Random Announcements
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I was in Seven Dials, Covent Garden this weekend for a meal/drinks with my wife. We’d left a pub and walking down the road straight towards us was Thom Yorke from Radiohead. I’ve loved Radiohead since I was about 13, they’ve always been an important, ever present part of my life. I’ve never been so utterly bowled over by seeing a famous person in real life. He was a couple of feet from me but I just froze and stared. My wife said I was squeezing her hand very, very hard and just went extremely wide-eyed in disbelief haha.
To my shame I didn’t have the courage to stop him and speak, just to say “thank you”. I wonder how much it would be appreciated anyway, I imagine not a huge amount. But he realised I was looking (staring like an excited schoolgirl) and gave me a slow, polite nod. Possibly a well honed technique to preemptively stop dickheads like me from approaching.. but for him to acknowledge my presence absolutely made my day… -
@jerkules I would 1000% do the exact same thing if I saw him.
Here’s a story that happened here in Austin a few years ago. It made me more than a bit jealous, but on the other hand there’s no way I could’ve kept my shit together haha…
https://www.vulture.com/2016/10/radiohead-went-synth-shopping-with-a-fan.html
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@popvulture that story is freakin’ incredible.
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Right?!? So wild. One of the things I've always loved most about them is their geekiness about gear. Would be so cool to be a fly on the wall while they're playing around with stuff.
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Wow! I am a huge Radiohead and Thom Yorke fan and have been from an early age too.
I have kind of a similar story about Omar Rodriguez-Lopez from At the Drive In and The Mars Volta.
I was at the Ottobar in Baltimore, MD standing in line to take a piss. I noticed the dude a in front using the urinal looked like Omar. As he went to the sink I saw that it was in fact him. I let out an embarrassing, "OMAR?!" and he (and everyone in line) turned, looking at me. I held out my hand to shake his, but in my bafflement I didn't realize he hadn't even washed his hands yet. He gave me the one minute please hand gesture and reached into his pocket for a small bottle of hand sanitizer. We shook hands right after he shook his…well. You know.
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Also cool. I saw MV at Rams Head Live where they still employ bathroom attendants to hand you a mint and some cologne. So in essence I had almost the exact same experience.
Except instead of my nice bathroom you were at Ottobar, which is almost an exact replica of the bathroom from Trainspotting.
I did meet Bob Mould in the back alley outside of 9:30 in DC. He may have had his dick out, I don’t recall.
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Yup, that was it. I went with the guys from the Tattoo Museum. It was a pretty legit show.
They played there twice that same year and I went to both shows. Cedric freaked out and threw the drumset into the crowd bc people were smoking in the crowd when he asked them not to. It was hilarious and lame at the same time. I smoked weed and laughed about it.
