[dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”]L[/dropcap]oitered Lens has, quite simply, had just about ENOUGH of baggy-at-the-arse skinny jeans and grubby suede Vans.
A stage demands craft, commitment, respect and, at the very least, a Cuban heel. Leave dress-down Friday apparel to the wageslaves, it’s Rock and Roll, dammit! The spirits of Jimi, Joni, Bonham and Moon demand SPECTACLE.
Particularly when you come from Warrington.
Slydigs, fitting the bill with sartorial exuberance, warming the O2 Academy on June 22nd, with a little help from Vintage Trouble’s Nalle Colt.
Photos: Carl Byron Batson. Not to be reproduced without express prior permission.
Photographer, published poet, former party animal, body builder, grave robber
to the stars and renowned chainsaw juggler, Carl can often be spotted on his
Harley Davidson pretending to be in Terminator 2. He is also frequently seen in
the press pits of old London town, camera in hand, avoiding being hit by bottles
of wee and crippling his opposition with secret Kung Fu moves.