A run-in with Mike Relm

After the Mike Rohn show, the Daily Colonial’s Art Director, Mike Riccio, was standing within the stage barrier and was able to pull Relm aside for an impromptu interview:

Upon reaching the gate where the rest of the audience (and newspaper reporters) were standing, Relm posed for some pictures with fans and thanked a few people who had come over to say how they had enjoyed the performance.

I turned the microphone on, hoping to pick anything up over the noise of the now large crowd, when a clearly intoxicated college-age guy came up behind me. He was slurring his words and shouting “Where the CDs at bro?” to Relm (though he couldn’t identify who Relm was).

As the interview was about to begin, the man put his arm around me, saying I was his girlfriend, repeatedly screaming “Jenny!” at me and insisting I’d come with him to the show. Relm looked at me, asked if I knew the guy and I vehemently shook my head ‘no.’ The turntablist invited me to come over to the side of the stage and calmly told the fellow, still standing there, he was going to do an interview and that he’d be back.

The first thing I said was “By the way, I really like your tie,” and, prefacing that it could be either an insult or a complement, how I thought he looked like Woody Allen.

“I love Woody Allen!” Relm laughed.

And at the end, I thanked him for talking to me and giving me a CD. And plucking me away from that guy.