Lights, camera, revolution!

[sam_tom_sam]

Here are the scanned pictures of mid-90s Romo luminaries that I said I would post. (Cross posted in new_romantic).




The front cover of the classic issue - note subheading, 'Romo Copy - Not For Resale'


From left to right, the frontponces of Sexus, Dexdexter, Orlando and Plastic Fantastic


Don't you think the one second from the right looks like Victoria Beckham?


Stuart Shadric, singer of Plastic Fantastic


Glacial synth duo Hollywood


A pic of Stuart Shadric from a different issue, included because it is so nice

Comments

[thermaland.livejournal.com]

I thought Shadric was the name of another one in PF?

[sam-tom-sam.livejournal.com]

Possibly, but Stuart was definitely called Shadric. My colleague Mauro from the Rocks played at his wedding!

[thermaland.livejournal.com]

Yes I am confused. I used to go to Club Kitten a lot, which is what Stuart did after Romo died out. he tried to make me up as Ron Mael once at a party, and naturally I ended up looking like Hitler instead... :S

You know this site: http://www.thisisromo.com/ ?

[sam-tom-sam.livejournal.com]

Oh, I say! Have you got any pictures of you as Ron Hitler? What was Club Kitten like then?

Yes, thisisromo.com is a fab site, although I question some its inclusions into the category of Romo. I don't feel that Leigh Bowery was particularly Romo, for instance. I got lots of good mp3s from there though.

[thermaland.livejournal.com]

Happily, no photos were taken. Well, that I know of anyway; this is before digital cameras became popular, in 1999 I think. Kitten was good. The first run at the University of East London, I was quite shy and scared actually, and I don't remember it very well. By the time it was at HQ, I knew a lot of the regulars and it was more a social club than a big event. It was really fun, I'd go once or twice a month and catch up with loads of people. When they couldn't book a band, Stuart & Co would just make one up on the day and play any rubbish. One time they had an air guitar championship hosted by David Ryder-Prangley (who was really good at compèring), it was a blast. Some bloke chose In Every Dream Home A Heartache as his backing track and spent the first 2-3 minutes of the song... tuning up... his air guitar!

Here's a photo of Club Kitten which I rescued from Jim Rattail's web site some years back:



I look wonderfully flushed!

[sam-tom-sam.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info and pic. Some peculiar outfits going on there. Still, it was the 90s, I suppose. Kitten sounded like an interesting night. Stuart should hold a club nite again as a non-lame antidote to Bohemia.

[dream-electric.livejournal.com]

Some good pics there :o)

I still don't understand how I managed to let this 'Romo' thing slip by un-noticed :o/

[sam-tom-sam.livejournal.com]

Mm, your fwah radar was obviously malfunctioning. Were you in London at the time then?

[dream-electric.livejournal.com]

I wasn't living in London but I was 'holidaying' here a few times a year. I think that might have been around the time of my Take That days, where everything else in the world went unnoticed...