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Paki's  Look
THE BLITZ KIDS
Cameras always started flashing when Trojan was dressed in this fantastic new style. Leigh got a bit jealous and thought that as he had developed the look he shouldget the credit, so about two weeks after Trojan he too became what he famously dubbed a 'Paki from Outer Space" look
The Paki look was the first time  that Leigh had experimented with a totally made-up face.  The look involved red, green or usually blue faces decorated with gold writting and Indian acessories that he had bought in Brick Lane.
His first ever advertised performance with Trojan in 1984 at the Hail Mary Club, there was no stage, so Leigh's  and Trojan's show took place in a little side cloister,  Leigh with a blue face. They both stripped naked, in the process of which Leigh managed to cath one of his recently pierced nipples and blood began to trickle down his chest, he then put on a withe doctor's coat and fiddled around with various syringes pretending to stick them into Trojan.  Trojan then threw some lighter fuel on to the froor and set light to it, while Leigh pissed into a glass which he gave to Trojan to drink.  Trojan managed to emty half the glass and then used the rest to douse the flames.  The crowd
looked on in stunned silence but gave a massive round of applause at the end.

               The Life And Times Of An Icon                                                 Sue Tilley
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