@Tank Girl 310561 wrote:

the funny thing is that particular insurance wont insure musicians :laugh_at:

Remember he’s not a musician – he’s a sexual being. Apparently insurance is dirt cheap if that’s your profession…

Have story from back in the days(80´s) when I could party the whole night and sleep for two three hours and then be banging fresh for work. Gunnar, my friend and I was in Oslo to plan the summer travels for the work I had back then. After work we went drinking like holes in the ground….but on our way home we had forgot where we had put his bike, so he had to sit on back of mine and it was down-hill all the way to his flat….I pedaled like a mad man, guess what, :crazy_diz…well back home sumtin was missing; Gunnar. So back on the bike and try to find him, but he was not to be found anywhere….after two hours I gave up, back to gunnars flat but he was not there….Luckily the weather was very nice so I sat down on stairs and skinned up a J and just as I finnshed that Gunnar came. (He has totally white hair) He was lookin…well not good and had lost his T-shirt…but happy for the J :weee:. Up in his flat he had this massive mirror in the hall way….He went pass it and stopped. After a short study of his state he had blood all over; Waov, I look like Iggy Pop!

Party ON!raaa

…and yeah the same summer(87) I saw Iggy twice, one special event with only invited guests and a festival gig outside oslo…That specialevent thingi ranks on my top five concerts of all time!

:cry::cry::cry:

leave the lord Iggy alone ……..

cock rock at its best raaaraaa

(well appart from the adverts…..:laugh_at:)

from the Grauniad…

A car insurer admitted today it refuses to cover musicians despite featuring Iggy Pop in its adverts.

The veteran rocker is the star of swiftcover’s “Get a life. Get swiftcovered” campaign. But although the 61-year-old American is best known for singing hits such as Lust for Life, it has emerged that the online insurance firm has been turning down people who work in the music and entertainment industry for car insurance, citing higher levels of risk and potential claims costs as its reasons.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it has launched an investigation after receiving complaints from those deemed ineligible because of their jobs. Tim Soong, who plays bass guitar in Roguetune, told London’s Evening Standard he planned to report swiftcover to the ASA. “The customer services operator told me they don’t insure musicians,” he said. “When I mentioned Iggy Pop, she said his case was different because he is American.”

A spokesman for the ASA said: “We have received 12 complaints and we are formally investigating those complaints. They have challenged whether it is misleading to suggest Iggy Pop has insurance with swiftcover because its website states that those who work in entertainment cannot take out a car insurance policy with that insurer.”
The ASA will publish its adjudication in due course, the spokesman added.

Tina Shortle, marketing director of swiftcover.com, said Iggy Pop had been chosen as the face of its advertising “because he loves life, not because he is a musician. He is an actor demonstrating the benefits of swiftcover.com.”

She added: “Insurance premiums are based on a number of different data, including the historic claims costs swiftcover.com has witnessed for specific occupations.

“This means that we do not provide cover to some professions that, according to that data, have a higher level of claims costs. The reason swiftcover.com doesn’t cover people in the ‘entertainment business’ is due to the risk of personal injury.”

Swiftcover’s list of uninsurable occupations also includes gambling, modelling, professional sport, bailiffs and bodyguards.

your gonna burn in hell for that :laugh_at:

IGGY nooooooooo!! The guy is a ledgend, why he even convinced me to buy insurance and I don’t even own a car

he has that effect on us all, except cliffy, he has to wait til hell before iggy has his effect on him