J O H N   C O L L I N S

Thank you for visiting my web site. I hope you enjoy your visit and will come back again.

I would just like to add a few personal details about myself. I was born in Somerset, England. After living near Brighton on the south coast for most of my life, I moved to Scotland in 1991 and now live in the city centre of Glasgow.

I first became interested in Christian Death in 1987 when Lucie let me hear the Deathwish EP and Catastrophe Ballet. I soon became hooked and, as Valor and Gitane were living in London at the time, was able to see them perform on many occasions. In fact I used to travel all around Great Britain following them on tour.

However, it was always Rozz Williams who held my imagination. Living in the UK, it wasn't easy to follow his career, although I did, first through Chuck Collison at his Happiest Place on Earth label and then through Triple X, Cleopatra and Hollows Hill Sound Recordings.

When Gitane wrote to me to say Rozz and she were coming across to perform in the UK in April 1996, all my dreams were realized. I'll never forget those 6 concerts just as I'll never forget Rozz.  I thought he would always be there. I guess you always feel that way about someone so young, so
alive and so talented.

I have already made many new, dear friends through the 'net with whom I have been able to share and discuss my love for Rozz, and hopefully, through this site, I will have the opportunity to meet with many more. Please feel free to contact me as I'd love to hear from you.

Here are a couple of photographs of myself
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This is a photograph of my home


 
 

Enter this link if you wish to find more information about me and my friends.
Please visit this link if you wish to view a full history of the concerts I have attended.
Please visit this link if you wish to view my private audio collection.
Please visit this link if you wish to view my private video collection.
Please visit this link if you wish to read some poems I have written over the years.

Visit here for photographs from my holiday in Leipzig and Amsterdam June 2000.
Visit here for photographs from my trip to the Mera Luna Festival in Germany in August 2000.
Visit here for photographs from my pilgrimage to Los Angeles in March 2001.
Visit here for photographs of my now annual visit to Leipzig and Amsterdam May 2002.
Visit here for photographs of my trip to California in June 2002.
Visit here for photographs of various holidays in 2003.
Visit here for photographs of my now annual visit to Leipzig in June 2003.
Visit here for photographs of my trip to California in April 2005.

Visit here for photographs of my trip to Germany to follow Eva O on her European tour in November 2005.
Visit here for photographs of the first UK Rozznight party on 18 March 2006 in Nottingham
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Visit here for photographs of my trip to Pensacola and New Orleans in November 2006



I shall end with a photograph of my family. My mother, Edna is in the front row wearing the blue dress, my brother Peter is furthest on the right in the back row and my father, Michael, is the one holding the cup. He died in 1996.

Thank you again for visiting my site.

John
 

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