Spend New Year's Eve-But-One at Trash, where the guest DJs, whose identity I'm not sure of but one of them was a man dressed as a geisha girl, played lots of nice 80s tunes. Made a change from all that garage rock. Erol played one of the original 70s disco numbers that Spiller & Sophie Ellis-Bextor sampled on "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)". It wasn't Carol Williams' "Love Is You", but something else. I never realised that "Groovejet" sampled MORE than one old record in that one track.
This made Trash suddenly turn into Studio 54. So I really did feel like Andy Warhol, for once.
I'm rather getting to like those lop-sided asymmetrical Hoxton / Shoreditch / Electroclash haircuts now, which all the young things at Trash seem to be wearing, including even Erol. Very Dianne Wiest in Edward Scissorhands.
I'm not so keen on all the other current hair trends in London, to wit the Hoxton fins, the ironic mullets and mini-mullets, the "bed-head" messed and spiky look (mostly favoured by boys) and the new take on feather-cuts. And combinations of any or all of the above. And don't get me started on Bad Beards and badly unshaven boys. (sings) "It's Christmas time, there's no need to not have a shave…. "
But the "half today, half… indefinitely" look is very 21st century, I think. It looks like A HAIRCUT FROM THE FUTURE. Although unkind onlookers might remark, "well, it'll be nice when it's finished."
I suggested to Simon Price that he cut off one of his antlers.
Still on a "Xanadu" tip, the film where Olivia Newton-John wears legwarmers even when she becomes a cartoon bird, I asked <lj user=suicideally> if she thought legwarmers were going to come back, as one girl was wearing them at Trash, albeit rolled down around her ankles. Perhaps she didn't quite have the nerve.
Ally replied that said articles of clothing DID come back briefly last year. I must have blinked and missed that. Curses.
Retired to Emma Jackson's flat (ex-Kenickie, ex-Rosita), where she showed me a wonderful piece of merchandise from Rough Trade Japan. <a href="http://www.roughtrade.com/docs/docsaug00/licca.htm">an Indiekid Barbie Doll</a>. Accessories in the doll's box included miniature Rough Trade plastic carrier bags (!) and miniature vinyl records, including one by Rosita, and one by Spearmint. About the size of postage stamps.
