Tedious tales
Did I Ever Tell You About The Time...: "Did you meet a pop star once? Is it a dull story? Stand up straight and tell the rest of the class."
Personally speaking, I'm sure there are a few anecdotes that would fit the bill, but all that comes to mind immediately are instances when I've made an arse of myself. Such as asking Tom Los Campesinos! what he was planning on doing after finishing university. Or (most recently) enthusiastically thanking Stuart Braithwaite for helping to get Codeine to reform, rather than for any of his own band's musical output over the years.
Actually, there you go - I once shared a urinal with the wee man before the 'Gwai's set at Supersonic in 2007, and wished him well for the show before he left. It turned out to be the most disappointing Mogwai performance I've seen to date.
And then there was the time a few of us spent half an hour in a club explaining Ross Noble's concept of Lansburyitis (essentially, the condition in which any song you try to hum inexplicably mutates into the Murder, She Wrote theme tune) to the keyboard player from Six By Seven.
Stop me now, I could go on all night...
(Thanks to Del for the link.)
Monday, January 23, 2012
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Standing around in Reflex Records as one of only four people who'd turned up to a Headswim signing in 1994. Small talk about what I was up to at college with Dan Glendenning was nothing if not highly awkward.
This, and the 'Pugwash Interviews', proved that I really should not talk to pop stars.
Indeed, I refused to speak to Leon whilst he was in Autons. ;-)
I didn't dip into the chronicles of band interviews. The encounter with a sullen teenage Llama Farmers was pretty awkward, as was the time my accomplice and I upset Six By Seven man-mountain Chris Olley. (Made it up to him later, though, the same night we were talking to the keyboard player James Flower.)
Still, there were some great interviews too - Pavement and Arab Strap spring to mind.
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