‘Being a woman in the indie sleaze era was a lot less fun than it seems now’

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Gallery: 20 stupid things people do to look cool (Espresso)It was the demi-decade that saw the financial crash and the Tories return to power – austerity wasn’t a word on our lips until it was but until then brands had so much money to throw at things.

Barely a week went past where my flatmates and I weren’t catching the bus to some decadent extravaganza. I was flown business class to Tokyo for the launch of a perfume.

I DJed in New York on a boat, where Grace Jones appeared naked in a glass lift and sang to us, I DJed up the Eiffel Tower, in a still derelict Battersea Power Station, in Iceland and Krakow and when I wasn’t doing that I was flown to LA to interview film-stars and musicians for a few pages in indie magazines.

But for all of it’s get-up-and go, it’s fanzine-cut-and-paste aesthetic, it’s flashbulb throwaway photography, 2007-2012 was also a binary time.