“At the same time at The Haçienda they were showing lots of soft porn and they thought it was really cool. I took my revenge. I was a vegetarian, I got meat from the Chinese restaurant, all the discarded entrails. I went to a sex shop and bought a large dildo. I didn’t tell anybody about it. I remember the audience going back about three foot. There was hardly any applause at the end. And that was a crowd who thought: nothing can shock us, we see porn all the time, we’re cool. When that happened, when they stepped back, I thought, that’s it. Where do you go from here?” – Linder Sterling

Linder is a visual artist, Manchester’s resident muse, friend of Morrissey and co-founder of Ludus.

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