THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

The unlikely rising stars of Purple Wave were photographed for an infamous 1982 Face magazine spread, under the heading: INBREDS: The Not-So-Secret Face of Feral Britain.  Levi Presley, whom the directors claimed to have plucked from an abandoned moorland hill-farm where he had been leading a semi-wild existence for the best part of a decade, poses precariously atop a rusted old combine wearing just a pair of filthy track shorts.  Presley’s girlfriend, Heather Moreland, pokes the embers of a campfire in a Minnie Mouse tee-shirt.  Two flame-haired identical twins huddle close by, clasping their bare knees and gazing glaze-eyed at the sky.  A clown-faced midget curls asleep inside an old truck tyre. A line of dead moles are pinned by their tails to a barbed-wire fence.

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