'our revels now are ended'

 'what kind of being would chose impersonation as a means of securing any advantage...' 

- bert o. states, great reckonings in little rooms: on the phenomenology of theater.

fahey (of course) initially tried impersonation both as blind thomas and as blind joe death. he also, probably, attempted various other impersonations on 'his own' recordings. but then he abandoned it for his own name.

similarly robbie basho is a stage name (lifted from the japanese poet matsuo bashō).

leo kottke - that's his 'real' name. 

later stefan basho-junghans will further complicate the pattern.

horsemouth's visit is now done

'our revels now are ended'

there just remains the little matter of getting to the railway station and getting the train back (and getting a lift or bus(es) back out into the wild definitive). his brother has offered a lift (it would seem churlish not to take him up on the offer). 

yesterday (a busy day)

in the morning a walk in the marshes  with TG (coffee and cake).

lunch a fried egg sandwich with sally. 

in the afternoon assembling enza's hifi and computer set up. some singing of old PPE repertoire (with horsemouth playing enza's left-handed guitar). 

in the evening chilli, wine and song round at dave and claudia's. horsemouth frowned as he struggled to remember his repertoire but then there were lots of songs out of song books too ('the neighbours are gonna hate you' advised the children). 

the gorton and denton result is in

and the greens have won it. horsemouth wont pretend he isn't glad that reform lost. in some ways this will be perceived as breaking the momentum of the reform wave but in fact doesn't, nonetheless it's good news.