Guess who my ma met today...

rondeco

There she was in sallins train station waiting on her sister when she starts chatting to a 'young lad' as she called him. Turns out it was Damien Rice getting the train to newbridge with just his guitar. And what did my ma say to him?

"Are you learning how to play the guitar?"


No, he said, hes going over to record some stuff in newbridge. He tells her he is already kind of well known. So she asks him his name and he tells her: 'Damian Rice'. She says 'I must remember that name now so I can say I met you when you become famous!':eek: He laughed and asked her for a light but she doesn't smoke and lectured him on the dangers of smoking! Plus she kept on saying how gorgeous he was? She's nearly 70! She told him there was a person out in the carpark smoking so he asked her to mind his guitar while he went for a smoke!! mad or what!!

Sleipnir

Groupies eh? :rolleyes:

Terry

i went to school with one of his former bandmates. yay me.
the one from his old band who is in a new band now who are doing fairly well. i can't remember names.

Raphael

Somethig similar happened to my mum. She was in a bar and this guy came over to her and asked her for a light. SHe gave it to him, he thanked her and walked off

Someone else came over to ehr and asked "What did he say to you?" Confused, my mum said "Who?"

"Phil Lynnot!"

kaimera

I met yore ma today :v:

mloc

my aunt once refused the then president mary robinson to a conference because she forgot her ticket... she didn't know who it was

julep wrote:

i went to school with one of his former bandmates. yay me.
the one from his old band who is in a new band now who are doing fairly well. i can't remember names.

it wasn't a guy in Bell X1 was it?

Rhyme

kaimera wrote:

I met yore ma today :v:

I was surpised no-one said that earlier :rolleyes:

Dyr

kaimera wrote:

I met yore ma today :v:

As soon as i saw the thread title i knew someone had beat me to it :mad:

Terry

mloc wrote:

my aunt once refused the then president mary robinson to a conference because she forgot her ticket... she didn't know who it was



it wasn't a guy in Bell X1 was it?

yeah. one of those guys.
can't remember his name right now. seemed like a sound enough guy. didn't really know him that well, even though there was only 60 people in our year.

KdjaCL

Oh a who met a **** musician thread, i met Puff Daddy once and then got threatened by his entourage for sitting in the wrong empty seat.


kdjac

kaimera

Saw Jack L at Dublin Airport once.

No one believes me tho

kittenkiller

That's the cutest story I've heard in a long time.
He must've been so chuffed to have met such a legend in such a mundane situation.
Just goes to show that you never really know how your day'll pan out!
Bless!

iFight

Pretty cool alright, Damien Rice is THE man.

ronbyrne2005

He's just like the rest of us, the rest of us wait at train stations, starstruck by proxy or wha. My granny met oasis in the bar of hotel off grafton street one saturday afternoon around ten years ago, no big deal, she's dead now.

Terry

KdjaCL wrote:

Oh a who met a **** musician thread, i met Puff Daddy once and then got threatened by his entourage for sitting in the wrong empty seat.


kdjac

i read that as "paddy duffy" and wondered who the **** he was.

yo, mofo. gizout of dat chizair.

iFight

ronbyrne2005 wrote:

He's just like the rest of us, the rest of us wait at train stations, starstruck by proxy or wha. My granny met oasis in the bar of hotel off grafton street one saturday afternoon around ten years ago, no big deal, she's dead now.

So, would you not like to meet the artist who writes the songs you listen to?

the Shades

I was in a Blockbusters in Italy and they kept playing Damian Rice over and over again. I left after about 10 minutes because I was starting to feel suicidal and in desperate need of alcohol.

JohnCleary

Who?

kittenkiller

JohnCleary wrote:

Who?

Duh!!! read the original post ya yoke!

She met her sister!!!

Duh!!!

PullMyFinger!

rondeco wrote:

"Are you learning how to play the guitar?"

Classic

cashback

rondeco wrote:

She told him there was a person out in the carpark smoking so he asked her to mind his guitar while he went for a smoke!! mad or what!!

I'd have flung his guitar onto the tracks in front of a train. That new material might have been postponed a little while...

Zapho

Guess who my ma met today...

Your real father? ooooh burn!

nuttz

to quote George Hook: "Whoop dee doo!"

vector

to quote Perry Como "Hoop-dee-doo"

rogue-entity

I did meet Paul Daniels (the magician) once, in a computer store of all places. The former Planet PC in Waterford. I was pricing something, he walks in, and I started thinking, I know him from somewhere...

When in LA, I met one of the actors from Terminator 2, that black guy who Sarah Connors tries to shoot in the hope of stopping Skynet. He is the same person who detonates the bomb at the Cyberdyne building near the end.
I was standing with my friend outside the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, and he just casually walked past me.

Really, I just dont think its a big deal... now if I was sitting at a bar in LA and by chance Jessica Alba walked up to me... *keeps dreaming*.

Tar.Aldarion

I've met eh...eh....eh... *pause*


Anyway, Mr. Rice hung out with somebody I know before. She wasn't very taken with his personality.
There are very few famouse people I would care to meet. Maybe RDS, Avril and Amy. that's all I can think of.

Ruu_Old

Once saw Michelle Smith (or De Bruin) going through Dublin Airport as well as Martin McGuinness and that Naked Camera chap, Patrick McDonnell walking around Cavan town a few years ago around the time of Don't Feed the Gondalas.:)

il gatto

Meeting Damien Rice would ruin my day, in the unlikely event of me recognising him. Your Ma was right. He should learn the guitar, seeing as he's a "musician" and all.:rolleyes:
I "met" (nodded and said hello to) Mike Scott (singer from the Waterboys) and Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick.
I also met your Ma:D

Irish Halo

Juniper were his old band wasn't it? The first Bell X1 album has a few songs written by him on it. Don't like them but I really like O.

Jeez I've only met James Iha, David Grohl, Dexter Holland(The Offspring), Noodles(The Offspring), Steve Harris(Iron Maiden) and other less famous people like Billy Zane, One Minute Silence, Machinehead, Raging Speedhorn and Breed77.

Bluetonic

rogue-entity wrote:

I did meet Paul Daniels (the magician) once

I'd like to meet him... not a lot, but I'd like to meet him.

KTRIC

I was in the cafe on the top floor of the Easons building in Dublin and whilst I was buttering my scone I noticed non other than Mr Gerry Adams sitting at the next table.

I litterally inhaled my scone and coffee and ran out the door :eek:

Bluetonic

KTRIC wrote:

I was in the cafe on the top floor of the Easons building in Dublin and whilst I was buttering my scone I noticed non other than Mr Gerry Adams sitting at the next table.

I said hello to him back in the 1980s. He obliged and said hello back.

I prefered his TV voice.

You should never meet your heroes they'll always leave you disappointed.

binman

kaimera wrote:

Saw Jack L at Dublin Airport once.

No one believes me tho

I believe you. I saw them at Dublin Airport too. They even got the same plane to Amsterdam as us. Don't worry when someone told me who they were I responded with "Who?".

In other news, I taught Sinead O'Connor all about CD-Rs where I used to work.

Mrs_Doyle

rondeco wrote:

Turns out it was Damien Rice getting the train to newbridge with just his guitar!!

I worked in a cinema in town. It was the first night that 'Closer' was showing in the big screen, and Damien Rice had contributed a song or two to the soundtrack.
So he had booked a few seats in the big screen for himself and his family. Anhwhos, we double booked him, and by the time he arrived the cinema was full.
As soon as Mr Rice realised the cinema was full he went to an elderly usher, and explained that he had booked tickets to the show, but there didn't appear to be any seats Left.
The usher called for the manager, who is in her 40's, and explained what had happened.
Neither the usher, nor the manager, knew who the young lad before them actually was.
Mr Rice was getting a bit frustrated now, as he had dragged his family all the way out to our cinema, on the provision that his seats were booked, and here he was, family in tow, arguing with our boss.
My manage was getting a bit irate, and eventually came into the cash box, to see if we had any vouchers she could offer him, or if there were any seats available for another performance.
She waddles into the office and says "the bleedin cheek of some people, some scruffy, homeless lookin' young pup out there is giving me lip, and I'm not having it".
We quickly explained who the scruffy, homeless lookin' young pup was, and immediately her attitude changed.
She arranged for him and his family to enjoy a private screening in the media box, and gave them free sweets, drinks and popcorn as an apology!:D

Degsy

I met bono once at a party in around 1988,when he was pretty much the most famous person in the entire world.I was cahtting to him for ages and he wrote his name on my wrist with a marker for some reason(alongside a comedy wristwatch),anyway,U2 were not my thing but a bloke in my class was U2 mad so i showed him the autograph in school on monday he says "Thats not the way bono writes his name!"

Terry

lust4life, your post has been deleted.
consider yourself slapped.

sleepy, no threats please. even if they are in jest, they may be taken out of context.

Sleepy

Deleted my post.

manonthemoon

rondeco wrote:

There she was in sallins train station waiting on her sister when she starts chatting to a 'young lad' as she called him. Turns out it was Damien Rice getting the train to newbridge with just his guitar. And what did my ma say to him?

"Are you learning how to play the guitar?"


No, he said, hes going over to record some stuff in newbridge. He tells her he is already kind of well known. So she asks him his name and he tells her: 'Damian Rice'. She says 'I must remember that name now so I can say I met you when you become famous!':eek: He laughed and asked her for a light but she doesn't smoke and lectured him on the dangers of smoking! Plus she kept on saying how gorgeous he was? She's nearly 70! She told him there was a person out in the carpark smoking so he asked her to mind his guitar while he went for a smoke!! mad or what!!

Was he crying? I'd say he cries a lot

"The blowers daughter ..." cries

"And so it is..." cries

"The train is late..." cries

"Have you a light..." cries

MrJoeSoap

rondeco wrote:

There she was in sallins train station waiting on her sister when she starts chatting to a 'young lad' as she called him. Turns out it was Damien Rice getting the train to newbridge with just his guitar. And what did my ma say to him?

"Are you learning how to play the guitar?"


No, he said, hes going over to record some stuff in newbridge. He tells her he is already kind of well known. So she asks him his name and he tells her: 'Damian Rice'. She says 'I must remember that name now so I can say I met you when you become famous!':eek: He laughed and asked her for a light but she doesn't smoke and lectured him on the dangers of smoking! Plus she kept on saying how gorgeous he was? She's nearly 70! She told him there was a person out in the carpark smoking so he asked her to mind his guitar while he went for a smoke!! mad or what!!

What sort of a person says "I'm kind of well known"...

Its like "I'm actually kind of a big deal".

:mad: :rolleyes:

ErinGoBrath

I had a few pints in the company of Colin Farrell in the smoking part of the 51 pub on Haddington Road.

He was very friendly and suprisingly sound. Going by the media you'd think he'd be a total ignoramus prick!

Setun

Met Dave Brubeck once. And Soweto Kinch. Have that.

tallus

My flight from Amsterdam to Dublin was held up by about 45 minutes a few years back by none other than Shane McGowan. I have never seen anyone look so pale. He literally looked like death warmed up.

NeMiSiS

I used to seee Kiera Knightly everyday for 3 months working on a film.. and had lunch with Clive Owen a few times.. and didn't have a clue who he was .. and met Jerry Bruchimer.. or however you spell it.

hshortt

Meself and missus met Michael Jackson in a 5th Avenue Computer store while on Honeymoon. I thought he was Prince at first, wearing a snorkel jacket with the hood zipped right up over his head. We got to say hello and he did his peace sign with his hand, we left straight away and outside the groupies were forming having followed him in, we told them we'd said hello and they started crying and heaving and asking us what he said, did, wore, looked like etc etc etc, total nutters.

Anyway.

snb

Have to say Im a big fan of Damien Rice and this time last year was dying to see him play live, but no gigs / no tickets.

My boyfriend played regularly at this open mike night in town which i was dragged to every week to sit by myself while he played. The pub wwas always fairly empty adn it was no big deal really. Eventually one Wednesday I said, 'hey you know what I ve done the good girlfriend bit , go on your own'

Who turned up that night, just to chill & listen ? Mr R. He played a number and they all had a few pints together afterwards. Typical.

Also Michelle Smith/De Bruin was studying in UCD the same time as me, was in one class with her ( aswell as about 148 other people).

Met Mundy in a bar ( he's not so famous).

Went to a movie in New york & Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen sat about 5 rows away from us. Movie was Alfie and they had no entourage.

joejoem

I was at a party in New York standing beside this guy having a directionless chat when photographers started taking our photo. I said "This happened already today, why the **** are they taking our photo"

Him
"I think they are taking photos of me"
Me
"Why, who are you?"
Him
"David Copperfield"
Me
"David Coppe..... Ah you go out with Claudia Schiffer"
Him - Blank stare, then walked off.

Chinafoot

I met Jonathon Rhys Myers when I was working in a clothes shop in Temple Bar about 6 years ago. He was unbelievably arrogant. Picked up a second hand jumper and tried to haggle the price even though it was around £10. When I told him I couldn't do anything about the price he actually said "Do you know who I am?" In the end he paid the full price..

Saw one of the Sugababes in a restaurant in Melbourne and one of those knobs from Blue in the casino there.

My uncle was Phil Lynott's mechanic.

joejoem

manonthemoon wrote:

Was he crying? I'd say he cries a lot

"The blowers daughter ..." cries

"And so it is..." cries

"The train is late..." cries

"Have you a light..." cries

brilliant!

Zapp Brannigan

Daddio wrote:

Met Dave Brubeck once. And Soweto Kinch. Have that.

Winner!

I met Dave Mustaine, he was a genuinely funny guy in a sarcastic cutting way

Kolodny

Not sure who my mum has met, but I know one of Bell X1's mums. Does that count?

il gatto

I've already said as much, but Damien Rice is crap, and it's beyond me how he's made any sort of a name for himself beyond our shores. Crap, crap, crap.