The Tessa Show

What? Are you shocked? Are you fucking disgusted, are you? Well, when you lot force people into the shadows don’t be surprised when it goes fucking dark.

If you didn’t know, WIFLFAG (not an official acronym, probably for obvious reasons) is set in the East Midlands around the early 2000s. Which is exactly where I lived at the time. I was most definitely not getting up to the type of antics that these lot were, mind. I was usually staying indoors forever reading the internet with my pet rabbit (though she couldn’t read. You probably worked that out). I’m still fond of the place(s) up there, even though a lot of them seemed to specialise in stabbing. Good times.

Anyway, enough of my boring life. ‘The Tessa Show’ features briefly in the programme and is a clear nod to a well known tabloid talk show of the time hosted by a woman who’s name starts with a ‘T’ and ends with an ‘A’. Look, it’s Trisha, Ok. Byron has a vision of themself appearing on the show in one of their actually quite frequent drug-induced dream sequences. The segment of the show is called ‘does a criminal teenage rent boy deserve any sympathy?’ and immediately precedes their arrest for armed robbery. Tessa is played by Fay Ripley of Cold Feet fame. Though my personal favourite of hers is ‘Mute Witness‘ (not just because it’s Alec Guinness’s final ever film appearance).

The logo itself is a replication, but it’s very niche and barely in the programme at all, so nuts to it. Actually, I changed it as well, as the ‘T’ was absolutely miles away from the ‘essa’. Apologies once again to any original designers knocking about.

A word on subject matter; the work is an interpretation of Paris Lees‘ memoir of the same name. I figured that if you’re here you probably won’t have a problem with her or what she stands for but if you do, spend your money elsewhere please thanks. We don’t tolerate intolerance here.