Alongside jobs in economics and TV production, Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey are British indie royalty. They recall the insults and misogyny they faced in the UK – and the embrace of the US
Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey met a little under 40 years ago, when they were both students at Oxford. Fletcher (later awarded the CBE for her services to the economy) and her friend Elizabeth Price (a future Turner prize-winning artist) turned up at Pursey’s room (he later became a TV producer) to see whether he wanted to join the band the pair of them had just formed, inspired by girl groups, the Buzzcocks, the Pastels and the bands on Postcard Records.
“We didn’t actually check whether you could play bass,” Fletcher says. “I had a cover of a Microdisney album on my wall,” Pursey says. “And I think that was probably enough to qualify me to join.”
