Wall of Mouths

i meet them when they played the forum in tunbridge wells last year, i said to martin and graham that andy should try and sing potatoe junkie in a cornish accent because i’d love to hear ‘Oim Biddrr, Oim ‘wistd, Jams Joyce be Fuckin’ moi sistrr’, and they recommended that i asked him myself so i did, and he tried it! didn’t work thou, all he can say in that accent is ‘Arr, summerset!’, but top marks for him giving it a go! After the gig, i was about to leave and i went on a mission to find my friend max who was coming back to mine, and he was standing there having a full conversation with andy about the set and how tightly they had played! when i went over, max grabbed me and said to andy: ‘this is your biggest fan in the world! he gets so much abuse for listening to your band but he still won’t stop, i think he really likes you!’!! i also had no idea that his irish accent was _that_ thick; it was a bit hard to understand what he was saying later on when he was drinking. anyway, speaking of meeting bands, my opld flatmate rich may be able to get backstage passes to reading coutrtesy of saffron from republica! woo-hoo! i wanna meet fear factory and tell dino cazares that eh’s a mountain bastard but i that his playing has influenced me a lot and i’m really gratefull for bands that break from the mould like they have. crossed fingers!

I met Therapy? in Holland during the tour last year. I went to see the gig with two good friends of mine, we play in a band together as well. We found T? sitting in the bar of Nighttown in Rotterdam after their show. At first it was kinda crowded and there were some fans around but they left pretty quick. We stayed and talked about an hour and a half. We told Andy & Graham we are a band and they loved it. We said we were surprised that there was no support band for that night, Andy answered that if T? had known about it, we would have played there to support T?. Our drummer couldn’t help asking about Fyfe - but they were really ok with that. Andy told us a beautiful story about his grandma or granddad - Don’t remember. The conversation was mainly about becoming big rockstars and not to get carried away and become an asshole. T? succeeded big time in ignoring all of the rockstar bullshit, LOTS OF RESPECT!!!
I also met them at lowlands ‘98 where they did a signature session - it was the easiest thing, small tent just a few ppl, excellent. Really nice guys.
Untill next time, I geuss :)

I met Therapy? once backstage at their concert with Skunk Anansie in Deinze, Belgium. (thanks to Wouter for that :) Unfortunately the show was cancelled due to power problems at the venue, but in stead we got a really cool short acoustic set for the fans that had stayed there (only about 30 people I guess). It also was the first time I drank Guinness :-) I must say I think Andy at the time was into drugs (no really bad behaviour but something was wrong I thought), but Michael was very nice and we talked about their South American shows with Ozzy. I ended up hanging around more with Skunk Anansie and the crew than with the guys from Therapy?, but I really didn’t mind. Fyfe was nowhere to be seen which I still think is a pity because I do believe he has a great style. I did see the guys a few times for short moments (I got their autographs at a Werchter show a few years ago) and ofcourse been front row numerous times.

Only last Friday I was at the VIP/Press area at the Rock Werchter festival in Belgium sitting with some friends at a table, when Michael walked by. He recognised me (as a fan from concerts?) and said how are you doing, I said fine what are you doing here and he said he was with some friends. I didn’t know what else to say or ask as het sat down at the table next to us with a girl I don’t know.

Another funny story: last time Therapy? played at the Melkweg in Amsterdam me and a friend were rather early as some other fans arrived as well. They were talking to eachother and wondering if the band were coming out front. At that time Graham came walking by with a mobile phone but the fans didn’t recognise him :) After he hung up I walked to him asking if we could see the sound check or get backstage afterwards and he said he’d try but we never saw him back :( The show itself was amazing, though!

No, I haven’t spoken to them in person yet, but I did see them walking around off-stage a couple of times. They were busy talking to other people and I didn’t feel like bothering them with the un-interesting comments I thought of making at the time.

First time I met them at Rock Werchter about 1997 or 96 and asked Andy to autograph my red Belga cap. Not only with the names but he draw the Gemil on it on my request.

The second time was at Rock Zottegem 7 July. At the afterpart (after the BBQ and concert) I talked with especially Andy and it was very funny and with lots of nice other people around.

See you soon at the next gig.

I live a few doors up from Fyfes dad, and he rocks!!!!!!! We watched Teetgrinder last week and he is wooing me into the ways of Therapy?!!!!!!

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Fyfe does not live in Ireland, he lives in England for many many years now!
Iris

Well, but Fyfe’s dad might still be in (Northern-??)Ireland and his son might visit him once a while, right? I don’t know their personal details that well :)

Met them in Dortmund when the played the VISIONS show. They were quite busy with watching Ash and Weezer playing live, but they still had the time to sign my CD cover. Great guys, great music!