The Fall - Hip Priest and Kamerads

Hip Priest was genuinely creepy when used in Silence of the Lambs which was probably my introduction to that track.

In another life I met Richard Mazda who produced this which wasn't really fun as everyone was intoxicated and strange.

Mazda ran the 12 Bar Club in Denmark Street at one point and I memorably bottled out of going on stage with a crazy Irish girl who wanted to sing a cover of something I hadn't rehearsed.

Many years later I'd work with Phil Roberts who was a bass player in Marc Riley's Creepers. An interesting artist but difficult and troubled man I had to avoid in my life towards the end of his.

My fondest memory of Phil was the night we cleared out The Pump House Folk Club in Watford by playing side one of The Velvet Underground and Nico after just one shambolic practice. Emptied the club apart from Rob from Ocelot who was in tears of laughter. Phil was fearless and uncompromising in his art and his remark was: "It's a sad day when The Velvet Underground is too modern for Watford Folk Club."

I was in Phil's Colchester University Show: "The Unbearable Shiteness of Being" and Phil had me dressed in a drag wig and tennis shorts whilst I danced badly to his disco version of Venus in Furs. A performance so gloriously absurd that I've never had any trouble getting on stage ever since and I'm grateful for that. I was dancing with Julian from the Shrubbs who was also over six foot and in drag. Phil was a very short guy and very insecure. When Julian and I got mobbed by young ladies after the show he went into a massive sulk as he often did.

I played in John's Original Wife with Phil, Dooj and Julian.

Phil and Dooj both passed from Cancer :-(

We did a memorably chaotic show in Camden and nothing else apart from a well reviewed e.p. on German Shepherd Records with a libellous song about Reg Varney from On the Busses having a homosexual epiphany.

Some surviving footage: