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Arty 9
Our Idols

February 2003

I made the rules and I said that the chosen idol should be alive, try and get close to them I said. Not exactly like a stalker but just to feel how it is to have a close encounter with a miuch-admired figure.

Meetiing with an idol is an interesting concept, can they ever live up to our fantasies, and maybe we should stay at a safe distance, safe with our memories of the artefacts of their fame. Meetings are dangerous they are messy and embarrassing. We can't be the composed ffigure of the encounter that happens within our head. So lets do it, lets try and get close and see how it feels.

Then there is the question of what an idol is. It could be someone we want to sleep with or it could simply be someone that we admire and know we could never be. Whatever, I can't be bothered with pedantic definitions and I leave the writers to interpret it as they wish.

Cathy Lomax

Contributors:
Rob Shore on Rachel Stevens
Lady Lucy on The Shaggs
Annabel Dover on Andrew Mania
Cathy Lomax on Elvis
Rose Bradshaw on Avril Lavigne
Sex Lovemat on Gordon Ramsey
Alex Michon on Karen Kilimnik
Jon Tugwell on Marc Bolan
Mimei Thompson on Beck Fans
Saskia Wilson-Brown on DavidByrne
David Dobson on Mies Van Der Rohe
Michael Carter on Princess Diana
Marcus Oakley on Brian Wilson
Jim Payne on Rothko
Also Olly Beck, Kavel Rafferty, Antonio Gianas, Damian Le Bas, Paul Murphy, Bet Noir, Paul Carey-Kent, Delaine Le Bas