This was a very cold winter ... But somehow I keep o warm memory of it. Boyzone were due to arrive in Paris on monday, december, 16th to record all the Christmas special TV show and promote Picture Of You and their disastrous duet with shitty French band Alliage. I ran to the hotel after school on Monday and I got to meet them : I spent most of the time trying to talk to Steve, and I had my first picture ever taken with him ( I am as ugly as hell on it but God knows how gorgeous he is ! actually, Steo never looked better than this time, end of 1997 ...) anyway, he was extremely sweet and warmed my hands in his hands saying I was cold and he didn't want me to get ill, so I should go home cos he wasn't gonna be back early . That was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet !!! The other fans were ... " a bit jealous" ! hehehehe ! ;oP
Anyway, the best part was the next day . I was in front of the hotel at 8:30 a m and it was damn cold. My main preoccupation while dressing up in the morning hadn't been the cold, girls should understand me ;o)
So at 8:30 I was standing in front of those luxurious glass doors, staring at any movement behind them, waiting for BZ to wake up and come down to me : I was alone, no other fan, if they had come at this moment, I would have had them all for myself ! But they didn't ... The bastards stayed in bed till 10:30 while I was waiting for them OUTSIDE, ALONE, and UNDER THE SNOW !!!! :oD Not to mention that I had got up at 6:00 ! Fans started to come around, and that was company ... The hotel was being decorated for Christmas, and the crew was getting annoyed at us ...
Then came the guys !!!! I had a nice morning chat with Ronan ... You know how you recognize a popstar in the street in December : the popstar wears sun glasses !
I won't tell all the details, that would be too long, but let's just say they were lovely and most of them remembered me from the night before. But something happened that is worth telling though !
After the recording of their first show of the day, the boyz came back to the hotel, then went out again. My mates and I guessed that they were going to the restaurant. So we thought there was no point staying there and we could go and find something to eat too ;o) Walking by an Italian restaurant we stopped to have a look at the prices cos the guys had eaten there last time they were in Paris, and why not have something in a restaurant the boys had tried ? So I picked inside and ...... THE BOYS WERE THERE ! It was a pure coincidence and we were so excited we just didn't know what to do. Needless to say that the prices were scandalously high ! I didn't have a penny on me but my two mates had a little money : we could afford a salad each ... We were hesitating though : the guys might not like it. Then again they probably wouldn't mind . They wouldn't pay any attention to us, maybe they wouldn't even notice us ... We were still unsure when a waiter came out and told us : you like the boys over there ? We said we did. So he said : why don't you come in and have something ? There' s a free table next to theirs ... That was so tempting. But then again we didn't want to disturb them. And I had no money, I didn't know how and when I would be able to pay back my mate. A few minutes later the waiter came saying it was such a pity cos there was this free table next to theirs ... So we said, if we only took a salad we would take that free table next to the boys ;) But he said no you can't only have a salad, this is a restaurant, you can have a meal for 100FF but you can't take a salad only. One of my mate had 100FF, the other one had 200FF, I had nothing. She said she would give pay for my meal. I refused and told the two girls to go without me . But they insisted so I accepted and we came inside. The waiter came to us and led us to that table. We were as red as mature tomatoes ! We didn't dare to look at the boys, the whole restaurant was looking at us , everyone had understood we were fans ... We were feeling so embarrassed and self-conscious ! The tables were very close to each other and a glass fell when my mate sat down ... Nothing bad: it was empty, but that made us feel even worse, we still hadn't looked at the boys, all I could feel was the eyes of all those people looking at us, amused ... I had just taken my coat off when the waiter came back to us and said : it appears the record compagny booked this table for some more people who haven't arrived yet, so you should take the table over there ... That other table wasn't very far ... The thing was the humiliation ! Everyone was looking at us red-cheeked 15-yr- olds following our fave band ! And now that we had sat down, we had to move again ! It was horrible . Trembling and ashamed we moved to the other table . Hardly had I sat down that Mark P****** BZ's tour manager came over to me ( as if he had seen on my face that I was the only one who could speak English ) and told us to go away basically ! I tried to say that restaurants were public in France, we were paying for our meals and he had no rights to throw us out of a restaurant he didn't own. I was so ashamed, I didn't wanna fight, the waiter came and tried to tell mark to leave us alone but this bastard was pretending not to understand the waiter's accent ! I wanted no argument with Mark so we went away, even redder than before and feeling so humiliated ! We were feeling so guilty, wondering if it was the boys who had sent mark, the boys were gonna hate us now and think we were the hysterical type of fans, which we weren't and never were ... We were feeling so bad we didn't want to eat anylonger. We came back to the hotel and waited there, trying to find a way to apologize to the boys ... I never knew shame before this ! Anyway, they came back to the hotel, so I walked up to Steve and said how sorry we were and we didn't mean to disturb them, ect ... and ..... He didn't know what I was talking about ! So all is well that ends well, the boys weren't angry, we did hide behind the cars in the street when mark showed, but apart from that, the rest of the day was fine ! ;o) But this episode of my BZ adventures is carved in my memory for ever ! And now it makes me laught just to think about it ... I was so young .... I was all lively and passionate, I had good intentions and I was facing a big bad record comagny ..... :o) I'll be thankful to BZ forever for the memories they've given me... |
