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Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
Duly signed and "shared".
I remember the bass player Pete Brandt introducing Keith as "Sir Keith Tippett" at one gig.
The "other" Tippett hailed from Bath, I believe?
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Keith Tippett obit by John Fordham:
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Thanks for this, JR.Originally posted by Jazzrook View PostKeith Tippett obit by John Fordham:
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Just been doing a bit of "archeology", following reading that Wire interview of 2 years ago, in which Keith mentions the bedsit in Fentiman Road when he first moved to London in '67, and gazing up at the Coronation Buildings in Fentiman Road, where Julie was living with her mum, believing there was "someone" living there whom he would one day get to know. Googgle Street Search reveals that the Coronation Buildings consisted of several rows of austere Peabody-style "barracks" of the kind put up in the late Victorian period for houing the poor, sandwiched in fact in a triangular plot of land just south of the "Vauxhall Gyratory", bordered on the east by the main South Lambeth Road, the south by Miles Street, and the west by the elevated main line (Southern) running SW from Waterloo to Clapham Junction and places beyond, not in fact in Fentiman Road. Walk down Fentiman Road in an ESE direction, and on reaching the main Clapham Road, turn left (NE), cross over, and immediately right into Handforth Road, which is where Keith had his bedsit! Perhaps it's too late to find out what number he lived at, so as to campaign for a Blue Plaque for Keith - but it certainly is for Julie, since the Coronation Buildings were demolished in 1981, eventually to be replaced by a wad of tall hideous postmodern commercial buildings, including a tower block which I remember was crashed into by a helicopter a few years ago in thick fog, killing the pilot and his passenger, and a parked motorist below, if my memory serves me.
Below is a picture of the Buildings, obviously taken prior to demolition...
...just in case anyone might have assumed anything about Julie's background...
Incidentally, the "short-lease housing" referred to in the text, to which the tenants were moved in 1981, could easily have been the few houses which Lambeth left undemolished to be taken over by a housing association in Villa Road, just down the Brixton Road, after a lengthy war infamously conducted by the council to evict squatters who had occupied half the road. The terraces on the south side of Villa Road were all demolished, to be replaced by a small park - ironically to be named Max Roach Park, as recommended by a council employee who just happened to be a jazz fan and came up with the name in a competition!Last edited by Serial_Apologist; 24-06-20, 16:48.Comment
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,,,,an enjoyable show.,...with Keith speaking....https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000kh5tbong chingComment
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I'm tempted to think Keith did rather lay on that Bristol accent a bit, ending up sounding more Gloucestershire than Bristol. Someone I was with once told him, "You sometimes sound like a country bumpkin", to which Keith replied, "I AM a country bumpkin!"Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
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....went to same school as me Greenway (then Sec Mod) Southmead Bristol....brother Thomas in year below me....I can tell you gutbucket Bristolian is rife in Sowfmead....He speaks like ME....ugly Ar's , and uncertain vowels....Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostI'm tempted to think Keith did rather lay on that Bristol accent a bit, ending up sounding more Gloucestershire than Bristol. Someone I was with once told him, "You sometimes sound like a country bumpkin", to which Keith replied, "I AM a country bumpkin!"bong chingComment
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It's interesting how sometimes accents acquired early in life get either watered down or further accentuated after changes in circumstances or place of living. Whereas the cockney accents I remember as a child as distinguishing north, south, east and west London from each other have rapidly been giving way to what is called Caribbean Street London, even among white kids, and only heard either among older survivors or out in the 'burbs, some places have exhibited a strengthening of some aspect of speech, eg the Scouse accent, where one learns from older Liverpudlians that the tendency to pronounce words containing the syllable "er" more as "'air" - "I'm off to wairk now", as Ringo Starr was teased for speaking by the rest of the band, etc - is a recent phenomenon in that part of the world, or the "wairld". My mother acquired a markedly la-di-da manner of speaking in her later years which, I'm sure, was as a consequence of my father's mixing in local Tory circles - I was almost shocked to be listening to a reel-to-reel family tape I had made back in 1961, and hearing her North Yorkshire vowels - "booket" for bucket, but otoh "kukerry buke" for food recipes, etc. All gone in the effort not to stick out like the proverbial sort thumb. Many have no reason or need to adapt speech patterns in this way: the Essex speak, barrer boy accent was a badge of honour among the kids from Basildon making fortunes in the City after Thatcher came to power - an "up yours" statement for the toffs they saw themselves as replacing. My thinking was that retaining a broad West Country accent in the artistic circles of 60s Swinging London might have held a similar cachet value for someone like Keith, proudly as he often spoke of his humble background.Originally posted by eighthobstruction View PostComment
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I thought people might like to have a look at this:
Renaming Colston Hall Keith Tippett Hall - the management have at least given some crecdence to the idea!Comment
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