DJ Shadow
Around 2001 Shadow was on tour to promote his then new album "Private Press".

My much more in the loop friend who was living in Bristol at the time managed to get tickets for us to go see him at Bristol Academy. Which is a rather odd venue but absolutely brilliant.

Anyway, having watched the gig with my mates and been double whammied by Thom Yorke appearing to do "Rabbit in your headlights", we duly trundled out of the gig and headed towards the nearest pub. All of us except me...

I ended up sat on top of a phone box watching the stage door with about a hundred other people waiting for the great(actually very small) Shadow to appear, before running over handing him my ticket and telling him "Organ Donor is my favourite track of all time" not one of the cool tracks like "What hip-hop looks like in '96" (a bit of a mouthful I admit) but, the most played and commercial of all his tunes. Luckily he just said thank you and signed my ticket which I still have and am quite proud of.
( Ril3y is a brit abroad.. bring on the Stella / Asahi, Wed 22 Apr 2009, 14:53, 4 replies)

Sweet
I had the chance to see DJ Shadow at the academy in Dec 2006, but it clashed with some very important exams. Shame.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 22 Apr 2009, 15:17, closed)

i was at that gig
every time he performed something from Entroducing the crowd loved it, everytime he performed something from the Private Press we waited patiently for him to perform something from Entroducing.

thank god he hadn't made The Outsider or the gig would have been 1/6th worse. (half good vs third good)
( monstrinho do biscoito teeeshurts = www.nogunarmy.com, Wed 22 Apr 2009, 16:05, closed)

I'm very jealous
my mate said that during one of the tunes from Endtroducing, he projected on to the screen "Yes I have been doing this since 1997", or words to that effect.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 22 Apr 2009, 16:47, closed)

*click*
because dj shadow rocks
(Papa Chocolat, Wed 22 Apr 2009, 17:54, closed)