Its no secret that I'm married to the biggest fanboy in NZ. Chris has met so many bands it's not funny and he even has a MySpace page that he runs with his friend Raggles which showcases all their photos and band memorabilia, plus photos from fanboys around the world. These guys love heavy metal and they love meeting the bands that make that music! I've taken to tagging along on their missions and in doing so http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhave met bands I love like Rage Against the Machine, Antiflag, Bleeding Through and Dillinger Escape Plan.
Slipknot and Machinehead were heading to Auckland for a gig and Chris and I desperately wanted to go. But we've been kinda broke after trips to Wellington and our wee dog George hurting his back and costing a fortune in vet bills. It was the day before the gig and we still didn't have tickets.
With some stealth skills and help from a fellow cupcake queen, we got to meet 5 of the Slipknot guys, have some photos with them and they signed some stuff. Which was freaking awesome! Best bit though was Chris offering them an order of NZCQ cupcakes which Shawn (aka Clown) took him up on and then offered us some tickets to the show.
So we got to go and it was awesome. Machinehead and Slipknot both put on a pretty amazing performance and we got to get our head bang on. I never got to personally deliver the cupcakes to them, so who knows if they even got them or were eaten by hotel staff, but it makes for a nice story of things working out when you think you've missed out!
We also got to meet the lovely guys from Machinehead who were so friendly and chilled out. I gave Dave the details of my art project "The Cupcake Project" so who knows, one day he might just submit his very own cupcake.
Badass :-)
3 comments:
I think it's awesome that you guys get to meet so many rockers. I think if I were to try, I would look like an aging wannabe groupie like that ugly old hag from the Metallica video.
I think its totally awesome that so many hard-arses really secretly like girly pink cupcakes.
sidenote; where did you get those awesome skull liners, i must have some immediately.
Two words... Punk. Rock.
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