Short hair and my external Goth

Well, back into the warmth of the studio and the kit breakdown after the 3 very intense and rewarding days in Whitby. And it was amazing.

Again.

Lovely to have Jeanie join us on the final day, and I can only imagine how tired she must have been.

I should never have even thought that having short hair would have made the slightest bit of difference - everyone was just as lovely as April, infact possibly even more so. Just as before, many of the people we walked past would give the gentle nod of recognition and would smile at us doing our jobs. Of course, any camera crew at work will get people cheering / tooting the car horn as they pass - but I felt that over this weekend, we've had so little of that; the inhabitants and visitors (Goth and not) of Whitby have been great to work with. Even in Sexy Sunday, where we were in a packed (and I mean PACKED) club doing some filming of Goths Dancing, everyone was very accepting of me walking round with my mixer / recorder round my neck, and of Cooke setting up a jib on stage to get some great shots. Our black hats off to Hazel and everyone at the Met for their help and understanding.

I went for a quick pint with Lou (my wife) on Satuday night - just before we went to film at St Mary's Church at Midnight. And it was interesting, as now I was "normal" again; Without my kit (a large fluffy badger on the end of a 5m pole is a bit of a give away) I found I had disappeared, and even though I went out of my way to make eye contact, and say a brief "good evening" to the numerous passing goths; there were few responses. But then, let's put this into context: how often would you go out round town at 11 pm, and walk round and say "hello" to people. Not very often. Everyone in the pub was very freindly - and I was clearly the least "goth'd up" in the pub and I still felt inclusive.

My one regret from the whole weekend - that I was too tired (and ill, as colds seem to have attacked us all) to go back to Sexy Sunday and have a dance. Being back in that environment, (Hazel's 80's set especially) was bloody great and it would have been lovely to have become immersed again in NIN, The Mission and The Cult purely as a punter.

Am I a Goth? - It's somewhere I really enjoy visiting (and re-visiting); but I couldn't live there.

G