Bredonborough Ah yes the English
10.19
Bredonborough.
Ah! yes – the English music press, this particular example from
The Times Peter Paphides
An altogether different kind of charity was needed to deal with the sight of The Humans (featuring Toyah Willcox and her husband Robert Fripp) playing a succession of songs so uniformly awful that the applause they elicited stemmed from the realisation that mere silence would simply heighten the sense of communal embarrassment.
I learn nothing of the band nominally reviewed, yet the nominal reviewer provides a clear sense of themselves & the world they inhabit. Better by far to be damned by a writer of quality, such as Richard Williams, Jon Pareles, Vic Garbarini & Lester Bangs, than praised by the mean-spirited.
An impressive arrogance: Mr. Paphides feels able to speak on behalf of the audience. Any audience arrives at its own forms of response; these fall neither to players nor mere music journalists to determine. And when it comes to audience response, Silence is the highest form of acclamation: there is no mere when Silence approaches.
I find Mr. Paphides’s ability to judge the quality of fish & chips more persuasive. Perhaps he might be encouraged to take a closer interest in the area of his expertise, where his contribution to society might be both informed & of some use.
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20.59 An afternoon practicing & computing.
The Minx & The Wongmeister are gigging tonight with the Toyah Band.
Dinner at The Old Fire Station with Brother Bill & a wide-ranging discussion across a variety of arisings & mutual interests. Superb food, wonderful company, an el fabbo evening.
More practicing ahead.
