Meeting the Manics - who's "done it"?

[Rammstein]

Originally Posted by starfucker

I met James very briefly after sneaking into a soundcheck at Brighton Dome. Saw him do Black Flowers and Yes on acoustic guitar from the side of the stage. Then when the soundcheck was finished the sound engineer assumed me and my mate were the support band and said, "Alright lads, we'll do yours in half an hour." Without thinking, "Ok, we'll just go and chat to the Manics for a bit" came out of my mouth and we ended up in their dressing room. I was just talking to James about how Yes has always been my favourite Manics song and asking him if he was going to play it that evening when security got wise and kicked me and my mate out. Lovely chap, really friendly and looked very apologetic when we got chucked out.

That's a great story, I can somewhat picture the apologetic James face as well!! How on earth did you just manage to sneak in!!

I first met James and Nicky at Bristol on the PPF tour. We parked in the multi-story car park over the road and I got my collection signed by both at the end of the gig. Nicky seemed quite amused going through all the items "which one is this?" "I thought I'd already signed Lifeblood?" I was appreciative he signed everything though, not many people would have done. I tried to get a picture with James but the random person didn't know how to control the Camera and had to settle with the third take with James pointing at the camera with a "did that take?" moment, picture long gone mind

The second time walking home from work I saw James walking out of Cardiff market so decided to go over and introduced myself with an embarrassing Alan Partridge sounding "Mr James Dean Bradfield!!" followed by the cringeworthy "your my favourite band" we spoke about the American tour and he wished me a merry Christmas.

Third time was meeting James at the Cardiff City stadium watching Cardiff v the Blunts. This was a few days after the Postcards album launch show in London. I asked him how it went and he replied "the crowd were great, I was not so good" he was then ushered away by his wife. My mate who I went to the game with thought he was a friend!

The final time was the HMV signing in Cardiff for the NT signings and the first time I met Sean, again doing the embarrassing Alan Partridge sounding "the elusive Sean Moore" Nicky refused to shake my hand just saying "cheers" (which was a bit embarrassing with me holding out my hand) and I informed James Lifeblood is probably my favourite album to which he replied I was probably the only person who thought so.

Apologies for the essay.