Letters 1 - 20 / 60

Persons mentioned:

1.
- Ian Menter and Bob Helson (founder members of the Bristol Musicians Co-operative. Paul and I met at their Friday night open improvisation sessions)
- Pru (-) (met through BMC, a friend of Piers Mostyn -see letter 17)
2.
- John (Parker) (drums/keyboards on BPE3. After Paul left for Dartington John and I continued to work for a while together)
- Holly (Evans)
3.
- John Parker
- Adrian Pulham
- Simon Vines
4.
- Rob (-) - college friend
- Simon, Andrea, Adrian, Allan, John, Cathy, Clare - Cancer Detectives line-up
5.
- Mark (Phillips) = MAP
- the mag - the BMC periodical.
- Alan (Chapple) an artistic friend of mine met through Uni who moved into the adjacent basement flat previously occupied by Pete Merrick.
- Mary (Gardner) who sang on some BPE songs
6.
- Judith (Crow)
- Gill (-)
- Ian (Shepherd), early close friend, keyboard player and producer. Plays on BPE1. Produced Eventually the Heart Fails.
7.
- Michael Practorius (1571-1621) (name fumbled on my recording)
- Judith Crow
- Ian Shepherd
- MAP
- Simon Vines
- Steve Clark, Mark Robertson, Austin Lawler - Rhythm Method line-up
9.
- Simon Vines, Judith Crow, Robert Robertson - Cancer Detectives line-up
10.
- Ruskin Watt
- Mary (Gardner?)
11.
- Adrian Pulham
- Simon Vines
- Mark (fellow student)
- MAP
- Suisse = Susan Twigger (MAP's partner at the time)
12.
- Simon Vines
- Ruskin Watt
- Judith Crow
- Barry Pilcher (improvising musician - met through BMC)
13.
- Ian Dobson (cassette tapes musican, who, with Gordon Hope, formed Those Little Aliens in Leeds)
- Simon Vines
14.
- Simon Vines
- Judith Crow
- MAP
- Andrea Stark
- Ruskin Watt
- Dean Poole (South Wales-based cassette musician and drummer, friend of Robs - appears on several of Rob's solo tapes now playing drums in the Newport based band Science Bastard!)
15.
- MAP
- Suisse
- Judith Crow
- many people in bands list
- Simon Vines
- Mary Gardner
16.
- Holly Evans
- Lenny the Clown (a London based college tutor and performer, real name unknown - probably just as well!)
- Dean Poole
- Simon Vines
17.
- Lenny the Clown
- MAP
- Suisse
- Judith Crow
- Piers Mostyn (a musician met through BMC and, at this point, a bus conductor)
- Holly Evans
- Ian Shepherd
18.
- The Drunken Master (a character in a kung fu film)
19.
- LUDUS (Ian Pincombe's Manchester-based band - released cassette on Quick Stab)
- Ian Shepherd
- Suisse
20.
- Suisse (here called Susie)
- John Fairbrother (aquaintance known through BMC, a percussionist and drummer)
- Ian Menter
- Louise (-)