15/09/2026
Memory Mednesday!
This photo was taken on top of a skyscraper in Cologne Germany duyring Popkomm one year. The only real clue I've got as to what year it would have been was that Beck was showcasing Odelay about 5m away from where the photo was taken, so let me do a quick google on when that was! 1996!
Naw, so I'm still a baby there, and we all are!
That was a very cool day, because from memory there were Beck, Skunk Anansie, Rammstein and a German pop artist called Blümchen on that roof to perform, do meet & greets.
I had a pass, so I got to hang out and chat, which was nice, seeing I had already met a few of them a number of times before.
Beck told us about sneaking about at Saturn (back then the biggest record shop in Germany) near his own records, every time he'd visit his Cologne grandpa, a local fine artist.
My friends loved Rammstein so that was their buzz - not mine much, met them so often over the years, always liked a few of them as people, not the singer, not so much the music. We didn't rally know then what we know now.
I kind of started enjoying Beck a lot after his showcase and because he was basically a local, and I've always been a massive fan of Skunk Anansie's so it was a good day to be me. I think this is when Skin told me I was one of the very first people ever to recognise them and get something signed before Paranoid & Sunburnt was even out (the year before).
On the right, that's Ellen. Big shout out, she's an amazing artist and you should absolutely follow her at for all your realistic LARP mask needs.
