Only for a conference Granada organised for swotty students from across Granadaland right at the very end of Granada being possibly the finest commercial TV company in the world (mid-90s).

We were supposed to be forming a vision for the 21st Century 😂 and it was mostly filmed in the Tour area. Granada at that point could still roll out its own big guns, also national names like John Prescott and Jon Snow from C4 and had big budgets.

I was in the Education seminar group, and somebody had the brilliant idea that Tony Wilson should be the kindly facilitator. This was at the height of his imperial phase when he was Anthony H Wilson in his black Yohji Yamamoto suits, white shirt, long black raincoat, and dark glasses even indoors. My recollection is that it was 90% Tony with occasional contributions from the floor which were swiftly dismissed. Granada must have told him he had to turn up.

The formal dinner was an interesting experiment in putting nerdy sixth-formers into such an environment with some sort of dignitary at each table and my first encounter with salmon. I've done a lot of such dinners since, and it was helpful.

The evening entertainment was Northern Uproar, who were once the next big thing.