7 May 1984: Funtime for Philip were forth on the bill for this Surrey University New Wave Society event. Picture courtesy of Sharon Pilling.7 May 1984: LongPig, La Maison du Chants, Freedom Dance and Funtime for Philip are at Surrey University. Picture courtesy of Alan and Jackie WallisFuntime for Philip were featured in this issue of The Werewolf fanzine. Picture courtesy of Sharon Pilling.7 May 1983: Funtime for Philip at May Bug Ball, University of Surrey. Picture courtesy of Debra Harris.
What a trip down memory lane this is, Funtime for Philip at Surrey Uni’s May Bug Ball (and Yes, it was 1983!) With regard to the credits, Martin Smith* is standing at the snare drum, holding drum-sticks, and the guy wearing combat-trousers who is in front of him, bending over to adjust his amp, is Ian Everett (aka “Ygor”) Martin & Ian played together in Phoney American Accents. Oh, and the girl at the end is one Isobel Nelson, then-wife of Roger Nelson, who at that time was the manager of Bonaparte’s Records. He used to front Funtime, reading the poems of Baudelaire in the original French (quite badly, I might add!) They would come on to a tape of the theme from ‘Stingray’ and all join in and start playing on top of it Mad fun!
[*as it happens, I am still friends with Martin, who lives just down the road from me in Haslemere!]
By the way, if anybody has access to a copy of the pictured issue of The Werewolf, I would dearly like to get a scan of the article on Psychic TV (only about a page, I seem to remember) I am the “Matthew Stevens” who wrote the article, which was actually the first piece I ever had printed anywhere! I am now a published author, my first book ‘The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs’ having come out from Mandrake of Oxford in 2014. In the 1980s as a teenager I started going to London and became closely involved with the circles around Psychic TV and Coil (also knew their friend, the film-maker Derek Jarman) – I am currently working on a book about that scene and those times, and can’t help thinking it would be really cool to get a scan of my first-ever article to include in it.
If anybody can help me out, I would be much obliged. Thank You!
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What a trip down memory lane this is, Funtime for Philip at Surrey Uni’s May Bug Ball (and Yes, it was 1983!) With regard to the credits, Martin Smith* is standing at the snare drum, holding drum-sticks, and the guy wearing combat-trousers who is in front of him, bending over to adjust his amp, is Ian Everett (aka “Ygor”) Martin & Ian played together in Phoney American Accents. Oh, and the girl at the end is one Isobel Nelson, then-wife of Roger Nelson, who at that time was the manager of Bonaparte’s Records. He used to front Funtime, reading the poems of Baudelaire in the original French (quite badly, I might add!) They would come on to a tape of the theme from ‘Stingray’ and all join in and start playing on top of it Mad fun!
[*as it happens, I am still friends with Martin, who lives just down the road from me in Haslemere!]
By the way, if anybody has access to a copy of the pictured issue of The Werewolf, I would dearly like to get a scan of the article on Psychic TV (only about a page, I seem to remember) I am the “Matthew Stevens” who wrote the article, which was actually the first piece I ever had printed anywhere!
I am now a published author, my first book ‘The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs’ having come out from Mandrake of Oxford in 2014. In the 1980s as a teenager I started going to London and became closely involved with the circles around Psychic TV and Coil (also knew their friend, the film-maker Derek Jarman) – I am currently working on a book about that scene and those times, and can’t help thinking it would be really cool to get a scan of my first-ever article to include in it.
If anybody can help me out, I would be much obliged. Thank You!
Matthew Levi Stevens.
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