What famous people have you met?

Denster wrote:Robbie Coltrane.
Sean Bean
Andy Serkis
Terry Pratchett
Paul Scholes
Jane Danson
Nicky Butt (he beat me up at school!)

What a jackass.

strawberry float you cosmo!

What? He beat you up at school....

I was a lot smaller then!

denny wtf?

But surely you could've taken Nicky strawberry floating Butt...

He was the cock of our school. I met him in a pub about ten years ago. He said christ you're a big guy. Then we exchanged a knowing glance. He was a united player then. If he'd played for city i would have kicked strawberry float out of him!

John Barnes - we interviewed him (read:accosted him on the street) for a documentary we were filming about a rather heavy-set friend of ours. With no word of prompting the man comes out with, '[name]? Is he the guy I see down at McDonalds every day? That boy needs to cut down on the carbs.'

Sat behind Les Dennis at the Edinburgh festival last year. Words cannot express.

Paul Ince also actively persued my ex-girlfriend's older sister (who at the time was 18) whilst he was still married, to the extent that her Mum had to threaten to call the police if he didn't stop calling. I also asked for a cheese burger over his intercom when I was a kid.

Kinetic wrote:John Barnes - we interviewed him (read:accosted him on the street) for a documentary we were filming about a rather heavy-set friend of ours. With no word of prompting the man comes out with, '[name]? Is he the guy I see down at McDonalds every day? That boy needs to cut down on the carbs.'

Was he?

Most people probably don't care/haven't heard of these people but...

Matt Skiba - Met him in the toilets at Club Academy when he played a gig with Heavens. It was just me and him in there and I had the flu at the time. After talking to him for a couple of minutes and then getting my picture taken with him he noticed I wasn't well and thanked me for making the effort to come and see the show. I got an erection.

Claudio Sanchez - Met him outside after a show in London. I'd noticed some similarities between the story of his bands albums and the stories in Stephen King's Dark Tower books so I asked him about it. He said he'd only read them briefly. Yeah right, I'm on to you strawberry floater.

Paul Scholes - Met him in a chinese take away near my house just a couple of days after that FA Cup Final in which he missed a penalty. I spoke to him for a couple of minutes and he told me he couldn't stop thinking about it.

Melvin - The guitarist from NOFX, met him outside before a show in Manchester, I had a bottle of vodka with me and a really bad headache. I asked him if they had any paracetamol on the bus, he didn't know what I meant but eventually got it when my friend said "aspirin". He said he didn't but that more vodka should do the trick. It didn't.

I've had brief conversations with loads of other band members before/after shows in Manchester but none are really that exciting.

Alkaline wrote:Matt Skiba

You bastard.

Meeting Claudio and Skiba would be pretty mint.

Haven't really met anyone of note. Met all of New Found Glory after a show in Bristol, the drummer from Against Me! was in front of me in a queue in a corner shop (he was buying some Lucozade fact fans), the guitarist from Darkest Hour tried to thieve a cigarette from me, David Gold signed my match day programme and I walked past Dwight Yorke in a corridor (Villa-era).

I met the bassist from Taking Back Sunday. My mate has a picture of us together on her PC.

Corazon de Leon

I slapped hands with JERICHO once. strawberry float the guy above who actually met him, he didn't pay to go to a Fozzy gig.

PsychicSykes wrote:
Kinetic wrote:John Barnes - we interviewed him (read:accosted him on the street) for a documentary we were filming about a rather heavy-set friend of ours. With no word of prompting the man comes out with, '[name]? Is he the guy I see down at McDonalds every day? That boy needs to cut down on the carbs.'

Was he?

He was. And he didn't cut down on those carbs.

Bob Mortimer
Gary Pallister
Shonen Knife
Nigel Mansell's step dad (who was an arse)
Chris Martin, who I called an inbred wank-wit, when he charged into me as he was coming out of the Radio 1 building.
Oh, and that brummie bint who used to work with PJ and Duncan.

puppetBoy wrote:
Dr. Ian Malcolm wrote:Sir Bobby Charlton and Dave Benson Phillips...

My ex-housemate got called a wanker by Will Self. I'm insanely jealous.

What did the housemate do?

Alkaline wrote:
Paul Scholes - Met him in a chinese take away near my house just a couple of days after that FA Cup Final in which he missed a penalty. I spoke to him for a couple of minutes and he told me he couldn't stop thinking about it.

You let him do you up the bum though didn't you!?

Commander Jameson wrote:Bob Mortimer
Gary Pallister
Shonen Knife
Nigel Mansell's step dad (who was an ****)
Chris Martin, who I called an inbred wank-wit, when he charged into me as he was coming out of the Radio 1 building.
Oh, and that brummie bint who used to work with PJ and Duncan.

I've met Shonen Knife too, well I said "hello" to them and they said "hello" back- it was a pretty small venue.

I've also met Daevid Allen of Gong fame- a very nice chap.
I've met the lead singer of the Bluebells (some guy called Kenny I think) in the Everyman theatre bar in Liverpool. I couldn't tell if he was really "young at heart" though. He was a friend of a friend of a friend.
Celebrated comedian, actor, drunkard and wife-beater John Thomson went to my college. He would ride on the top deck of the bus with the "cool kids" and take the piss out the "uncool kids" (like myself) for their sport and amusement.
I met Craig Charles during filming of the TV series Cyberzone. He bought me a pint and autographed a beer mat. Awooga!
I once stood next to Gaz Top in the registration queue at ECTS.
Scouse tart Margi Clarke once winked at me as we passed each other on a pedestrian crossing outsode St John's shopping centre in Liverpool.
I (literally) bumped into Alex Cox once. We were both surprised. I said, "You're Alex Cox!" He looked terrified.

I once stood next to Roy "Catchphrase" Evans in a pub in Lytham.
I've spent a night drinking with Martyn Walsh- the bass player of the Inspiral Carpets.
Carl Cox once overtook me in some ridiculously expensive sports car. "COX 1" indeed.
I've met the bloke from Deep Blue Something who wrote international super-hit Breakfast At Tiffany's, I can't remember his name though.
I met both Phil Harrison and Ken Kutaragi at the inaugural European Playstation Developer's Conference.
I once shagged a girl who told me her dad looked just like Noel Edmonds. She also knew Elisabeth Beresford creator of the Wombles.

I'm sure there are more...

Octoroc wrote:
I've met Shonen Knife too, well I said "hello" to them and they said "hello" back- it was a pretty small venue.

I met them when they were supporting Nirvana back in '91. I was sat drinking with them but didn't know who they were until they left, only to reappear on stage 10 minutes later.

Octoroc wrote:I (literally) bumped into Alex Cox once. We were both surprised. I said, "You're Alex Cox!" He looked terrified.

Jealous. I love Repoman.

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