presents? Flowers, wine, diamonds,
Norwich, can I ask everyone for
When I come to
anything – I want to send a very clear
message. You
want to go to a party? Who’s gonna be there? Morrissey… maybe. Amy Lamé
is having a birthday shindig, and we are all – along with the quiffed- up sultan of dour, Morrissey – invited. While jelly and custard may be in questionable supply, the night promises nostalgia, observation, music and merriment as Amy sets her (birthday) cards on fat, faith, sexual identity and more out on the table. If Morrissey doesn’t show, It shouldn’t matter – Amy Lamé is a comedic performer, writer, former mayoress of Camden and starlet, and that’s more than enough character for any invite list…
Amy, you’ve got me preoccupied with birthdays at the moment – I’m someone who suffers from birthday blues, but I wondered what your own relationship with your birthday was like? OK right, well part of the whole reason that the show came about is because I do believe I have the worst birthday in the entire world, out of any day of the year. It’s the 3rd of January, which means everyone’s skint, everyone’s breaking into not eating, drinking or smoking, none of your friends want to celebrate, it’s usually the first day back to work or school… and my whole life I feel that I’ve squished my friends and family in to being happy and jolly on a day that they’d much rather spend in a duvet. I do like playing on this idea of forced fun really; that was my natural obsession, which is why I chose to do such a forced thing, you know? And with Te Smiths having a song called ‘Unhappy Birthday’, it all just came together on my 40th birthday. Although people haven’t been bringing
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me presents, can I just say?! When I come to Norwich, can I ask everyone for presents? Flowers, wine, diamonds, anything – I want to send a very clear message to the people of Norwich.
I read a quote of yours that said “food is my joy and my nemesis”, and I’ve been really enjoying your food writing articles – does writing about food exorcise that demon, or invigorate it? Well I’m reallyobsessed byfood, so I don’t think it’s exorcised it at all – it’s just made me more interested! It’s one of those things, you know, if you are fat you need to deal with that; there’s a lot of baggage that comes with that, but also a lot of joy. I do worry because I do have a natural predilection for sweet things, so I’m just narrowly avoiding becoming borderline diabetic, so…
You’re flirting with it – - Yeah, flirting with diabetes, haha! Nowadays it seems to be people who are on the lower socio-economic scale
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