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Luci graduated from university with a degree in Chemistry *the chemistry was actually an HNC but I do have a degree in contemporary dance…oooooh* and landed a job in the analysis department of a well-known whisky distillers. The pay was good, her colleagues pleasant and prospects promising.

But she was bored, really bored. So bored, in fact, that she ran away with the circus and now makes her living in the capital's clubs, eating light-bulbs, walking on glass, playing with fire and angle grinding.
Brixton Fridge, Friday night, 2am: two thousand people go ape as "Lucifire" takes to the stage, showering the first six rows in a spectacular shower of golden sparks.

Although harmless (no-one *except myself* has been burnt in more than 150 shows), the act is a thrilling industrio-sexual spectacle, a white-knuckle sideshow for the millennium.
Later, backstage, she pulls her current party trick - hammering a four-inch nail into her nose and invites me to pull it out (it's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it). There's no blood and the nail is real (she gave it to me as a souvenir).

So what's a scary girl like you doing in a place like this?

Luci: "making a living, doing something I like in an environment of my choosing. It's no big deal. Most people would want to earn their living doing something they enjoy."
Most people wouldn't horse around with semi-industrial power tools.
"Well most people don't have as much fun as I do."

Nominated as one of the "Top Ten Women Not to Mess With" by Bizarre magazine, Luci is certainly making her mark. But what of the future - where can she take her act? "Hopefully to the States in the summer, by then I'll have finished my B-tech firework and pyrotechnic course. I do lots of stuff overseas - Germany, Greece, Japan, Croatia, Austria, Belgium, - you should see the customs men when they look in my case and discover a bed of nails."

The next day I rang Luci I order to get a photograph for this piece. Alas, she was not at home, so I innocently asked what time she'd be back. Her flatmate was most helpful: "it could be late - she's having 15 surface piercings done for some fashion shoot…"

Kirk Field for TNT magazine, 15th March 1999