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Artefacts #5
Another hastily thrown together post and this one is possibly the most tragic of posts. Some of the artefacts I have acquired over the years are beautiful and unique, some are of historic interest or importance… and some are just things I couldn’t bring myself to throw away… because I’m a fan… this post has a few of the things that a sane person would probably have binned or recycled.
AHFOW 09/023 Various postage labels "Labels from envelopes received from Damon & Naomi and Dean Wareham"
I couldn’t bring myself to throw these away, I suspect I didn’t keep them all, and I did, eventually get rid of some.
AHFOW 08/001 Damon & Naomi flyer "Flyer for a London show with incorrect date and unknown picture"
This was a flyer handed out at a gig a few weeks, possibly months, before the one advertised - I can’t remember the gig. The picture on the front is actually lifted from the catalogue for Yoko Ono’s 1965 “Yoko at Indica” exhibtion in London (although I only recently discovered that).
The show was a week later than the flyer suggested
Hazel and I headed out to the lovely Luminaire last night to catch Damon & Naomi play a very sweet and nicely well attended show in London. We missed the first support but caught the whole of The Left Outsides playing another enjoyable set. We oddly managed to find a very good spot right at the front of the stage after The Left Outsides had finished.
It seems that Naomi hadn't brought over her bass so played the whole set on her Nord Electro 2. They played a great set mixed from old (In The Sun, Memories, New York City), new (Lilac Land, Stars Never Fade, Cruel Queen) and one unreleased track - a cover of the Scott Walker track "The World's Strongest Man" which they've recorded for a new Scott Walker tribute record (about which I haven't managed to track down any information as yet).
Damon was, as usual, on good form with a hilariously bizarre story about his afternoon visit to The Freud Museum. It was nice to be able to enjoy Damon's rambles without having to worry about them eating into a short (supporting) set.
Alasdair MacLean of The Clientele, added his very distinctive guitar to set closer Cruel Queen (and made me regret the laziness that kept me at home when they played the same venue last week). For the encore Damon & Naomi pulled out a track from More Sad Hits, which only seemed fair given the amount of very good press the re-release has had over here (that I'm sure contributed to the size of the crowd), they chose "Memories" and followed it with "In The Sun" (with Naomi singing, so more Playback Singers than Pierre Etoile version).
AHFOW 01/022 Luna ticket - self-printed ticket 2016-10-12: Petit Bain, Paris 2 tickets
I guess 2016 was the beginning of the end of physical tickets, I never print tickets these days (I don’t even have a printer) but in 2016 it seemed odd/wrong not to have a physical token of entry… and, since it was technically a ticket it made it into the archive! I probably still have the PDF in my email somewhere so no real reason to keep these.
AHFOW 01/023 Luna wristband 2016-10-08: Rockaway Beach, Bognor 1 wristband and envelope
When Luna played the Rockaway Beach festival in 2016 we managed to wangle some day tickets so we didn’t have to shell out for the whole weekend, while the wristband is certainly worth its place in the archive, the scribbled on envelope that decaled us as “Luna guests” probably isn’t!
I had spent most of my childhood summer holidays in Bognor Regis, so the opportunity of seeing Luna there was too much to resist - so had wangled some guest passes as the weekend tickets were a bit pricey!
We arrived in a damp and overcast Bognor and once we'd managed to track down our passes we wandered around the festival site, a Butlins holiday camp. Caught a bit of Clinic, all of Wire, a bit of Jah Wobble and then settled in for Luna's set.
AHFOW 09/034 12" cardboard stiffener inscribed: 'Enjoy! xx N'"
I can’t remember what this stiffened but it is just a bit of cardboard… although it does have the inscription and Naomi’s writing is gorgeous so, always worth keeping!
AHFOW 01/028 Luna comp ticket 2016-10-07: Islington Academy, London 1 ticket
It’s torn, it’s barely readable, it doesn’t even mention the band. This was for a Luna show in London in 2016.
I could go on, there is a shocking amount of trivial nonsense kicking around… but it is all weirdly valuable to me, some because there is a story behind them, and some because there isn’t!