Alex Elliott
‘You Are My Sunshine’ from ‘Anniversary’
Dominique Olley. Paris. We were in a beautiful flat in Ile St Louis. It was spring, it was idyllic. I was smitten. Until I realised I wasn’t her first choice and she regretted the decision. She would rather someone else was there instead of me. I still love Paris. Always will. In fact my daughter was conceived there – and Dominique Olley had nothing to do with that.
Clemencia Augusta Ramirez Sosa. We met at the cinema in Tunja, Columbia, and we didn’t leave my room for three days. She invited me to Tolima to her family home and it took over a day and a half to get there – and then her boyfriend turned up. I had to listen to their pantherine love making in the next room for about an hour. The next day I took the bus home.
Hulme, Manchester. The Red Eagle. Sue. They were knocking down most of the Crescents. Drug squad were in. I was in the pub with my girlfriend. A man came and was being a nuisance… A man who was called Assassin. I swore at him in Spanish. But because I didn’t beat him with a pool cue she left. I was broken hearted.