Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp's Diary

Wednesday 29 January 2014

Bredonborough Rising to a hiding

11.45

Bredonborough.

Rising to a hiding Wife. The place of concealment this morning, something of a staple now: my dressing room. The Minx shakes with excitement at the prospect of making her husband jump.

Morning reading…

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John Lanchester in Whoops!...

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… refers to banks trading in insolvency. Under British law, this is a criminal act. Dennis Collopy, the Manager Director of EG’s music companies 1988-91, told me (early 1991) that he believed EG to be trading in insolvency. Perhaps this is one reason why Dr. SG Alder remains quiet regarding this period in his professional life. Steven Fisher, Mr. Alder’s lawyer, in one of the threatening letters on behalf of his clients (those clients renowned for their probity and sound business practices) suggested that, if my criticisms of EG were true, criminality was involved. I am not qualified to determine whether this was the case; perhaps Mr. Fisher was.

Computing, and now to the Cellar for practising.

13.53    Ideas developing. To lunch and now computerising.

The Minx sets off I…

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II...

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III...

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19.15    E-flurrying. Bookshelf ordering. Practising and writing. Data whirring, including the archiving of SoundScapes 1997-2009 compiled and sorted by Martin Schwutke and Hernan Nunez.

A superb MinxSupper of extraordinary healthfulness with carrot and seagrass juice. Wowalamus! is my comment.

Closing up downstairs, carrying the computer upstairs to the bedroom.

21.35    A proposed itinerary of KC dates for this Autumn in the US has arrived for consideration.


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