richard o'brien and the rocky horror show

By Catherine Jones on Oct 16, 09 11:00 AM

Where and when did you do your first Time Warp? In the theatre? At a party? In the privacy of your own front room after a couple of glasses?
I remember (as the song goes) buying the Rocky Horror Picture Show LP when I was in Oxford on a snowy December day trying (unsuccessfully as it turned out) to win a place at university there.

Alas, St John's College wasn't meant to be, but I still have that old 33rpm somewhere.
So I was delighted, if a little apprehensive, to have the chance to interview Rocky Horror creator Richard "Riff Raff" O'Brien for today's Echo arts pages.
Delighted because he is something of a cult legend, apprehensive because, well, pretty much for the same reason.
But he was utterly delightful and I hope you get a sense of that from the interview, published today, and enjoy reading about him as much as I enjoyed talking to him.
Oh, and if you have the urge to Time Warp again, the Rocky Horror Show comes to the Empire on November 9.