Cross Dressing UK Campsters Weaned On Fenland Violence

Erasure's infamously camp frontman Andy Bell first started dressing differently to escape the attention of his violent teenagers peers, he revealed this week.

"I was trying to cultivate this weird, loner image, so I made some friends who hung out at a local pub and smoked dope, but they were truly weird. One time they made me take acid and then started slapping me round the face, which was really cruel of them," Andy told the Guardian.

"Peterborough (his home town) is so scary. Peterborough and Detroit must be the most scary places on the planet," he added.

Fellow Cambridgeshire native Jonny Slut, the equally flamboyant promoter of Nag, Nag, Nag also experienced similar levels of aggression as a youth, he told Skrufff in a recent interview, pointing out he'd only felt safe to experiment when arriving in London in 1981.

"I wouldn't have lasted five minutes in Chatteris (10 miles from Peterborough) with that Specimen look I had," said Jonny.

"I got smacked in the mouth at the school disco once for wearing black lipstick. And I got suspended for wearing odd luminous socks. The token school skinhead also once hit me," he recalled.
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