the person who had gone missing, but couldn’t be sure. His face now is obviously far more familiar. Another strange thing that happened to me was that maybe a year later, I had a dream that I spotted Richey Edwards in a bar on a holiday island. In the dream, I went to talk to him, but he ran off. Two weeks after I had the dream, a sighting, exactly as I’d seen it in the dream, was documented in the NME. But really, the chances of the man still being alive are fantastically remote. It is a


mystery like that of Lord Lucan, as Jah Scouse commented when I bumped into him the very next day. Bumping into Jah Scouse in Cardiff is possibly a more ordinary experience than bumping into a millionaire rock star. For one thing, Jah Scouse lives in Cardiff, whereas Nicky Wire lives in Newport. However, in many ways, Jah Scouse far outscores Nicky Wire in the extraordinary stakes. This is a man who, doing a gig with his band Taffia (yes, he’s a Scouser, but fronts Taffia for some reason), sported a giant daffodil as a hat on his bonce. I have a signed Jah Scouse 7”, which is a weird reggae track with lyics like: “10 millilitre, centilitre / 10 centilitre, decilitre/ 10 decilitre, that’s a litre” etc. He has also recorded a dance track titled “Nicky Wire Is A Liar”. Aha, now you


see the link. And just as I’m talking to Jah Scouse, who should walk past but my good friend Fergal, who was with my at the Taffia gig. But I digress, I haven’t finished telling you about the extraordinariness of Jah


Scouse. He’s one of those people who can talk about just about any subject you care to mention, always in his soft Scouse voice. Yet he is also a man who runs an S and M club. Extraordinary. Hope he doesn’t mind me mentioning that. Actually, probably doesn’t really need to be mentioned. Perhaps I’ll take it out. But what I also asked Jah Scouse about was – perhaps Nicky Wire really is a


liar? Could it really be true that he doesn’t own a computer? Could it really be true that he doesn’t know where Richey Edwards is? Well, neither of us had the answers to these questions. And Jah Scouse didn’t have any money on him, so he didn’t buy a magazine, but said I should bring some in to his vintage clothes shop. N


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