My nicknames

My friend called me 'Oos' [oas] in school. It's short for Van Oosten, which is part of my surname.

When I was 26, I was given the name 'Von B' while on the road with a musician, and it stuck for the longest time – lots of friends started using it. But the man that named me so no longer uses it, at least not that often. He now calls me 'Caz' or 'Cazza'. Both of which I'm not very keen of. I feel with a name like that I ought to be dancing around my handbag in dodgy nightclubs.