For example, halfway through our 2013 UK tour, I bought a branded football from the official LFC Store to commemorate our show at Liverpool venue _The Kazimier_. It lasted three days before it was punctured on a fence during an intense game in Cambridge.
In June 2016, during a sweeping US tour, we woke at 6am in Boston to watch England versus Wales in the Euros. The only open pub was opposite the Red Sox Stadium – owned by LFC’s John Henry. I don’t regret the crack-of-dawn pints we had that morning, but we definitely all needed a lie down by the time Daniel Sturridge scored the injury-time winner.
And then there’s Bristol, May 2018 – the day the city confirmed itself as a bad omen for me. We were performing at Dot to Dot Festival on the same night as the Liverpool versus Real Madrid Champions League final. I sneak off after the show to watch us lose 3-1 on the telly – devastated, but thankful that I’m not fellow Reds fan [**Loyle Carner**](https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/first-team/302416-loyle-carner-liverpool-champions-league) who, having delayed his show in Leeds to watch the game, now has to perform. Four years later, back in Bristol: same festival, same fixture. Liverpool lose 1-0.
We’ve bumped into plenty of Liverpool legends over the years as well. I’ll never forget the time ex-goalie David James dropped ‘Three Lions’ in a DJ set at Isle of Wight Festival in 2014 – and how we’d celebrated when we thought then-Red Raheem Sterling had scored a worldie during that evening’s big-screen World Cup broadcast.
Then there was unexpectedly meeting Jürgen Klopp in the crowd at a Robbie Williams show at the Roundhouse in 2019 (he was loving it!). In 2023, Luis Diaz was just hanging out on the street as we loaded our gear into Jimmy’s before our show at Liverpool Sound City.
And just last year at Glastonbury, I ran into indie-loving Liverpool legend Peter Crouch, in a massive kagoule and aviators, at 3am in a tent adorned with glow-in-the-dark paintings.