Bounce! Bounce! Pat Mastelotto is driving this one along and firing up the guys as they sound off in response.
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Mostly a day of sorting paper archives from the mid-1980s. These were retrieved from the cellar in January 1997, where they had been stored for almost nine years. The find included vital evidence in my High Court action against EG, Virgin & BMG which, in that first week of January 1997, had ironically been signed. Now, with a margin more time to continue addressing the repercussions of the past, I have been filing away documents.
Some of these are wonderful finds: postcards to me from my Mother during a three month retreat at Claymont in the autumn of 1984; early letters to me from Toyah; Christmas and Birthday cards from both my parents, Sister & Wife. Also, two letters from Elizabeth Bennett.
Now, over to the Music Room to check in on "Cirkus".
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The continuing process of addressing adverse repercussions from the past has yielded up a stash of (to me) interesting photographs.
RF at Sherborne House in 1975-76: these include RF on his bed in the corner of our six-guy dormitory; an earnest, bespectacled, facially hirsute young man dressed for practical work; then as a lightened, clean shaven open-eyed morris dancer with the Sherborne Village Morris Men; & roller skating in the Sherborne House ballroom (now an expensive private apartment). Frippertronics in Europe during early 1979, including Copenhagen's Winter Gardens (a stunning space). Fripp with Gilda Radner backstage at a Hall & Oates Christmas radio show in 1980 (I sat in for "You Burn Me Up I'm A Cigarette"). The League of Gentlemen (1980), photos taken by Sal Lettieri.
Sal was a loyal Good Guy enthusiast, a haemophiliac, and a regular letter writer. In the mid-1980s Sal's blood supply became tainted, he contracted AIDS and the letters stopped. This evening I was very happy to find Sal's League photos in an envelope bearing his name. Bless you, Sal.
David & I are assembling the components of "Cirkus" Volume Two. Declan, Hero of Virgin A&R, has enthused Virgin with this project to spearhead the reissue of the Virgin EG KC catalogue in special commemorative formats throughout 1999. Volume Two addresses 1981-98, and Volume One 1969-74. At least, for now.
A mouse from Hugh's area has been running around the Music Room all evening. On several occasions it climbed to the top of a CD stand. We speculate that it is seeking to return to the lair of Hugh the Fierce and we are encouraging it to do so.
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We have our beginning.
"Honour the role.
Respect the person."
