th to 16th June 2005 from GoStats. Please keep visiting, we love running the site and keeping you up to date and hope you continue to enjoy it!

More news when I receive it and lots of photo's and that video on Jerry's return!

Kate x

15th June  2005

On the 28th of August 2005 Dave will be attending the Emma Carter Appeal 'fun day' in Hayling Island. Please do your best to attend for a very worthwhile cause with a fantastic charity auction.

Click on the duster for full details of the event.

12th June  2005

We have just returned from our honeymoon to Sandy Balls! Yes that raised a lot of laughs and a few eyebrows at the wedding reception too!

New Wedding photos have now been up-loaded.

Click on the duster to see the full story of our Wedding Day where Dave was Best Man.

Coming soon............ Dave sings live! A video clip, the first ever, taken during the wedding reception! Plus new pictures from Charlie Bronson.

31st May 2005

Hi all, sorry for not updating sooner, as you can imagine its busy here, what with organising a wedding and all that!

Anyway, as you will no doubt know Dave & co finished 23rd out of 113 in the Gumball rally, fabulous considering they were racing Lamborghini's and Ferraris.  Dave and Andy also won the 'Tough Guys' award for the rally, no surprise there then! Dave had a fantastic time and promises to do an impromptu 'audience with' at the wedding reception and tell us all the best bits from the rally! Can't wait! Dave did tell us that he has a black and blue bottom! (Hope he doesn't bare that on Saturday lol!) He thought it would be great fun to dive off of the yacht in Monte Carlo, changed his mind and decided to do a classic DC bomb. He hit the water bum first and said it felt like hitting concrete, hence the bruised behind!

Storm telephoned Kate on Saturday whilst at the wedding of Kevin and Faith, just as the ceremony ended. Storm sounded quite emotional and said how beautiful the wedding and service had been and that it had made her think of our own wedding on June 4th. Thank you Storm, it was very touching and we look forward to seeing you Saturday. We wish Kevin and Faith all the happiness in the world, congratulations to you both and by the way, are we glad our big days didn't clash!

Dave's also going to be doing a TV comedy sketch with Steve Mc Fadden and Nigel Benn, that should be interesting and funny! More details as soon as we have them. Dave and Storm are also busy in Pat Colliers recording studios working on a number of projects. The new band Dave is working with is called The Masons and features Lars Frederiksen of Rancid, Steve Wale (The Business), Robin Guy and guitarist and song writer Darryl Smith.  We eagerly await the results of the album to be called 'We Rule the World!'

Dave's new book 'F**k The Ride' is still scheduled for release on the 7th July despite a few problems relating to the Jen/Angela situation, you can pre-order through this link:

      The next book is due out in time for Christmas and is titled Dave Courtney's Hero's and Villains. Click on the link below to pre-order.

    Another great book you will almost certainly enjoy is Charles Bronson and Tel Currie's 'The Good, The Mad, The Bad and The Ugly.'  Click on the picture to buy now!

We hope that you will forgive us if the site remains a little quite until after the Wedding and Honeymoon, but rest assured it will be updated with all the news and some seriously good photo's as soon as possible after the big day. Okay, off you go then and pray for sun on Saturday!

19th May 2005

Much to our surprise, we had a telephone call from Dave today, he was about 125 miles from Rome! The first thing he said was 'love you loads, how's things?!' He wanted to know all about the tracking of their car on the gumball website and was checking up about our wedding too! Dave said 'We are doing quite well aren't we? considering we are racing Lamborghinis and Ferraris!' They had been in fourth place at one point and are now just in the top 20. Dave was telling us so about many funny incidents during his journey on the gumball rally, the moonie at Caprice, amongst other antics, apparently he now has three speeding tickets! Dave was clearly really enjoying himself, the music was blaring and they had been travelling at 150 to 160 mph for most of the way. Trouble with that is as Dave says, when you slow down to 130mph it feels like you are crawling along!  Dave went on to tell us about an incident in a cafe, apparently they stopped off there with a lot of the other gumballers and Dave thought it would be a laugh to don his gas mask and take in a machinegun! The poor cafe owner thought it was a real raid and hit the panic button, next thing you know the place is surrounded by police! Dave quickly removed the mask and the police recognised him, we think they then gave him a bit of an escort, but it was hard to hear the conversation above the sound system in the car!

Today Dave thought he would have a laugh by them all wearing British police helmets! Of course they were pulled over by some sort of special constables ('Saturday police' Dave called them) They were amazed that two of our finest British police were in the rally, obviously not DC fans then. lol!  At that moment Dave said 'Hang on the (real) police are here, we are just talking to them now, got to go Babe, love you loads, will call you later'

Well we are still waiting to hear what that incident was all about! I'm sure we will find out soon enough!

Don't forget to track Dave's progress by following the link below! We will update you as soon as we hear from the man himself.

17th May 2005

As many of you will no doubt already know, Dave is taking part in the gumball rally. Dave asked us to go and see him off, we were sad that we could not get there on Sat 14th but we were busy at Brands Hatch helping out Uncle Albert & Del Boy with a weekend show, it was also Jerry's birthday, so sorry we missed the send off Dave, but we heard all about it!

Of course we are keeping up to date with Dave's progress on the official gumball rally site, hit this link to follow Dave on this epic run! 

For a fuller more in depth coverage of day to day progress and reports from Dave visit www.davecourtney.com

Good luck Dave & Co, thinking of you, make sure you are home safe by the 4th of June or Kate will kill you! lol

26th April 2005

How many of you watch WWE wrestling? Did any of you get to go to the live event at the NEC in Birmingham last week? Dave has two new supporters in the shape of WWE superstars and world tag team champions William Regal and Tajiri sporting 'Born Naughty' T-Shirts complete with knuckledusters! For those of you who didn't see WWE late night Raw last night check out the photograph below! To watch a repeat of late night Raw tune in to Sky Sports 3, Thursday 28 Apr 11pm. And if William Regal and Tajiri want a new manager to install fear in the other wrestlers we know just who to recommend!    

23rd April 2005

The news is out, as some of you will remember, I asked Kate to marry me on Boxing Day & Dave to be my best man, he said "F***....me... I would be honoured". See Wednesdays Argus newspaper clips below, along with the editors very funny quote! We are getting married at Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex on June the 4th. I wanted to do something different, an exceptional day for us to remember so I booked up a castle along with our lookalike friends dressed  in character, Del-Boy, Uncle Albert, Billy Connolly & Ozzy Osbourne. Along with Dave we hope to have the Cheeky Girls and 2 To Go (from X factor fame). Dave, as best man, is arranging for 4 of the Outcasts on their Harley's to escort the stretch limo which will be followed by the famous Trotters 3 wheeler & Del's Capri ghia, so it should be a day to remember. Where else would you get to see all those characters in one place? Wedding photo's will follow after June 4th!

22nd April 2005

Dear Jerry & Kate

10th April 2005

Hey Ho everyone! We are back from our own travels, nothing as exciting as Dave's trip to the USA, but we had fun anyway, even if we did come home full of flu! We did chat to Dave a couple of times while he was in the U.S. On one occasion Seymour was with us for a short break so Dave even managed to chat to him for a while. At the time Dave was having a ball, he was in New York and was telling us all about his meeting with film director Billy Clark, U.S. agents and his articles in the LA and New York Times. It seems Dave was fantastically well received over there and he was planning to return to the U.S. as soon as possible even then!

All of Dave's books will now be published in the USA and he is even going back to LA at the end of March for a couple of live shows. Dave is going to be a very well travelled man by the end of 2005, he is even off to Barbados for the New Year! (Just as long as he is here for our wedding at the castle in June!)

If you are eager to order a copy of Dave's new book due out on 7th July and get a 30% discount click this link ,from the drafts we have read you won't be disappointed, another great read! Dave's latest DVD 'Dave Courtney's Dodgy DVD' is also available from Amazon, click this link: 

Dave's CD 'The Commandments' is currently being re-mixed by Goldie, Fabio and Groove Rider, more about that just as soon as we have the details!

Just this minute got off the phone from Dave, he was busy proof reading the draft copies of his two new books, we will be seeing Dave in person later this week so expect more news very soon!

11th March 2005

Just had a chat with Dave, he is looking forward to his trip to the USA, he leaves Monday and will be visiting the Miami Music Festival where he will meet up once again with Rancid, Snoop Dog, Jay-Z and more. Then Dave heads off to L.A. and New York for promotional work. There will also be a UK documentary film crew with Dave which should make for interesting viewing in the not to distant future!  We have not been able to get to see Dave in person before the visit but will be going to see him immediately upon his return to get all the news and gossip from his 15 day trip. 

26th February 2005

Well, quite a lot of going's on since we have been away! We are off to see Dave next week so we are expecting even more news & gossip then, (also we need to finalise our wedding plans with the best man!). We will shortly be uploading all the very best pictures from the Dave & Jodie Marsh photo shoot, you will then have the chance to vote for your favourite. The photographs with the highest number of votes will go on to appear in a 2006 calendar for your pleasure.

Firstly, we would like to send our very best wishes to Mark Fish for a speedy recovery, all the best mate.

We didn't forget Dave's birthday and sent him all our best from our holiday location, don't worry Dave we are catching you up fast!  Dave attended a boxing match in Brighton recently with Joey Pyle amongst others, shame we were away and sorry we missed it, after all that's just down the road from us.

Some of the news from whilst we were away included the sad and frustrating news re the CD 'The Commandments' The distributors pulled out of releasing the CD and to make matters worse Waterfall also pulled out of releasing Hell To Pay on DVD. However, there is a new distributor in the pipeline so all being well you will get your Hell To Pay on DVD soon, despite the establishments interference!

Dave is off to America next month, stopping at Miami Music Festival, L.A. and New York. Dave will be joined by a British TV documentary crew, the same people who made the very funny Car Sharks series for Bravo in which Dave appeared. (And if you didn't see it you missed one of the funniest programmes Dave has ever appeared in!)

Dave has a wicked time at the Brits, followed by an appearance on Jodi Marsh's show 'Live and Turned On' He then went on to enjoy a star studded after show party at the Penthouse, Leicester Square. 

Dave is still working flat out on the new books we have talked about recently, as soon as we have any release dates we will let you know. Now you have caught up on the gossip why not go and play in Dave's very own casino, here is the link: http://www.casino.davecourtney.com/dave/home/index.htm off you go then, good luck and have fun!

30th January 2005

Dave & Jody Marsh are in this week Zoo mag, you will see a number of pictures of my photo shoot with them both a few weeks ago, these pictures  were taken by the paparazzi.

14th January 2005

Just had a call from Dave, he has lost his phone so if any of you are trying to contact him, he sends his apologies and says that he should have a new phone on Monday, same number of course.

This weekend Dave is doing his doorman's course, we wish him luck.

13th January 2005

What’s going on in the world! If Dave Courtney OBE was caught trying to organize a coop to take out the government of another country or investing in the idea, he would end up locked away in Guantanamo prison indefinitely. Sir Mark Thatcher, found guilty pays a £360,000 fine and gets a four year suspended sentence (which of course means nothing unless he tries to do it again!) His fine will be paid by selling his story to the world press or God forbid by writing an autobiography. His name is still Sir Mark Thatcher, now he is a marked man as a criminal should he keep his title? Will the Queen allow it? Yes more than likely, if he lays low for the ‘wind to blow over’. Its one rule for them and another for us, its not like he is a brick layer, plumber or a mason!!! ahh.  We were once proud to be called the Edwardians then Victorian’s and now we are known as the Elizabethans but we could become the Charlies or even the Willies and this is what our history will say about us, need I say more!  

Jerry

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Our wedding is all booked, 4th June 2005 at the very beautiful and romantic Herstmonceux Castle in Sussex, where Dave will be Best Man. We should get some wicked photographs from there, if not a little 'different' with the likes of DC, Del Boy, Uncle Albert, Izzy Ozzy and Barely Connolly in attendance! Of course we will share some of them with you after the grand event.

This great  book is by Charlie Bronson and Tel Currie and is a cool read,  it also has forwards by Roy Shaw, Charlie Richardson and Ronnie Biggs and is the
first book with ALL the 'chaps' approval and help.

The book is not out until May but can be pre ordered from amazon.co.uk on
this link.   
http://www.amazon.co.uk
02-1969816-5594201

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Dave asked me to pop up to Camelot on Friday and to take my photography gear! He wanted me to take some glamour photographs of Jody Marsh, well who was I to refuse!!! With my arm twisted behind my back we set off to Dave's. When Kate and I arrived to a packed house (as usual!) we were told that Jody would be there soon. Dave looked well, he had plenty of his heavies there and the atmosphere was buzzing, well nothing new there then! Below you can see a few of the pictures which I really like from about thirty photographs taken. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did taking them.  I asked Jody & Dave to sign one of Dave's books for me to place on knuckleduster for a competition for one of our lucky readers. So the first person to tell us Jody's age and which live TV show was she on on Saturday 11/12/04 just gone. First to reply wins. Jerry

I would like to say a big thanks to Dave, Jody and everyone else there on the day.

We met Dave last night at Camelot just before he left to go to Maidstone to do one of his audience with shows, we had had a short while to catch up on the latest gossip before we waved him off  wishing him to break a leg! These equity members have strange ways!. Take  a look at the picture below and you will see that you will get a good read out of the Nuts magazine next week. Dave also asked me to do a photo shoot next Friday so watch this space, sorry I can not say to much about it, but I will be getting some great pics. Jerry.

Sorry we have not been around much to update the site, the Nottingham live concert in memory of victims of gun crime in Nottingham has kept us very busy. We have been up to Nottingham to do the Press Release for the event which went very well. We would like to thank, BBC Radio Nottingham, Century FM, Trent FM and Central News for their help in promoting the event so far, keep up the good work guys! Mind you, not best pleased with the lack of support from the Council and Police up there, still what can you expect eh?! For anyone still not wise to the gig just visit www.amnestyday.com

However, a very large warning DO NOT STAY AT ROCKAWAY HOTEL, Beeston. They treated us badly, with contempt even, virtually called us liars, they would not even look at the photo we took below to back up our many complaints, so instead we are sharing it with you! We checked out in disgust very late at night to be told 'you won't find anywhere else at this time of night!'  Well we did and it was lovely! Bet they are sorry now about how they treated us! And yes this warning will go on all our sites!!! We only wanted a bath! And no its not lager and we didn't pee in it! lol

Anyway, on to more news from Dave. You can read his latest letter by following this link    

This DVD goes on sale throughout the UK in all retail outlets and on the www.gangstervideos.co.uk  website on 29th November, you can get the VHS version there, right now with immediate delivery.

Don't forget to keep your eyes on www.amnestyday.com, we have some new acts joining on board and some big names should be confirming their input this week. If you can support this event in anyway please email us.

We would like to announce that the live concert we mentioned below is now 'all systems go!' The event is called Amnesty Day and will take place on the 08/01/05 at The Royal Centre in Nottingham. We have had an amazing response to the event, please visit www.amnestyday.com for full details of the event and who will be appearing. The event will raise money for 'Mothers Against Guns' so please come along and support us if you can!

Dave should have plenty of exciting news for us all, judging by our conversations over the past few days, we will update you as soon as we get back. (film news, an exciting new project etc etc) We will be meeting up once again with Barely Connolly and Izzy Ozzy at Camelot so it should be a scream!

As most of you will by now know, Mal has decided to leave his position as webmaster at the www.davecourtney.com site due to ill health. We wish him a very speedy recovery and all the best for the future, well done Mal for the two years spent on .com, not an easy task!

'I have taken off all of the information about Genson and Genson's arrest from the www.davecourtney.com site with immediate effect as apparently it is against the law to have it on the website due to Genson's age. I apologise most profusely to everybody and anybody that it offended. It was not meant to embarrass or intimidate anyone at all. I only found out today that it should not have appeared on the website and I have rectified this. Once again sincere apologies to all concerned.'  

Click on the link to read all about the Bowood House, where you can see what we have been up to over the weekend with  Wiltshire Crimestoppers.   

Click on the link to read all about the Lowestoft Most Easterly Mini Adventure, where you can see what Dave's been up to over the weekend.   

Its Bens Birthday today he is twelve & Ben has received messages in- character voices from  Izzy Ozzy, Barely Connolly,  Del-Boy, Uncle Albert and of course the man himself  DC. obe. We would like to say a big thank to you all. xx

22nd July 2004

17th July 2004

See Dave supporting Crimestoppers in Trowbridge click on the banner above.

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14 Dec 2003

We have been keeping in regular touch with Dave but as he says himself 'Christmas is always quiet, even for Dave Courtney OBE!' So, not a lot of news or gossip but we hope that by the end of Feb 2004 we will be able to announce a tour of brand new shows for 2004 (not 'audience withs', something new) starring Dave and other actors. We are also working on a new web site for Taz which we hope to launch in the new year, we will let you know as soon as it is up & live.

Below are some pictures of the event, if you have any that you would like us to display please email them to us in jpeg format.

07 Nov 2003

We are really looking forward to Sunday night at The Circus Tavern, Essex where fans and friends are gathering for a showing of 'Hell To Pay', 'an audience with DC' and the filming of the first scenes of Dave's new movie 'Get Courtney'. Don't miss it!

Our own guests will be our good friends Bobby George, Darts legend, his wife Marie and family and the director of Dave's newest project (yet to be announced) 'Big Frank'. We are also looking forward to catching up with our special friend and Dave's right hand man Seymour whom we spoke at length with today.

The award winning film Triads, Yardies and Onion Bahjees in which Dave plays 'Mad Dave' from the 'East End Firm' is showing at the Prince Charles Cinema, Leicester Square, London tonight, Saturday and next Wednesday. For full details visit www.onionbahjees.com

We had a long chat to Dave on Wednesday evening, he was on his way up to Birmingham to his very good friend Big Albert Chapman's birthday bash. We spoke to Dave again today to finalize details for Sunday and he said that they all had a wicked time with Big Albert, Thanks Albert!

So, see you all on Sunday, full report and pictures will follow ASAP.

Below you will find thumbnail photo's of the evening, just click on them to enlarge.

15 Sept 2003

We have just received a telephone call from Helmet, Rancid arrive in London in the early hours of Wednesday. A meeting has been arranged at Camelot and we will be there to capture it all for you and bring you the latest news and photographs of the occasion.

All proceeds from the night will go to the  Chloe Wright Appeal Fund. Three year-old Chloe has been diagnosed with Embryonal Rhabdomyosacoma stage 4, which means she has soft tissue cancer at an advanced stage. There is no stage 5 so it is vitally important that the appeal raises £100,000 to help send Chloe to Houston, Texas where the best treatment is available to help her beat this terrible disease.  

28th August 2003

After a couple of days of emails and calls to America we managed to speak to Chris, a very helpful and charming man at the record company. Chris was thrilled about us and Dave getting in touch and told us that Rancid are on tour at the moment in Europe and that they are coming to the good old UK in September! Chris contacted the tour manager and we are now in touch with him directly organising for Dave to attend Rancid's live show(s) at Brixton Academy in September.

For all the UK tour dates hit this link:

It seems that there is a mutual appreciation society between Rancid and Dave and they are all looking forward to meeting up again. We hope that Rancid will have time in their busy schedule to visit Camelot and of course we will be there and at the shows to capture it all on film.  

Let us know what you think!

We are all eagerly awaiting Dave's 'audience with' show here in Eastbourne on the 15th Aug at the Tally Ho, Church Street  which we expect to be a huge success. The show has been promoted locally by radio, posters, flyers and this superb article in The Argus newspaper. We have a fantastic weekend planned and we will update you on Monday (if we have recovered by then!) In the meantime, enjoy the article!

30 July 2003

Hi again folks, hope you are all well and happy! We did pop up to Camelot, sooner than we expected, in fact we had to go and rescue our friend on the 18th July! Thanks again to Dave for taking care of him. It was great to bump into our good friend Seymour again and of course we all ended up down the local with Dave where this fantastic picture of Dave playing pool one handed whilst chatting on the phone was taken!

We also had the pleasure of meeting Taz, Dave's new lady for the first time, she is a charming young lady, very stunning too! Have a look at the pictures we took of of the new couple who will be visiting us in sunny (well hopefully!) Eastbourne on the 15th & 16th of August.

We have arranged for Jerry to take some more photographs of Dave & Taz in his studio during their stay with us, so watch this space!

We did not update this page immediately upon our return as we usually do because our own little boy has been very very poorly and in hospital recently. We kept in touch with Dave though, well he is our boy's 'Godfather'. We have discovered that our son needs a special alarm/monitor for his bed and other equipment and Dave was determined to help, heart of gold has Dave and anyone who doubts this just come and meet our son who adores Dave. Anyway, Dave will be doing a hastily arranged audience with at the Tally Ho Pub in Eastbourne on the 15th August at 8pm, with all the proceeds going towards the new equipment Ben needs.

OK, better sign off now, we have to phone DC for more latest news.....back soon!

17 July 2003

Hi everyone! Yes, we know, long time no update! SORRY!!! A few reasons; we have been very busy ourselves with our son and his specialist treatment, organising Dave's new venture (sorry still secret but hopefully to be very exciting and unique), managing www.creativecasts.com and joining Bobby George (darts legend) on his local exhibitions. We also felt that Dave needed time to sort things out at home without being constantly bugged by us for news etc. Trust you understand! We have, of course kept in very regular contact with Dave.

Our poor old house was a little like Dave's on the afternoon of the 5th June as people arrived from all over the place to join us for the showing of Hell To Pay at Komedia in Brighton. Seymour arrived first, quickly followed by model Paul Murphy and another good friend of ours 'Wolf' From then on the house descended into chaos! We were supposed to get away early enough to visit the Synergy Gallery in Hove who are displaying and selling some of our artwork from Creative Casts, no such luck! We arrived late, sorry Martin.

We would like to say a very very big thank you to everyone who bought raffle tickets at the show, you can be assured that little Ben (a ten year old autistic and epileptic child) will now be able to go ahead with his second treatment at the B.I.R.D (brain injuries) centre in Chester next week. Many people asked us to keep them up to date with his progress so we will do that here from now on. Thanks to Dave for helping and supporting Ben's treatment, it really means a lot. 

For a full story of 'Dave meets Chris Eubank' click this link      

22nd April 2003

We were thrilled, although not surprised, to learn from Dave that the first showing of 'Hell To Pay' at The Casino Rooms in Rochester was such a huge success. Having seen the film while Dave was still in hospital we knew it would be a big hit! We are sorry that we could not attend in person at Rochester due to family commitments, but we will be at Caesar's for the showing of 'Hell To Pay' on the 27th of April. We will be raffling one of our clocks for charity at this event and we are also hoping to have a very exclusive and totally one off poster of Dave made specially for the event to raffle too! Check out the knuckleduster T-shirts and wall clocks, we will be able to take orders for these at Caesars. 

Our next 'mission' was to cast Dave's hand, complete with his famous duster. We have recently launched a new business that specializes in life castings so detailed they even pick up fingerprints. We have been persuading various celebs to have their hands or feet cast for charity and we plan to hold a charity auction of all the famous casts at a later date. You can see our other celebrity casts at www.creativecasts.com which is also the business that is responsible for the knuckleduster wall clocks. 

Dave said that he felt a little 'harmless' right now!

Dave said he was really impressed with the cast.

I brought the hand cast home to allow it to dry before placing it on a base and giving it a coat of sealant to protect it. The final cast will be shown here a.s.a.p.

Mar 24th 2003

Hello again! We have spoken to Dave & Jen on a regular basis over the past couple of weeks and basically its all quiet at the moment.  We will be visiting Dave on Friday of this week when we will finally be doing the hand casts we have mentioned. This coincides with the launch of our own new business at  www.creativecasts.com which is one of the reasons we have not been updating here as often as usual. We have been very busy with this and other family commitments.

Together we can make Dave number one and having heard a few of the tracks, we know that you won't be disappointed, he really can sing!!      

Feb 24th 2003

A few thank you's from Dave: Dave said that he had a great time at last nights 'audience with' at Utopia in Reading. Thanks to Utopia, Les, for sorting it all out and Bad Boy Jeremy Bailey. A big 'Hello' to Craig and thanks for some of the most interesting set of questions asked at a show for ages!

Lastly, but not leastly, Congrats to Beau and Kerry who have just moved house and home (to Essex!) I wish them lots of success and luck in the future.

Feb 23rd 2003

Well hello everyone, sorry that we have not updated for a while, but it's been totally mad here lately! (won't bore you with the details!)

Anyway, we did chat to Dave just before he went to Miami (and we mean just before!) Just as well really, as we were about to pop up and see him, we got the dates confused somehow.

This is a repeat but well worth watching even if you have seen it before. Dave is firing on all pistons in this one. See pictures below

January 13th 2003

Well, another visit to Camelot resulting in lots of news and lots of photographs for us to upload over the next few days! Dave was on top form and looking a lot fitter (and more tanned!) than on our last visit. Jen was very busy, as usual, and had had quite a morning of it! She still cooked a mean breakfast though!

Lastly, we hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and sincerely wish all of you a very happy and prosperous New Year.   

Wednesday 18th December 2002

Over a thousand guests were at Ceasers night club in Streatham, London on the 18th Dec 2002. We were lucky enough to go along with Dave, Jen and Brendan and what a wicked time we all had! Click link to see pictures and report.

Friday 29th November 2002

Today Dave was with Rob Ferguson at Creative Studio's, Harold, Bedford. Dave has just recorded an album and finished it off this evening by doing his parts for the songs with Snoop Dog and Dr Dra. Dave said it all went really well and he will update us with further details about the album and it's release date ASAP.

Thursday 28th November 2002

We went up to Camelot to see Dave again today, to pick up some more photograph's and other documents, so we can continue to keep the site up to date. Dave had a group of students with him, filming a docu film for their final exams, a copy will remain at the university. Dave was on top form, all the students adored Dave's wit and humour. They spent most of the day there and also followed him to down to his friends Evor's solarium, Tan-Talising in Welling, Kent. Jen and Seymour were there and as usual we had a fantastic day.

Friday 22nd November 2002

PSI2 (play station 2) magazine will be having a monthly column by Dave called 'Gamebusters' which is the game cheats page! Here you will also be able to read the very latest news from Dave himself. The first issue is out on the 20th Dec 2002, don't miss it! We will be visiting Dave tomorrow, Sat 23rd Nov, so don't forget any questions email us! We will update you more ASAP.

Friday 15th November 2002

We arrived at Camelot at about 1pm, Dave was busy in his lounge doing an interview with Chris Blackhurst from Psi2 (play station 2) magazine and as usual Dave was on top form. The interview lasted for about 3 hours and the magazine will be available on 20th Dec 2002.

Jerry presented Dave with the first proto-type of a hand made gold knuckleduster wall clock. Dave said "f**king hell Jerry, thats the bollox" and insisted that it immediately replaced a picture on his lounge wall. As a result this unique hand crafted wall clock will become available to buy as part of a limited edition of only 100. Each clock will come with a valid, numbered certificate exclusively from this site and can be personalised by Dave at your request. See photo`s.

At the moment Dave has his fingers in so many pies its hard to keep track! We are aware that there are at least three TV programmes/series in the pipeline and we will update you as soon as possible, he is also working on another new book.

This is just a quick update, we will have more in depth details and an interview very soon and will be seeing Dave again next week, so do please email us any questions or comments you have for Dave.

Dave's Breakout!

Dave Courtney O.B.E. 02/10/2002

Dave's Statement From His Hospital Bed 14/09/02

Hello people, this is Dave Courtney speaking from the hospital bed here I'd just like to set the story straight about what's supposed to have happened to me.

I was flying along the motorway, most probably a little bit over speeding in Brendan's landrover about half past eleven, twelve o'clock at night and something was just about to overtake me on the inside and I got a front wheel blow out, nothing more exciting than that really.

I don't give a f**k whether you are Michael Schumacher or what, once your front wheel goes pop on your motorway, you have got no control over the car whatsoever. I went into a proper little spin; rolled about all over the place and I proper broke myself up inside.

I've punctured my lung, broke my ribs, broke my pelvis, back and front, broke my collar bone, broke my foot, broke my coccyx, my coccyx O.K. its the little bone at the back, not the bone at the front! Broke a little vertebra of my back but the actual skin I didn't end up with a tear at all so I'm still as good looking as I was before I had the accident!

The ambulance men were fantastic, I was in a coma from that minute on for about a month nearly. I'd like to say thank you to Soul and Neil for looking after me, they actually slept outside the hospital ward for 24 hours a day for three weeks and they was just looking after me, not that I needed looking after. When I did wake up, cause coma's are really funny you know when you do wake up, I thought I'd had the accident 10 minutes ago you know. But apparently I gave these interviews to the newspapers where it was an underworld hit and they tried to ram me off the road and kill me and the next week I was reportedly said that I'd found out who it was and I was coming back for revenge. When all this time when I was supposed to be giving these interviews I'm afraid I was actually in a coma so they are not true I know it's nice and exciting but it's not true.

Whoever you are, I can think of a lot, lot easier ways of trying to kill someone than ram them doing 110mph! I'm getting better, you know, I've been very very very very very lucky, very very very lucky. I've got the hospital done up and I'm in a private ward here and I've got my door open. I'm looking out the door, looking at all these people going past with half the accidents I've had, with so much more injuries than I've got, that I genuinely feel very lucky.

The screws didn't set properly on the first operation on my pelvis, so they had to re-do that and so I'm going to be in here on traction for about another 10 to 12 weeks. But if that's the biggest moan that I've got, you know 'oh what a shame I've had 12 weeks in bed' I really really can't moan seeing as what I've seen happen to some of the other people.

I'm ever so sorry if it ain't as exciting a story as everyone wanted to hear, you know if there was anything more to it, I'd tell you, if there was anyone gonna try and kill me it would be the old bill, no one else! I've had Tony Lambrianou, Joey Pyle and Freddy Foreman have all been up here to say hello and things are looking superb.

I will actually get completely better, I did have a bad leg before I came in here which needed 3 to 4 months completely rested, there's more chance of getting a wank of the pope than me actually lying there with me foot in the air for four months. But now I've had all these operations done, I will actually have to have me leg up in the air, so that will actually get better, so I will eventually end up coming out of here in better nick than I come in.

That's it really, I'll give you a little update whenever I get another tape, don't panic, Dave Courtney's alive and well and the good news is the bad news was wrong! Rumors of my death were greatly exaggerated as they say!

All right, so its goodnight from me and goodnight from him.

'Tattar'

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