Well, last night I managed to finally meet my favourite artist/musician in the whole wide world, Mr Serj Tankian of System Of A Down.

Well here’s the very few pictures that I’d taken. I was sat on the reserved seats right infront of Serj – was quite amazed. We were waiting in the lobby to be told where our seats are and then Serj walked in, said hi to me asked how I was etc and then moved down to the lecture theatre.

We watched Screamers, Serj and Theo did a Q&A afterwards, people asked them a few questions and they both answered very politely and gracefully. Once the Q&A was over at 8:30pm everyone went outside for the drinks party, but I stayed in to have a chat with Serj before-hand. I mentioned to him who I was and what I do and he was incredibly grateful of the work I’ve put into his projects over the years and said it was an “Honour” to meet me and told me to “keep up the amazing work”. At this point I thought it was obviously a dream! Anyway, I told Serj that I didn’t take many pictures and he put me in contact with the photographer who was there, we exchanged email addresses and hopefully will be getting some nice pro pictures up soon. The Q&A was also recorded but I’m not sure what they’re going to do with that just yet. After, we went outside and had some food and drink and by this time Serj had a crowd of about 8-9 people standing listening to what he had to say about the night.

It was overall an incredible night…surreal…
At about 9:40pm we thought we’d better make a move and get home (2 hour drive ahead of us). Serj also got ready to leave at this point too. I think I heard someone say he was taking the staff out for a meal or something…

Anyway, here are the pictures I managed to get. Not many and not great ones, but hey.

You can find out more information on “Screamers” here: http://lewisbeechey.eu/screamers

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