Piers, what’s on your mind?

P: What’s on my mind, well, obviously what’s on everyone’s mind is the brinkmanship going on in, no, well no, in, start again (indistinguishable), is the fact we’re actually at, there’s a war going on, a conflict like off the telly kind of war, um, who knows what’s going on over there, it’s very depressing, on the other hand, in England, we’re out of COVID. And that has been quite cheery, particularly when the sun came out the other day; we had a lovely bus trip on the art bus, which went very well and was almost spring-like. We’ve had quite a lot going on; I mean I went to a couple of art galleries last week, people are coming back to the studio, not having to talk to people on Zoom D: Any galleries in particular? P: I went to Gallery 46, cause um a colleague Steven Howie has been badgering me to go there, and someone else mentioned it, so it was an um, it was.. D: Is that the same Steven… P: It was the pence move (?) D: The same Steven Howie that is the art correspondent of Portobello Radio? P: The very one. D: OK. P: Also, I love going anywhere on the Hammersmith & City Line, jump on Latimer Road and ending up somewhere completely different. D: Mhm. P: We also popped into the Whitechapel to see a tiny exhibition which was partly about one of my heroes, Groovy Bob, Robert Fraiser, who won, who ran the gallery back in the 60s, he was busted at Redland with Keith Richard. He was the only one who did severe time. He’s introduced AIDS to London and LSD to Los Angeles. I think I’ve got that the right way around. D: Right. P: Uhm, and knew everyone from Peter play tabascia??? So, the East End is full of joys; we also went past the Whitechapel Foundry, um… D: How long is that exhibition on at the Whitechapel? P: Uh, another month or so, I think, a couple of months. D: Great. P: Uhm, yes, we went past the Whitechapel, uh, Foundry, which I find very sad because it’s recently closed down. I am pleased to say that my mud? Great Bedwin on the Seven Acre Forest at the church commissioned an enormous bell from the Foundry. D: *mumbles* What are your plans for the foreseeable future? P: Well, we’re hoping, assuming we’re not all annihilated in some complication, um, we’re hoping that we will continue doing more buses, we will continue going to the Tabernacle once a month for live Saturday sessions, we’re hoping to broaden out Portobello Talk radio, so we have an opportunity to go out into the community, we’ve already asked them to come to us, but it would be great to be able to go a little bit further out. So, you know, assuming we’re not all blown up, things are on the up. D: Sounds good; thank you very much, Piers,

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