The Associates' Billy McKenzie seeks death as an alternative to early middle-aged obscurity. His glamour chase ends prematurely. In other times and places, the Synth Pierrot lives on well beyond expectations. Arc En Ciel , and Pierrot . I thought 'Oh my god, this is me.
Nobody sets out to be sneered at.
But sometimes the forbidden becomes irresistibly alluring to bold souls. Mimes, clowns and pantomime dames have always been accorded an odd status in Britain. And although the Commedia actors had provided a template for Shakespeare and, in Paris, been given their own theatre, the Comedie Italienne , their influence was felt in Industrial Britain only at Christmas time. This may seem a funny thing for me to say, but there's too much hate in the world. Prejudice, for example, disgusts me.