NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH
BIRKENHEAD & THE WIRRAL WITH TOKKY HORROR
INTRODUCTION If you’re reading this and knowing me, it is probably from performing with Queen Zee, a queercoreish band I formed in 2016, or more recently as the masked gimp in Tokky Horror, an electronic collective that is none the less thrilling. But most
likely you have never heard of me, and in that case, I am Zee, nothing special of an artist, and I come to you as a Wool. For those residing outside the glorious towns of Merseyside, that means I’m a resident of the Wirral and my hometown Birkenhead. Not all wools are from the Wirral, but everyone from the Wirral is a Wool. Some say it comes from our ancestors being romantically inclined towards the sheep of the area and more PG accounts claim it was dockers unloading bags of wool from ships that 18
coined the term. I dislike them both equally and have different reasons for the love I feel for my hometown and all things Wool. WHY "BIRKO"? Younger Zee religiously skipped the train to Liverpool, where mates bands would play The Zanzibar (where I would also play my first poor attempt at a gig) in the afternoons and we would loiter stealing ciggies and gossip. Liverpool’s history of culture had provided the city with a wealth of places for kids
