| Says Johnny Rotten in his
biography commenting on the fashion element. "At
first it was just the boys.. (but) slowly... it came together. The first girls to join in was the Bromley
Contingent, Siouxsie &The Banshees and people like that. They joined in for a more fashionable
reason. They
were into the Roxy Music look of sophisticated elegance. Eventually they got bored with that ,so they
started to rip their fishnets and wear plastic bin
liners. They got their name from Bromley, a suburb of
south London. After a pistols concert, they'd invited
all of us over to their house for a party...(Siouxsie was topless, knickerless,
and wearing tights,
stilettos and an apron while carrying a whip !!!... Punk77) We discussed how this whole
thing should be approached, and what we should be thinking
about...we were definitely pointing the direction." Says
Steve Severin
"When our
paths crossed the group's, it was more a meeting of the
minds. It was never so much that we were fans as they
just happened to be guys who played in a group...Although
it may seem unusual for a band to be close to their fans,
we became more like friends since things hadn't really
gotten to the stage where the notoriety had set in."
Says Billy Idol
"They were what we
wanted to happen. If we could visualise the rock band of the
mid-seventies, there it was in front of us. The Sex Pistols."
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Back row.
Simon Barker, Billy Idol (with side parting !!), Steve Severin. Front Siouxsie and Debbie. Photo. Caroline
Coon.
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