“Ha ha ha ha, oh god, put them away you’re so sad”. That’s the reaction these get from my kids, so I thought I’d share them with a wider, more mature audience.
Yes, folks this is Mr Perfect Path twenty-one years ago, just having left home and disappeared off to the Guildford School of Acting. That haircut was the one after the Phil Oakey comb-over effort and before the standard actor’s short back and sides. Yes that’s a collarless grandad shirt, and yes that’s a grubby gabardine mac with shoplifters pockets, ideal for threatening all and sundry with impromptu acts of indecent exposure. Ahh the cheap nights at Cinderella Rockerfellas that that NUS card got me into.
A note to younger readers: If you’re under 21 (ie you weren’t born when these were taken) I really don’t want to know, OK? Just leave me in blissful ignorance that I’m old enough to be your father.
A note to older readers: Point me (and the rest of the Perfect Path gang) to pictures of you at that time, the more gorgeous the mullets or bubble perms, the better – bonus points for Buggles-style specs.
Perfect Path 
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear ….
😉
Don’t make me dig for the student cards showing my luscious locks of flowing hair. . . .Ah, the collarless shirt–mainstay of the earstwhile student wardrobe. Why don’t they make shirts with long tails like that any more. Ones that last 3 decades. . . .or is it that my tolerance for collar fray has dwindled?
That looks a bit like a rebel, understandable given the age. For some strange reason I think you do come out somehow like Bono though. 🙂
So what happenend to the acting career?
Yes, do expound on the acting career, some of us have only heard wild rumours!
Euan, I hear the weary sound of forty-something identification.
Neal, yes after this week’s gastrocast, we want the pictures of you down and out in Paris & London.
Dragos, yes, I was very much going for the rebel look – not quite the rebel lifestyle, but probably as rebellious as you can get in Guildford.
James & Courtney, you’ll just have to wait for the memoirs – or perhaps I’ll do a podcast about it. Suffice to say, like a frighteningly large proportion of drama-school graduates, I spent longer training than I did actually working. I expect the rumours are far less wild than the reality. It was a gas.
Any photos of you on the boards?
James, you’re a persistent beggar, I’ll give you that. I’ll have to have a rummage around, I don’t think there’s a great deal, but I promise to have a look and see what I can find.
Any luck?