Have you ever met a non-Irish celebrity?

James Hetfield - Sound but quiet

Lars Ulrich - Very talkative, interviewed him for Kerrang back in 99

Jason Newsted - Fantastic guy, has so much for fans

Ozzy - Didnt know what day of the week it was both times i met him back in late 90's

Sharron Osbourne - Spot on, had sneaked backstage at the Sabbath Reunion in 97 at The NEC, She figured out what we'd done and thought it hilarious, even telling security to fcuk off when they started walking towards us

Henry Rollins - Probably one of the nicest guys i've met, real interest in what i was saying, told him i was from a small north wales town called Llandudno, said he knew it as he'd played a gig wit Black Flag on Colwyn Bay pier some 10/15yrs previously, described the venue down to a tee

Phil Anselmo - Off his tits after headlining Dynamo in 98, i was over there with a band so had AAA, We went to watch Saxon after Pantera set. Met him a few weeks later at Ozzfest and he wasnt as hammered but actually fcukin remembered the Saxon gig from Dynamo, how i dont know

Lemmy - Total gent, met him quite a few times over the years as he lived in Llandudno/Colwyn Bay for a time, was crewing for a band at a festival at RDS which motorhead headlined, my mate back in the bays birthday so i took a card and asked him to sign it, he wrote…To Dave from Colwyn Bay, from LEMMY, from Colwyn fcukin bay :-)

Slipknot - On their first UK tour, sound guys but fuckin nuts at that time

Brian May - Nice guy, very talkative, excused my mate asking me when i was to him "Who's he?"

Rammstein - Met Til and Richard when they headlined Dynamo in 98, had no idea who they were, was just having a beer and they were standing next to me so got talking, very offish as seemed like they didnt wanna/couldnt speak English

Iron Maiden - Won a BBC Radio 1 comp to play paintball with them and Thunder back in 91, only Bruce and Jan turned up, Jan was spot on, Bruce was a twat. Management arranged a pass for a later gig when Blaze was with them to make up for only 2 turning up at the paintball, Steve, Dave & Nicko were gents, went onstage with them to sing chorus to Heaven Can Wait with Slaven Bilic and a few others

So many others but they're the main ones i guess

In top pic I'm the one in the Monsters of Rock t shirt, guy to my right is Merck Mercuriadis, ex Guns n Roses manager.

Bottom is me wit Jan and Danny from Thunder

Michael Eavis

Vito (sopranos)

Anna Friel

Jordan /Katie Price

Puff Daddy

Mr C ( The Shamen)

Richard E Grant

Tom Misch

Bez

Rocky Boxer Carl Weathers

Joe Elliot & Def Leppard

Fatboy Slim

Chris Pontius (Jackass), and Joe Elliot (Def Lepard) … both really sound

It sounds like an Alan Partridge call in for "it's the bank holiday, what are you doing and who are you with".

Conor Mcgregor in his home land of the UK.

lots of international tennis players, cyclists and soccer players from my old work. Can’t say many were rude or anything like that. All very normal

Have met many "stars" over the years for various different reasons.

Bruce Springsteen, outside the Merrion in 2005, chatted to him for a couple of minutes while he signed some autographs. Dead Sound

Sat opposite Susanna Reid(extremely attractive in the flesh) on a Private Jet organsed by Steve Parish to watch Palace away against Man City

Drank with Robbie Fowler, McManamin and a few other heads a couple of times late nineties as mate played for Liverpool at the time.

Ronnie O'Sullivan, John Higgins (plenty others from that scene) several times

Luis Figo (kind of) at his "bar" in Vilamoura marina

Ronan Keating, sat next to his kid on a flight to Faro(circa 2006 or so), he was pleasent enough, Ronan and Kid

I'm sure there are others i can't recall currently

EDIT

Someone mentioned famous DJ's, reminds me, have met PVD, Judge Jules, Seb Fontaine, Carl Cox, Armanind Van Burren, few others (was able to get vip tickets to a lot of dance festivals)

EDIT 2

Cricketers Kevin Pieterson &Mick Vaughan, actually many other crcketers attending games in UK & Caribbean that most reading this thread wouldn't now who they were.

I met Robert Fripp at a King Crimson album launch in London back in the 90s. He's one of those folks who doesn't like people approaching him unless he's mentally prepared for it, which he was in this case. I don't know if "nice" is the word but he was funny.

Also in London in the 1990s, I went to a pub gig at which a singer named Tim Bowness was performing, and he and a bunch of us stayed chatting in the pub afterwards. His mate Steven Wilson was there too, not performing but just hanging out. The latter is a name you might have heard now, since he has a massive body of work, both solo and with Porcupine Tree, all kinds of collaborations, multiple Grammy nominations for his production work. He's a celebrity now, but back then I don't know.

Susanna Reid really annoys me.

When's on TV ….. sometimes when she speaks. She has a little smirk on her face.

Was that Richie Partridge??

Vance Joy.

Phil Daniels [actor]

Julian Casablancas [The Strokes]

Alex James, Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon and Dave Rowntree aka Blur

My guitar hero Nuno Bettencourt and the whole of Extreme [band].

Paolo Nutini, Jack Johnson, James Bay, Myles Kane and a couple more. I'd add Gary Lightbody to the list but he proudly calls himself Irish...

Bono and Adam Clayton

Had a few drinks and a sing song in a hotel bar after a concert with Brian May years ago, we got well drunk and I sang a few irish songs and he sang a couple of queen songs a great memory to have. He told me I'd a great singing voice, he may have been lying but I'll take that compliment

Had a few drinks with Graham Norton as well, really nice and sound, good crack once he realised we didn't give a damn who he was and he joined us for a couple of hours, it was on the other side of the world in a non English speaking country and I think he was perplexed that 4 big country lads from the west of Ireland were drinking in a gay bar even though none of us were gay. Turned into a great night. Another great memory.

Kerry Katona when she was filming Showbands here in the area i live in.

She is about as tall as a smurf in real ife but was very friendly and a lot better looking in the flesh.

comes across as a gent and some. Great craic and total football guy. Been dealt such an absolutely undeserved shîtty hand in life with that poxy illness.

The Windows 95 launch in Ireland was in September 1995 and Bill Gates was there.

I don't know where you are getting that it wasn't in 1995.

And an internet connection to a speaker, in 1995, I don't think so.

Jim Davidson - met him in Camden Court hotel - loud and full of life.

Made smart remarks to all and sundry - my wife didn’t like him.

He likes attention I’d say

Sort of a British Brendan o Carroll type of vibe.

Jools Holland - was in a queue for icecream in an upmarket London shopping arcade.

Very friendly. I Mentioned I loved cool for cats as a kid - he said his mate who wrote it “struck gold” with that one. (Can’t remember exact name).

Gave me advice on good parking spots in the area.

Said he loved doing gigs in Ireland.

Mike Pence when he was in Ireland during the Trump administration. Lovely guy. Had time for everyone.