True music lovers always want to meet the band. To get to shake the hands of the people who make them sing and dance like a crazy person, who motivate and inspire them. It’s only natural that you’d want to meet those responsible for putting you into such an elevated state of being.

For me it wasn’t a band. It was a DJ. Tiësto was voted the world’s best DJ three years in a row (2002, 2003, 2004), and I had been in love with his music for some time. During his ‘Elements of Life’ tour in Australia, my cousin helped me and some of my friends get backstage before his concert to meet the man himself.

He was soft-spoken, very modest, and almost embarrassed by the attention. A genuinely nice guy, and one of the greatest DJs the world had ever seen! He signed our tickets, my DVD and my girlfriend at the time. I instructed her that showering was no longer ever an option.

It was an incredible night and an incredible show. We danced for hours on end, remembering what the music meant to us and connecting it to important memories. We were all in total ecstasy.