@Basses Id Like To Pluck glad you found the thread after our Facebook conversation.
I encountered Lawrence a couple of times in Highgate when a local player (whose name I can't recall) had dealings with him
Was so well regarded as a fount of wisdom/guru.
@Matthew Canty best wishes to your Father and you.
Meshuggah, Friday next week at Royal Albert Hall.
Bit concerned, the live clips I've heard from this tour seem very messy.
Also not hugely impressed with Immutable, the new Album.
However, if they do Demiurge I'll be happy.
Good in the 60s at what he did. More and more substance addled and tending towards lucrative pap to support the lifestyle.
All this is apart from his spouting racist crap , being a nasty piece of work and becoming an anti-vaxxer.
See also van Morrison and the gink from Stone Roses (last also a mystifyingly overrated band)
This apart from Metal and Beatles.
My exemplar of the irksome soloist is Mohini Dey. The facility with which she plays. Awesome.
Musicality Groove , not from what I've seen. Will have to see what the band with Marco Minneman is like, we shall see.
It's still there, just occupied by a Brazilian Evangelical Church (or it was last time I was in Finsbury Park). To be fair they did a good job of refurbishment on the interior by all accounts.
Saw Afro Celt at Cambridge Folk Festival, they were a highlight along with an electric Scots band rejoicing in the name of Peatbog Faeries who are excellent live
That's a classic brilliant track + the sample was clever & made Eminem / Dr Dre look good .
There was a very good long interview with Labi Siffre on R5live (I think) recently.
Keep wondering about your upright, very interesting. Would be a challenge without a doubt. Have you seen the mad upright in eBay weird and wonderful thread?
Have to admit that the song is a wayback memory that I managed to purge. Great backing players notwithstanding.
This and Max Boyce were my idea of hell.
Hope you and yours had a good holiday Chris. Keep thinking about catching your next Syncolima gig.
Going to see Meshuggah at Royal Albert Hall in June, well clear of the nutters in the standing prom area mind, too old for moshpit antics.
Keep on thinking I'm mad enough to want it, conversion to lefty might be problematic.
The background of the photo is a bit nutty too, suspect the gent may be a bit of a hoarder/ "pack-rat"