“So how did I, at age fourteen, come to have a 7” vinyl copy of ‘Green Onions’ by Booker T & The MG’s in my hands?”
“Well, in 1984 I hit terra firma with a clattering of irons. I wrecked up utterly lost and despairing. I had been unceremoniously ripped from my version of paradise—my homeschooling, sailing boat life of desert islands and turquoise lagoons, vast empty timeless oceans—to the bare-knuckle fighting of bored kids in a boring English seaside town with an eye for the wide-eyed, hapless, flat-chested and weak. I simply wasn’t equipped.
BMX bikes spoke of necessary fast exits from school, so I got one of those. And then one day, an enigmatic pod of boys turned up on their bikes in long green coats, so I went and hid out with them (my BMX skills were considered ‘good for a girl’). They were mods.
I tried on the uniform and liked it…for a while. So while the sounds of Wham! broadcast the day to day, I hid out under the overhanging rock of Booker T & The MG’s planning my escape to paradise…”
—Katiejane Garside
Geiger Counter, the new full-length release from Liar, Flower—the new project from Katiejane Garside—arrives in stores on June 8, 2020—on vinyl.
