the struggle to remember

in honour of the blue moon gustav holst's neptune. 

 21st of august 1788

'we have never been in much haste, nor has it been necessary for our intentions or suitable to our equipments. today we have but a very short way in our idea...' 

byng and ID travel the short distance from horsebridge to lewes. at lewes byng thinks they should put up at the bear but they continue on to the white hart inn. despite getting some tasty fish there and good port byng and ID are not satisfied.

they spend their time wandering round lewes, up to the castle,  the priory ruins, the downs and the race course. 

horsemouth types this in the evening. 

he can see the super blue moon (he couldn't see it last night because of the clouds).

horsemouth types this in the morning. 

some photos have emerged from the great photocloud of memory. they are of an afternoon party round at howard and maria's famous roof garden. 

horsemouth, howard, maria, darsavini, mark bell, various others. (the shoulder and feet of tim savage appear horsemouth thinks). 

horsemouth (seen here with darsavini) struggled to remember when this was. he guessed more than 10 years but it is in fact more like 20. howard dates it as  saturday september 24th 2005.  

horsemouth would still have been going out to drum and bass nights - to grooverider's grace  on a sunday. he would often play together by logistics first or second tune of the set. he loses contact with the scene when he moves back up to hackney. 

mark bell and howard (who had made music together as hoof & malbo available here and in improv settings) photographed here stood up. 

horsemouth thinks this is himself chatting to maria (it could be her swiss/ czech mate (mariushka?) but horsemouth thinks not). 

other photos show martin, paul mazon, max, and laura. if mark was there nas would have been there.