Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Now men had walked upon it, rubber treads on a pearl of the gods. Perhaps it was an awareness of time passing, the last sum...
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"The Rise of Venom" 1968-1970.
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On December 9, 1953 at 6:25 a.m., Verity Laurier was born prematurely, because of the forced labour her mother, interior designer Esther Laurier, passed away a few hours after the birth. Leaving not only a baby without a mother's warmth, but her eldest son, Ronan - who was just a five-year-old boy - in deep sadness without knowing his motive and her husband, Michael, in an endless omen that continued for years to come.
VERITY LAURIER(lead singer, Venom): I consider myself someone kind of weak. I always was and always will be. And I also think that canalizing weaknesses won't make you vulnerable, at least in my case, I used to think about every single thing I felt dissociated about and all at once I thought about everything I did wrong. When I played the piano, I could control what I played and if I wanted to stop, I did it without any inconvenience. It was the same with the guitar and even when I was singing, I was in control of what I did and when I did it without any pressure to do it. My dad did the best he could. I loved him. He loved us as much as his heart would allow. But as I got older it upset me that he couldn't control his sadness. Even though he was good at pretending then, during the overnights he would spend hours sitting on that old couch in our living room and listen to the same Sinatra album all the time. Not a night went by that he didn't go to sleep without listening to it. I was about thirteen when I found out he did it cause it was Mom's favorite.
And that pissed me off. Because Ronan knew. And I didn't. He knew her for a quite brief time and yet he knew things that no matter how hard he tried to pretend I did I was never going to know. I never knew my mother, never knew what the sound of her laughter was like or what it felt like to hear an I love you come out of her mouth. All I had in my mind was the image of the woman who gave me life in snippets that they told me because I asked. They didn't come to me to tell me them as some kind of comfort. If it were up to Ronan, I wouldn't know anything about her.
RONAN LAURIER(guitarist, Venom): The loss of my mother was a point where I didn't know what role to take because either my father was spending a lot of time at his job even after so many years while Vev and I were on our own in a fucking Catholic school or he just passed on us. Well, until I left it. He pretended that everything was fine and that made me furious, but we saw the decline of him right under our noses and it became inevitable to stop it. I convinced myself that it would be okay, that he would not forget her, that he would remember her warmly and not with all the pain that her passing caused. But it wasn't so. It was too late for us when we found out. So I stopped talking about her because Verity would live in a cycle her whole life and the last thing I wanted was for my sister to be trapped in that what was hers, you know? I wasn't going to deny her the right to know what mom was like. But I didn't want her to be obsessed with it either.
