Professor Green samples some Fair City fried fare after show

Top rapper and songwriter Professor Green has clearly got a taste for Scotland’s other national drink.

The star and crew members popped in to a Fair City chippy for a fish supper, washed down with Irn-Bru.

Stephen Paul Manderson, better known by his stage name Professor Green or simply Pro Green, called in at the Fish and Chip Co after a headline appearance at the Fair City’s Christmas lights switch-on.

Owner Michael Clark refused to charge the £28 bill after the star agreed to take pictures with both staff and customers.

Michael said: “He was such a gentleman.

“The shop was really busy at the time and all the customers loved him.” It was with a certain amount of trepidation that I heard the news that childhood heroes Slade were to play a leading role in Perth’s Christmas light switch-on festivities.

Around 42 years since I last saw the legendary glam rockers (at Dundee’s Caird Hall when they were arguably Britain’s biggest band), I feared the passing of the years and the absence of key members Noddy Holder and Jim Lea would take its toll.

Thankfully guitarist Dave Hill and drummer Don Powell (aided and abetted by a clutch of fantastic pop songs) were still up to the task of leading the new Slade though a raucous rendition of their greatest hits.

Quite what anyone under the age of 50 made of it I have no idea but I certainly enjoyed the musical trip back in time.

I’m sure tribute band Abba Spectacular and East 17 fulfilled a similar role for children of the ’70s to the ’90s.

Who says nostalgia isn’t what it used to be?

The rapper and songwriter shakes hands with Michael Clark, owner of the Fish and Chip Co in Perth.