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
― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 00:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dan (dan), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 00:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 01:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 01:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 01:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 02:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
Then he finished his beer and got on stage.
― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 02:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 15:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 16:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 16:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 16:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 16:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
And later that night he and I tagteamed Uma.
― Yancey (ystrickler), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 16:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― daria gray (daria gray), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 17:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
Chloe Sevigny and Paul Kaye coming into Madame Jo Jos about two seconds after Nick's gig there had finished. Fuck was he cross he didn't see them, 'cos they turned straight around when they discovered music was over. At a Beck show was kissing boyfriend on balcony, only to turn around to see my pal Graham who co-wrote Father Ted blushing away in the company of Peter Baynham and Mr Christopher Morris. CRINGE.
Liam Gallagher tried to mate his fuzzy black coat with my fuzzy white coat, stood next to me at last Manics-with-Richie show. I don't like Oasis but he was fucking gorgeous, has the startled Peter O' Toole eyes thing, so...
Gwen Stefani pokes me on shoulder at weird Blur gig where Spice Girls invaded stage to say, 'are those the fucking Spice Girls?'
Gormless girls from college went to do open-mic gig at Speakeasy in Village. They are taking pictures of selves in front of venue afterward. Friend and I are sitting on steps of felafel store, eating our dinners. Keith Richards and Billy Idol come out of Scrap Bar opposite and shout, 'why don't you take pictures of someone FAMOUS?'
other people's houses:
Hugo Speer from the Full Monty getting baked in my friend's front room.
Kathleen Hanna getting baked in my friend's kitchen.
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 17:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
Weird thing about Bill Murray is we spotted him and started to get closer and then he was gone. It was strange. He de-materialized or something.
― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 17:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 17:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick A., Wednesday, 30 October 2002 17:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
best i can do is Claire Danes and her boyf on melrose in LA (didn't recognise either of them to be honest) and then, 10 minutes later in golden apple, Allyce Beasley (miss DiPesto from moonlighting)
― koogs, Wednesday, 30 October 2002 18:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 18:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
otm
― brödinger's cat (Pillbox), Thursday, 28 June 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
Wait, what was Claire Danes doing in a bowling alley in Detroit?
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