Hill Bill x Ben Billy
Chamba 11.4.81
One of the chaps that i went through the art college experience with was Richard Butler,
who later went on to front a band called the Psychdelic Furs.
During our last year at college, from time to time we returned to the topic of what part of the world we may end up in during our oncoming formative years.
It took me six or seven years to finally end up in India.
On this occasion we were sat in a shanty town restaurant in Chamba
- a meeting of the ways.
All the drovers pass through on their way to higher grazing grounds.
It's a bit of a frontier town, or was anyway.
We were treating ourselves to a meat curry.
We had met up with a couple of blokes who had spent the winter up in the mountains.
One of them had brought a compendium cassette of relatively recent rock tunes
and put it on the rare cassette player that the establishment possessed.
I cant remember the exact words but it came as quite a chilling surprise
when the Furs filled the mud floor with
"hello India, this is America"
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