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Does anyone have any really famous friends, I generally know people who know people. But I am lacking in really famous friends, if anyone has any spare famous friends I would really like one. I will maintain a good ratio and perhaps one of my friends of a friend will become my friend and we can share. |
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i don't have any, but if you could hook me up with scarlett johansson that would be splendid. |
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i once spoke to ben fogle when i worked in a call center. does this count? |
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Unless you kept his phone number and have developed a relationship that invoves you calling him and listening to him say, 'hello, hello, hello, I know who you are and I have contacted the police' If so awesome, good work |
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I saw Shaun Murphy in a Pizza Hut. |
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I bet you didn't recognise him until he bent over the salad bar to reach the thousand island dressing |
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No joke, Tom Cruise and his entourage came to the movie theatre I worked at in high school. Well, it wasn't his entourage so much as him and 2 bodyguards. He came in through the back entrance and we had to be 'hush-hush' about it and were supposed to keep from looking him directly in the face. He wore large aviator sunglasses into the pitch-black theatre. This is the closest I have come to meeting a famous person. Tom Cruise is a strange man. |
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i had a chat with mike paradinas @ the Link in Bologna |
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my dad knew KEITH ALLEN. said he woz a right ponse. |
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old or new link? the old place was awesome, im not so fond of this new hall.. |
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lets talk about flowers. |
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no, sorry it was at Maffia in Reggio Emilia, 2005. i've been only one at the Link after a festival in Bologna and there i met Meg of 99 Posse, but i was too drunk to ask if it was old or new. |
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was it the place in the center of bologna, near the train station.. it had several halls. the new one is just one big hall. |
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Your flowers have died |
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yup, so i've been to the old one =) it was an afterparty after a big festival where i also seen the Massive Attack live with Horace Andy =) but it's all i can remember of the place. you come often around here don't ya? gotta check you out someday! |
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i saw massive attack in verona a few years ago..it was well nice. one of my fav gigs, but im a massive ma fan. they're playing here later this summer but not sure yet whether i'll go to the gig or not. i'd like to hehe im not going to italy much lately..but once i sort out my money situation i should be going again. lots of good gigs you have there! |
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do you remember this thread? DNA Concerti did it again and canceled at the last minute the Ae date in Rome too! fuckers. the same happened with the Cinematic Orchestra at the Estragon in Bologna. they're all waiting for you to sort it out =) i'm a MA fan too but i'm not sure i would see one of their gigs these days, the one i saw they were all there, Daddy G included. the last gig really worth i've seen was around here in Milan, the Easy All Stars. that was some happy happy time indeed =D |
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i thought daddy g was always a part of their live set up. it's odd hearing gigs are getting cancelled. must be some uncommon reasons though, as usually you italians really pack the venues..unlike here i might add. how come you're travelling that much? you're from milan, right? i thought most musicians performing in italy stop in milan as well.. |
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dunno why i thought at 3d playing all alone, bwah. btw yeah, it must be something related tot he venues not paying the artists or such, they never be clear when something like that happens. when they cancelled the Aphex gig i read somewhere that richard and his rephlex dude were really displeased of the shit, and that they were planning something hotter and bigger for 2008.. so who knows. rarely musician i'm interested to stops in milan unless it's summer, mostly reggae n stuff. |
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as if i am gona put my hands up lets name drop! |
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I don't have many friends, let alone famous ones. My most famous genuine friend is artist Harry Pye, though I'm really fucking pissed off I'm not mentioned on his Wiki page as I was pivotal, but pivotal in his career. I will use this as an opportunity to reel off the famous people I have come into contact with in passing. I used to work in this bar in the Kings Road, all sorts came in, I had Kate Moss's lighter (from 7-11), I didn't steal it, she just left it behind, god she was with that hatchet faced ex wife of Noel Gallagher, who else... Marc Almond, who only picked at his plate of pasta and didn't order, curiously, his customary pint of spunk, who's the guy that was in Neigbours then Prisilla, Queen of the desert, .. Guy... Pierce? He was nice. Charlotte Gainsbourg, she was HOT. that leggy Australian supermodel, I didn't notice her, Sian Philips... Lesley Ash before she turned into a duck, ... Ringo Starr...Rowan Atkinson (got turned away for trying to get in 5 minutes before we opened by an australian waiter who didn't recognise him)... Prince Naseem(technially a dwarf).... Damon Hill .... that northern bird, really stroppy, .. I can't remember her name, did a Bodingtons ad, Melanie.. Sykes? Danni Minogue was a regular, she was a painful cow, Marianne Faithful, you knew she was coming 5 minutes before she arrived as you could hear this approaching hacking sound of her coughing her lungs, kidneys and what remained of Jagger's wad up, ... in the IDM world I have met Dicky (just to say I love him), had a natter with Luke Vibert (nicest man in pop), gone to the toilet with Cylob, went back to the hotel with an LFO, nearly got knocked over by Goldie, he's not IDM, who else musical.. got a funny look off of Peter Hook, hugged Mark Eitzel, ... I think I've kind of met, in only stupid ways, every single famous person ever. I used to have Bucks Fizz's autograph, they did an appearance in Burtons, Jay Aston was still with them at the time. Dwell on that |
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"hotter and bigger for 2008" i'll say it again. i need to get myself a job! : ) |
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“Everything was perfect in terms of artist logistics / production etc.. Just a total bugger what happened in the end. Both me & Richard hold absolutely no feeling of this being DNA’s fault whatsoever. It’s easy to see that you were treated really bad by a short sighted council. [...] I am planning with Richard & the same promoters to make a bigger show happen in 08” http://www.basebog.it/articoliDettaglio.asp?IDArticolo=449 |
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who got a rephlex email so i can send them a reminder? XD |
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obviously they don't want him in rome. he should play in venice or maybe triest instead : ) |
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Aphex twin in Venice ---> now thats the ultimate chance to find the love of your life! |
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jon bon jovi |
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im inside one of the Olson twins now |
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i will read that later when i can focus on the fucking screen. and maybe namedrop altern-8 if im hammered. |
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An interesting tale you tell, belcho. |
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I met Mark Eitzel once and he is a really nice guy. He did a show in my hometown and about 10 people turned up for it. Great show, though. After the show he was drinking in the club as anyone else and my drunk brother approached him and then introduced us. We talked all night, about Nick Drake and classical music and a lot of other things. Later Eitzel went back to his hotel but the keyboard player of the band joined me and my friends for an afterparty at my place. I gave him my copy of Sensorama's "Welcom Insel" to give to Eitzel because of an American Music Club sample they have used on the final track on that album, "Aspirin". Years later I sent Eitzel a mail enquiring about the cd. He said that he remembered me and that he liked the Sensorama disc and that he had tried to get hold of Sensorama a million times without any success and that he did not know of them using the sample... which was the piano opening of "gratitude walks" from Mercury (released on the major label Virgin...hmmmm, lawsuite? ). I find all this a bit amusing, but it might just bore you to death... I've met quite a lot of other "famous" people (I used to be a music journalist for this student radio station), but no one particularly mainstream kind of famous ones. Among the most amusing meetings was smoking a spliff with the Third Eye Foundation, trying not to blush to much face to face with Alison Shaw of Cranes and trying to get a jet-lagged Merzbow and wife out of bed for an interview (my interpreter was a young Korean boy with very limited Japanese skills and no knowledge of noise music whatsoever, so that didn't turn out to good. It was fun, though). No famous friends though... |
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"my interpreter was a young Korean boy with very limited Japanese skills and no knowledge of noise music whatsoever, so that didn't turn out to good." kinda glad to hear that : ) as i had a similar experience interviewing dj krush. it's quite impossible to do a proper interview through a translator..specially with japanese guys i reckon..anyway, i think pretty much everyone else in music bussiness speaks english so i don't really know for sure haha. |
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my famous friends are the ones that drink a lot |
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Impossible indeed. My worst interview though, was with Natacha Atlas, on the phone. She was swearing so bad and sounding like she was going to punch me in the face any minute. Later I heard her interview with our biggest national radio station and mine sounded decent in comparison because she was apparently really, really pissed off with them. |
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haha..a good thing it was a phone interview then! at the station i work for various people cover various genres. im more in the experimental, electronic side of things so i only had nice experience so far. with rock music you never know what you're going to get..on top of that they often don't have much interesting to say either. it's really nice to do interviews because it can give you quite a different perception on their work in a way.. dj krush was the least interesting guy i interviewd so far..the closer they are to mainstream the less they've got to say i think : ) |
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That was my experience as well. Wish I was back in the radio business, I really miss it. I did it from '97 to '00 and a lot of interesting stuff was happening around that time. Free gigs, backstage passes, free records and sometimes even free booose. |
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