By the time of The Innocents tour in 1988, I wasn’t a fan but I really wanted to see Siouxsie & The Banshees so needs must… I’d enjoyed Vince Clarke’s musical excursions with Depeche Mode and Yazoo and bought his one-off collaborations with Paul Quinn and Feargal Sharkey, as well as some of the early Erasure singles. It’s fair to say that Erasure was a bit of an unexpected suggestion from him, but I went along with it. Paul was a college friend and his enthusiasm for hip hop and rap (and James Brown) was infectious. This particular gig swap in 1988 was Siouxsie & The Banshees (me) and Erasure (my mate Paul). So, I frequently found myself in a trade off, going to see bands that I had little or no interest in, in order to see a band I really wanted to see. Unfortunately, whilst my friends have a passion for the former (especially if their newly minted mate is buying the rounds), few share my taste (or financial means) for the latter. It’s May 1988, I’ve recently dropped out of college and got a full-time job and suddenly I have money for drinking and gigs. It also turned out to be the only time I got to see Pete Shelley live in concert and by accident, at that. Yes, it’s a tongue-in-cheek title: Zip only released one record.
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