I Just Saw Stereolab

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they were brilliant. I gave LAtetia a "thumbs up " and she smiled and waved to me. outside before the show I saw Tim and I didnt quite rtecognize him. we exchanged indifferent glances. then, i thought " I just passed my idol and didnt even say hi" ever happen to you?

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

One time I didn't recognize Graeme Downes even when he sold me a Verlaines shirt. Very frustrating.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I drunkenly introduced myself to some really tall guy named Bob one very special night at a one-off Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 show in Oakland, 'round two years ago. The guy who helped put on the show told me the next morning "So, I see you and Bob Weston of Shellac were talking, and..."

― Brian MacDonald, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Martin Phillipps sat next to me on the bus and I panicked and couldn't say hi.

― rainy, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

aged about 17, i met Mike Dred at the orbit in leeds. i was fucked on e, and i spoke to him after he'd just damn djed, and didn't know it was him. duh!

― gareth, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Both Laetitia and Kathleen Hanna have stood at my left shoulder while I was watching support bands, and by the time I'd noticed, worked out something to say ("er, good aren't they?" - duh) and was ready to say it - they'd gone.

Philip Glass once strolled passed me, and I just had time to nod hello.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i was once dying to interview mary-rose crook for something or other. but i am too chicken shit. i once was standing a metre away from shayne carter and dying to jump his bones, but fortunately i restrained myself.

(hey guess what i lurve shayne.)

other than that i have had no really big famous people that i freaked out about.

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I got a hug from Laetitia once, when she was still going by the name of Seaya. She told me I was "very sweet", which wasn't quite the "oh my god, let me into your trousers" that I was hoping for, but it was a start... I also bought tickets from Mary 'Lab at the Scala box office before it closed down a few years ago. And was so gobsmacked at chatting to Tom out of Th' Faith Healers (who had just supported Stereolab at the Astoria) that I left my brand new t-shirt on a wall in Charing Cross Road. Oops.

― Markx, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I met a guy called Darryn? at Liz's party. He said he was a drummer. I asked him which bands he drummed for and he said "the verlaines" and I could think of was my friend steve's voice imitating Death and the Maiden but replacing teh chorus bit with Fella - fella - fella - fellatio.

I dont think I was as impressed as I ought to have been, but he did not look that scintillating and person M was going to jump his bones so he was unavailable to scratch any itches I might have had.

Drummers are good with their hands, well thats what Steve says.

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you forgot the best part of the graeme downes story, mene. when steve was singing "fella-fella-fellatio", graeme downes was standing right behind him.

graeme downes was kinda cute in the eighties, but nowadays he is a helmet-head with stupid hair

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've never heard a Stereolab record.

― DG, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sigh..that's our DG! The Forum idiot.

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

its okay, mene is your fan

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh Di, you are SOOO embarrassing. {titter}

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one does ones best

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Di, you don't just do your best, you excel. Thats the last time I venture out in public with you, you are as bad as Kat.

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

is the scott CAL not a public place?

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes, and this debacle is the final straw for me, how dare you suggest I am anything other than a rabid bull dog like creature? On ILE no less

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You two should think about swapping phone numbers.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

>>you are just as bad as kat.

yeah, and shes the woman of my dreams. your doomed! you suck. i win. game over.

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sarah we're already drinking buddies. are you suggesting we see each other outside the pub?

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

game over? everyones a winner baby

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh mene beneath your brash exterior lurks something as soft-centred as a creme egg. sorry if i ruined your credibility

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Heaven forbid. But you two do seem to be taking over ILE.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you seem to have a thing about dental decay dont you? thats where creme eggs will get you

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

its all an effort to ride that stats cock till it comes, sweet sarah. yes we are stats whores.

at least i don't smell bad, menelaus. stinky poo stinky poo knickers knickers knickers

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes, but I can sell them online and make myself a fortune, so there

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeah, if it weren't for perverts, you would be worthless

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

perverts are an underrecognised sector of the community, I provide a valuable service and unlike some, I charge for it

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes, a pint of beer and your anyones, eh love

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mike, you are a meanie.

― DG, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, it takes something classy, like Bernadino spumante

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

when rickyT and i saw Throwing Muses, during the support (linoleum) Bernard Georges was standing RIGHT BEHIND ME but i didn't notice. rick came back with the beer and said 'bloody hell katie, that was Bernard standign behind you!' but by then he was gone. *sigh* we did get to interview Kristin Hersh some years later though. that was kind of AMAZING!!! and yes, we did babble like fools. she was most tolerant and lovely.

― katie, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and Di and Menelaus, get yr own forum!

― katie, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm right behind you hunnybunch (lol)

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

if you don't like it katie, don't read it. its pretty easy to scroll past.

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

OK, we have been a bit unruly. but I do have a vapid story to share. In my sordid rockin' youth I met Metallica and Lars asked me if I was paying too much tax.

pales in comparison doesn't it?

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

aye Di, but if i scroll i might miss something INTERESTING!!!

like Menelaus's Metallica story for example. that was ace! i ain't against you being slushy, but on *every* thread is a bit much.

― katie, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

At least keeping just to one thread would be a little easier to skip past than multiple threads at the same time.

At a party I was rambling loudly about the Magnetic Fields. Then someone said I should be a little quieter for CLAUDIA AND STEPHIN WERE BEHIND ME. I didn't say Hi then but I so drunkenly obviously cornered Stephin for a light later on in the evening, saying "lucy lucy come for a fag" just so Stephin could light my cigarette for me. He wuvs me ahem.

A scary thought: I have realised it is possible that I might have seen the Moldy Peaches and not RECOGNISED THEM arrrrgh and NOT A WORD FROM you Peaches bashers out there.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

moldy peaches are OK! that "on top" song is FINE!

― katie, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I slagged off Patsy Kensit once and didn't realise that she was sitting in the row in front of me in the cinema. Does that count? She didn't look too chuffed.

― Markx, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I agree! The Arsemonkey and I have a Cunning Plan to kidnap the Moldy Peaches for we wuv them so much. Hearing them for the first time was like a whole new GRATE definition of punXoR joy and people who say they are just stewwwwwwwdents DON'T UNDERSTAND, MAN, and I set the skool dog on them chiz. I will also write a masterpiece on the Moldy Peaches along with my Essex Green ming masterpiece.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mark you haf just reminded me about when Stephin Merritts mum nicked set lists offa me. I certainly didn't recognise HER sitting behind us in the QEH. She haf AGED and grown MING since the photo of her and her boyfriend that is on almost EVERY Mag Fields cd out there....

I was shaking with FEAR.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I sat opposite Gary Waldhorn (Vicar of Dibley, Brush Strokes, bald) on the tube once - he was caressing the thigh of a beatiful blonde model type. Being Jacko's boss was obviously more high profile than I'd have guessed.

And I've been tongued by the current face of Wrigleys - the fat bloke who bashes up people's cream cakes with his oversized pack of chewy. Urk.

― Markx, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

we have a lack of famous people here in NZ, especially in Dunners, though we do have our local celebs. I'm wracking my brains to come up with someone else effervescent. um, does watching Graeme Downes play the pokies count as a brush with celebrity?

Oh yeah, and I have been harrassing Duane Zarakov online.

thats it for me I'm afraid.

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i don't really have many brushes with fame either. i guess graeme downes coming into my work at the dunedin vehicle testing station and pouting at me miss humble receptionist because his mercedes failed its warrant of fitness.

hey and lots have people have told me that martin philipps is a fan of my old band, the murdering monsters. (shameless plug)

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

this is not a music celebrity story but...

I was working in an Indian restaurant as a waitress when the Indian cricket teams captain came in for some good home style cooking. He started a conversation with the waiter there, also a student like myself, and told him to pursue his dreams. Apparently I had reached the pinnicle of my career.

until of course, I get married.

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I always get nervous when I'm around one of the McDonald brothers from Redd Kross. How embarrassing, they probably lurk here. Did you know Steven McDonald is in Courtney Love's new band? And that Courtney has a new Strokes-inspired song called "Julian, I'm a Little Older Than You." A little? Sounds a bit Morrissey, huh? I bet she lurks here, too. Hi, Cricket!

― Arthur, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i saw st etienne on upper street about a month ago. and possibly Morgan Lhote at Dalston Junction.

― gareth, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

J Mascis walked past me once. Walked past Bardot Pond at Terrastock. Think I saw the girl from Bis at Ladbroke Grove station.

― james, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i saw Manda Rin from Bis years ago (when she was cute) in Rough Trade, Covent Garden. but was obv too scared to say hello

― m jemmeson, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, lawsey, this is a good one. Many moons ago I went to Reading, the one Hole played at when CL was still a bit dissolute. I was backstage with a SuperPass (pals with Elastica in their more sober days) and in the course of things I was introduced to this girl and Eric, her boyfriend. I just said hi and thought nothing more, but a few weeks later my friend reminded me that it was in fact Drew Barrymore. So either I was a) shmastica or b) not really paying attention or c) all of the above.

― suzy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I saw Vic Reeves outside HMV in Ealing...we exchanged shifty glances...then he dashed off into a van with blacked out windows.

― james, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And that Courtney has a new Strokes-inspired song called "Julian, I'm a Little Older Than You."

You know, I have no idea whether to regard this information as a sign of desperation on La Love's part or just a convenient excuse to beat Mr. Casablancas over the head, merely for fun.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Courtney likes to get 2-for-1's so BOTH, Ned (do I have STORIES? Indeed I do). I no like her, she skeezer with festerin' knobs on. The woman's finger is on the pulse yet up her nose/arse. See what I mean?

― suzy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm sorry, I should have clarified -- my point was that *I* wanted to beat Mr. Casablances about the head for that song title, just for existing and causing it to be created. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I saw Billy Mackenzie in a bar in Dundee looking cool and aloof, as you would expect. I was tempted to say hi but he was with a couple of other guys and I would have felt like a dick going and speaking to him. Of course now that he's gone it's one of those things I'll always regret.

― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ooh, Ned's gonna hate this. Mr Mackenzie introduced to me at Cure aftershow party by one R Smith. Six weeks later he was six feet under. Brrr.

― suzy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*SIGH* You just *happen* to know Billy Mackenzie and he *happens* to introduce you to Robert Smith, two of my musical heroes right there. And even though you don't know me at the time or vice versa, you very unkindly do *NOT* go forward in a time machine to confirm my interest and therefore proceed not to bring me back through it to meet them. Hmph on you, Suzy, double hmph! ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*rereads message* Make that knowing Robert first and all that. BUT IT DOES NOT DIMINISH THE PAIN.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ned, even Nick was jealous of that one. I brought my friend Josie to this gig (flapper girl with Cure-itis) and we were also treated to RS making silly dances for his 4-year-old niece and he poured us big glasses of champagne. Don't know the man, we were just acquainted and if I did the what's my name challenge he'd have 50/50 probability. At the time I'd just finished with a (co)media(n) type who was an RS Suckup Fanboy and finagled a part in the video for the 13th. I shall say no more, the Brits don't like the guy I refer to much these days.

― suzy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just heard a good story, perhaps Liz or hamish can elaborate. A local scenester Alan Starrat ( he spells his name Star Rat, I think it should be *rat) was not looking where he was driving and hit a fresh grave. He is known here for video taping everything so I bet he got some footage before he crawled up to his friends place to get help extracting the car.

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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