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I remember coming down to see them two nights in a row,but not much else.
Down to dublin after work,Shellac,back to belfast,work the next morning,down to dublin after work,Shellac,back to belfast,work the next morning.
Good times. In a rare moment of hobnobbing with the stars I found myself backstage after the TBMC gig and got chatting with Albini. He was friendly, funny and very tolerant of eejits he didn't know hanging out where they had no business being. We had a grand chat about AC/DC. Then the drunk singer from well known Irish indie band of the time staggers in and starts telling Albini how his band had made a record with a big-name US recording engineer but in spite of this he was now reduced to working in a Chinese restaurant to pay the rent. Albini (and Traynor who had now joined us) were not particularly interested in this, and Albini starts telling him that he should take pride in whatever work he happens to be doing. Drunk singer wasn't having any of this and continued insisting that such work was beneath him etc etc. I then left because it was late and I had to get up for work the next day. If there's a point to this I'm not really sure what it is, other than "I met him once and he's sound".
I realise of course that the drunk singer probably tells this completely differently and it goes something like "yeah I went backstage after their set to say hello and there was this absolute tool boring the shit out of Steve talking about AC/DC and ....."