Fine line black ink geometric lettering reading AUDIO VIDEO DISCO in three rows on the upper arm.

Audio Video Disco lettering on upper arm

Fine line · Upper arm · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a tattoo on the upper arm reading AUDIO, VIDEO and DISCO in three stacked rows. The letters are built from thin straight lines and angled shapes, giving them a geometric, angular look. The ink is black on pale skin against a white fabric background, with a softly blurred dark backdrop.

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The van still had the letters on its flank when we pulled into the car park behind the Co-op, though Dennis had sanded the paint back twice and the ghost of them showed through in the rain. AUDIO, VIDEO, DISCO, stacked in the angular capitals he'd copied off a krautrock sleeve he never let anyone else touch. Nobody in Halesowen ever asked what it meant. They assumed it was a company.

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Our job that Saturday was a silver wedding at the Legion hall: one projector the size of a microwave, four speakers that had belonged to a church youth club, and a bride's cousin who wanted the first dance filmed on a phone and played back on the wall before the cake. Dennis ran the cables along the skirting with gaffer tape while I fought the lamp. The lamp died at nine. We had forty minutes.

Dennis did not panic. He took the hall's own fluorescent tube out of its fitting, wired the projector to the emergency circuit with a jumper and a prayer, and told the room the film would start when the couple reached the middle of the floor. They reached it. The wall lit up grey and then gold, the bride's face swimming across the plaster, and somebody at the back cried out the way people do at weddings, half laughing, half surprised by their own throat.

Afterwards Dennis coiled the leads without a word and said the only thing he ever said about the letters. Each word, he said, was a thing you could fail at quietly, and you had to keep all three in the room at once. I didn't understand then that he meant it as a rule for the van and not the job. Even now I catch myself reading the stack top to bottom, like a sum that always comes out right.

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