I saw Jarvis Cocker on bike yesterday. Thom Yorke and the Radioheads on a bus. Debbie Harry when seven waiting to do the Muppet Show in home town (England's Hollywood). Gave cheek to Harrison Ford as a ten year old (told him that Temple of Doom wasn't as good as Raiders - like he gave a fuck). But low rent celebrities. You can't beat Jacqui Brambles for that. And of course the entire cast of Real World London - cos I worked on that abomination of a TV show.
― Pete, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
The only thing I'm really impressed by is running into random stars of indie music at the studio. Stereolab, Arab Strap, Luke Haines... it all gets a bit disconserting after a while. At our last rehearsal, we went upstairs to the lounge to pay, and there were these two good- looking women sitting talking on the couch. We carried on skylarking with the C6 lads as we usually do, noticing that the C6 boys were being a bit... subdued and very professional, which is rather unusual of them. Then we realised the two women chatting in French on the couch were actually *Stereolab*. I felt really stupid after that.
― masonic boom, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gareth, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
This doesn't affect how I view him as an artist- in fact, maybe it makes him a better artist, because he is such an emotionally stunted freak, and emotionally stunted freaks often write more interesting and honest accounts of their own emotionally stunted freakdom.
You poor dear! That was what put me off the Real World, it was just so terrible. Anyone who had to be around them for more than 10 minutes has my deepest sympathies.
― Nicole, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
My cousin went out with the girl in the Flake advert with the gypsy caravan. And my other cousin allegedly had a date with Scott Baio (my uncle and aunt had a house in America, see) but this may be False Sleb Memory Syndrome.
― Emma, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Oh, and Clare Short stole my taxi.
As a rule of thumb, I almost never fancy singers- I almost invariably fancy bassists or guitarists. Unless the singer is a total weirdofreak like Bobby G or Thom Y. But those sole exceptions prove the rule!
Probably not, Scott Baio is known for dating 45% of North America. Charles in Charge would put me off though.
Now I've scraped that barrel.
x0x0
― Norman Fay, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― duane, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I am, an all seriousness, very jealous. I've supported Inner City Unit, and the late Robert Calvert. I figured this was too obscure for "rich & famous", tho'
My ex-coworker Eric said he was friends with Leonard Cohen (his - Eric's - dad studied with him at McGill and apparently he's a pretty big presence in Cohen's bio) and knew Melissa Auf Der Maur of Hole, 'cause they had the same guitar teacher.
― Patrick, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Charles Barkley almost ran me over with a car once. He cursed at me and then I cursed at him and then I realised he was Charles Barkley and was like, "Oh, you're Charles Barkley?" and he's all "Hell yeah" and then I just kept walking.
― Ally, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
We also represented Jackie "the Jokeman" Martling, and my encounter with him was accidental -- I was coming back from lunch, glanced into the conference room and Jackie the Jokeman was sitting there.
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Uuuuhhh... my most bizarre celebrity encounter was running into Dougie out of Travis at a Life Without Buildings show in Camden. When I ran over like a little fangirl to say hi, he actually *knew* who my band was and started raving about how much he enjoyed our song "Hello, Dougie" (the infamous girlpunk cover of "Why Does It Always Rain On Me") *THAT* was a mindfuck I could not get my head around.
OK, now *that* was serious namedropping. 40 lashes with a wet Thom Yorke.
― masonic boom, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
From the bus today, I saw Mark Perry. He was walking towards the Elephant looking most peeved. He (I am guessing) is neither rich nor famous but he is MARK PERRY! It was all I could do to stop myself shouting "Life's about as wonderful as a record mart!" or "It's a sker-eww up!" at him. But I managed.
― Tim, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DG, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― duane zarakov, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Magnus, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I nicked Mark Gardner of Ride's drink, and was complicit in the calling of Andy Bell a cunt.
― Tom, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
But leave poor Mark Gardener's drinks alone!!! Humph!
I want to go to Oxford. Will pester Paul... or perhaps go BY MYSELF this Thursday! Weh-hoo!
― masonic boom, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
My mother and I were chatting on the phone when she mentioned that she had popped into a pub not far from my flat. The fact that she had started frequenting my local was in itself a revelation of some concern to me, but more was to come. She had struck up a conversation with a young couple after a semi-introduction from a friend of a friend. A teacher at a girls school for twenty years, she chatted easily with the girl for some forty minutes: about her handmade jewellery business, their impending move to Covent Garden and so on, while the boyfriend was happy to sit and listen. Really, they were both very nice. As an afterthought she mentioned that the boyfriend, Alex, played in a local band.
Had I heard of Blur?
― Magnus, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nicole, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― K-reg, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Funny - you say Bea Arthur, I see Estelle Getty.
― David Raposa, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Well, the things is that I really need to know where to meet (pub, restaurant, etc) or where does Brian Molko lives.... you see...I'm going to travel to U.K. soon and I'd love to meet him, in fact, that's a big dream for me... =))
Hope you could help me, but if you can't, anyway, I'm totally gratefull at you guys, for your time and plus, 'cause I had a great time reading your posts. =)
Good luck to all of you
Love
Flor.-
PS: Please, excuse my bad english =( thanx =)
― Florencia Vargas, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DG, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Gale Deslongchamps, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Graham, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― anthony, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― nathalie, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally C, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ronan, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Months later found out that it was the CV guy and while I would still not have opened my bottom for him, I would like to have seen the flat of an old post punk legend.
― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 00:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Celeb Watcher, Monday, 10 October 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Charlie Ryan, Friday, 16 December 2005 02:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 16 December 2005 02:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Friday, 16 December 2005 03:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 16 December 2005 05:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 5 March 2006 06:32 (eighteen years ago) link
that does not count
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 28 June 2012 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
if james e l who started this thread accidentally encounters e l james who wrote 50 shades of grey i hope he will report it here.
― estela, Thursday, 28 June 2012 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
If Michael JAckson's ghost even encounters the throbbing phallus of eternity I hope he learns his messon
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 28 June 2012 13:46 (eleven years ago) link
This doesn't really count, i suppose, but I met a girl tonight who is totally Claire Danes' doppelganger. She's from LA too.
I once met Claire Danes' doppelganger's doppelganger.
― brödinger's cat (Pillbox), Thursday, 28 June 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
(at a bowling alley in Detroit, no less)
― brödinger's cat (Pillbox), Thursday, 28 June 2012 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
i thought gabbneb's post was going to be more claims about his heigl-lohan girl.
― estela, Thursday, 28 June 2012 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
Gosh I have met many famous people, I forget ... The most recent.. My sister works backstage in a theatre, I went to the stage door to give her a lift home, I walk in and there is Gillian Taylforth. She smiles a hello, and I say, "Is amanda around?" (she points left and I go).― mark g (mark g), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 13:36 (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mark g (mark g), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 13:36 (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Funnily enough, I got told about a year later, that after I left, G asks my sister "And who was that nice young man then?"
― Mark G, Thursday, 28 June 2012 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
Wait, what was Claire Danes doing in a bowling alley in Detroit?
― silverfish, Thursday, 28 June 2012 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
what do people do in bowling alleys?
― silverfish, Thursday, 28 June 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
They Bowl, Jasper my good friend...
― Mark G, Thursday, 28 June 2012 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― brödinger's cat (Pillbox), Thursday, 28 June 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
At the time (like 1997 i think), she was involved w/ indie-folk 90s dude Ben Lee, who had a gig that night at a club in the same building. I was w/ a friend killing time b/w bands at another gig in an adjunct club, and the four of us ended up in the same seating area, conjoined b/w two bowling lanes. She was nice, but didn't say a whole lot. Ben Lee was actually pretty supercool & funny, which I guess you'd have to be to look like he does and date Claire Danes for any length of time. All of us were indeed bowling, albeit poorly.
― brödinger's cat (Pillbox), Thursday, 28 June 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
Wait, how do you have enough time between bands at a show for a whole game of bowling?
― emil.y, Thursday, 28 June 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
well, it's all in the same building - and you know, that was 1997. Folks had different priorities back then. If standing in a congested line to swap yr shoes back meant that you missed the first five minutes of the Ganger gig, well, we were prepared to live with the consequences of the choice that we made to bowl. And if in choosing to bowl, you end up bowling with Claire Danes, you might not even regret missing the first ten minutes of the Ganger show. That's only like half a song for them anyway.
― brödinger's cat (Pillbox), Thursday, 28 June 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
Hahahaha, I would say fair enough, except I never got to see Ganger, so boo you. Bad priorities.
― emil.y, Thursday, 28 June 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
I met up with a high school/university friend last night who I've just gotten back in touch with after a couple of decades. He reminded me of something that I have no recollection of whatsoever (but he's very clear on this, and I have no reason whatsoever to question the accuracy): that as we left a screening of Apocalypse Now at Toronto's regal (and long-gone) University Theatre in '79 or '80, we passed Wilt Chamberlain leaving an adjacent bar or hotel.
― clemenza, Friday, 5 May 2017 00:37 (seven years ago) link