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mad_andyAfter a decidedly dodgy start, my weekend is currently MADE OF WIN.
Last night I managed to find the Ballroom (yay), then went for something to eat. Oh look, I said to myself, an Irish pub. They'll speak English.
I think I found the only Irish pub in Hamburg where the staff speak NO English.
However! We figured out drinks and food with the aid of a fair bit of hand waving and pointing and wiggled eyebrows, so is all good. Waiting for my meal, realised was being eyed up by very drunk man sitting on the table to my right - he also spoke no English, but his friend spoke a bit so I got chatted up through an interpreter.
Also bought a drink, no bad thing.
He asked for my phone number, but I explained that as I spoke no german and he no english it would be a waste of time, right? He pleaded. I said no. (His friend is meanwhile translating all this to the barstaff, who are in fits.)
Anyway, they left me alone and it's funny how much a single eyeroll between women who have no common language can mean. Heh.
Looks like my 'quick update' might turn into a full on squee fest. Oh well, y'all can cope, right?
So off back down the street to the Ballroom, and whilst it's an interesting place - I forgot to take a picture of the replica stargate they have at the top of the stairs, buggrit - the initial impression was Ohhhhh God I have made another mistake....
Everyone was sort of hanging around eyeing everybody else, sticking to the groups they turned up in...and there was me, alllll on my lonesome.
Then this awfully attractive chap trotted over and said "You're Andy, right?"
Oli, the chap who runs the fan club and winner of the Saviour Award for last night! I told him my woes and we chatted then he hurried off to mingle - I tell you, he spoke to every one of the fan club members there, knew all our names and made sure we were all OK. He's an absolute star.
Even so, nobody was talking to me until a chap who'd been surreptitiously eyeing my cleavage offered me a cigarette and told me my flies were undone. That broke the ice, and he ended up following me around like an overlarge puppy all night! Took it in turns to buy beer but he did give me a packet of cigs. Stefan, nice chap, but wanted to come back to my hotel room and, er, no. Not that nice.
Band showed up. Dirk first - with his older son from his first marriage, his current missus, and their little boy - and I just stayed where I was, propped up the bar, and waited for my heart rate to drop. So I have a crush, sue me.
Then Kai, and all the fanboys went boom. He also had his children with him, as well as his girlfriend. (Incidentally, Kai's girlfriend is the girl in the new video. No wonder he shoots her such a knowing look at the end.)
Finally Henjo, who is blessedly single and has no kids. HA.
First contact with Dirk - he managed to buy coffee at the bar, and the first I knew he was there he had nudged in next to me and is standing casually there touching at hip and shoulder and OMG DIRK ARGH DO NOT ACT LIKE A SPAZZ BE COOL BE COOL.
*Cough*
So said very little. Anyway, there was food provided, and he kept brushing past me (the hair, THE HAIR) to grab some more; kept joking he'd be huge by the time he went home.
But my god, he's tiny! This slender little thing not much bigger than me - well yes, but you know what I mean. Henjo is tall, noticeably so, and Kai is solid but I was expecting him to be short. Dirk is just... tiny.
(I might just add that I'm currently grinning away.)
Did manage to get some quality chatting later on - I ended up hanging with a lass called Lara who knows them all very well. So she sort of lured Dirk over and we ended up having quite an indepth conversation about tattoos. Dirk has one on his right calf, and he rolled up his trouser leg to show me. ;)
He's quit smoking and drinking, and anticipates fights on the bus this tour as they have a single decker this time - he and Dan don't smoke, but Henjo and Kai do. Constantly.
Dirk says that the smoking rows are going to be his method of revenge for not having his song on the set list (it's too long, apparently).
OK, running out of time.
Got lots of pics to upload when I get home - God, the one where I have one arm around Kai#s waist and one around Dirk's has me grinning so hard it looks like my head's about to fall off!
So. catch yerlater!
Last night I managed to find the Ballroom (yay), then went for something to eat. Oh look, I said to myself, an Irish pub. They'll speak English.
I think I found the only Irish pub in Hamburg where the staff speak NO English.
However! We figured out drinks and food with the aid of a fair bit of hand waving and pointing and wiggled eyebrows, so is all good. Waiting for my meal, realised was being eyed up by very drunk man sitting on the table to my right - he also spoke no English, but his friend spoke a bit so I got chatted up through an interpreter.
Also bought a drink, no bad thing.
He asked for my phone number, but I explained that as I spoke no german and he no english it would be a waste of time, right? He pleaded. I said no. (His friend is meanwhile translating all this to the barstaff, who are in fits.)
Anyway, they left me alone and it's funny how much a single eyeroll between women who have no common language can mean. Heh.
Looks like my 'quick update' might turn into a full on squee fest. Oh well, y'all can cope, right?
So off back down the street to the Ballroom, and whilst it's an interesting place - I forgot to take a picture of the replica stargate they have at the top of the stairs, buggrit - the initial impression was Ohhhhh God I have made another mistake....
Everyone was sort of hanging around eyeing everybody else, sticking to the groups they turned up in...and there was me, alllll on my lonesome.
Then this awfully attractive chap trotted over and said "You're Andy, right?"
Oli, the chap who runs the fan club and winner of the Saviour Award for last night! I told him my woes and we chatted then he hurried off to mingle - I tell you, he spoke to every one of the fan club members there, knew all our names and made sure we were all OK. He's an absolute star.
Even so, nobody was talking to me until a chap who'd been surreptitiously eyeing my cleavage offered me a cigarette and told me my flies were undone. That broke the ice, and he ended up following me around like an overlarge puppy all night! Took it in turns to buy beer but he did give me a packet of cigs. Stefan, nice chap, but wanted to come back to my hotel room and, er, no. Not that nice.
Band showed up. Dirk first - with his older son from his first marriage, his current missus, and their little boy - and I just stayed where I was, propped up the bar, and waited for my heart rate to drop. So I have a crush, sue me.
Then Kai, and all the fanboys went boom. He also had his children with him, as well as his girlfriend. (Incidentally, Kai's girlfriend is the girl in the new video. No wonder he shoots her such a knowing look at the end.)
Finally Henjo, who is blessedly single and has no kids. HA.
First contact with Dirk - he managed to buy coffee at the bar, and the first I knew he was there he had nudged in next to me and is standing casually there touching at hip and shoulder and OMG DIRK ARGH DO NOT ACT LIKE A SPAZZ BE COOL BE COOL.
*Cough*
So said very little. Anyway, there was food provided, and he kept brushing past me (the hair, THE HAIR) to grab some more; kept joking he'd be huge by the time he went home.
But my god, he's tiny! This slender little thing not much bigger than me - well yes, but you know what I mean. Henjo is tall, noticeably so, and Kai is solid but I was expecting him to be short. Dirk is just... tiny.
(I might just add that I'm currently grinning away.)
Did manage to get some quality chatting later on - I ended up hanging with a lass called Lara who knows them all very well. So she sort of lured Dirk over and we ended up having quite an indepth conversation about tattoos. Dirk has one on his right calf, and he rolled up his trouser leg to show me. ;)
He's quit smoking and drinking, and anticipates fights on the bus this tour as they have a single decker this time - he and Dan don't smoke, but Henjo and Kai do. Constantly.
Dirk says that the smoking rows are going to be his method of revenge for not having his song on the set list (it's too long, apparently).
OK, running out of time.
Got lots of pics to upload when I get home - God, the one where I have one arm around Kai#s waist and one around Dirk's has me grinning so hard it looks like my head's about to fall off!
So. catch yerlater!
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Date: 2007-11-04 02:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-04 02:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-04 06:30 pm (UTC)...almost ;)
(EEEE Dirk!)
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Date: 2007-11-04 03:18 pm (UTC)YAY!!!!
I have this huge grin on my just-woken-up, sleepy face. I'm so THRILLED you had such a great adventure! (Okay, and a tiny bit envious too. *grin*)
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Date: 2007-11-04 06:29 pm (UTC)*Facepalm*
Oh yes... adventure indeed!
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Date: 2007-11-04 03:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-04 06:28 pm (UTC)But yes, bloody amazing. I'm still grinning, some 24 hours later...!
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Date: 2007-11-04 04:03 pm (UTC)*snicker*
I will expect proper admittance of my brilliance - and I'm glad you had an awesome time.
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Date: 2007-11-04 05:36 pm (UTC)But yes, you were right - as I should really have known! :D
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Date: 2007-11-04 05:56 pm (UTC)Ok, so luckily someone else remembered my name. lol
But still - I told ya babe, they're just people too, and no better than you, and I'm greatly relieved to know they were not what so many of that profession are capable of being.
Even
D
*starts to type "O", sighs*
I
R
K
Since he wasn't, I'll be nice (but don't get used to it :P)
*snogs you back*
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Date: 2007-11-04 06:25 pm (UTC)And yeah, I was half prepared for at least one of them (it was even money between Kai and Dirk!) to be a HUGE asshole, but they were absolute darlings. Especially Henjo. Wait till you see the pics, the one with me and Henjo is funny as hell - mostly because I know where his hands were when it was taken... *snicker*
Still buzzed about it, can you tell?
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Date: 2007-11-04 06:54 pm (UTC)Great news about Dirk. I'd suspected something changed in his life as he looks really healty and great in the new promo pictures. The ones for Majestic had him looking haggard and unhealthy. Anyway, his little son is named Diego as I found out from my friend who interviewed him on Thursday :)
And dammit Kai, still snogging young girls. Oy.
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Date: 2007-11-04 09:12 pm (UTC)(More details and pics soon, yes?)
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Date: 2007-11-05 02:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-06 12:19 am (UTC)uh...
Andy.
You didn't do anything that I wouldn't do, did ya?
*grins and winks*
As if that's some kind of fucking limit or boundary. Ja. Right.
Glad you had a blast. Wish I were there.
Hank
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Date: 2007-11-06 12:26 am (UTC)