26/08/08
Reconstruction is complete. Honesty compels me to confess that it wasn’t that the site needed, in my view, urgent renovation or development, so much as it had collapsed into itself for no apparent reason, scattering a debris of orphaned posts and pages in random niches throughout its various departments. Messy business.
26/08/08
My longtime artistic partner Hilary Westlake, co-director of Lumiere & Son Theatre Company, has begun prepping material for a dedicated Lumiere & Son website that we will put together together soon. She is currently spending several hours per day scanning photos, flyers, programmes, scripts and reviews. Hilary is an accomplished archivist: she has squirrelled away pieces of paper whose relevance is undeniable but whose continuing existence, after all these years, would startle even the most seasoned accumulator.
3/11/08
Entered in the ‘Essays’ section: ‘Roger, Syd & the Batman - the Dark Night of Cool’, the text of a talk about contradictions in the 60s that may have contributed to the troubled life of the Pink Floyd’s influential songwriter and founding member.