The Faster They Skate, The Harder They Fall

It fell out of fashion in the late 1970s. Now roller derby has re-emerged in fresh form. Miki Perkins reports.

Editor's Letter

About time EG ran a cover image of a boy kitted out in skin-tight, hot pink, Lycra tights, wouldn't you say? Personally, I wonder why the ensemble (worn with panache by the Presets' Julian Hamilton) hasn't been rounded out with roller skates, a canary yellow feather boa and a trilby. But I could be alone in that thought, possibly with too much time on my hands. What we should, of course, be talking about is the Presets' sound - which thanks to commercial radio play and a BMW advertisement you're ...