Hangers on
A few years ago I was getting drunk in the Groucho club (as you do) and noticed Guy Berryman (coldplay bassist) being assailed by a drunken older gentleman at the bar "yes but who are you, what have you actually done?!" etc...
I was closeby and interjected that actually he was the bassist in the biggest band in the world. The old man quitened down and Guy and I struck up a conversation he and Johnny Buckland ended up asking me to come on with them to another bar which I duly did.
While we were in there I noticed another guy with the group looking me up and down in a kind of who are you and what are you doing here way. I was equally snooty back as I didn't recognise him and I had actually been asked to come along by the band thankyou very much. I regarded him as a hanger-on and I was in the in crowd.
The next morning in my drunken haze I was watching Popworld and recognised the 'hanger-on' as Albert Hammond from The Strokes.
Probably more right to be there than I did then. Ah well. What you don't know doesn't hurt you.
(B3taByter Meh, Fri 9 Oct 2009, 16:55, Reply)