here<\/a>.<\/p>\nStrange that they didn’t use a full-length photo, having asked about my shoes and trousers.<\/p>\n
One of ‘London’s trendiest fashionistas’? If so, it’s only in the way Peter Sellers’s character in ‘Being There’ is an influential politician. <\/p>\n
There was a letter in the magazine the following week:<\/p>\n
“Let me get this right. The hottest underground trends in town are… a variety of ponces wearing silly clothes!… Thankfully I am off to see The Fall in Cricklewood, now that’s what I call alternative.”<\/p>\n
Never mind me being the anachronistic one: who uses words like ‘ponce’ these days, outside of that scene in ‘Withnail & I?’ <\/p>\n
Anyway, I don’t think The Fall are exactly strangers to ‘ponces in silly clothes’, given they once collaborated on a ballet with Michael Clark and Leigh Bowery: gentlemen who rather make me look like Chuck Norris. <\/p>\n
In the last few months, without lifting a finger to hustle or promote myself, I’ve been featured by The Penny, Inside Out, The Enfield Advertiser, BBC TV and Time Out (several times now). <\/p>\n
For better or worse, in some of these instances I feel slightly mistaken for what I’m not. I feel they haven’t quite ‘got’ me. But why should they? There is no reason to feature me at all. As ever, I look more famous than I really am. Until I have something to point to, like a book or an album or a produced script – with decent distribution and marketing behind it, mind- I suppose this is the way it has to be. A club night host, and an online diarist. <\/p>\n
But the latter isn’t ‘enough’ by itself, while the former isn’t really my calling. If I took it seriously and put the hours in, I could make The Beautiful & Damned into a proper, paying hit event – even a franchise – given the attention it’s generated as a laid back hobby night on a Thursday night in Zone 3. I could move it to a more central location, book live acts, get in guest DJs, spend money on glossy flyers, even make a career of it. But that isn’t really me, either. I’m better at being a guest than a host. I need something else to point to.<\/p>\n
Soon, I hope. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/p>\n![here<\/a>.<\/p>\nFull article online here<\/a>.<\/p>\nStrange that they didn’t use a full-length photo, having asked about my shoes and trousers.<\/p>\nOne of ‘London’s trendiest fashionistas’? If so, it’s only in the way Peter Sellers’s character in ‘Being There’ is an influential politician. <\/p>\nThere was a letter in the magazine the following week:<\/p>\n“Let me get this right. The hottest underground trends in town are… a variety of ponces wearing silly clothes!… Thankfully I am off to see The Fall in Cricklewood, now that’s what I call alternative.”<\/p>\nNever mind me being the anachronistic one: who uses words like ‘ponce’ these days, outside of that scene in ‘Withnail & I?’ <\/p>\nAnyway, I don’t think The Fall are exactly strangers to ‘ponces in silly clothes’, given they once collaborated on a ballet with Michael Clark and Leigh Bowery: gentlemen who rather make me look like Chuck Norris. <\/p>\nIn the last few months, without lifting a finger to hustle or promote myself, I’ve been featured by The Penny, Inside Out, The Enfield Advertiser, BBC TV and Time Out (several times now). <\/p>\nFor better or worse, in some of these instances I feel slightly mistaken for what I’m not. I feel they haven’t quite ‘got’ me. But why should they? There is no reason to feature me at all. As ever, I look more famous than I really am. Until I have something to point to, like a book or an album or a produced script – with decent distribution and marketing behind it, mind- I suppose this is the way it has to be. A club night host, and an online diarist. <\/p>\nBut the latter isn’t ‘enough’ by itself, while the former isn’t really my calling. If I took it seriously and put the hours in, I could make The Beautiful & Damned into a proper, paying hit event – even a franchise – given the attention it’s generated as a laid back hobby night on a Thursday night in Zone 3. I could move it to a more central location, book live acts, get in guest DJs, spend money on glossy flyers, even make a career of it. But that isn’t really me, either. I’m better at being a guest than a host. I need something else to point to.<\/p>\nSoon, I hope. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here’s the Time Out London piece, clipped from their website: A larger version of the photo is here. Full article online here. Strange that they didn’t use a full-length photo, having asked about my shoes and trousers. One of ‘London’s trendiest fashionistas’? If so, it’s only in the way Peter Sellers’s character in ‘Being There’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/i72.photobucket.com\/albums\/i189\/dickonedwards\/image.jpg\"){kind=link}