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"I met Dave about three and a half, four years ago. Walked into the shop and he obviously came out to greet me and that was it, we just hit it off. I didn't actually go in to have a tattoo done, I actually went in there to view the studio. To view the people in there for myself, and just to see what it was like, you know because I'd heard quite a lot about it. I actually did come out with a tattoo.

I think Dave's much as excited as I am because it's a piece of work that we both like and it's a piece of work that Dave himself really wants to do. I think that's very important that the tattooist wants to do the work as well as you want the work because then David is achieving something as much as I'm achieving something.

Dave asked me what I would like on my back and that's when I said some form of crucifix. Dave said to me about this piece of work by Salvador Dali, which I went out to have a look at the piece of work. I liked it and then over the last few months we've been talking about this piece of work, so we'd get it correct. It's on my back for the rest of my life, I need the right piece of work here.

David actually showed me the artwork that he has traced out. They will be the tracings that are applied to my back, so they are the outlines. A couple of weeks ago Dave called me into the studio and basically stuck them on my back so he could see that my back is the right shape, that everything fits and also for me to see that this is what it's going to look like.

When David works he likes to do it in two-hour stints otherwise, well it's like anybody, it's your attention span. You know, if you work solid for a couple of hours, you need a break, you need a substantial break. It's a lot of work. Dave got it in his mind that he's marking me for life so he's got to do it right, there's no corridor for an error, is there? Let's face it, it's got to be right. So, you do it in two-hour sessions.

I do feel scared. I know people that have had their back tattooed and they've told me that it's painful, but then I've been tattooed in other places where people have said it's painful and I haven't found it painful. But, I have got a high pain threshold. I was in the army, I was involved with a bombing in the army, well I tend to look back to what pain I was in then and I put all my pain back to then and if it's not as bad as that then I don't worry. I got through that, so I can get through most things now."