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Andy's first review
From the Financial Times dated
August 31st 1096, this review, by B A Young, praises the production
and the musicians.
Andy writes...
A bit later on that
year I ran into a guy at a party who was the older brother of
the drummer in the band I'd had at school, a chap called Max
Stafford-Clark. Max said he was going to Edinburgh to do a play
and would I write a tune for it? I was eighteen and kind of drunk
or stoned or something and I didn't take it seriously. Then he
phoned up and asked where it was and of course I hadn't done
anything. So I got his brother John, the drummer, in and wrote
this little guitar thing - just electric guitar and drums. Recorded
it on a Grundig at home and sent it to Max. He liked it, used
it, and phoned me up a couple of weeks later to say this guy
who was going to play guitar for a late-night review they were
doing couldn't make it and could I come up and write and play
the music? I took an electric guitar and an amplifier and John
took his drum kit and we went up and played this review, which
happened to be at the Traverse Theatre Club. We played for a
fortnight, about an hour each night, and after us was Lindsay
Kemp with Jack Burkett, The Great Orlando, plus this young student
of his called Vivian Stanshall, doing mime and playing the tuba
and generally camping around. I was sharing a dressing room with
Viv, the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band had just started and he told
me all about that.
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