I’ve been a fan since ‘87 when the This Corrosion video ‘blew my mind’ as a 15 year old hormonally-charged, angst-ridden, ‘dislocated’ (and dispossessed
) teenage youf with no clue of where he ‘belonged’. And then Andy and Patti came along and changed all that for me and I became a self-confessed Goth. Went shopping at Afflex Palace in Manchester (does it even still exist anymore?) and bought myself a leather biker jacket, suede zip-up pixie boots, skinny-leg black Levi’s (which I promptly ‘distressed’), an arm full of bangles, a purple flowing shirt etc. I even got my then GF to dye my hair ‘Raven Black’, which went very wrong and turned my somewhat fluffy ears a lovely shade of blue-black
Inevitably I bought lots of their vinyl from some
stall on Burnley market with my paper-round earnings (which i still have in a box in the loft - the records, not my paper round tips!) and subject my wife (not the ear-hair dying GF of 1987!) and kids to the FaLaA, FL and VT albums from time to time. On rare occasions I might even ‘treat’ them to an odd m*****n tune, but I suspect such heresy will not be tolerated in these hallowed grounds…
Saw the Sisters first at Reading in ‘91, then 14 years later in Nottinghams red rooms in ‘05 and now a 3rd time in 31 years in Copenhagen (I don’t like to oversubscribe to just one band
). Times and life have moved on and I no longer have any hair to dye any colour, can’t fit into a pair of black skinny Levi’s 501, and mainly shop at M&S, or TK Maxx if I’m feeling particularly ‘flamboyant’…
So that’s me in a nutshell.
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welcome.
