Shameless sycophant
Bit tenuous as I knew she was a real person but ...

I have been a fan of Jill Sobule's music for a long time. She has the most fragile yet powerful voice and has lyrics that grab me by the heart. She lives and works in America and so I thought I had no hope to see her sing. Less than no hope to meet her.

I befriended her on Facebook (she encourages all her fans to do that until she reached the 5000 limit) and found, some time later, that she was coming to sing in London at an incredibly cosy venue for one night as part of a European tour.

Despite never having been to anything like it before (I can be rather shy), I booked to go, had a wonderful evening listening to a fabulously talented woman sing and then ... met her.

It was a little awkward. She didn't know me from Adam, of course, as I was one of 5000 FB friends but we chatted amiably for a couple of minutes and she was just lovely. I was chuffed to bits to meet one of my musical heroes.

Apologies for lack of funnies or sadness but it meant a lot to me and it would not have happened had I not met her on the Internet first.
(BearWithLittleBrain, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 10:50, 1 reply)

Had this also
'cept I travelled to the Big Smoke (from Scotland) for an intimate gig. Lovely lass is Jenny Owen Youngs, tolerates complete idiots well.
(Schumann makes awesome quiches., Wed 26 Oct 2011, 11:13, closed)