Sanne always wanted a tattoo of a radio. When she was in an English pub with the singer of her favorite band ‘Editors’, she put on the bad shoes: “” Can you draw a little? “I asked him.” He couldn’t necessarily, but the radio signed by him is immortalized on her arm.
Sanne (37) has been a fan of Editors since 2008. “Tom Smith was the first to sang my soul into my soul,” she says about the singer of the band. In the meantime she has seen them live 53 times, at home and abroad. Her best memory? It is on her arm.
For a while she wanted a tattoo of a radio, symbol for her love for Studio Brussels, 3FM and Kink, but no design felt good. Studio Brussel did a competition to listen to their new album in the Editors rehearsal room in Bristol and then go into the cafe with them. “A friend, whom I had met at a concert, won. I was allowed to come with her.”
In Bristol, with a pint in her hand, next to her idol, she got a spontaneous plan: “Can you actually draw a little?” She asked the famous Indierock singer. “No idea,” he said. “Let’s try,” Sanne replied. “The radio he drew first looked like a bread, then on a kind of robot,” she laughs. “But I thought the story was more important than the result.”
In addition to the robot radio, Tom also wrote a piece of lyrics from bones on a sheet of paper. “As a tribute to my mother, who then fought against bladder cancer,” Sanne explains. She wanted to carry the test, in his handwriting, in the hope that happiness would bring: “The week that I would come back from this adventure in Bristol, she would be operated on, a very exciting operation.”
The operation went well, and Sannes Mother is doing well. “I decided to have the text tattooed. If they play the song live now, I hold my arm in the air when people don’t know the text,” she says cheerfully.
“My body is a collaboration between artists who never met.”
Anyone who was allowed to immortalize both artworks is another bizarre story, in which a meeting with another star belongs. Frank Carter, also a musical hero from Sanne who happens to be tattooed, put the tattoo. “I just sent him a message. Normally he designs his own work, so I thought: he never does this.”
But Frank said yes. After some delayed appointments, she was really in the chair with him. “He was super sweet, even gave me a record and tickets for a sold -out show.”
Even Tom Van Editors saw his tattoo design back on Sanne’s arm, and not unimportantly: “He approved him,” Sanne laughs. He just looked desperately at the drawn picture on her arm and then asked: ‘Do you like it? Then I think that too ‘. “It was the first and only radio he had ever signed.”
For Sanne it is more than ink. “I feel that I have achieved a collaboration between two artists who have never met,” she says proudly. “The tattoo is a bit Goofy – just like me.”
But the most the town says something about her love for live music. “I don’t always allow all the emotions in my daily life, but when the tones come from live music, then I will first be a minute, then there is room for euphoria and after the show I feel reborn and I can take it again.”
