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I think it was 2016 in Chile, I was waiting for you guys outside the hotel (i’m sorry for that). I showed Fran and Andy the tattoo I got on my back of the lyrics of Turn.
I genuinely thought that you were gonna think that I was crazy, but you told me that it was so cool and even took a picture of it.
You guys are my favorite band, and you liking the tattoo was peak happiness.
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Yes, they’re great and above all humane!! Very happy you got the chance to meet them.
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When I was 18 my Dad was driving me and my soon to be flatmate down to Glasgow from the Isle of Skye. We were due to move into a high rise in Cardonald before starting at the college there. We had to pick up the flat keys from (I think) langside college. It was the year 2000, we were in my Dad’s Volvo and we were lost.
We came to a stop at a set of traffic lights and I heard my Dad manually roll down the window as it was in those days. He said “excuse me mate” and I looked across as he gestured to the car in the next lane (also stopped at the lights) to roll down their window. I started to have a non verbal mental and physical spasm. The other driver was Fran Healy and he was now rolling down his window – I believe thinking my Dad had recognised him. Dad obviously had not and then asked him for directions to the college whilst in the background I was now grasping my friend and pointing. We were now both in the grips of demented silence. Dad asked for his directions, we clutched each other and kinda babbled. By this point Fran was laughing at the hysteria unfolding behind my Dad and of which Dad was totally oblivious to. Fran gave the directions and Dad drove off. When we finally got the power of speech back we told my Dad what had happened. Dad said he was a lovely and polite young man but he didn’t recognise him from Adam. Fran had been wearing a beanie, so my friend / flatmate Sarah got my Travis book (you know the one that was just Fran’s face on the cover) stuck a beanie hat on it and shoved it in my Dad’s face and asked “do you recognise it now Ian”
We still talk about it 25 years later. My Dad likes to play up the part where he asks for directions and didn’t know who he was speaking to. You can’t imagine what it was like for two wee teenagers from Skye, moving down to the big smoke and seeing one of their absolute heroes. We really felt that we had arrived and anything was possible in the big city ❤️
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Lovely stories, thanks for sharing
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I really love the tattoo story and the one at the traffic lights. Both are just so wonderful and heartwarming. There’s something truly special about those real, unplanned moments that happen offline – they feel so much more alive.
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That’s funny and I definitely will. When we finally got to Moss Heights in Cardonald and we gave my Dad the reenactment he said “aye, I did notice he was smiling and amused but I just thought he’d recognised me as the manager of Portree Football Club” To which we groaned and hoped to die at such Dad jokes. I honestly can’t stress how amazing that experience was as a couple of young girls coming down from the islands. It was amazing.
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