Famous people that you have met.

buck65

The other thread about whether to get an autograph off someone famous in the street got me thinking about the people I've met so who have you met?

I'll kick off so,

all the band members of Metallica, Faith No More (twice), Sepultura and a few other metal bands that wouldn't be well known.

Shane McGowan.

Writers Richard Ford, Joanne Harris. A few more to come when I remember.

Gavlor

buck65 wrote: »

The other thread about whether to get an autograph off someone famous in the street got me thinking about the people I've met so who have you met?

I'll kick off so,

all the band members of Metallica, Faith No More (twice), Sepultura and a few other metal bands that wouldn't be well known.

Shane McGowan.

Writers Richard Ford, Joanne Harris. A few more to come when I remember.

What a brilliantly unique idea for a thread



http://touch.boards.ie/search?q=Famous+people+met

Joe Strummer, who happened to be keeping company with Shane MacGowan at the time.. A gentleman of the highest order. God bless you Joe, RIP.

EICVD

I don't meet famous people, famous people meet me!

jacksie66

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DellyBelly

I've been lucky to meet a few famous people around the place. Kathryn Thomas, Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh and Mark Gagney would be the most famous of the ones i've met. All very nice and friendly.

Gone Drinking

Gavlor wrote: »

What a brilliantly unique idea for a thread

http://touch.boards.ie/search?q=Famous+people+met

Same could be said about most threads on boards.ie, that's what happens when people have been discussing everything for this many years. Example below.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=90592261

http://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?query=ride+on+lawn+mower+service

EverythingGood

I met Bono in mass! Colm Toibin, Charlie Haughey - does he count?

buck65

Gavlor wrote: »

What a brilliantly unique idea for a thread



http://touch.boards.ie/search?q=Famous+people+met

What a dick you are!

nhunter100

Nigel Kennedy, Johnny Cash, UB 40, Colm Meaney, Woodie Harleson quite a few more but I don't count politicians or people's names I can't spell.

nhunter100

EverythingGood wrote:

Charlie Haughey - does he count?

Was it at a seance?

Fox Hound

https://www.boards.ie/b/thread/2057707408/2#102653636

This came from my unique Idea :-)

TOEJOE

Met George Martin of Beatles fame,nice man.

MilesMorales1

Paul McCartney and JK Rowling. Also not counting politicians.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Pecker Dunne.

Icaras

Bruce Springsteen with a friend...he went for a piss...wife talks to friend, friend is Bono!!!!!!!!!
It defiantly happened.

Winterlong

The fella, an extra, who used to sit in the back ground of the pub in Glenroe.

aziz

The guitarist from spandau ballet stood on my foot in golden discs,
Does that count:P

fiachr_a

Stephen Travers, the survivor from the Miami Showband. Still have no idea why he wanted to talk with me.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I've met, and dined, with David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins, Richard Fortey and Terry Wogan

suicide_circus

I once played pitch n putt with Stephen Hawking

Help!!!!

buck65 wrote: »

The other thread about whether to get an autograph off someone famous in the street got me thinking about the people I've met so who have you met?

I'll kick off so,

all the band members of Metallica, Faith No More (twice), Sepultura and a few other metal bands that wouldn't be well known.

Shane McGowan.

Writers Richard Ford, Joanne Harris. A few more to come when I remember.

Pele
Frank Skinner
A load of soccer & rugby players

cml387

Konnor Stale Pear wrote: »

I've met, and dined, with David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins, Richard Fortey and Terry Wogan

I would only be able to babble "We're not worthy, we're not worthy".

Rubberlegs

Terry Wogan, Ronnie Corbett and Mick McCarthy and others I can't remember offhand at a golf event years ago. Albert Reynolds. Pat Ingoldsby. Ryan Tubridy a few times. He is very decent, promised a Holey Moley mug to my daughter if she wrote to him about 15 years ago, and still have it as a pen holder . Have a photo of him with another daughter, and spoke with him as an audience member before The Late Show started a few years back.
Marian Keyes and Nell McCafferty. Met and got my photo with Philomena Lynott, an absolute lady.

kfallon

73Cat wrote: »

Terry Wogan, Ronnie Corbett and Mick McCarthy and others I can't remember offhand at a golf event years ago.

Terry Wogan Golf Classic in Ferrybank?

Gavlor

buck65 wrote: »

What a dick you are!

Fairly sensitive there aren't you princess?!

bazz26

Met George from Glenroe in the early 1990s at a Shakespeare play in the Abbey theatre in which he was a cast member. The cast mingled among the audience after the play. A young but relatively unknown Andrea Corr was in the cast too.

Stojkovic

Mohammed Ali at the height of his fame in the 70s.

Shakira.

Loads of footballers and rock stars.

Oh and I started on Noel Gallagher in a pub in Camden for spilling my drink, before I knew who he was.

Rubberlegs

kfallon wrote: »

Terry Wogan Golf Classic in Ferrybank?

Thats the one !

Splishsplash

I have met, Jonathan rhys myers, conor mcgregor, gunnar Nelson, Dan ewing, (I've actually shifted one of them), met the fair city cast and Richie kavanagh 😂 used to text calum best also 😂

DanMurphy

Pat Ingoldsby - a real gentleman.

dollyk

At a function for charlie Haughey , I met and got fotos with
Richard Harris, Chris de burg, and Gay Byrne, Ok so I was with the cleaning group, :P but never the less.
It was in the Burlington many moons ago.:D

Parchment

Mark Ronson, Q-tip, Seamus Heaney (a gent), some of the Jackass cast.

Ralf and Florian

John Cooper Clarke, great craic. The woman who played Jo in Fair City.

Rubberlegs

Splishsplash wrote: »

I have met, Jonathan rhys myers, conor mcgregor, gunnar Nelson, Dan ewing, (I've actually shifted one of them), met the fair city cast and Richie kavanagh 😂 used to text calum best also 😂

Ooh, which one ??

furiousox

I was in a lift in Stormont once with Ian Paisley and his bodyguard.
He spoke to me, I just smiled and nodded.
No way he was getting to hear my accent!

Heckler

May not be famous per se but famous and gods to me at the time.

Dave Gedge of The Wedding Present. Passed him before a smallish gig they were doing. In fairness he was talking to someone but i figured what the hey. Politely interupted and got a wet fish handshake and f*ck off look in return. Still love the Weddoes !

Jello Biafra of The Dead Kennedys. Can't emphasise enough how much I loved (still do) the Dead Kens and most of Jellos stuff with various bands (Lard, No Means No etc). Just jumped on stage during a song, gave him a big hug and jumped back into the crowd. Might not equate as meeting I guess.....

Lots of then up and coming comedians 20 years ago when I was working bars and they were doing standup. Jason Byrne, Joe Rooney etc. Not funny then either.

One_Of_Shanks

I "met" Steve Staunton in Liverpool airport as a kid, (before it became John Lennon airport).

I was only about 8 or 9 at the time so probably 1988/9

I was an 8/9 year old kid and going back to Dublin from watching a Liverpool match with my Da.

It was my Dad who spotted him and Staunton was in the midst of a fairly passionate kiss with some lady (probably his wife, I hope)
So I asked my dad could I go over for an autograph and he said no. "Wait til they're finished".
So with that my Dad went off to look for a loo and I went up to Steve and tapped him on the waist, interrupting the kiss.
Asked for an autograph and he started laughing (so did she) and he signed a match programme for me.
I was chuffed til my Da came back and asked how I got the autograph and gave me a good talking to.
I still have the autograph. Cringe thinking of it now but he was sound.

About six years later on a family holiday in one of the canary islands we saw Martina Navratilova sitting on a wall next to a beach and I grabbed a napkin off a beach-side bar (no pen) and wandered over to her looking for an autograph but just as I approached her she started kissing the girl next to her.
Teenager now so I got all embarrassed and moved away without the autograph.

My Dad started roaring laughing and reminded me of the Staunton incident.

You get less brave as you get older he said.

I rarely met anyone famous but when I did, they seemed to be busy kissing.

Splishsplash

73Cat wrote: »

Ooh, which one ??

Gunnar Nelson, the ufc fighter now not the singer haha I did get to grab Jonathan rhys myers arse tho, God be with the days!!!

TheRiverman

Bruce Springsteen,shook hands and had a brief word with him on two occasions outside what was then The Point in 2006.

One_Of_Shanks

TheRiverman wrote: »

Bruce Springsteen,shook hands and had a brief word with him on two occasions outside what was then The Point in 2006.

Did you find him incredibly sexy?

(that basstid makes us mere mortal men look like lazy ugly gits going on what my missus says)

Badly Drunk Boy

I met Seamus Heaney the week it was announced he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. I'm tall, so the first thing this great laureate of words said to me was "Do you play basketball?" My head nearly exploded!! (By the way, it was at my graduation, and his daughter's too. And it didn't bother me. Just left me bemused.)

Once, I felt as if I intimidated Nick Cave. (Again, the tallness helps.) I was going to a Grinderman gig in Vicar Street with a friend, and as we approached the venue, Nick and a buddy left the building to get into a car (I think). He looked towards us, stopped (as if I were about to take some sort of long shootin-falootin' shotgun from under my long black Cromby.) I didn't, so he continued. My friend asked me "What was that!!". Therefore, I didn't imagine it.

IrishBelle

Michael Flatley. He was really nice, chatted for ages. He seems to get a lot of flak, but in person he was lovely

andekwarhola

Heckler wrote: »

Dave Gedge of The Wedding Present. Passed him before a smallish gig they were doing. In fairness he was talking to someone but i figured what the hey. Politely interupted and got a wet fish handshake and f*ck off look in return. Still love the Weddoes !

Should have told him that everybody thinks that he looks daft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oShTJ90fC34

Cameo

Heckler wrote: »

May not be famous per se but famous and gods to me at the time.

Dave Gedge of The Wedding Present. Passed him before a smallish gig they were doing. In fairness he was talking to someone but i figured what the hey. Politely interupted and got a wet fish handshake and f*ck off look in return. Still love the Weddoes !

He must have thought you had a right Brassneck. But nobody was twisting his arm.

PistolsAtDawn

Splishsplash wrote: »

Gunnar Nelson, the ufc fighter now not the singer haha I did get to grab Jonathan rhys myers arse tho, God be with the days!!!

I bet you are really good looking.

I'm hideous.

Nice to meet you.

Cameo

Splishsplash wrote: »

Gunnar Nelson, the ufc fighter now not the singer haha I did get to grab Jonathan rhys myers arse tho, God be with the days!!!

Was thinking I hadn't met anyone well known, but you reminded me I met Jonathan RM a couple of times - although it was before he was famous.

Irish Guitarist

I was buying a CD in Golden Discs years ago and saw Ritchie Kavanagh standing beside me at the counter. He said hello and I didn't answer him.

I've dined out on that story for years.

LETHAL LADY

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I was buying a CD in Golden Discs years ago and saw Ritchie Kavanagh standing beside me at the counter. He said hello and I didn't answer him.

I've dined out on that story for years.

Met him entering The National Reptile Zoo in Gowran, Co. Kilkenny. Don't know what smelled worse, Richie or the reptiles

muddypaws

I worked in the music business in London for 10 years, and met a lot of musicians, my last job was working for a management company that included The Who and Page and Plant as clients. I hadn't been there long and had to take some papers to a rehearsal studio for Robert Plant and Jimmy Page to sign, I was absolutely bricking myself walking into the studio, but they were really lovely, Robert in particular is an absolute gent. I also met Harvey Weinstein in that job, one of the most powerful men in the movie industry and such a nice man.

George Clooney wanted to come in and have a meeting with my boss about a film his production company wanted to make, and no matter how much we begged him to take the meeting, he wouldn't. It wouldn't have killed him just to let George come in would it?

SEPT 23 1989

muddypaws wrote: »

I worked in the music business in London for 10 years, and met a lot of musicians, my last job was working for a management company that included The Who and Page and Plant as clients. I hadn't been there long and had to take some papers to a rehearsal studio for Robert Plant and Jimmy Page to sign, I was absolutely bricking myself walking into the studio, but they were really lovely, Robert in particular is an absolute gent. I also met Harvey Weinstein in that job, one of the most powerful men in the movie industry and such a nice man.

George Clooney wanted to come in and have a meeting with my boss about a film his production company wanted to make, and no matter how much we begged him to take the meeting, he wouldn't. It wouldn't have killed him just to let George come in would it?

I don't think I could speak if Page and Plant walked up to me