[garinda]

Watched it and it was great.

Saw the Smiths at the Hacienda, who I thought were rubbish at the time, but like now, and saw Madonna before she charted here, when she was being touted as the next big thing from the N.Y. clubs. She was rubbish and good at the same time.

Th whole era was great. I feel sorry for the young of today, as youth culture is soooooooooooo slow moving nowadays.

Never went to the Hacienda later in the eighties, as by then I was the door whore for the first clubs in London to be playing the new music from Chicago.

The second summer of love.

Happy days.

A white Indian Dhoti, with matching trousers. White faux fur kimono. White floral headpiece, think Diana's bridesmaids. Brogues, accessorised with a matching fifties handbag ('A haaaandbag?'), which very often contained a nice pork chop, brought out and nibbled later to much tittering, and a bag which positively rattled when I swung it, and straight to work the next morning, suited and booted and still grinning like the Cheshire cat.

Happy days.

Although I missed out on all the Madchester bit, I like to think I took a little bit of the madness south with me.