Still Breathing by Donnelly Anthony; Donnelly Christopher; Spence Simon

Author:Donnelly, Anthony; Donnelly, Christopher; Spence, Simon
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781845027339
Publisher: Black & White Publishing
Published: 2013-10-07T16:00:00+00:00

7

F*CKED UP

Harry Franco: The sales reps were really hungry for stuff all the time and we were all waiting for jeans to come in. Everybody wanted jeans. Everyone’s account was screaming for jeans. Then they arrived. They’d been dyed really dark blue and stone-washed but they’d been over-stone-washed, really battered about so all the edges, on the tops of the pockets and stuff, had already gone – frayed too much. The jeans had gone beyond looking worn and actually had holes. We all looked at them and thought, ‘Well, we might just get away with it.’ They were a great colour and they were a good cut. I blew about 200 pairs out to my accounts as fast as I could.

A day later the phone rang. It was one of my accounts in Glasgow. ‘Yeah, we got the stock but it’s a bit fucked up.’ Chris picked up the phone and said, ‘Yeah, that’s right, that’s right. It’s fucked up, it’s fucked up. It’s part of the new range.’

Christopher: So the F*cked Up range was born. It was a total blag but it meant we could produce any shit we wanted. Suddenly those T-shirts where the stripes came off were selling. We ordered ‘F*cked Up’ labels from the company who made our labels but when they were delivered they were just a big blue badge with the word ‘Range’ on them. The geezer who owned the company said, ‘I’ve not put it on because I’m a Christian.’ We had 10,000 badges with just the word ‘Range’ on them. Anyway, we got that sorted and this F*cked Up range took off. We did sweatshirts, a baseball jacket – you could make something, then screw it in a ball and say it was part of the F*cked Up range. You had kids buying the stuff and their mum taking the clothes back to the shops and complaining. The amount of complaints we got was great. It created a big stir. We were selling millions of pounds’ worth of clothes internationally – we were doing really well in places like Japan and Holland.

Anthony: There were complaints all over the country about the F*cked Up range, people saying, ‘What’s the world coming to?’ Then [snooker legend] Alex Higgins got involved. Higgins had turned up at the funeral of a friend of the family, Mike Pollit. That’s when I started palling about with Alex. He came to the office and started just being round us. We didn’t mind him being there, Alex was okay.

Christopher: Alex became a pal. I went to give him a load of clothes at a hotel in Liverpool while he was doing interviews. He was sat there in his skinny undies. He went on Wogan [Terry Wogan’s BBC1 prime-time chat show] with a Gio-Goi ‘Get Fresh’ baseball cap on and a F*cked Up baseball jacket. He stuck the baseball cap on Wogan’s head and opened his jacket to show the F*cked Up label live on TV. Alex then went away and when he came back he called me from the airport.

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