Photo of self sent today from Richard Smith of Gay Times. Taken by Piers Allardyce, a charming man who once photographed Orlando at Club Skinny in Camden, circa 1995. Ten years later, he’s still snapping away and I’m still posing away in London clubs. In this case, Kash Point at Moonlighting, Soho, May 2005. Though in 1995, he couldn’t show me the results instantly via the back of his camera.

The lighting makes it look like I’m wearing nail varnish. I’m not. That would be overdoing it, even for me. Apart from anything else, the fumes give me a headache.