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Day One : Thunder Over London

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Day 1: Thunder over London – Total running time: 6.42
The thunderstorm burst overhead with frightening volume but due to the sultry nature of the August weather, there was no rain. The first track starts off very loud and noisy so be warned when listening! Each peal was preceded by lightning flashes. It sounded like exploding bombs and gave me an inkling as to how London must have sounded under aerial bombardment in WW2. Three young children were playing under cover nearby and their comments can be used to gauge the intensity of the thunder as it gradually drifted north.
Suddenly homeless and still with three nights of performances to go, I asked my older friend and mentor Michael ’Mick’ Gough, who had a tiny one-bed flat near the Post Office Tower not far away round the corner (as it were) if he could put me up for the remaining nights that the show was playing and he agreed.
Mick and I had shared a co-op house in east London from 1986-1988 and again in 1991-92, in Kilburn, and, though time and distance pulled us apart over the years that followed, we always stayed in touch. Mick was born in 1954 in Epsom in Surrey and I was born in 1963 in Darlington, north east England. A talented artist, Mick’s early ambitions had been snuffed out by heroin addiction in his teens that affected his life and almost ended it on numerous occasions. When he and I met in the summer of 1986, he had kicked his habit and was working as a volunteer for RELEASE, the drugs awareness agency. I can count on one hand older ‘mentors’ who have influenced my thinking and behaviour and Mick was one of them. He was witty and more than a bit 'oldschool' and un-PC with his humour but I respected him nonetheless. Mick proved to me that week in London how often the best ‘family’ one can have is one’s friends.
Our conversation late at night in his flat the following evening, after I was ejected from nearby Camden Town, kicked off on the subject of when Mick was arrested in late 1969 aged 16 for possession of drugs and sent to court. I recorded our unedited conversation onto a Phillips minidisk recorder using an amplified Vivanco EM216 microphone, having bought the devices five months prior to go to Sarajevo in Bosnia out of which came the audio album 'Destination Sarajevo'.

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from Two Days In London, released April 17, 2021

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