don't look back in anger
when i was 18, i worked evenings in a lovely old pub - sadly now the victim of a ghastly refurb - in stockport called the elizabethan. they ripped the piss out of me for being too posh, and sang "common people" at me from time to time, but it was all good natured, and i thought most of them were great.

one night, i came to work and there was much excitement from the staff and regulars, because liam gallagher was in with his mates. sure enough, he came up to the bar shortly afterwards, and asked me for 4 jack daniels shots and a bottle of coke. i asked him for his autograph and, despite the fact that he had given out about 50 autographs already on his quiet night out, he bantered about "only if i can sign your chest", wrote his name on my shirt, and was generally very complimentary and polite. he and his mates stayed until last orders, and about every half an hour, they got another round of 4 JDs and coke.

that was it. that was all they did. at 11pm, they said goodnight, and left on time.

the next day, it was all over the newspapers that liam gallagher had caused carnage on a wild night out in the pub. one of the regulars had rung the papers and sold them a load of ropey old bollocks about how liam had been snorting coke off the bar, causing fights, smashing fruit machines, breaking up furniture... there wasn't a word of truth in it. i was really shocked that people would do that, just to get a bit of attention, and/or cash. liam gallagher rang the manager to complain when he saw it, and said that he had been drinking there since he was 16 (the legalities seemed to escape him), and that he'd never set foot in there again.

never did find out who did it, but it was one of the first times i realised: people can be right cunts sometimes.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 6 Feb 2009, 10:37, 1 reply)

Saw him and his brother
Drinking once in a pub near Sheperds Bush- everyone was waiting for something to kick off, due to the (supposedly) well-known hatred between those two. But they were charming, eloquent, all "please" and "Thank you", and smiling, and generally ok. So where does the reputation come from for all the fighting?
( Duke Of Belmsford has got 99 records, but Jay-Z ain't one, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:55, closed)