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- Brian Potter (musician) Brian August Potter (born 1939) is a British-born American pop music songwriter and record producer. With his writing partner, Dennis Lambert, Potter wrote and produced hits songs for the Four Tops, Tavares, the Grass Roots, Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds, Evie Sands, Coven, Hall and Oates, and Glen Campbell.
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The owner of The Phoenix Club is wheelchair user Brian Potter (played by Peter Kay), who has presided over two clubs in the past: the first (The Aquarius) flooded, the second (The Neptune) burned down.
- Sitcom
- Can Brian walk? When originally writing the wheelchair-bound character, Peter Kay, Dave Spikey, and Neil Fitzmaurice toyed with the idea that Brian Potter could actually walk.
- The club. The series was filmed in various locations around Bolton and Manchester, as well as at Granada studios, but its main home was St. Gregory's Social Club in Farnworth, Bolton.
- The real audience. For all the live performances that took place in the club, from Talent Trek to Half A Shilling's controversial folk song, all the audience reactions were genuine.
- Family and friends. Not only was the audience made up of club locals, but Peter and the rest of the cast also offered various roles to many of their family and friends.
- Working at The Aquarius
- The Neptune
- Rivalry with Den Perry
- Love Life
- Habits
- List of Quotes
For a period of time, Brian was the manager of a club by the name of the Aquarius. The Aquarius Club was closed during a Christmas event in 1995 when the waterpipes exploded. The water quickly reacted with the electrics and caused numerous people to suffer electrocution. During this, a fully able Potter swam to collect the safe but in doing so, he ...
After the tragic events of the Aquarius, Potter became depressed and lost the will to live. He eventually found himself a job as club secretary and chair of the committee, at the Neptune Club, which would later become the Phoenix Club. Upon joining the club, Potter claimed the club to have been seventy thousand pounds in debt. Although times were h...
Potter's rivalry with Perry went back as far as his time working in the Neptune. At the start of their quarrels, Perry would recommend inappropriate acts for children's venues such as "The Windy Dick", who turned out to be man who did a semi-nude balloon display. This was revealed to the team of the Neptune during a children's Christmas event. Duri...
During his career at the Neptune, Brian had a wife by the name of Marion, whose picture he kept in his wallet. The reason for their marriage break-up is unknown as by the time of the Phoenix Club, he is no longer married and looking for love, and also claimed he had a wife called Jean. During Singles Night, Brian met a lady called Beverly, who soon...
Every drink that Brian had at the Phoenix club was often in a flower vase, since he couldn't reach spirits. In his collection was a money box in a shape of a Disabled Boyand every night, he always used to put money inside of it. Brian seemed to have a lot of medical conditions, leaving some to argue that he is a hypochondriac. He was always complai...
Get it off now!Sweet Baby Jesus and the Orphans!I know a pissed horse when I see one.There is a horse in my cabaret suitePhoenix Nights: With Peter Kay, Dave Spikey, Justin Moorhouse, Paddy McGuinness. The misadventures of club owner Brian Potter who is determined to make The Phoenix Club the best working men's club in Greater Manchester.
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- 2001-01-14
- Comedy
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Aug 1, 2020 · Brian Potter, Max, Keith Winston Lard. From his award winning sitcom Car Share to his vastly successful stand up shows and more, Peter Kay has gone from strength to strength since the final episode of Phoenix Nights.
Oct 30, 2021 · Peter Kay was the main man in Phoenix Nights, creating and writing the show with David Starkey while starring as three of the main characters, including club patron Brian Potter.
Character guide. Brian Potter. Played by: Peter Kay. Brian Potter is the Phoenix Club's proud licensee, and he runs the club how he sees fit. Brian is a very selfish person but runs things in a way so cunning that not many people realise he is only out for number one.
