Dave Spikey (born David Gordon Bramwell on 6 October 1951)^[2] is an English comedian, actor, writer and film producer, currently residing in Chorley, Lancashire.

Spikey spent his early career working as a biomedical scientist in the haematology laboratory at Bolton General Hospital. It was during this period in the 1980s that Spikey scripted and performed in a number of amateur pantomimes with a group of like-minded health workers called the Bolton Health Performers.^{[citation needed]}

He is married to Kathleen "Kay" (née Kenyon; born 8 May 1952^[4]) whom he has known since school. Despite this, and the fact that they were both students at Bolton General, Kay working in the Blood Transfusion Department, it was a while before they got together romantically. They are both vegetarians.

Biography[link]

Early years[link]

In 1992, Spikey was asked to form a double act with Rick Sykes, as purely a 'one-off' to support a popular musical duo called 'Intaglio'.^[5] Dave and Rick were known as Spikey and Sykey. The double act's most notable success came on Central TV's New Faces show.

A turning point came one summer Sunday evening in 1993 when Spikey got a phone call to see if 'he could get to Blackpool in half an hour'. Cannon and Ball were appearing at The Opera House and they needed a compere immediately.^{[citation needed]}

He was the last host of UK gameshow Chain Letters in 1997, following on from Jeremy Beadle, Andrew O'Connor, Allan Stewart, Ted Robbins and Vince Henderson. While working on the show, he once got trapped by the rotating Chain Letters revolving sign.^{[citation needed]}

Success[link]

Spikey won the Best Newcomer award at the British Comedy Awards, and then co-wrote and starred in Phoenix Nights, a hit comedy series on Channel Four in which he played Jerry St. Clair. Peter Kay has announced that a new series of Phoenix Nights is to be made, however it is unknown whether Spikey will return.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003, Spikey released his first DVD, The Overnight Success Tour. Towards the end of 2004, he wrote the ITV comedy-drama Dead Man Weds, in which he also co-starred, in 2005, with Johnny Vegas. The series was shown on the more commercial ITV channel instead of Channel 4 and missed most of his usual audience. The style of the programme such as no laugh track and location filming rather than sets just didn't match the expected line-up of an ITV sitcom. Viewing figures were terrible and it was moved to a later time spot.

In 2005, Spikey became one of the regular team captains on the comedy panel game, 8 Out of 10 Cats, leaving before the 2007 series. That year also saw the release of his second live DVD, Living The Dream. He presented the darts gameshow Bullseye on Challenge for two series.

Spikey developed two new projects which were commissioned by the BBC, being Magnolia, a sitcom about painters and decorators, and Footballers Lives - a comedy about a pub football team, neither made it beyond pilots. He was also on the panel for talent show When Will I Be Famous?.

With these setbacks Spikey returned to stand-up and live shows again and has been regularly releasing DVDs of his shows. Whilst maintaining his profile with appearances on TV.

Because of his time at hospital, Spikey's chosen subject on Celebrity Mastermind in 2006 was Human Blood. He won this show.

His last appearance acting was in the 2009 film Charlie Noades RIP written by his Phoenix Nights Co-Writer Neil Fitzmaurice.

Other interests[link]

Dave Spikey is patron of the non-profit radio station Chorley FM which is not the fictitious radio station made famous by That Peter Kay Thing and Phoenix Nights TV series. He also contributed the initial voice over for the Foxy Bingo^{[clarification needed]} adverts, but was soon replaced.^{[citation needed]} Spikey's first book, He Took My Kidney, Then Broke My Heart, was published in October 2009 by Michael O'Mara Books. His second book is Under The Microscope, published in 2010 by the same publishers.

Despite his age he likes to keep in shape and regularly plays 5 a-side football.

Stand-Up DVDs[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• The Comedy Club's Comedian Biog for Dave Spikey
• Profile on Comedy Zone
• Official Website
• DaveSpikey.co.uk, Live shows
• UK Gameshows Site
• Unofficial Fan Site
• Fan Site
• Dave Spikey at the Internet Movie Database
• Challenge's Bullseye site
• When Liberation Frequency met Dave Spikey

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Bank of America Center
Alternative names	RepublicBank Center NCNB Center NationsBank Center
General information
Type	Commercial office
Location	700 Louisiana Street Houston, Texas
Coordinates	29°45′38″N 95°22′00″W / 29.7605°N 95.3666°W / 29.7605; -95.3666Coordinates: 29°45′38″N 95°22′00″W / 29.7605°N 95.3666°W / 29.7605; -95.3666
Completed	October 1983 [1]
Height
Roof	780 feet (240 m)
Technical details
Floor count	56
Floor area	1,250,000 sq ft (116,000 m2) [1]
Elevators	32
Design and construction
Owner	M-M Properties General Electric Pension Trust affiliate
Management	PM Realty Group
Architect	Philip Johnson John Burgee
Developer	Hines Interests
Structural engineer	CBM Engineers, Inc.

The Bank of America Center is a highrise representing one of the first significant examples of postmodern architecture construction in downtown Houston, Texas. Formerly the RepublicBank Center, NCNB Center, and NationsBank Center the building was completed in October 1983 and designed by award winning architect Philip Johnson and partner John Burgee and is reminiscent of the Dutch Gothic architecture of canal houses in The Netherlands. It has three segmented tower setbacks, each with " a steeply pitched gabled roofline that is topped off with spires".^[1] The tower was developed by Hines Interests and is owned by a joint venture of M-M Properties and an affiliate of the General Electric Pension Trust.

The banking center is housed in a separate building, due to construction problems, and has a three storey lobby.^[2] The building contains an art gallery in the lobby and plans to host curated exhibitions such as art shows.^[3]

Background[link]

At 56 stories the Bank of America Center is the 55th tallest building in the United States and is the seventh tallest building in Texas.

The northeast corner of the structure houses a building within a building. On the site is the main Western Union building and when relocation of the telegraph cables proved infeasible new structure was built over the site and the existing structure was incorporated into the new building intact.

On June 9, 2001, the building was the site of a tragic accident that took place during Tropical Storm Allison. Building security warned individuals that the below grade parking levels were in danger of flooding and instructed persons working late in the building to move vehicles to upper levels of the garage. Kristie Tautenhahn, an employee of the law firm Mayer, Brown & Platt,^[4] went to move her vehicle parked on sub-level 3 at 10:30 UTC (05:30 CDT) which by that time was completely submerged. She drowned in an elevator car when it filled with water as it descended to the lower floor of the garage.^[5]

Tenants[link]

• KPMG has its Houston office in Suite 3100.^[6]
• Mayer Brown has its Houston office in Suite 3400.^[7]

Gallery[link]

See also[link]

	Houston portal
	Architecture portal

• Tallest buildings in Texas

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Bank of America Center (Houston)

• Official Site - Bank of America Center
• The Bank of America Center at Glass Steel and Stone

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