Star Wars Crossed Lovers.

We like Star Wars. That’s how it all started.

We almost met at the premiere of Return of the Jedi. Catherine was Leia, Steve was Luke, we met mutual friends there, but not each other. It was another two years before we met properly, at a V fan club meeting (V for lizards, not vendettas – Ed.) Our first night out together was for the charity preview of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, we were both both in costume. We were rapt to meet the stuntman Guest of Honour, but discovered later that he hated us because our costumes were far superior to his.

From 1985 onwards it was a plethora of conventions, previews, fanzines, costumes, parties, artwork, displays and films. Costumes included Star Trek (many times) as Klingon partners in crime, Star Wars (many many times) as matching Jedi, and various others.

Steve’s moments of glory include falling off the stage at Vampiricon during the masquerade, neglecting to turn up as a judge for a masquerade at Trekcon, and inviting most of the population of Balaklava to his 21st to witness the Batley Women’s Institute re-enactment of Nazi War Atrocities. In spite of all this, Catherine still married him, with a second ceremony held in costume as Han and Leia at a StarWalking convention.

1992 witnessed the greatest media convention of all time; HongCon, where along with some guy named Martin, Steve won numerous ASFMA awards for Steve and Martin’s Excellent Fanzine.

Steve and Catherine’s attempts to rule the universe have, thus far, been foiled repeatedly, because they usually involve large papier mache weapons of destruction and eating chips. A monument to this currently stands in their backyard in the form of a 20 foot high Martian fighting machine – from all reports they get along quite well with their neighbours.

They remain at large. Stay off the roads!

The works of Steve and Catherine can currently be seen on display at the Marion Megaplex cinemas, as well as the local Video Ezy store, where they have continued to create amazing and award winning in-store displays for the past 10 years or more.

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