So a while back I wrote a post about an online dating site for Metalheads.
I mentioned that being a lover of metal, I might have turned to that site if I was unlucky in love.
[Whereas it’s Jill who is the unlucky one. Boom Tish]
What I can tell you is that while I am now a bald bastard, I wasn’t always that way so to help you picture me as a ‘metalhead dating candidate’, I thought I’d show you a photo of me from that era.
Well, to be honest, it’s only ‘sort-of’ from that era, as I took it a few weeks ago as a leaving ‘present’ for a client of mine who was heading back to the US.
[I should add, he was leaving before he saw the pic, I’m not the cause of his departure. Allegedly]
Anyway, cop a load of this …
What a dish eh!
OK, more like a dish that has been lying in the sink for 7 weeks with a load of stains on it.
Damn.
However, may I point out that the leather jacket I’m wearing is the same one I had when I was 20 years of age.
Of course I can’t zip it up, but the fact I can still sort-of wear it is amazing to me.
AMAZING.
Anyway, as you have been so nice to not vomit yet, I thought I’d push-you-over-the-edge with a photo of me from that actual era.
Just for context, it’s one of the press photos we were ordered to have done before we had our first album released. As you can tell by the fact I now work in adland, it bombed and we were dropped soon after but it still was one of the best times of my life … well, it was while I thought we were going to be Rock Gods.
Anyway, have a look at the photo … I swear one of them is me.
Honest.
Can you tell?
I’ll give you a clue, I’m holding the guitar.
Yes, it’s a very long time ago.
And like the leather jacket, I still have those jeans and that guitar … though I can only just about squeeze the 6-string around me these days.
Happy vomiting.
[Sorry, soon-to-be-born son]
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I’ve just vomited out my eyes. I’m going to sue for mental image torture.
Comment by Billy Whizz August 28, 2014 @ 6:24 amThe CIA can’t disguise people as well as you have changed your look. I don’t want to, but I can’t help looking. Car crash features.
Comment by Billy Whizz August 28, 2014 @ 6:26 amCould you hear the mass cries of Jump.
Comment by john August 28, 2014 @ 6:39 amOnly after the mass cries of vomiting died down.
Comment by DH August 28, 2014 @ 6:43 amwhat the fucking fuck is that fucking shit?
Comment by andy@cynic August 28, 2014 @ 6:39 amyou look like the fucker who won this years eurovision song contest.
Comment by andy@cynic August 28, 2014 @ 6:40 amGold.
Comment by DH August 28, 2014 @ 6:44 amby the way campbell, you look better as a blonde fucking woman than you do as a bald fucking planner bloke.
billys had worse than the state of you in that top fucking picture.
i met you around the time of that ripped jean humiliation didnt i? fucking hell, what the fuck was i thinking even talking to you.
Comment by andy@cynic August 28, 2014 @ 6:42 amEven knowing you are the sad bastard holding the photo in the bottom photo, I can’t tell it’s you. What happened to you?
Comment by DH August 28, 2014 @ 6:45 amI can’t work out why your album failed to chart.
Comment by Bazza August 28, 2014 @ 6:46 amexcept in some shit hole like moldova where it flew straight in the charts at number 243.
Comment by andy@cynic August 28, 2014 @ 6:48 amWhat are those shoes you’re wearing? They make birkenstocks look OK. It’s been none stop fashion accidents all through your life hasn’t it.
Comment by DH August 28, 2014 @ 6:47 amGosh.
Comment by George August 28, 2014 @ 6:48 amI’m so glad I can’t make the reunion lunch.
Comment by Bazza August 28, 2014 @ 6:51 amwell im not fucking going if the fabio reject is going.
Comment by andy@cynic August 28, 2014 @ 6:54 amIf I’d been invited I wouldn’t be going now either.
Comment by DH August 28, 2014 @ 7:07 amI’m having second thoughts.
Comment by George August 28, 2014 @ 7:06 amOnly second?
Comment by DH August 28, 2014 @ 7:06 amI’m looking forward to seeing you Robert but please leave the wig, jacket and jeans at home.
Comment by Mary Bryant August 28, 2014 @ 7:21 amyou forgot to tell him to leave himself at fucking home.
Comment by andy@cynic August 28, 2014 @ 7:43 amYou can take the boy out of Nottingham …
Comment by john August 28, 2014 @ 6:50 amDare I enquire what the other members of the band are now doing?
Comment by Lee Hill August 28, 2014 @ 6:56 am20 fucking years hard labour for crimes against fashion, music and public fucking decency.
Comment by andy@cynic August 28, 2014 @ 6:58 amCongratulations on being the embarrassing father before you are the father. I cannot take my eyes off the second photo. If you hadn’t told me that you were in it, I would never have known.
Comment by Pete August 28, 2014 @ 7:01 amChild services have been notified.
Comment by Billy Whizz August 28, 2014 @ 7:13 amThe photos are not the only thing from a bygone era. The commentary on this post resembles the anarchy of the mid-2000’s. I wonder if some of the old crew will also make a return?
Comment by George August 28, 2014 @ 7:05 amNot if they have any self respect.
Comment by DH August 28, 2014 @ 7:07 amwho the fuck has self respect on this shithole?
Comment by andy@cynic August 28, 2014 @ 7:09 amBloody hell. There’s no point me making any comment – especially about your comments – because it would be like trying to stop a tsunami with an umbrella. But I’m glad I’ve helped you let out all your inner angst and I hope it lets you rest easy for the rest of the day. You bastards. Ha.
Comment by Rob August 28, 2014 @ 8:15 amYou haven’t let out my inner angst, you’ve scared the shit out of me.
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