Fran’s Interview - Violent Silence: It’s Time for HIV To

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10 years after he was diagnosed with HIV and advised to abandon any long term plans, Italian in London Fran is ‘still here and still going strong’, as he puts it. He’s also just about to play live at the launch of hotly tipped Soho electro-trash night spot Cuckoo Cuckoo where he’ll be performing his new single Violent Silence, a Madonna sampling house track created to raise awareness of AIDS.

Timely in general terms (recent data just published shows record rates of new infections in both the UK and the world), the record’s release marks a turning point for Fran himself.


“I couldn’t have done it before, because my life was too chaotic and I was taking far too many *,â€