MORTO AT LP RDS MEET & GREET were you at front of line in RDS? Then I may have met you. A long but fun day Where I met Linkin Park and turned into a babbling eejit ....
I was over the moon when I realised that LP were coming back to Ireland. I was there when they played with METALLICA and let me just say there was tears in my eyes when ....let me phrase this properly...IDIOTS...started throwing bottles...I mean come on! They don't bottle The Darkness..what??
Anyways got side tracked I had a show the nite b4 gig so didn't sleep went from Mayo to Galway to Dublin and we were to my surprise the first in line. The weather was so shite all nite that no one had queued SWEET! for us. We also got to queue inside because of the rain. The 3 of us me Joe and Helen got to meet some really cool people you kno who you are. Mary from Cork if we meet again drinks on me.
After queueing for 12 hours we get a phone call from warner bros saying they can get us in for meet & greet for 2 ..there was 3 of us. Joe said we should chance it so we left for Merch tent leaving our front row of pit. Then we get the dreaded call that we wont get bk stage. I swear tears in eyes would be an understatement, More like, inner rage growing. So I grabbed my nieces phone rang him back pleading that "there had to b something he could do, that....forgive me! My niece was crying"..more like me. He was fantastic told us to leave venue he might be able to get us in but, at the risk of not gettin back in, as the very nice security told me..HHMM! So we risked it and as I ran(we had to hurry) down the street I almost knocked a man out of my way looking for gate H, before I got verbal with him I heard him say "Helen is that you" realising that I was now face to face with the very man I pleaded with on the phone (about my poor niece) who now witnessed me running for my dear life, with my beloved niece 30ft behind me MORTO!
When we eventually got in my stomach was in knots, after we were instructed on the do's & don'ts on meetin them, basically keep it simple, no grabbing, no flash photography, don't shake hands only fist pumping allowed. Well me being Irish we don't fist pump so that was gonna be awkward anyways. I had painted DRACULAS VULGARIOUS on a sheet with the words..LETME!!! apologize to begin with..Mike Shinoda Martina C. loves you..cheesy I kno but I didn't think I was actually gonna give it to him. The camera man scanned us in line, the girl that shouted her love for them infront of us she got on the actual video footage for Ireland...when camera came to me and the pleasant guy asked me what my sheet was about? What was the really cool thing I said..wait for it.."It's a painting" ...can you believe it? Anyways safe to say I was NOT on the video.
On the way in Joe(HE GOT IN) clearly stated.."Helen no crying, Martina no babbling" I was like "sure dont worry" Whatever! The minute those covers went back I was in babbling mode. First of all I said I'd better take a photo from here and what happens with my very modern disposable camera..blooming flash went off! Security gave me a warning, I was "IM SORRY IM SORRY"
Then there he was Chester B. in front of me. In a relaxed voice I said " Well if it isn't the guy with the best vocals in the world" Forgetting that Irish phrasing may come across as pure sarcasim We stared blankly at eachother while he waited for me to at least continue talking...nothing came out! I think he finally grasped that I really actually was complimenting him. So he thanked me. Next was Rob, so after telling Chester he had the best vocals what do I say to Rob? Did I compliment his musical talent ? No, the best I could manage was "your hair is lovely" He said "Thanks Ive been working on that for some time now" I then announced "Oh my god Im babbling" even though I hasdn't said anything! Then on to Mike who I personally think is fantastic, I just stared at him watching my t-shirt float by, realizing my moment was nearly gone I started talking at high speed asking him to dedicate "Inbetween" to me if he played it and gave him "my painting". As I moved onto Joe H. Mike laughed and said " What did you say?" In the same high speed voice I repeated what I said, he laughed again and said "alright" (outside note they didn't play the song at all) I then shake Joe H hand and then proceed to scream at him " OH MY GOD IM SORRY WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT" and then fist pumped him. While telling him that "I was lookin foward to his film"...WHICH HAS BEEN OUT SINCE MARCH..Im sorry Joe. When I turned to Phoenix and Brad they were laughing so I didn't even have the courage to approach them then I turn to look at my niece and she was in floods of tears of joy...so funny! I then took another photo flash went off and the security dude chased after me saying " I warned you already no flash" but at that point I was on such a high that it didn't matter. EXCELLENT! Of course my mate Joe had been cooler than cool and had just shaked all their hands and said " It was a pleasure to meet them"
We then left to go back to the pit where they treated us to the most fantastic gig ever.
I suppose how I'll wrap this up is when you meet the very famous people, you want to seem cool infront of, there is no control over being the biggest dork ever and saying all the wrong things!
Thanks guys for still being cool Im sure you've experienced this a million times, my pity and condolences. But damn it I still got to meet them NICE ONE!!
Thanks for reading sorry was so long xxx
