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The bloke who bullied me (no names mentioned) is now apparently an incurable crackhead. Couldn't happen to more of an asshole... I still think after all these years that if I bumped into this individual in the street, I'd give him a good kicking... And I'm not one for bearing grudges... It was relen...

Good topic!! I was into all the usual suspects, The Cramps, The Meteors, etc, etc... (I saw the Cramps just last year with Mr Ewen Rubython ... Still amazing) Also Mighty Lemon Drops, Cocteau Twins, Joy Division, the usual Goth suspects (particularly the Neph) - The Smiths, etc.. Gene Loves Gezebel,...

HEAVEN

Being asleep

HELL

Other people

Vonny wrote:

Ash wrote:I was a bit of a goth.... ;(

I think I can remember you - were you friends with Emma, Ali & Kenton?

That'd be me

I was a bit of a goth.... ;(

There was also a Psychobilly craze as well, so maybe a bit of both then...

paddy wrote:Aye - Rev Porteous was a bit of a hero of mine. A very fine man.

His house was a haven for miscreants

Good luck to you from the former bass and occasional rhythm guitar player of such CH supergroups as Jinx and Uncle Harry's Last Freakout. Last gig behind the theatre, Summer 1984 (I think!). Gene Simmons and his Rock School could have taught us NOTHING! ;) But we would have been a better band if ou...

Just finished season 5... Oh my, you won't be disappointed! It's flipping great!

Beep Beep Bee Booo.... (I have that as my ringtone at work - Cisco phones have it as standard!!)

As mentioned in another post, this was a cracking match, won in the last seconds of extra time by Leigh Hunt with a drop goal from Bradley Quirk...very World Cupesque! Having won it in the last year as a boys house, it could be said that we never lost it, and still hold it... Finally found the post...

I have a few clear memories of the sicker 1. Going down there for a tenuous "illness" to avoid chapel or if you were very lucky first period... So basically continually going to the back of the queue to make this more likely. 2. Getting given a tubigrip or asthma inhaler for literally any ...

Toyce is not in the English dictionary, so must be slang....

I aint posh izz I. Ya get me blud. Apples and pears, chairs.

I believe it was around 1985 or so at CH...

He had to phone my parents and get their permission to cane me..

They gave it too..

Cheers for that .

Bizarrely a friend knows Emily Cummings .. Through this friend we have met at numerous social occasions over the last couple of years ... Neither of us realised that we were in the same year and many of the same classes at C.H. Only a month or so ago did the penny drop... Slightly strange.. :shock: