18th
meeting your heroes
Last night I went to see Mark Oliver Everett, Mr E from the Eels, my favourite band, do a solo gig and book reading in support of his biography: ‘Things the grandchildren should know’.
It was a great show, with most of the songs sounding as good or better when sung by just E on the guitar or piano. A lot of them had more emotional impact when played after a reading from his book, which tells of his ‘interesting’ life including the deaths of his father, mother and sister’s suicide.
Afterwards we queued for a long time to get our books signed, and so I actually got to meet Mr E, which I’m still psyched about. We were about 150th in the queue for signings, so he must have been fed up with it by then, but he was friendly, chatty and really cool. I’m a bit bummed out he didn’t ask me to join his band, but perhaps that was a bit of a long-shot.
