I Don't Get All This Speedo Stuff

The New Romantic Scene Was So Tiny. Although It Got Lots Of Mileage In The Media, It Was A Really Small Club With Only A Core Group Of People. As It Got More Popular, Kids Started To Come From The Suburbs All Dressed Up, But It -really Wasn't As Big As It Looked.

Taboo Was Kind Of Celebrating Trash, The Kind Of Records You Secretly Loved, Like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, By Baccara [laughs] - Things That You Probably Shouldn't Like.

The Taboo Scene Was A Kind Of Deconstructed Version Of The New Romantics. The Taboo Crowd Was Using A Lot Of The Visual Ideas That Had Already Been Used. I Remember The First Time I Spotted Leigh Bowery And Trojan Parading Around In Clubs: They Were In Their "pakis From Outer Space" Look, And The Makeup Was Quite Similar To One Of My Old Looks, Because I Was Quite Fond Of Wearing Blue, Green, Or Yellow Foundation, And So I Was Pretty Dismissive Of Them At First.

I'm Not Responsible Enough To Have A Dog - Or A Child.

The World Is Less Homophobic, Depending On Where You Are In The World... As A Gay Man I Feel Very Strongly About Those Issues Around The World - There've Been Huge Changes And Developments, But There Are Still Places Where Things Are Scary.