page_title: Chris Sievey
section_title: Awards and honours
hierarchical_section_title: Chris Sievey / Awards and honours
caption_attribution_description: Frank Sidebottom statue Timperley Manchester
context_page_description: Christopher Mark Sievey was an English musician and comedian known for fronting the band The Freshies in the late 1970s and early 1980s and for his comic persona Frank Sidebottom from 1984 onwards.
  Sievey, under the guise of Sidebottom, made regular appearances on North West television throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, even becoming a reporter for Granada Reports. Later, he presented Frank Sidebottom's Proper Telly Show in B/W for the Manchester-based television station Channel M. Throughout his career, Sidebottom made appearances on radio stations such as Manchester's Piccadilly Radio and on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 5, alongside Mark and Lard.
context_section_description: Sievey was posthumously recognised with the special judges' award at the 2011 Chortle Awards. A publicly funded statue of Frank by Colin Spofforth was unveiled on 20 October 2013 at 11:37 in Timperley village, the timing a reference to one of the character's catchphrases.
caption: A statue of Frank Sidebottom in Timperley by Colin Spofforth[30] was unveiled on 20 October 2013 The plaque at the base of the statue reads: In memory of chris sievey, 1955-2010 creator of frank sidebottom "as long as i gaze on timperley sunset i am in paradise"
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