The plane ride, the airport in Newcastle, outside the Newcastle venue after the soundcheck, and then our chinese restaurant in Glasgow......my gosh we just could not escape Dave, he was following us everywhere we went!!! What a stalker! Ha!Well, so i had visitor's this weekend who were crazy Dave Mathew's fans.....so we had tickets to go to see his solo show in Newcastle and then travelling up to Glasgow to see the next night of his show......and in that span of 4 days that they were here in England, they literally bumped into him (counting on my fingers.........) 5 times, i kid you not!!!!
What are the flipping chances? Ha! We had to be precision stalkers a few years ago just to get my friends picture taken with him, and here he was just galavanting around england with no babysitters or anyone to fend off the random handful of fans who recognized him.
Consequently, my friend got like 5 things signed, and as she chatted with him before their flight, she was able to take a couple pictures with him(for her christmas card again?) and then had to sit the whole plane ride without chatting to him while he sat in the same row across the aisle from them! I think that was her own personal version of torture cuz of course she wouldn't want to act like a crazy fan and chat tons!
He is not known over here at all and no one, except for us, at the airport even blinked when he walked off the plane in Newcastle and wandered over to his bus! I was glad i had randomly brought a DMB cd with me to listen to in the car, and i got that signed. How exciting!
The concert was good, and we met some awesome fans(mainly americans who had travelled far & wide to be there), it's such a warm friendly crowd! During the concert Dave mentioned how he had met two british fans in the Newcastle Starbucks that had taught him to say NEWcastle(heavy on the NEW), their way.....and he practiced over and over during the in-between song bits, and said "hi to Clare & Sasha".....well, turns out, clare was one of the people my friend had met over the DMB forum, so we KNEW Clare too!
We travelled up to Glasgow on the train with Clare the next day, Ha! Small flipping world! She is one of a few British die-hard DMB fans who was introduced to DMB(Dave Mathew's Band) via an american exchange student years ago.......they're infiltrating the world slowly but surely.....
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We stayed in a convenient hotel(City Inn) which was right across the street from the venue in Glasgow. We had decided to be lazy and eat at the chinese restaurant across the street cuz we wanted chinese food and ,why not? It's right there, easy peasy.
Walk in the door of the Yen Chinese Restaurant.... we're then shown up the spiral staircase to our table......HELLO! Walk passed Dave & friends without staring(you try that!!!).......in this not-very-busy-at-all restaurant, (oh my god!)..... they've plopped him at the one table that everyone walks past to get to their tables! Ha! We're trying very hard NOT to stand out and stare, and not to be the crazy stalkers who have seen him soooo many times over the past 2 days! Keep telling ourselves: don't stare, don't giggle, don't wet yourself, no more photos!!
Then i started to get angry, why had Dave chosen my chinese restaurant! Ha! Not fair at all! We just wanted to eat in peace, have a nice meal before a lovely concert.....but no! Dave just had to show up! Ha! My friend's tummy was sooo upset cuz she was eating so nearby to him, and we were kinda worried that we were somehow, without realizing it....being stalkers? Can you stalk without trying? ha!
Anyway, long story short.........we didn't even try to stalk him, but Dave kept landing in our laps! The concerts were great! And we met some amazingly fabulous people over the weekend.
The End.......or is it?
Mr Mathews, are you hiding somewhere ready to stalk us again???
