![]() The etching shows a view of Wakefield from nearby Heath Common, (as it looked back in 1963), complete with the City's now long ago demolished power station and cooling towers. I was a teenager when I etched the original image and had no idea, at that time, that 50 years later it would be available as a limited edition print in such a setting. The print has been put on sale in the Hepworth Gallery's shop to generate additional funds for the Unity Hall restoration project. At that time it was a kind of 'dream department store.' At least to a small child like me.Īs part of the restoration appeal, I donated a limited edition print of an etching I made a long time ago, (in 1963), whilst I was still an art student at Wakefield Art School. I played there in the 1960's with 'The Teenagers' and 'The Gibson 4' and even with Be Bop Deluxe in the early 1970's.Īs I child of the '50's, I visited the the building with my mother and grandmother when it was the largest branch of the Co-operative Society in Yorkshire.Mum, Gran and I went shopping there every Saturday afternoon in the 1950's. My father played there in the 1940's and 1950's, (he was a talented saxophonist). I have a personal family connection with the Unity Hall building. More recently I was involved in a unique fund raising concert for the Wakefield Unity Hall restoration project, held at Wakefield's award winning Hepworth Gallery where I performed an intimate solo instrumental concert for just over 300 people. Coming up with concepts and content for them, plus musical preparation and the exclusive Nelsonica CD takes up an inordinate amount of my time for what amounts to a one day event.Nevertheless, the chance to interact with people who appreciate my work is valued. It would involve far too much typing and even more digging back into my archives to wrestle two year's worth of memories from the grip of oblivion.Īlso, back in 2012, a Nelsonica fan convention was staged featuring 3 live sets and other special entertainments, (including the traditional, though rather exhausting, 3-hour long meet 'n' greet).Ī lot of hard work and preparation goes into these Nelsonica events.so much so that I've begun to feel I should perhaps mount them only once every two years instead of annually. With the above in mind, I intend to start afresh and not cover the missing two years in any great detail. Of course, those of you who regularly cruise this twinkling realm will already know of what I speak. Should you, dear reader, be even remotely curious, please take a stroll through the last two years of the Dreamsville online forum, or browse the list of releases in the Dreamsville Department Store and you may get a vague idea of where the majority of my energies have been spent. ![]() I'm not even going to attempt to fill in that two year gap with what would amount to an endless list of activity. A dust cloud of cosmic proportions stirred up and I'm forever stumbling away from the storm. I'm struggling to recall anything, (let alone everything), as there has been such a remorseless whirlwind of activity, particularly with regard to recording. So much has happened since my December 2011 diary entry. Heck, the word 'vain' should maybe read 'impossible.' The truth is that music, along with various other pre-occupations, has made an increasingly severe demand on my time and only now have I returned to these pages in the vain hope of catching up. Two dizzy, madly spinning, bee-hive buzzing years! Where did the time go? Why so fast? Why so long to write these words? My previous diary was, (deep breath, flushed cheeks, lowered gaze), two years ago this month. Yes, ok, I know.I'm outrageously late with this diary spite all good intentions. Apologies, and not just one but an entire alternative universe filled with them.
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