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Okay, so this one is the most awe inspiring rockstar... The only person ever to have left me starstuck (and bear in mind I've met a lot of very famous people - Snow Patrol, Oasis, Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, Foo Fighters, Biffy Clyro etc.) is this fabulous woman: Miki Berenyi.
Yeah - I can hear you going "WHO?" So here she is in all her fabulous flame haired brilliance. Miki fronted Camden based band Lush who packaged perfect indie pop into cute little singles in the 90s alongside raven haired Emma, drummer Chris and bass guitarist Phil. It was unusual to see girls with guitars back then - or if they had them it was some cynical ploy to get on the front of NME so the lads could go PWHOAR! But Miki was the brains behind this band and although her guitar playing isn't that great, she was the songwriter. She was not selling sex, she was selling her soul... It's all there if you dig into the earlier stuff and not just their slam-dunk hit album Lovelife.
If I could be one person it is Miki. I had many attempts at getting my hair the same colour as hers, but man is it hard to get it that red and keep it from fading to dirty pink. I have a sparkly shift dress which I shall never part with simply because it so epitomises that age.
So when I stumbled into meeting her backstage at a festival, I was truly starstruck. A friend of mine shoved me into her way and she was just so cool... A lot of the time when I meet famous people, they are just normal people or act like complete knobs. She was neither - she was super lovely but totally ethereal, and I do have a picture! It's filed away in one of my photo albums as obviously this was pre digital age!
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