U2 Tour Dates - Now Official!- Page 44

[mabel]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:25pm

Smart girl!

[Ellie3]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:26pm

I so totally would have kept a little something for myself too! Or offered the case back in return for sexual favors.

BTW, it's spelled Ali. One 'l'. But go on...

[mabel]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:28pm

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!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:31pm

Meh, whatever Miss Billy Joe Non-Fan.

Anyway, so she took photos of all of the documents, and somehow the site was able to get ahold of Paul, who told the band, who was obviously happy and totally shocked. So when Bono went to that political thingy, then he and Danielle met, she gave him back the suitcase, and they went for dinner together, where he told her about the stuff in the suitcase, and the significance of it. (Aside from containing the lyrics to one of their suckier albums, which coulda been much better.)

Aye, here's the rub though - even though the folklore claims that some woman in Portland stole the suitcase from Bono at a club that they were playing at, Bono My Loving Dolt actually forgot it at said club, and the previous owner of the house kept it for all these years. So that whole stealing thing? Was a myth.

[Ellie3]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:34pm

*gasp*

[mabel]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:34pm

Can you imagine if that person had moved or something and sold it at a yard sale, not realizing the significance of it?!?!

Poor Bono...he's going to be so senile in his old age!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:35pm

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!

[mabel]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:36pm

*swoon*

[Ellie3]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:37pm

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

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:38pm

He flat-out admitted to forgetting the suitcase, and told her that they had been in a mad rush the next day, and he somehow let it completely slip his mind. (I find this to be an optimistic fact because it means that if I'm all, "Paul, sweetie. Remember your wife, Tiff?" then he just might go along with it in his confusion!)

So here's where the story gets kinda sucky for her. She can't get ahold of him anymore. (I don't know what happened to that phone number - I'm sure he changes it frequently.) She showed up at GM Place with the iPod and a letter, and had been told by him that they'd go and hang out while the band was rehearsing. But now she can't speak directly to Paul McG, but their management entourage isn't passing her messages onto them.

Oh, by the way, in between this transpiring, we took a little walk around GM Place so we could hear them rehearse Bullet.... I complimented her on her nifty bag. She coldly said, "Thanks." Anyhoo...

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:41pm

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.

[mabel]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:42pm

Awww, that's rather sucky...maybe something'll work out for when they're in Vancouver or Portland to close out the third leg. I'd imagine they were stressed rehearsing, etc. Did you investigate her iPod?

[Ellie3]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:42pm

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.

[mabel]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:45pm

Who knows, the caterers may have been hired locally from the GM Place...I bet that was a real pisser of a day for her. It sucks, but hell, she can go home and leaf through her photocopies...don't feel as bad anymore.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:46pm

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.

[Ellie3]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:47pm

Yeah, it must have been a VERY sucky day. Imagine being turned away from Bono, and meeting Tiff - all in the same day!

[mabel]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:48pm

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.

[Ellie3]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:49pm

Wait - if every member of U2's staff are being cold to her, and not forwarding her messages, even screaming at her...and you only have her word for these little tete-a-tetes she's supposedly had with Bono...hmmmmm.

Maybe she really is a nutcase, who tried to molest Bono.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:50pm

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.

[mabel]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:51pm

Ellie, I was kind of thinking the same thing myself. I think the big wrench in her story was that she'd already talked to Bono on the phone and arranged the whole thing. I'm not saying she's totally making all of this up, but I'd say she either must have embellished some...that or Bono's a bit of a jerk for pulling to complete 180.

[Ellie3]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:51pm

I think she sounds as deluded as you, Tiff.

[Ellie3]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:52pm

Mabel - Bono is NOT a jerk! So that rules that theory out.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:52pm

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?

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:54pm

And I am NOT deluded. Bono said so when he whispered sweet nothings in my ear in his GM Place dressing room after I pretended to leave.

[mabel]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:54pm

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