in HMV yesterday.

He bumped into me with his huge kiddy buggy.

I wanted to say OOVAAVOO to him, but decided against it at the last minute.

bad - ive always freeze when i meet conor from the thrills. never know what the hell to say!

good - i saw morning runner SO many times, they became friends, and went out to dinner with them when they were about.

...but hey, none of those are THAT famous though eh!

completely shrugged me off, I was disappointed. Morgan was cool though, we had coffee.

I saw Dan Ashcroft in Soho the other day, had to resist the urge to shout 'ashhhhcrrroooffffttttt!' - he probably would've hurt me.

when I was six. Gave me an autographed photo of themselves. Made my year.

I met Simon Neil from Biffy Clyro, he told me to fuck off. Not surprising really, I tried to sit on his coat.

But I gave Claudio Sanchez chocolate =D

bought me a beer in the Astoria before Taking Back Sunday's 2004 Headline Show. Top bloke.

in 99 at a signing at Tower records London that hadn't been publicised very well. Talked to Roger and Chris for ages about Metal, really cool guys.

through a coke can with Ice-T.

I should point out that this isnt true.

in Brighton last year, really nice dudes. Bob 1 is my favourite.

in a cake shop, I asked to take a photo he said no, it was awkward, ive posted that a billion times now, i should shut up

as I was in one of the support bands for the first ever The Kills gig (though they were just called VV & Hotel at that point). Although he was really nice, and I got him to sign a Fiji single for me, my band played one of our worst gigs ever and I was completely devastated with shame.

he was touring the UK, and I awkwardly asked if he'd play my friends birthday party - he said that he'd love to.....

Great great guy, had to force him to take money to buy his CDs. I asked him if it was okay to put him Maniac video back up on youtube, and he said that I can do anything, if I wanted to release the stuff under my name he'd be fine. hahaha.

One of the nicest guys I've had the pleasure to have met.

But my cousin is in a fairly famous Welsh badn, and their lead singer's ex, a TV personality, is (or at least was) a MASSIVE COKE WHORE.

outside a gig, nice people - didnt really say much, pretty good in bed though.

at the last ever Hot Snakes show. Top quality bloke, took time to talk to me and my friend after the gig, chatted about RFTC quite a bit. Great guy.

AND HE ASKED ME FOR CANNABIS AND I DIDN'T HAVE ANY AND THE CONVERSATION ENDED THERE.

I feel old as I’ve never heard of 90% of these famous people (who I’m sure ARE famous but it’s me being 35 and out of date!) Billy Bragg did a spoken word show in Southend library last year to promote his ‘progressive patriot’ book. There was a Q&A at the end and people were asking him these really dull political questions. They said there was time for one last question and I shot my hand up, he fixed me with a slightly annoyed expression then barked “Come on mate, you’ve had your hand up all night, what’s your question?” I asked him “if you could have a statue or a road named after you, what would you have?”, his face lit up that this wasn’t another political question and replied that he already had a cul-de-sac named after him in Barking.

Tim Burton seemed pretty determined not to speak to anyone except HBC when I tried to talk to him at a party a couple of years ago :(

from two gallants he played on his own in galway and got to talk to him for a few minutes talked bout music and he ran me through his equipment, he was much nicer than i thought he would be

a brief chat with both Dean Wareham and Kevin Shields (at the same time) at one of Dean and Britta's gigs. It was slightly overwhelming and I did gush and tell them how much I loved both of them, but I got away before it got too awkward (i.e Before they could really reply)

meet your heroes.

i met dave gorman at a book signing, he was so bored.

he scarred me so whenever i see someone i like i have to avoid them. this includes be your own pet last night at a pub, i tried to get their attention by playing dominoes really loud. my brother ending up talking to them about barack obama when i went to get drinks.

alex turner's t4 girlfriend gave me a weird look last night as well.

i say don't hassle your heroes. let them do what they do.

We chatted for a bit, he signed my Muffin Break discount card, and was pretty friendly, which was not what I was expecting. However, when I approached Buzz Osbourne he just ran away. And I'm not exaggerating, he actually ran.

My Friend: Hi Thurston Moore, this is my friend Richard.

Thurston Moore: Hey, how are you?

Me: OHMYGODI'MGREATTHANKSILOVEDYOURSETITWASSOAWESOMEYOUPLAYEDKOOLTHINGARGHHHAGH.

What a failure I am.

smear on the first foo fighters tour in manchester, i was making a joint outside the venue at the back in the afternoon and they came outside with a beer and some cigs and i stood up to say hello and get my cds signed liek a geek and forgot my joint was on my lap, it went everywhere and all dave grohl could say when i walked up and said hello is 'hey man youve spilled your reefer' and laughed! haha he still signed my cd though :)

is like a guitary angel from heaven and I've met him four times, once while we were being evacuated out of bomb scare in birmingham which was brief and then he asked me to buy him a beer at ATP (have they not sold enough copies of Mirrored?), I obliged, he recognized me in france and then I arm-wrestled him in Brighton and met all of the band who were really lovely apart from an absolutely drunk John Stanier who told me to fuck off and called me a nigger. Which is offensive in itself. And inaccurate, I'm as white as a milkybar.

we had a good chat about local scenes around Asia.. so he was a pretty nice dude.

i've stopped trying to say hello to people in bands i like because i usually only ever do it when stupidly drunk and end up being an idiot. Here's some stories:

Wolf Parade - spoke to the singer who isn't Spencer Krug and the bassist (I think) when I bumped into them in a pub after the gig. I was pretty hammered. My opening line was "you were good tonight but you should have played Modern World" - and it was downhill from there.

Final Fantasy - I went over and spoke non-stop at him for a minute and then he said "sorry do you mind, I'm just in the middle of a phonecall to someone back in Canada" -nice one!

Arcade Fire - Noticed I was sat to the Napoleon Dynamite one at a bar after they'd played in Bristol. I got his attention and started going on about how great they are (in a very drunken manner) and he just looked disgusted and turned away from me without a word.