crowdsourcing my research

[sebastienne]

Who can name any famous groups who met at university (eg Pythons, Mitchell & Webb) who would be known / of interest to 15-year-olds?

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[soixantequatre.livejournal.com]

Fry and Laurie (+ emma thompson)

Prince William and Kate?

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

Ooh, good call on the royal couple!

[soixantequatre.livejournal.com]

I know some visual artists who met at uni, not sure if that has much appeal for 15 year olds though.

As for bands:
R.E.M, MGMT, Radiohead, The strokes, Pink Floyd, Coldplay and Queen.

And don't worry, I've read enough of your blog to guess that! :)

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

Fab, thank you! I only need a few examples to liven up a powerpoint presentations, so I think I'm going to go with Mitchell & Webb, MGMT, Wills & Kate.

That's only one woman in six, and they're all white, so I'll keep thinking for examples that challenge that.. but at least it has the "normal people" (Mitchell & Webb) coming from Oxbridge and the aristocracy not, which is a bit subversive.

[subservient-son.livejournal.com]

Sorry, but Radiohead in fact met at school. Interpol (sort of) met at NYU, though.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

(I feel obliged to qualify that with the fact that I, personally, much prefer the Fry & Laurie example.. but I don't want to fill the entire list up with Cambridge comics and I've already got Mitchell & Webb)