Donny Tourette
Background information
Birth name	Patrick Brannan
Born	March 4, 1981 Liverpool, England
Genre(s)	Punk rock Rock
Instrument(s)	vocals
Label(s)	TVT Records
Associated acts	Towers of London The Tourettes
Website	TheTowersOfLondon.com

Donny Tourette (born Patrick Brannan March 4, 1981) is the lead singer of English punk rock band Towers of London which he founded together with his brother Dirk.

Contents 1 Towers of London 2 Celebrity Big Brother 3 Never Mind The Buzzcocks 4 References 5 External links

Towers of London

See also: Towers of London

Tourette is a founding member, and frontman of Towers of London, a punk rock band he formed in 2004, the band has been performing ever since. To date the band has released one album; "Blood, Sweat and Towers".

Since its founding, the Towers as they are known by fans, have attempted to break through in the United Kingdom, with little success. The band took part in a Bravo reality TV show. The "rockumentary" follows the band on their quest to make it to the top, the show includes off-stage footage, as well as following the band on tour, with major music festival dates and opening for the likes of Guns N' Roses.

Tourette's band has released four singles to date, three of which ("On A Noose", "How Rude She Was", and "Air Guitar") charted in the UK Top 40. Their highest chart position attained is 30.

On February 12, 2007, Tourette's band released the single "I'm a Rat", it is their fifth single from their debut album, and the first since Tourette became more well known in popular British culture.

Celebrity Big Brother

Tourette was the eighth Celebrity Big Brother 2007 contestant to enter the UK Big Brother House on 3 January 2007. He made a dramatic entrance by swearing at the crowd and making rude gestures until he was ushered along the red carpet by security guards. The host, Davina McCall, made allusions suggesting Tourette may have been drunk at the time, saying that he "smelled like a brewery".

On his first night in the house, Tourette jumped into the Jacuzzi fully clothed. Later on, Jo O'Meara of S Club 7 pop fame, grabbed the double bed in the bedrooms, but soon realised that she would be bunking in with Donny, she stated "I'm not sharing with Donny. I'd rather sleep on the floor. I can't sleep with a guy like that". Leo Sayer offered to swap with O'Meara, but after a while entered the diary room, saying "Donny's all right, but seeing him sprawled stark naked is not appealing". In the end Tourette had the bed to himself.

The house was later divided into "servant" and "master" quarters with Donny as part of the servant section. Tourette decided he would rather escape than serve Jade Goody and family. He scaled the garden wall to freedom after less than 48 hours in the house, saying "I'm not waiting hand on foot, on some fucking moron and her family" as he climbed over.

After Tourette left the house and Goody was brought in, the viewing figures for Celebrity Big Brother dropped dramatically from 7.1 million viewers to just 2.8 million.

Never Mind The Buzzcocks

On February 7, 2007, Tourette appeared as a contestant on pop quiz game show Never Mind the Buzzcocks (Series 20, Episode 2). Donny attempted to be a vocal and outrageous guest; he disappeared from his seat for a time and was humilated by host Simon Amstell when he lit a cigarette towards the end of the show. He also attempted to make opposition team captain Bill Bailey and host Simon Amstell the butt of his jokes but it was pointed out by Amstell that he didn't stand a chance against these professional comedians.

During the show, footage of the Towers of London documentary was shown, specifically a scene in which Tourette aggressively berates his management and claims "I can fucking dick on the Sex Pistols! The Sex Pistols don't have shit on me!". After which he calmly sits down and crosses his legs, as noted by fellow panellist Philip Olivier. This footage was referenced again, to humorous effect, over the course of the show in an attempt to humiliate Tourette.

Tourette repeatedly addressed Simon Amstell throughout the show as "Anstis", apparently mistakenly believing he was former BBC children's presenter Toby Anstis.

References

1. "NME: TOWERS COURT DECISION", NME.com. Retrieved on 2007-01-06.
2. "The Towers Of London @ The Oxford Zodiac", BBC, 2005-02-17. Retrieved on 2007-01-06.
3. "Celebrity Big Brother: Latest news from the CBB house", The Sun Online. Retrieved on 2007-01-06.
4. "Leo saves Jo from Donny's clutches", AOL Entertainment. Retrieved on 2007-01-06.
5. "Donny is Gonny", Channel 4, 2007-01-06. Retrieved on 2007-01-06.
6. "BIG BROTHER FANS FEELING JADE-ED" Contactmusic.com, 2007-01-09. Retrieved on 2007-03-16.

External links

• TheTowersOfLondon.com - Official Website