This entry is about meeting and hanging out with Marilyn
Manson recently in Vienna.
I went to see Marilyn Manson in Vienna. My dear friend
Katarina and her boyfriend gave me a lift. Me and Katarina both had VIP
tickets and we had a great time. She’s an awesome concert mate, I need to say. We already started with
concert “preparation”in the car – listening to MM, finishing our make up
and drinking vodka (her boyfriend was the driver, so meanwhile me and Katarina
were slowly getting drunk xD). Normally I would say it is too early to
start drinking at 12.30, but at that day we were going to meet Marilyn Manson
and we were pretty nervous xD I need to say my nervousness started to wear
off a bit with the great company and the amount of booze :D
Anyways we got
to the venue earlier than I expected and still haven’t finished the bottle of
vodka. So we took the vodka bottle and everything else we needed with us and
hurried to find the VIP que. Hurried is a funny word to use in this context,
because my friend was wearing these beautiful heelless shoes (partly on my recommendation, so I’m
the guilty one xD) and the vodka we have drunk plus the snow outside
wasn’t making it much easier
for us. I am still laughing when I remember it, sorry! :D As
we came near the building, there were 2 girls walking in our direction who
asked us if we were VIP. We said yes and it turned out they were VIP, too J
When we got to the que for the entrance to the building for VIPs, we waited for
a bit and then we were let inside. I saw a few familiar faces. At
about this time I also realised I don’t have my cellphone. I must have either left
it at home or in the friend’s car (it was in the car in the end). It is
not the best to forget your phone, when you are supposed to get in touch with
your parents and bf via the phone and after the concerts with your friends with
whom you want to go clubbing. Then we were standing in the line for what seemed
like forever. It was vodka and kind company, again, which helped us wait
through this eternity.
Melanie from GT, who was taking care of us, was very
nice too. After a long waiting she told us she is really sorry that it is
taking so long, but it’s difficult getting Manson to the venue. In the first
moment, i did not think about the snow outside being possibly the reason
for this, the first thing I thought was “Is he so drunk/fucked up already?” Anyway, I was hoping that’s not the case, not
only I was looking forward to meet him, but I also hoped the show will be as
good as the one I saw recently in Prague. When we finally met him we found out
there was no reason to worry about this, probably there was just a problem on
the road. Each of us got only a few seconds with Marilyn since the band arrived
late.
I think all
my nervousness faded from waiting so long. We greeted each other and he signed
the Long Hard Road Out of Hell book for me. I told him my name is Devon, but
the music in that room was so loud he probably did not hear me properly and he
wrote down “Devil” xD. I told him, I’m not a devil, I’m Devon. In an attempt to
repair it, at least partly, he made it “Devöl”. So anyway Devon plus devil
makes Devöl I guess :D Then we hugged and he said „Don’t worry, we will
hug some more later“. I did not really get at first what he meaned by
that. Then all of us VIP waited in another line to take a photo with
Marilyn. When it was my turn, I came into the room and said to Marilyn
that I have no idea about what pose we should make. He said nevermind and
just sort of grabbed me xD. I’m
really satisfied with my photos, anyway. :)
When the meet and greet was over, it was time to wait for
the show. We had to wait outside the concert building and it was quite cold. By
this time me and my friend Katarina parted, because she had a ticket for
sitting and I had one for standing. I was standing there with Mihai,
whom I just got to know that day waiting for the Meet and Greet and we
were kind of freezing. Then we were finally let in. We had no idea if there
would be a support band or whatever...but there was actually something
else. There were two djs plus a pole dancer. The pole dancer was skilled and
I liked her dance, but the djs were totally out of place. I wonder
who wants to hear Skrillex before a MM/Rob Zombie show. They did put on
also some stuff which was all right, for example Rammstein, but for the most
part we were just hoping for Manson to come on stage really soon to end this.
I did check out the setlist from the previous Europe shows before the
concert and Manson played the same also in Vienna and I was happy for the
choice of songs because it included some of my favourites like Antichrist
Superstar, Disposable Teens, The Love Song, MObscene, etc. I could go on
about how amazing the concert was, because I loved it, but I won’t. :D Marilyn seemed to be so much
more in shape than for example in 2009 when I saw him in Bratislava. And he did
put on a better show too. The whole experience was lovely, the only slight
downpoint to it was getting hit by the other fans around all the time (but at
least the fans at this concert had some manners unlike some other crowds I have
been in before).
By the end of the Manson concert I felt that I will probably
faint soon unless I sit down/drink something. As the last song ended and the
audience moved a bit back, some of the people leaving to get some fresher air,
I fell on the girl standing behind me. I apologized and for she said it’s ok
and asked me if I was all right. I said that I don’t know and I need to get
out…then I got through the rest of the crowd as soon as possible and walked out
of the concert room/hall.
I was standing
near the wardrobe for a couple of minutes, leaning against the wall since
I still felt a bit like fainting and there was no place to sit.
I could have sat on the floor I guess, but I did not want to :P
I was waiting there to see a familiar a face – one of the
Austrian girls Elen and Tina or to see Mihai, who was standing behind me at the
beginning of the concert. Elen and Tina appeared moments later and asked me
whether I will join them and wait with them for the backstage and then
they asked me where’s my
backstage pass. I had no idea that anyone got any backstage passes so I just
looked at them and asked for an explanation. :D They were surprised
I did not get one (Thinking back it could have happened because
I sort of ran out of the room where the photo with Manson was taken right after
the photo, because my friend Katarina shouted my name. I got worried she
could have sprained her ankle or something wearing those amazing but dangerous
shoes, so I got out of the room as fast as I could. Well, we’ll never know if that was why I did
not get the backstage pass at first :D So, back to the story.)
Elen and
Tina showed me which security guy gave them the backstage access. Of course
i wanted to go backstage too after the show so I got a crazy
idea. I asked Elen if she would pretend I am her sister, but she said
that would probably not work out, because we don’t look very similar. That’s true, so I asked
her if we could pretend we are cousins and she said yeah. So we told the
security guy that I am her cousin but I did not get the backstage pass and
asked if I could get one. To my surprise, this crazy little plan of ours
worked out, probably because the security guy was a very nice person, he smiled
and said something like: “Sorry,
I must have forgotten to give you one. There you go.” How sweet. Having my
backstage pass and being happy and thankful to Elen, my new cousin, I went to
see the Rob Zombie show, although this time from a distance unlike the Manson
concert (I was standing in the second row and it was crazy but fun
at the same time).
I need to say I enjoyed the Rob Zombie concert.
I don’t really listen to
his music, but judging from what I heard live it sounded fairly good to me.;) I
was standing in the doorway with Mihai and his friends, I was still feeling a
bit too sick to go back into the crowd. There was a drunk guy trying to tell me
something in German, but I did not understand him a word. Then he went on and
tried to tell something to Mihai. (Don’t know if he had any more success, lol.)
After the
Zombie concert I went to wait for the backstage. We have waited for what seemed
like ages, it could have been an hour or so, but I don’t really know exactly.
Not having my phone with me I kinda lost track of time. Not that I would care
about time at that moment. Time didn’t matter. I was only sorry for not having
my phone there, so I could tell my friends where I am. They wouldn’t need to be
worried where I am and I would also try to get a backstage pass for them, too.
Oh well. I had no phone with me so I could forget about that. After some amount
of waiting, we were told to follow one of the security guys into the elevator.
Standing in the elevator, the twenty of us or so, I just realized how huge were
the elevators there. In that situation I think every other fan in my position
would be thinking “Omg, I’m gonna hang out with Manson”, but I was thinking
about the stuff surrounding me (like the elevator). But at the same
time, I was happy and excited, too, of course. When we came near the tour
bus, the security guy, told us that the first ten of us girls can go inside the
bus and the rest should wait. We knew the rest will come into the bus
a while later, but somehow I was still satisfied to be one of the
first ten girls, who came in.
As we entered the bus we first met one of the security guys
(the nice guy who gave me the backstage pass). He told us to keep calm and
enjoy ourselves. I need to say that all of us kind of kept calm. ;) That
was good, because Marilyn seemed a bit overwhelmed by us in the first
moment. In a way, it was nice to know that, because then we weren’t the only ones who were a bit
nervous in the present situation. On the bus there were Marilyn and Lindsay
(his girlfriend), some security guys and roadies. Marilyn said hi and
introduced his lovely girlfriend to us saying he loves her and that he is going
to marry her one day. How sweet was that <3 Then he told us something like: “Wow, there’s
so many of you.” (Now I am not sure, if some of the rest of the girls joined us
already, or if the other ten girls came in all at once later on.) Anyways, the
tour bus seemed tiny, so Marilyn and Lindsay found themselves surrounded with
girls. Oh, not sure if I mentioned before, but there was a no guys rule on the
tour bus (well, except for band members, security guys and roadies, of course
:D). So that is why there were only girls. Marilyn went on to say something
like: “Please take a seat. This is a rape type of situation. I am gonna put on
some music, because this is really a kind of rape situation.” We all laughed at
this, Marilyn put on some music and turned down the lights.
Then each of us
girls got a glass of champagne, we all said cheers to him and to Lindsay and
introduced ourselves. Marilyn mentioned: “Now that you all drank it, I can tell
you that there was Rohypnol in it.” First one of Marilyn’s jokes. xD Marilyn
kept looking around himself saying something like: “This is like in a zombie
movie and now you girls are gonna attack me.” I asked him if he thinks we are
creepy or ugly. He said he doesn’t think that at all and that he thinks this is
a good kind of zombie movie and that we should attack each other. I objected
that we have no weapons, so we can’t. He said he’s gonna get us some knives.
Some moments later I noticed that someone (could be one of the roadies)
brought some plastic knives. I haven’t noticed if any of the other girls used them, but I didn’t. Sometimes
I felt like I was being a bit rude, because I kept replying to stuff Marilyn
said and I was the first one to ask for some more booze, etc. Manson did not seem
to mind luckily. (I was already quite drunk from before, otherwise
I could have behave a bit more shy and modest.:D)
After we all finished the welcome drink, I asked
Marilyn what else is there to drink and whether has some absinthe around there.
By this time, the rest of the girls were already inside the bus, so it was
getting quite crowded. Marilyn had another welcome drink with the rest of them
(and with us again). As Lindsay suggested, we all did the name thing, the
introduction again. To my question about absinthe, Marilyn replied something
about having some absinthe earlier on the tour. But he said that there’s no more left and that the one
they had tasted like shit, anyway. “Ts ts ts, Marilyn Manson not having any
absinthe, that’s strange.”I replied laughing and wanted to know what else is
there to drink, then. He said that there’s some Jack Daniels for example and
asked whether we would like some of that. We said “Yeah, sure.” Each of us got
a glass of Jack Daniels. Marilyn Manson (and his team) were taking care
of us so well. :)
When some of us ran out of drinks, I was the one to ask
Marilyn (again!) whether there’s
some more to drink. He made fun of me and said that I’m not getting any more
alcohol, because I am so small. Me laughing„ So what if I am
small?“He said something in the sense, that he is sure my body won’t process that much alcohol.
Because it is about weight with alcohol. I replied that it’s not and I know
that, because my bf is almost two metres tall and can take less alcohol than
me. :D At this point Marilyn mentioned that he has no idea about our
European metric system and that he is perhaps like 6 metres tall. “Yeah sure.“
Me and Lindsay and some of the girls started laughing at him. Then he said that
of course I can have some more booze. He pointed to the bar and said it’s over there, so I should go there
and have some. I took the glasses of some other girls, too to re-fill them with
alcohol. Then I came to the bar part of the bus where the roadies were sitting
and I asked one of them what kind of alcohol is left. He started making fun of
me that I must be like 14 years old, that I look so young and that I am not
getting any booze. When I told him, my real age, he poured me some more Jack
Daniels and grabbed a plastic knife and pretended to slit my throat.
Anyways, I
don’t wanna make it seem like all the conversations in the bus went on only
about booze. One of the other topics were foreign languages. Marilyn remembered
me and another girl seated next to me at the beginning as “the translators”.
Because we spoke both decent English and German(my German is not that
good, but anyway). I am sure there were more girls like that on the bus,
but for soem reason he called the two of us translators. When some of the girls
said something to each other in German, Marilyn said something like „don’t dick talk me“:D He was
making us laugh constantly. I must say I love his sense of humour. We
all began teaching Marilyn dirty words in German, because he seemed interested
in that :D I told someone else that I could teach him those dirty
words also in Slovak and began saying some of them just for the interest of the
others xD When said the Slovak word “kurva”, Marilyn reacted: “Don’t say that to me, I can understand it.” I
replied that the word is maybe a bit international. He kept repeating
some ofthe dirty words in German, particularly “Fotze“ the German for “cunt”.
Speaking of
this, Marilyn said he liked my military cap and Lindsay said she liked it, too.
I thanked them both and felt very proud for a moment until Marilyn asked if I
knew how this was cap called in America. I told him I have no idea and asked
him what it is called. “Cunt cap” he says. Me being quite drunk and therefor a
bit stupid: “Why?” ”Because it looks like a cunt.” he
added. Then I realized that the top of the cap might really resemble that, I
laughed and replied something not very intelligent again: “But it’s not mine,
it’s my boyfriend’s.”(meaning the cap, of course) Oh geez. Anyway, as for compliments, Marilyn
complimented on my outfit in general and Lindsay said she loved the thing I had
around my neck, which was a sort of black faux fur scarf. She had a similar
thing on her coat, but I have no idea whether it was also faux fur or real. I
didn’t ask because I did not wanna start talking about who is against and who
is for wearing real fur.
Soon
enough, I realized whom we all miss at this little tour bus after party –
Twiggy. I asked Marilyn where is Twiggy and the rest of the band. He asked
his security guy, who said they were playing some computer or playstation games, not sure what exactly, I don’t
remember what he said. Anyway we all laughed at that, we are having an after
party here and those guys are playing games at the other tour bus. Marilyn also
looked like he would like to have the other guys from the band join us. He got
this idea that some of us girls should go to the other bus with Lindsay and
bring the guys there. Then he made the idea more specific by saying he wants to
do a “titty parade”. His idea was that a few of us girls and Lindsay will come
to the other tour bus and show the other band mates our tits. He asked Lindsay
whether she would do this if we agreed to do it and she said that she will, of
course. But the rest of us denied this suggestion, none of the girls wanted to
show their tits to the bandmates. So then Marilyn got another suggestion for us:
„Let’s do a military parade,
then.“ The girl who was wearing a military uniform was
automatically a part of the parade with Lindsay and Marilyn said we need
one more girl. I don’t
remember if anyone volunteered. I was seated comfortably and did not show much
interest to go, because I had been in the cold for some time that day already
and I did not feel like going back much. Besides, I thought the rest of the
band would like to join us, so I will see them anyway. That’s why I had nowhere
to hurry. But when Marilyn asked me to go I said ok. :)
When we came to the other tour bus, we said hi and at first
we noticed just Twiggy. I introduced myself and told him what fun is he
missing by sitting here and not at the other tour bus. Twiggy was looking cute
and a bit tired.He was wearing a very comfy outfit and he looked like
he was about to go to sleep soon.He was sitting with his feet on the seat only
with socks on. He told me he can’t
find his shoes. xD I kept repeating that it’s fun at the other bus and that he
should join us and he kept repeating that he might if he finds his shoes and he
asked me again and again if it’s fun on the other bus. He made me laugh. All of
a sudden he lifts his hand and says “high five”. So we high fived. While we
kept repeating the same stuff, I suddenly noticed Fred who heard that we were
talking about the other bus and about 20 girls being there and asked if he can join. “Of course,
please join us.”Then I said he should take Twiggy with him, if Twiggy manages
to find his shoes. I could have stayed there and helped Twiggy find his shoes (even
though I don’t think that
was the reason why he didn’t wanna go to the other bus) or I could have
persuaded him some more saying that it will be so much better and more fun with
him, but instead me and the other girl just hurried back to Manson’s bus. Fred
said he will be there in two minutes and indeed he did appear very soon.
When
we returned to the bus and Fred arrived, the bus seemed already completely
full. There was quite a lack of space for sitting now, so me and a girl from
Poland sat on Fred. Later when we all moved around a bit (I think
I perhaps went to get me and the girls around me something more to drink
xD) Manson took me to sit on his lap. This may sound stupid, but since
I was the only one who sat on him except for Lindsay, I felt sort of honored.
:D. Marilyn was probably in a playful mood that night, since there was no
zombie fight, he at least had a fake fist fight with Fred. Freddie sort of
scratched him or something and then Marilyn said „Ouch, look at this“. They
were so funny xD Well, anyway now that I was sitting on Marilyn he got
this idea that he whispered into my ear: “Let’s attack Fred.” So I asked him how do we act him and he said I
should just jump on top of him when he’s not looking. I started laughing. When
Fred was not looking at us (he was sitting right opposite at perhaps one
meter’s distance) Marilyn decided it’s the right moment to “attack”. “He is not
looking now.Let’s attack him” he whispered. He threw me on top of Fred. I did
lend on him only my head met the ceiling of the tourbus during the “attack”. I
did not get hurt or anything, but when I bumped my head it made a loud “bang”
or how to describe this sound and everyone stopped talking and looked at me. I
held my head saying “Ouch”(or well, the military cap on my head) and was
kinda confused so I looked first at Fred, then at Marilyn. It did hurt
a bit, but it didn’t hurt
as much as being hit into the head by other people during the show. At first
everyone was silent, then Marilyn started apologizing, he asked me multiple
times if I am not hurt and whether I am ok and he said he really didn’t mean to
do this and that he’s so sorry. I said I was ok (and I felt much
better after the apology from Marilyn :P). I told him it’s not as bad as getting hit in the head during
the show all the time, I was in the second row and it was like hell (ok,
it wasn’t that bad because of the music, but physically I did suffer). He replied:
“I know, I saw you.”Then
he sat me on himself again and this time held me around the waist, so there was
no chance I would fall down and hurt myself or anything. :P So we stayed
like this until he needed to go to the toilet.
Then I sat next to my new Vienna friends – Elen and
Tina. We sat opposite Lindsay and talked with her. Someone asked her whether
Marilyn doesn’t mind/like
it when someone calls him Brian (you can guess the answer:P). Well he doesn’t like it. :P
I complimented on Lindsay’s
hairstyle. Speaking about Lindsay, not only she is beautiful and elegant, she
is also very nice and has a good sense of humour, too. She and Marilyn looked
so happy together. They are a perfect couple. Some of the girls (don’t remember which one it was)
told this to Lindsay: “You and
Marilyn are the perfect couple. You are so beautiful and he is charming.”
Marilyn heard this and said: “Thank you, I’m glad you think I am beautiful, you can continue to talk
about me.” Everyone started laughing: “That was about Lindsay not about you.”
Me:“But you are
beautiful, too. :D”
Marilyn seemed to be enjoying himself around so many girls. He was entertaining
us all the time and I believe everyone was having lots of fun in there. He
sometimes said random things like: “There’s a lot of vagina on this bus. Fred
technically has a vagina.” Everyone started laughing. Then he said we should be
nice to Fred, because he is a really good person. I said:”But you are a good person, too,
Marilyn.”Marilyn: “I
know, but he is really good. He’s just a really good person.”
I didn’t get much
time to talk to Fred since I mostly devoted my attention either to Marilyn,
Lindsay or to the other girls on the bus from time to time (mostly Elen
and Sarah). I only asked Fred if he likes Vienna and if he’s been there before. He replied
he’s been here twice and he really likes it here. Then I told him I am not from
Vienna, but from Slovakia. For no reason, just because I wanted to say it. :P
I noticed he is trying to devote his attention to everyone and thought he
really must be a sweet guy. Whenever someone was not talking with anyone
at the moment he started a conversation with them. I also remembered
he was the guy who walked past me and my friends after the concert in Prague in
front of Manson’s wardrobe. We
were too busy waiting for Marilyn and didn’t even notice him that time, we just
greeted back, but we didn’t even look who we are greeting. Thinking back it
must have been him. Stupid us.
Anyways:D
to continue the story: Marilyn told us that Fred is such a good person and
that it’s his birthday and
that we should all kiss him on the cheek. I did not believe the birthday thing,
of course :D but I asked Fred if it’s really his birthday. He said it’s not but
he wants the kiss anyway, so he got one. :) While all of us were drinking, talking and just
having fun, most of the time pleasant music was playing – for example Placebo
(to which both Marilyn and me and perhaps some of the other girls started
humming and singing a bit), Depeche Mode (I am not that much into them,
but the song that was on reminded me of some parties I’ve been to, so I started sort of dancing on
the seat), The Psychedelic Furs(the song Pretty in Pink was on, I mentioned I
love the song Pretty in Pink then someone said it can’t be that song for sure
and asked Marilyn what it was, but of course it was Pretty in Pink;))
and some other stuff. Marilyn probably also likes Rammstein. I think so
because while we were teaching him dirty words in German, he firstly used the
five words he already knew in German and then he says “Du hast” and I said “Oh yeah, RammsteinJ”. Anyway at some point Marilyn said
he’s going to punish us girls with music and he turned on some awful rap (lol,
I protested that it sucks):D Then he started doing a very funny dance
to that music, we should have done a video of that. :D I believe everyone
was having so much fun at this point. There were some girls kissing and I think
Marilyn did a video of that on his phone (not sure). Then he asked me,
Elen and I think Tina to pose and say something for a video that he
was going to send to Twiggy to see what he is missing. =P He also tried calling Twiggy but with
no success. Marilyn said he’s
probably sleeping already.
While Marilyn sat opposite to us, someone (I
think it was Elen, but I don’t remember it for sure) started caressing his hand. She told me
I should do the same and I did that. Then Marilyn looked me straight
in the eyes and I stopped and he said “You shouldn’t stop, I like it.”
Some of us said to Lindsay that they’re just waiting when Marilyn Manson gets enough
of this fun and will be tired and want to sleep xD When Marilyn really got
tired after having spend about 4 hours with us and after the whole day,
so we all hugged with him and Lindsay and Fred and said our goodbyes. I remember
I asked Lindsay whether she isn’t over the friend limit on fb and then I asked if I could add her and
she said sure. It’s nice to have her on facebook now. She’s a sweet lady, I
hope I’ll meet her again sometimes, ofcourse with Marilyn Manson and the rest
of the band. When we came out of the tour bus, I still felt like partying. Elen
and Sarah did not object, so we went to party some more with my friends who
were at Club Duplex. We had some more fun there. All together it was a super
crazy and an amazing day.
I am sorry if I left out some interesting details
from the bus part. This entry has gotten really looong and I still haven’t
managed to cover everything and some things I might also want to keep just to
myself. xD
Anyway, I
hope to see Marilyn Manson live soon;)
Cheers everyone, hope u enjoyed reading!
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