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Great story, @QB, with some wonderful new details on a vague old anecdote. There must be many other stories from the early years that many HLers would love to hear !
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Quiff Boy wrote:Andrew was to be Captain Black, natch I forgot what sort of "Captain" Gary was going to be, but it may have been "Orange".
Hey! Reservoir dogs!
That would have been their reference point, I believe
I think Gary said the "captains..." idea came from their love of Devo, IIRC, but i may be misremembering that part.
I do remember Gary saying Andrew used to sit in Leeds Central Library pouring over old letraset books looking for a good typeface. I gather Andrew almost settled on one that Gary called a german, gothic looking one - which I'm guessing may be something like one of these:
Quiff Boy wrote:
How different our world would have been if Gary had not been able to dissuade him from that
OMG I'm glad he did, or goths would be the least of Von's audience problems... (or rather a different kind of Goths...)
(although it's a funny coincidence that I saw a feature on the rift Fraktur/Antiqua in European printing only past Sunday.)
Re: Captain Scarlet: annnnnd I just learned something about British children's TV from the 60s.
“Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.�