Today, this perpetual motion mechanism is clad simply in a tight, lime-coloured mini dress. It's my worst point but it's a good point as well 'cause you get a lot of things done. I've tried lying around the house doing nothing but I hate it. I panic if I think I'm going to have to twiddle my thumbs. "I always make sure that I've got nine things, at least, to do. "I'm terrified of getting bored," she tells me later. When someone blasts out a large gust of dry ice which obscures both players but not their flying saucer, she shrieks with hysterical laughter and stamps her foot several times. Everybody else appears drained and weary but Bjork herself is literally skipping about the place, standing still only occasionally to stare down from the side balcony at two roadies who are engaged in a very aggressive game of Frisbee. "My grandmother's recipe," she giggles, whenever anyone asks exactly what it is, their nostrils intrigued by the exotic, sugary and strongly alcoholic aroma wafting from the paper cup in her hand.ījork and a thirty strong group comprising her band, a squad of record company types and a sizable battalion of friends from Iceland have spent eight sweaty hours in a tour bus traveling here from London. Freedom."īackstage at The Empress Baltroom in Blackpool's famed Winter Gardens, at around 6.30 in the evening, Bjork is sloping about and sipping from a steaming hoy honey drink of some sort. And for me, that's the only thing that life is about. That sounds an hilarious thing to say but, no matter what job you do, if you're forced into it from the day you're born, it has to be a cross. "I feel sorry for her," Bjork will muse later, even more bizarrely, while staring at a photograph of Mrs. The strangest woman in pop breathing the same chip-grease tainted air as HRH. Not on the pier or amid the monarchy junkies but here in the general vicinity, and that's enough. It's the charge of the cellulite brigade.ījork is also here. It also means that there are cops everywhere and that most of the streets are clogged up with armies of fatties who have swapped their buckets and spades for plastic Union Jacks and I Love Liz hats. This means that every single fuckwit DJ on the local station, Radio Wave, gets to say, 'they really are their Royal Highnesses now," before melting into a puddle of uncontrollable mirth. The Queen and Prince Philip are in town to help celebrate the resort's centenary year and to take a ride to the very top of the newly renovated Blackpool Tower. Today, there is an extra dimension to the black comedy.
BJORK DEBUT GOLD ALBUM SERIES
You've heard of the Blackpool illuminations? Yeah, well that's when you go to Blackpool and you're suddenly struck by a series of blinding realisations about the sorry state your life is in that you should wind up here. Thousands of them down by the beach, fat men, fat women and fat children, with their shirts off. For the more adventurous and the stronger of stomach, there are the delights of wet t-shirt contests or cocktail drinking bouts or The Nolans or Frank Carson or The Grumbieweeds or even Roy Chubby Brown.
BJORK DEBUT GOLD ALBUM FULL
Amusement arcades, fun palaces, all day cabaret bars, souvenir shops and other elaborate torture chambers churn away at full capacity.
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