Part 4: Starting in Show BizI got a phone call from some people in London. I didn't know who they were. Being a transsexual you get all kinds of freaky people trying to get to you. I told them to fax my lawyer!
As it turns out the call was from a production company who were working with an advertising agency in London. The agency was called BBH and they did adverts for Levi's, Audi and Xbox. So I guessed they were for real.
We talked on the phone. They, Ishbel and Marc from DarkFibre, were putting together a transsexual pop band. They were calling it Speed Angels and they wanted me to be involved. I love music. Their idea was to create a futuristic act, which championed the blurring of boundaries.
I had been part of the club scene in New York. I love it and love music and always wanted to find a way of expressing myself in music.
First we had to meet up in London and then fly to Milan for a photo shoot. There I met the others in the group. We got on really well and had great fun teasing the Italian boys. One of the girls was an ex Thai kick boxing champion. She was tough! Noble. But Tough! Her name is Nung Toom.
Toom is a complete celeb in Thailand. She has a great story. When she was a boy she was the kick boxing champion. She had trained from a really young age in a training camp in the jungle. Like me, he new he was a she and started changing her body. She developed breasts and its was at this stage she ran into problems as a professional boxer. In Kick boxing you have to fight topless and this Toom refused to do as she was still categorized as a he. Confusing?!
There is a feature film out now about her. Its called "Beautiful Boxer". Its been released in Thailand and should get released worldwide soon.
After the photo shoot in Milan, it was time to record music so we traveled to Whales to record with one of Oasis's producers. We spent two weeks there, filming and recording with the producer and writer - the writer was a crazy American living in the UK. He injects himself with snake venom to cure the flu. We loved Whales but the village where the producer lived was freaky. It's the kind of place where you go into a bar and everyone stops speaking - like An American Werewolf in London! Soon the news of what we really were ran through the village! I don't think they have really recovered!
When we finished recording we did a photo shoot in London with Hugo Glendenning. The basic idea was that the Speed Angels had hijacked an armored car carrying diamonds and had kidnapped the security guard for their pleasure! You can see a couple of photos from the shoot in the galleries. We had great fun with knives, fake guns and fake blood.
We finished up by going clubbing and got photographed by an FHM reporter who was writing a piece on the club about how many beautiful girls were always turning up. Little did they know what these girls really were! Bad Ass Tgirls with blood on their hands! This has been our little secret and FHM never found out. Until now!
When we met the record companies we realized that we were in for a hard time. They were nervous about backing a transsexual band. It was too edgy for them. They just weren't used to something so progressive. This was the time of Pop Idol in the UK, where everything in the music industry was boy band, girl band. Very safe. Very Bland.
In one of the meetings we met Malcolm Gerrie who was a big TV producer in the UK. We didn't realize it but this meeting was going to be pivotal in my career, and my life.
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