Today's Blind Items - Rock Star Kindness
Over the past few months I have not had much luck in getting hold of an old friend. I understand why I can't and hope she gets the help she needs. When healthy she is one of kinder celebrities I have encountered and back in the day I witnessed a really cool act of kindness performed by her and her then husband. When this incident happened she was A+ list. She was in a group but it was all her that made it pop. Her group was touring with another group that still lingers but had its heyday about the same time as our foreign born former A+ lister.
I was there because of the other group and everyone decided to go to lunch. Both groups together. It was a mutual admiration society. All told with friends and whatever there were about 25 of us. No one bothered to call a restaurant we all just showed up. Seating 25 people was going to be an issue. All the tables were filled and there was a deadline to get back and no one wanted to get back in the vehicles and find another place to eat. This was in a strip mall and one of the stores was a True Value or Ace Hardware. Our singer walked over and saw they had picnic tables for sale so she bought all they had and then some traffic cones and rope and blocked off part of the parking lot and set up the tables. She then went back to the restaurant and told them her plan and they agreed to deliver the food. It was a Mexican place and they just served a bunch of different fillings with tortillas and brought out chips and salsa. basically it became one big buffet. Our singer felt bad for the patrons inside because their lunches had been disrupted so she bought all of them lunch and gave them all tickets and backstage passes to the show and boozed them up like crazy that night. She went to all the owners and employees of the stores in the strip mall and invited them all to eat for free at the buffet and did the same thing with tickets and passes. She paid the bill for the entire place and for a tip she tripled the amount of the bill. It was just something I will never forget. All of these people who were gathered together almost instantly and all together eating lunch out on picnic tables in the middle of a parking lot.
22 comments:
Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac? tl;dr
Dolores o'riordan/The Cranberries
Gerbage'sur Shirley Manson ?
possibly Annie Lennox?
Shirley Manson from Garbage?
French girl beat me to it!
One last one--Alison Moyet
love Shirley Manson.I think Cranberries/Garbage toured together(not sure) both great90s bands.O'Riordan was placed in emergency medical care(almost 51/50) awaiting her "air rage trial" where she attacked an employee..), but who knows- is Shirley in the news?
Blondie?
The Motels?
Katrina and the Waves?
So many options...
Divinyls?
The Pretenders?
Agree. Love Shirley but Dolores is the one who seems to be really dealing with some issues in her life.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/dolores-oriordan-the-demons-that-linger-in-her-life-30758766.html
This depends on which Enty is telling the story. Is this new Enty's story? Or is this a story from old Enty? If it's old Enty I doubt the answer would be bands from the 90's. If it's new Enty then Garbage & Cranberries guesses would be right.
I loved the cranberries- it's so sad what happened to her. The clue"linger" in the blind (their biggest song) and her recent meltdowns tell me it's her.Thought she was still married but her longtime hubby and she seperated last year.
DOLORES O'Riordan has split from her husband of 20 years, Donald Burton.
The Cranberries singer – who allegedly took part in an air rage incident earlier this week – is said to be calling time on her marriage after two decades together.
The Bangles?
Lone Justice?
'Til Tuesday?
(Note: I have no idea where any of these women were born, I'm just reminiscing and realizing how much I miss The Talking Heads...)
-Great Guess @Tricia
-The Cranberries Toured with The The Band & they still tour ???
-Dolores's mom said she had a nervous breakdown after her split w/her husband & she is Bi-Polar.(interview in Irish Central is odd).
-(now I have "Zombie..Zombie..." in my head)
Ah-ha! Nicely done with the "linger" link. Great song, among others.
+1
Thx@BA:)
Yep, you got it Tricia.
call me a pessimist, but did she get permission to block off an entire section of a parking lot for a self absorbed impromptu parking lot picnic? the rest of it is all very nice and kind and all that, but that part seems pretty bold lol
Just laughed out loud inappropriately.. Thx
Every front woman on these lists is an American, with the exception of the late Christina Amphlett (who was Australian). The blind says the woman in question was foreign born.
I like the O'Riordan guess best.
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