U2 Tour Dates - Now Official! — Page 44

Smart girl!

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When was it lost...I mean October lyrics?!?! No way he'd have remembered what was in there 20+ years later. Definitely have to liberate something from the suitcase...good to know we're all on the same page on this!

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*gasp*

So when U2 was last in Portland, she got free tickets to the show, and Bono made eye-contact with her and gave her a shout out for giving back the suitcase. She and Bono remained friends and exchanged phone numbers, and apparently he calls her from time to time, and called her a couple of months ago to tell her they band would be in town for rehearsals. She had relocated to Vancouver to get her Masters in Journalism, and he agreed to be interviewed for her master's thesis! Oh yeah, and last Christmas, Bono sent her a U2 iPod engraved with her name and the date!

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Did you smack her in the face, the lucky bitch??

So we circle the whole perimeter, and then go up to the caterers, who are now bringing the band's NEW un-burned dinner into GM Place. And she goes up to one of them and she's all, "Excuse me. If you see Bono, can you tell him that Danielle's here?" and they laugh in her face. And she's all, "You don't understand. I'm Danielle, the one who found his---look, he knows who I am." and Isabelle is all, "She found the suitcase." and the caterer is all, "Yeah, I know U2 too, and I've never heard about this suitcase." I mean, the nerve of him! What real U2 fan doesn't know the suitcase legend????


















Except for me.

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Aw, I kinda feel sorry for her now. Kinda.
And I understand her coldness toward you...that can't be held against her.

There's more chance he'd mistake me for his wife, Tiff. Ellie/Ali - same difference. All I have to do is slap on a black wig, age twenty years and hey presto! Oh, and bump the real Ali off.

So she goes to the security people, who actually yelled and her and told her that they didn't want anything to do with her or delivering her letter.

And then we're chilling like, 20 feet away from the backstage door, where the roadies pop out for a smoke. And she's sort of lingering, and eventually goes up to them, and the two guys out there quickly go back in to avoid her. I dont' think it was anything personal - they just wanna avoid the Average Non-Suitcase-Finding Fans.

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That's totally true...I'd be willing to bet every day of the week, at every city on the tour, there'll be chicks out there claiming to be someone who has some steadfast connection to the B-man. The thing that really blows is it sounds like she'd arranged w/ him to meet that day...I'd totally understand it if she'd just decided to swing by and hope for the best.

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So she decides she'll sit outside with us for a while longer and wait for the band to eventually drive out. (Keep in mind it was St. Patty's Day and we didn't expect them to stay there too late - it was already 7ish by now - in the end, that's what they did - stay late.)

But as far as I know, she never got ahold of Bono again, she was sort of pissed because Bono told her he'd hook her up with Seattle/Vancouver tickets, but she had to buy her own (uh...boo-hoo?). And that was that. So now she doesn't have anyone to interview for her MAster's thesis and she doesn't get much bragging rights.

She works for CBC though (major Canadian TV channel), and they tipped her off that the boys were supposed to play a surprise gig at one of the local clubs either that night or the night after. And that never ended up transpiring either.

Yeah, I kinda feel sorry for her - she and the fangirls were all, "That sucks. The band could be totally awesome but the management shields them from stuff." which could be true, but at the same time, I can't help but think that if she really mattered that much to Bono, he'd insist to Paul to get ahold of her.

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I think she sounds as deluded as you, Tiff.

I think it's probably a bit of both, Mabel. I just get that vibe from her - hell, for all I know, she could just have said her name is Danielle, and tried to pass herself off as the one who found the suitcase. I mean, how hard is it to have Danielle engraved into an iPod?

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True, true...but that would be WOEFULLY pathetic. I've done some sad fan-girly things, but that'd just be sad!

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