» Rock and Roll Stories

About four years ago...
After a particularly unimpressive gig I was followed around the Zodiac in Oxford by a rather forlorn Pete Doherty.
He kept asking me if I wanted to go and score some smack, whining 'you fancy Carl, don't you' and trying to get me to drink out of miniatures from his jacket pocket.

The last straw came when he tried to kiss me, lunging at me with his spotty wet face and brown junkie teeth. I twatted him round the face, he went missing for two days and they had to play the next gig on the tour without him.

Tosser.
(Fri 30th Jun 2006, 8:51, More)

» Have you ever been rude to a celebrity?

stupid hat!
I was in a club a couple of years ago, a little drunk, and finding everything hilarious. Boy George then walked past in ridiculous make up and a spikey orange hat that looked like it was made out of papier mache. I pointed and laughed and he kicked me right in the shin. I had a bruise for about a week after that. I am a girl. What a nasty bummer.

My sister and I also went and laughed at Feeder about three years ago, when they were doing a record signing in HMV to which no one came. I still feel partially responsible for the drummer's suicide...
(Fri 16th Apr 2004, 12:11, More)

» Worst Nicknames Ever

You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
Being a small blonde girl prone to violent book-throwing locker-kicking rages in primary school the other children took to calling me 'Dr Banner', a name discovered and then gleefully picked up by my own father who uses it to mock my violent outbursts to this day.
(Fri 19th May 2006, 9:11, More)

» Have you ever been rude to a celebrity?

bullying
As a young school girl in oxford, we all used to wait for the bus at the side of school, being generally lairy ( as much as public school girls can be) and pushing each other around the pavement.

Around the time OK computer came out I was a massive Radiohead fan and so was pretty impressed when Thom Yorke walked past a couple of times on his way home. I wanted to share my awe with my schoolfriends but they sadly were more into 911 at the time. The following exchange took place one day when i spotted little thom shuffling down the road towards us.

Me - 'look, it's thom yorke'
Them - 'who?"
Me - 'he's the singer in radiohead'
Them - 'no he bloody isn't'
Me - yes it is, it's the singer in radiohead, it bloody well is, look, he's got a lazy eye!'

At this point, mr yorke, walked past, looked at us, put his thumb on his nose, waggled his fingers and stuck his tongue out. for a long time this was the weirdest thing i'd ever seen. I feel quite bad about this incident now, because even at the age of 13, we were all mostly taller than him and must have been quite intimidating.

I also just remember that I have a friend, who whilst working in a cafe in oxford, elbowed bill clinton out of the way, when he was on a visit to his daughter. i don't think you can beat, shoving the former leader of the free world really. apparently he was quite nice about it.
(Fri 16th Apr 2004, 12:22, More)

» Old People Talk Bollocks

Millennium Bug?
My grandmother's gift to me a couple of years ago on my eighteenth birthday was a big shiny new dictionary, a lovely gift. On the inside she had lovingly written me a message. 'Happy birthday, to my darling granddaughter on your birthday - 29/09/1902. In her reluctance to move into the twenty first century she has apparently opted to go back a hundred years and start all over again. My sis and I laughed til my next birthday about that one.
(Fri 12th Mar 2004, 18:57, More)