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  • teamsaint
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    • Nov 2010
    • 25210

    Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
    It's a great shame there appears to be no recorded record of The Orkestra - formed at the CPGB-oganised Festival of the Left (if I remember the title correctly - maybe should check!) at Ally Pally in the summer of '77, by the teaming up of Henry Cow and the Mike Westbrook Brass Band. The experiment was short-lived; three years on however it would lead to Lindsay Cooper and Georgie Born joining the Westbrooks' project The Cortège - one of the great jazz frescoes of all time, up there with Carla Bley's Escalator at the very least, I would claim.
    Wiki has it as the Moving Left Review, S-A. It has one gig at the Roundhouse, and one at Regents Park.
    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

    I am not a number, I am a free man.

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    • Serial_Apologist
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 37691

      Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
      Wiki has it as the Moving Left Review, S-A. It has one gig at the Roundhouse, and one at Regents Park.
      That would be it: the Roundhouse one. Thanks TS.

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      • teamsaint
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 25210

        Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
        That would be it: the Roundhouse one. Thanks TS.
        That must have been a great gig . I’ve never been to the Roundhouse, something I ought to put right.
        I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

        I am not a number, I am a free man.

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        • Serial_Apologist
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 37691

          Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
          That must have been a great gig . I’ve never been to the Roundhouse, something I ought to put right.
          I went there in 1967, for a big political event organised by RD Laing and David Cooper*, when it was still a dusty unreconstituted railway shed, and again in 2006 for a jazz session that was part of the BBC Electric proms, so-called, hosted by Jez Nelson and featuring Dave Okumu, Tom Arthurs, John Taylor, John Surman, Hugh Hopper and Seb Rochford in various impromptu combinations - by which time the place had been spruced up and the blackened brickwork burnished back to its original golden glory.

          *The Dialectics of Liberation Congress

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