No Good Low Bad by Andrew Climance

vocals, a recording of which survives for posterity.

The disorganised shambles of this last rehearsal session proved too much for a couple of girlfriends who had been invited along and left mid-way through to escape the cacophony. The session also ultimately put an end to this particular incarnation of the band.

“I remember during one of those rehearsals we were jamming anything that came to mind, and I happened to point out the correct way to play ‘Tainted Love’ to Ben. He told me in no uncertain terms that he didn’t care if it was the ‘proper’ way, this was how he fucking played it and if I had a problem with that, I could fuck off,” recalled Adrian, grinning. “He was standing there clutching a red spray paint-splattered white Stratocaster like he was going to beat me to death with it.”

In April 1986, Andee (who had started working in an advertising studio in London’s Soho) defected to another band. Formed by ‘Dave’, a Carnaby Street shop assistant with whom he had struck up an immediate friendship, the Catford-based outfit ‘As Cool As Hell’ were a four-piece, keyboard-driven techno band who, despite appearing in a professional photo shoot across London and attracting enormous interest from Japanese tourists at London Bridge and the Trocadero, thanks to their Goth/Gary Numan/Dead or Alive fashion stylings, never once played together. In fact, although Dave and fellow members Scott and Steve claimed to be proficient, Andee had no idea how to play keyboards and had hoped to simply stand at the back, looking cool in a ‘Stuart Sutcliffe kinda way’.

Throughout May and June, he spent more and more time with the Carnaby Street set and somehow secured himself a clothing and jewellery stall on the edge of the prestigious Camden Market, selling leather caps, 19