Music

Recorded with Musical Juice on the Trick of the Light tour


Shattered Dreams

Sarah lives in a shadow. She owns a large Victorian house in Gosforth where she spends her time alone and has few visitors. Like a modern day Miss Havisham, she never moves beyond her heartbreak. She has a distorted view of how she remembers things and how they really were. Like a hall of mirrors. Twisted reality and altered images. She wants her life to be like it could have been if she'd only done things differently, but it's too late to change the past. It's over and she let her chances pass her by. She blames herself. She sees no future and continues dreaming those long, lost, shattered dreams 



Trick of the Light Tour

This was simply the weirdest tour that ever took place. Arlenderre and his band would turn up in a city chosen at random, announce a venue and appear that evening in front of an unbelieving crowd. The entourage then moved on and repeated the process a few days later in another city. The organisation and logistics were challenging to say the least. Sometimes the band stayed in fans homes because hotels couldn't be booked in time. Sometimes they slept in the trucks used to transport the equipment. There were even nights when they camped out in the open and slept under the stars. But one thing for sure, the tour was exciting and a huge amount of fun. When venues couldn't be arranged, the band put on free shows in abandoned commercial buildings or on derelict land and parking lots. A couple of times they were actually arrested for trespassing and contravening health and safety regulations. So at times it got a bit scary, but it was fantastic to be part of the experience - reminiscent of the hippie days of the 1960's and a real rock and roll road show.

"Juice are quite simply the Godfathers of the underground movement in Britain. They have been around since the 1960's and have always remained independent with no desire to be part of the mainstream. Amazingly, they are still together and still performing. I have been a fan for many years and never miss an opportunity to work with them when I tour." Arlenderre 


Miss Havisham

"She was dressed in rich materials -- satins, and lace, and silks -- all of white. Her shoes were white. And she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and she had bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white. Some bright jewels sparkled on her neck and on her hands, and some other jewels lay sparkling on the table. Dresses, less splendid than the dress she wore, and half-packed trunks, were scattered about. She had not quite finished dressing for she had but one shoe on -- the other was on the table near her hand . . . "


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