Hi! Last week there was a topic “Have you ever met someone famous?” from @missy and @rambo ...
I constantly meet local movie or serial stars in the centre of our city – especially when I was working near “Lenfilm”, a famous Russian film production studio. It occurred to be like they passed by, and I didn’t even notice them, but my friends told me: “Hey, this is that guy from that serial!”, but I just hadn’t watch it. Anyway, I felt like the world is like a village!
Thereafter I started to be really sure that this world is very small, and that there are so many interesting people in my city. And there were a few meetings with really important people for me. And they were really surprising!
Several years ago me and a band, in which I was a back-up singer, opened an award ceremony of one famous Russian musical critic. There were really so many nominees, and few of them were really famous artists – only three, as I remember, other ones were just those who became famous with only one song at Youtube, and everyone knew them due to this one single song. Our sound check ended at early morning, so most of the time we were just hanging around doing nothing in a dressing room and in a vip-room. From time to time we were joined by other musicians. A guy was sitting quietly in a corner of the dressing room, and we had a quick word with him. But when he went out, I got to know that he was a really famous rapper in Russia – Noize MC. That summer his songs were heard from every window in Saint-Petersburg. Of course, I heard them too, but I never cared about how he looked like. And my friends showed me his music video, but I didn’t really remember it. So, I was really shocked by meeting him! Especially, by a way he conducted himself – openly to people, without any flossing, unlike other less famous musicians at this award ceremony. And because my friend had wished to have his autograph, I found him at the end of the ceremony to get it for her. It was confusing, but he responded easily, and we laughed.
Also I faced a few times (and definitely will encounter again) with very famous and scandal musician – Sergei Shnurov from a band called “Leningrad”. They musical genre resembles ska-punk with different orchestrations and back-vocals (a line-up at concerts may be about 20 people, and it changes), their lyrics are filled with stories from everyday life, with a satire on ordinary people and politicians, with a huge amount of expletives. And Sergei’s style is like a brutal unshaven dude, who likes to drink and to get much attention to his personality. Their shows officially prohibited in Moscow, but, nevertheless, “Leningrad” is that band, which is known by every person in Russia, and they have a very mixed audience. At that award, which I’ve already mentioned, Sergei drunk, I guess, all alcohol that was in the dressing room and invited me to appear with him on the stage. Also we both had rehearsals at the same place, and we met again: I was just walking at a corridor, and he was coming out from the nearest door. And also I visited a bar, which he opened, - one of the coziest in Saint-Petersburg, and where he appears from time to time. Generally, I don’t like to ask anyone to take a photo with me - I don’t like to bother famous people, because if they are not on the stage they are just relaxing and don’t want to be cheesed off by anyone. But I took a photo with him, and this photo just blew everyone’s minds!
Also I had one interesting situation, when I was working as a cashier in a cinema. In the morning I heard some English speech nearby – some men were discussing their plans. Then my administrator said: “What is that Satan’s Grandpa over there?” Me and another administrator looked there and saw Alice Cooper, and we couldn’t believe our eyes! But Alice and his manager walked away. We remembered that we saw some posters at streets. At the evening Alice came again to our cinema to watch a movie – I think it was “Immortals”. When I told my father about this, he was so angry at me, because I hadn’t taken Alice’s autograph, Alice is his idol! After that some of my friends, who worked at biggest mall of the city, told me that saw him too. This meeting was really surprising!
Among amazing meetings these are all.
It is Sergei Shnurov on the photo.