Lettie

Turnaround there’s a storm ahead

Posted on October 27, 2013 by lettiemusic

Thank you once again to the fantastic Rune Ness for creating another masterpiece. This time Rune did nearly the whole video from scratch. It’s beautiful. It makes me cry when I watch it. I suppose I’m nostalgic too. Rune picked two songs from 2008 and of course, those songs have memories all of their own as time passes. I do hope I can continue to write songs that touch people. As October comes to an end and I’m ill in bed, its now getting dark at 4pm!

Astounding Science Fiction October1951 A Street and Smith Publication published by Atlast Publishing & Distribution Co. Ltd

I think about all the things I’ve been up to which is quite a bit of time in various studios. I have had the great pleasure of working with Dave Barbarossa who has made a considerable name for himself as a drummer in both the original line up of Adam and the Ants and Bow Wow Wow but also now as accomplished author of ‘Mud Sharks‘ (Published by Ignite Books).

Dave Barbarossa in studio Oct 2013

We rehearsed quite a bit before laying down the drum tracks and I do believe the songs (three in all) are some of the best I’ve written. This collaboration is so unusual as I’ve never started from a drum beat and written that way. I believe this has given the songs a completely different feel. It’s been such fun to work in this collaborative way. Dave has his own project Cauldronated click on the link to check it out.

Life is a journey and I’m on the train.

The Valley Railroad Deluxe Boston New York Train built in 1927

I have also been working with Mt Vernon on some new tracks. These are very minimal tracks with no drums. I am very pleased with them. I think we are going to try and do a whole album. So lots of recording and two gigs in Corsica with Louise Dodds coming up in November. I’m so lucky I can manage to squeeze it around my day jobs. I even managed a quick pitch with my dear writing partner David Baron. It is now coming up to years since I last saw him.

Mt Vernon with Alex and George at Dada Studios, Brick Lane

Bewitching Welsh Witches National Series

The Old Smithy Godshill I o W The Photographic Greeting Card Company London

I’m trying to get a bit more focused on a target one to aim at and shoot but sometimes an eyelash gets in the eye and one needs a friend to help.

Unknown Photograph

Mr Lewis Waller ‘Robin Hood’ Foulsham & Banfield

Unknown Photograph

I’m trying to think of all the things I’ve been doing lately. I went to the delectable Darren Coffield’s exhibition at my friend’s new gallery called Chart in Chelsea. It was wonderful to meet my old friend Ronnie who I hadn’t seen in years. He used to take me to all these haunts in Soho and West London. I really enjoyed that as well as Robyn Denny’s at Laurent Delaye in Cork Street. Guy Sangster Adam‘s Mustered event was fantastic – his Cultural Pick Webzine and Mustered events are hidden delights within the garden of London and I have met many people as a result, through him. I also owe a lot to the Worlds End Bookshop situated at Worlds End on the Kings Road. Another highlight was Travis Elborough’s launch of ‘A London Year’ compiled with Nick Bennison. This is a huge diary of entries from everyone from Samuel Pepys to Alan Bennett to Dickon Edwards who I had a nice chat with. He has one of the the longest running blogs in the England. I have become a bit of a bore when it comes to one particular film I’ve seen lately; ‘La Grande Bellezza’ as it has been one of my biggest highlights in years.

I’m bored of being ill but I’m already feeling a lot better. I love my new Ray Bans I bought second hand off the Gumtree.

Lettie in front of her postcards

Apparently there’s a storm coming. I’m bracing myself for it.

xXx

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September …’We sit late, watching the dark slowly unfold….’ Ted Hughes

Posted on September 12, 2013 by lettiemusic

Rune Ness a very talented filmmaker created a wonderful video for an old song I wrote on an album called ‘Everyman’. It’s beautiful and haunting and even though we never met I do hope we do more in the future.

So I realise it’s been quite a while since I last updated and September came round quicker than I thought.

Astounding Science Fiction A Street and Smith Publication September Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement

I thought I would have a Summer of concentrating on just music but it wasn’t to be so. I ended up being quite busy despite many of the people I work for being away.

Foto Z Jungmann

I also ended up walking for miles and my legs are just so tired they feel like glue so I’ve bought a rusty old bike.

Torquay Chalet Hotel 12th July 1947

One of the people for whom I work took me to the Royal Yacht Squadron for lunch for Cowes Week. It was very interesting to take a tour of the Castle and look at the paintings which I had helped type up over the last year or so. It was a really foggy day and there were people positioned all over the Castle in the bedrooms with telescopes. It was a complete revelation! A very strange world of which I know nothing!

‘Solent Butterflies’ racing under spinnakers Colour Photograph by Beken & Son Cowes J Arthur Dixon

Blue…

The welcome Elissa Landi gave Nino Martini when he returned has all Hollywood guessing. But She isn’t neglecting Tristan, her favourite mount, for the opera singer from Photoplay August 1937

My favourite colour.

Photoplay August 1937

I adored this film below – so amazing to see the streets of Paris in 1961. She reminded me so much of Blondie.

Cleo 5 to 7 A film by Agnes Varda 1961

I love this map of the moon. It’s a pull out poster and was created even before we landed on it.

Elger’s Map of the Moon 1964 (before we landed on it) published by George Philip and Son Limited London

I’m so grateful to the supremely talented Brian Kavanagh for updating my website and doing more photographs which we shot in Brompton Cemetary which I find an intriguing place. Due to the Government cuts (it’s a Royal Park in fact) a lot of it’s very overgrown and wild. A very underrated singer called Tim Rose is buried there amongst many others.

Lettie by Brian Kavanagh August 2013

I did a film for Michael Seymour who has just written his first book of fiction which is a gripping read.

I saw the fantastic Chris Spedding and Andy Fraser (Free) play in Portsmouth of all places! What musicianship! I also enjoyed the Eels in Oxford. I do like getting out of London at every opportunity.

I also started writing again. Six or so songs. I have been writing with Mark Vernon and three tracks with Dave Barbarossa whom I saw play last week who was phenomenal with his band Cauldronated and I hope to go into a studio very soon. The reason I like to work with other people is I just lack the musicianship so it’s great to work over Dave’s fantastic drum tracks or over Mark’s keys. It opens up a completely new angle for me. Otherwise my songs start sounding the same. I am also performing in Corsica with Louise in November on my new Roland Juno Gi which thankfully is a bit lighter than my old keyboard.

The conversation by Lettie

People have been coming up to me lately saying how much they like the music and I’m glad to say that it’s still being discovered. It feels like a lifetime ago I did my first gig at the Blackfriars pub in Glasgow. My gratitude to David Baron goes without saying.

Please note name postcard to Mr A Sercombe Fore St Bovery Tracer Devon 1903

So much sadness and worry in this world we live in concerns me greatly as it probably does for you too. This is how I escape through postcards, pictures and music.

(click on any images to make larger)

Unknown photograph Buxton Crescent

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New Single ‘Ecstasy of Saint Teresa’

Posted on July 8, 2013 by lettiemusic

‘Ecstasy of Saint Teresa’ by Gian Lorenzo Bernini that is elevated in the Cornaro Chapel in Rome is based on the experience of Teresa of Avila, a Carmelite nun’s religious ecstasy when she encountered an angel who thrust a long spear of gold into her heart. I have not seen this masterpiece but Mark Vernon with whom I wrote this track has and was very overwhelmed by it.

I spent many hours editing the film on iMovie as previously I used to do it on Windows and the only way to learn is to do it so in some ways its an experiment. When I filmed it I had no idea what I was going to do. The track is available to buy here.

I’m keeping this blog short as I have been working long hours and finally the Summer is here with all the good news to go with it; good weather and a British wink wink Scottish Wimbledon winner!

I love globes and I am very interested in World Fairs which were platforms for countries to show off their wares and industry. I imagine they were like a grown up theme park. They always created quite remarkable postcards and pictures and there were many in England beginning under Queen Victoria held at Crystal Palace 1851 ‘The Great Exhibition’. This particular fair in New York below was very controversial as it went into bankruptcy but before it got left to ruin you could eat sandwiches from around the world at the Seven Up International Gardens Pavilion whilst enjoying performances from Broadway or you could go to see the Worlds Largest cheese in Wisconsin, the dolphins on display in Florida, then eat at Hawai’s ‘Five Volcanoes’ and at the New York City pavilion, take a simulated helicopter ride around the huge model city of New York. The West Berlin’s Cold War display was popular but not as popular as Louisiana, which with it’s many bars replicating New Orleans, and the go go dancers at the ‘Gay New Orleans Nightclub’ proved an unmitigated financial success. The Jordanian pavilion upset some when it displayed a mural demonstrating the plight of the Palestinians.

Unisphere New York World’s Fair 1964-1965 Post Cards by Dexter, West Nyack, N.Y The Unisphere is the theme symbol of the Fair. Its top is 140 feet above ground level and the glove is 120 feet in diamter with an open grid of latitudes and longitudes supporting the land masses. The reflecting pool beneath is 310 feet in diameter. It dramatizes the interrelation of the peoples of the world and their yearning for ‘Peace through Understanding’

So as I start my Summer holiday – here I am at the afterwork party!

Werbung fur Energieversorgung, um 1960 by Ludwig Windstosser

World Airways’ Boeing intercontinental 707C fan jets- the largest, most advanced aircraft in service today. Designed with features to provide the ultimate in passenger comfort. Equiped with fan jet engines allowing cruising altitudes up to 41,000 feet for calm, weatherless comfort with speeds of 600 miles per hour

World Airways is not a carrier plane anymore it’s top secret.

I have been very fortunate lately to have seen some of my favourite artists of all time playing including Peter Murphy (who was out of this world), Laurie Anderson with the Kronos Quartet (out of this world) and tomorrow, Blondie with Hugh Cornwell in support at Kew Gardens, out of this world.

I am planning on writing new tracks this Summer. I’m starting with a skeleton on Cubase. Dave Barbarossa has kindly agreed to drum. I’m also have some vocals lined up with another songwriter. I miss my friends in America, David Baron et al, but England will do particularly when the weather is this good.

I will try to organise a gig in London in the Autumn before I go to Corsica. I have been invited to play there in late November which is very exciting largely as a result of my friend Anthony Phillips who never stops believing in me like others do – it means an awful lot because as time goes on one feels more and more swamped by life and work. I cling on like clingfilm to a plate. I’m having a look at my whole live set up to see if I can’t make it a lot easier for myself. I need to be light; I need to throw stuff away, I need to clear my head and simplify. Life is maths summed up in algebra; Lettie + postcards and stuff = time lost not doing music – day job -distractions= less time = 0

xXx

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April said ‘May I came in?’ June 2013

Posted on May 27, 2013 by lettiemusic

From Tarzan to ‘A Day at the Races’ with the mad Marxes to ‘The Emperor’s Candlesticks’ has been the lot of Maureen O’Sullivan in the last year from Photoplay Magazine August 1937

I had the…..

‘The Loveliest Night of the Year’ The Great Caruso’ starring Mario Lanza and Ann Blyth published by Francis Day & Hunter 138-140 Charing Cross Road London WC2

The gig at the Hippodrome was fantastic. It used to be a theatre, then a nightclub called ‘Talk of the Town’ and now it’s a 24/7 gambling den! I bumped into my old next door neighbour Phil Kay going into the next show.

London Hippodrome Program 30th November1929

It was such an honour to perform with Reuben Richards and his wonderful band the Soul Train on a beautiful song he has written called ‘Missing You’.

Lettie performing with Reuben Richards at the London Hippodrome 19 April 2013

It was also great to only have a harmonica as my only baggage. It reaffirmed my love of performing. I was, therefore, thrilled to be in such company not only of Reuben and his fantastic band the Soul Train but also Otis Grand. I am, therefore, very excited to be playing in Corsica in the Autumn and I’m rethinking my whole live set up. I have an eye on a Roland keyboard and I have been talking to them. I need something light. I am so grateful for David Baron and all the work I have done up till now. In fact an animator Rune Ness is editing some of his animation for two songs off ‘Everyman‘. It’s testament to our work that songs form five years ago are continually being rediscovered and that people really like them!

Nancy Rice The Mill on Glossette Series No 73 postcard to Else Hawker dated 1915

In the Summer I have time coming up and I’m concentrating on new material. The new song I have written with Mark Vernon is being mixed again on Wednesday and has been renamed ‘The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa’.

‘Ecstasy of Saint Theresa’ (1647-52) in Cornaro Chapel, Rome by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini

I have created a video but nothing seems to work as much as a still image. I have also completed two tracks with Anthony Phillips for Universal Music Production, under a completely different name. It’s good to have two sides to my music as well as being able to have a day job that enables me to have such flexibility.

Mrs Jolly Will Typing It For You ‘Theatre World’ June 1954

It has taken me years to find a job that can give me this.

Natalie Castle 5 Rollesby Way Lonodn SE28 0181 311 2369 printed by Woodgate-Loydor Ltd, Teddington, Middlesex

On top of this I have managed three tracks with Jonny Taylor a very talented young songwriter. It’s interesting hearing our voices together.

Cartolina Postale (Carte Postale) of Taormina unmarked

I haven’t been able to update for a while as I took another trip. A project I have been thinking about that involves a camera. Another island and never could I have imagined I would have travelled so much in the last couple of years. It’s good to leave the attic.

Lettie at Lido Mediterranean Taormina Sicily (May 2013)

I watched Fellini’s ‘Il Bidone’ (1955) in Betrand Russell’s room and looked at the sofa Greta Garbo had lain, when she announced at thirty five she was retiring announcing to the world ‘Let me alone’, the murals of Frank Brangwyn RA, the paintings and poems of Henry Faulkner, letters of Tennessee Williams, the spirit of Caitlin Thomas, the ghosts of Robert Kitson, Daphne Phelps and Concetta. This house, a living museum, is called Casa Cuseni and is unique. It lies in the shadow of Mount Etna in Sicily.

View from the top, Mount Etna to the right May 2013 (Photograph by Lettie)

Unmarked postcard bought in Taormina

I saw my friend Erin Lang perform last week at the Slaughtered Lamb. I adore her – not only is she a lovely person but a really great musician. Her new material is very haunting.

Another friend Michael Seymour (who did my album cover for ‘Good Fortune, Bad Weather’) is showing his work in a group exhibition next week of Pauline Boty (6 March 1938-1 July 1966) at Mach Schau 1.2 Kingly Court, Carnaby Street, Soho W1B 5PW on Tuesday 4th June 6.30pm -8.30pm. She died tragically young and was considered the star of the Royal Academy, and the only female pop artist. She was also an actress and there is footage of her on youtube in Ken Russell’s hard to find now, ‘Pop Goes The Easel’. Please do come down.

Pauline Boty at Battersea Fun Fair 1964 by Michael Seymour (Copyright Michael Seymour)

Here are some images that I have been collating together. I am now a bona fide ephemerist collector having received my membership card (or am I just a hoarder!). This I found at the Worlds End Bookshop. Last time I went into the bookshop I didn’t leave till 2am.

A Newcomer First Views Hollywood from Movie File January 1938

A Newcomer First Views Hollywood from Movie Life January 1938

I’m looking forward to the Summer when I will be writing again! I think I have found the perfect place finally.

The Lido from Minehead Holiday Guide 29th Edition 1960s

A game of miniature golf……

From Minehead Holiday Guide 1960s

‘I Know’ by Carl Stutz and Edith Lindeman Featured and Recorded by Perry Como B Feldman & Co, 64 Dean St London 1959

‘Time Waits For No One’ music and lyrics by Cliff Friend and Charlie Tobias published by B Feldman & Co Shaftesbury Avenue

xxx

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Unknown Postcard Rotary Photograph Series.

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Flatitude

Posted on March 30, 2013 by lettiemusic

Lettie in Lennon Park, Havana, Cuba

I thought I was here to stay for a while but I had the wonderful opportunity to work and travel with my lovely boss and go to Cuba with a very interesting group of people who frequent Boisdale, a famous Jazz Restaurant in Belgravia with branches now in the City and Canary Wharf. On the way out I was sitting right behind a beautiful black man who was attracting a lot of attention. I then realised it was the brilliant ballet dancer Carlos Acosta born in Cuba. His father put him into ballet school because he knew he would get proper meals.

Photograph taken near the Nacional hotel, Havana by Lettie February 2013

It is a fascinating place. I ended up staying in Frank Sinatra’s room at the Nacional Hotel (a famous Government run hotel built in 1930) which had a secret door that led to the famous mafia room. The mafia, their families and subordinates (numbering 500) were there from December 22 – 26 1946. The hotel was closed to any outsiders and was the biggest Mafia meeting ever held and recreated in Coppola’s The Godfather II. They ate delicate crab from the southern islands, roast breast of flamingo, roast tortoise and stew drank aged rum and smoked Montecristo Cigars. Women were bought in from Tropicana, Montmartre and Sans Souci. Frank was a cover should suspicion be aroused. The get together being described to honour the Italian from New Jersey.

Ciudade de La Habana Cuba Hotel Nacional de Cuba 80 Aniversario 1930-2010

Bob Hope also stayed there here’s a postcard I got when I got home from my godmother.

Palm Springs California Bob Hope’s beautiful Palm Springs California home and swimming pool

I have always wanted to go to Cuba and here are some things I collected whilst I was out there. Whatever your thoughts on Castro he got rid of the mob, Batista and ultimately the Americans (except their cars!). On the day we got back Chavez died. The tie with Venezuela for oil is vital for the Cuban economy.

Page 1 From Album De L Revolucion Cubana 1952 1959 Cosuma Productos Cubanos

From Album De La Revolucion Cubana 1952 1959 Cosuma Productos Cubanos

Another page From Album De L Revolucion Cubana 1952 1959 Cosuma Productos Cubanos

24 Jun 1957 Dia de los Padrinos (written on back)

Toothpaste was very hard to find amongst many things. Cuba has two currencies one is pesos which is what the government pays its people and CUCs is the other which everyone wants.

Back cover of Album De La Revolucion Cubana 1952 1959 Cosuma Productos Cubanos

If Cuba is home to rum then Barcardi is king of them. The art deco building called the Barcardi Building in Havana used to have a bar inside but that has now shut.

La Cia Ron Barcadi S.A promotional material for pilgrims to El Santuariro de la Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre, Patrona del Pueblo de Cuba offering them photographs

No 9 Arbol de la Paz Santiago de Cuba

I managed to catch Eliades Ochoa (Buena Vista Social Club) perform which was a big highlight for me and also met Rueben Richards.

Reuben Richards watching Eliades Cuba February 2013

Reuben is a fantastic soul singer from the old school and is performing on Friday 19^th April at the Hippodrome, London click here. He has asked if I will do a duet with him and I have accepted this wonderful invitation.

Flyer picked up in a restaurant in Havana Feb 2013

I was walking down Portobello Road one Saturday when I got back and found some nice photographs on the stand there under the bridge that I like so much…they are stories without words, songs that have yet to be written…

Naufragos de Ciudad de Asuncion El Mundo 11 July 1983 Fotographia

Puznair St Moritz 10,000 ft 13 September 1960

Unknown photograph

Special Edition Wellville News (odd ephemera made in the USA)

When will those hazy Summer days return….never mind the Spring. I think we’ve all been feeling under the weather and certainly I have been. I’ve been working the day job harder too.

Unmarked photograph

Speaking of gigs, the gig in Norwich ‘Latitude Fashion Mash Up’ on the 14^th March was a bit of a let down to put it mildly. I’ve made it known to Festival Republic and the organisers but I have to let it go. I think the worst thing probably about it all were flowers sent to me went missing. I am, therefore, putting all gigs on hold for now. Louise Dodds who is launching her own album in two weeks I’m sure will be very busy. We’ve known each other since Glasgow University days. She’s an exceptional jazz singer but plays bass and sings with me. I had read in Sebald’s wonderful book ‘Rings of Saturn’ how Norwich was the centre of the silk in Victorian times but all I found was very expensive vintage shops selling 1980s bobbly jumpers.

I cheered up this week when I went to another instalment of Plectrum- The Cultural Pick with Guy Sangster Adams. Richard, who has been in charge of the Betsey Trotwood for six years was there and recognised me from days back. He very sweetly said I have been one of the standout performers he has had there and would always put on a gig again for me should I come out of retirement. Max Décharné was DJ for the evening.

Straight From The Fridge, Dad A Dictionary of Hipster Slang by Max Decharne 2009

The event featured some really great writers and songwriter and talented guitarist Tom Nancollas. My highlight was Travis Elborough who did a slideshow and talk about London Bridge so I bought his book ‘London Bridge in America’.

So I move on to my new song ‘Hold It’ which is now mixed. I’m very pleased with this track that I wrote with Mark Vernon who’s day job is being a music manager. The idea of doing a track a month hasn’t quite worked out as it’s now March so maybe it’s a track every quarter. I hope to do one with Dave Barbarossa next. I am also writing with Jonny Taylor. We’ve already written a pretty catchy tune and I have completed two tracks for Universal with Anthony Phillips for their Summer compilation.

Finally I am so happy Peter Murphy who I met with my brilliant writing partner and producer David Baron back in 2009 with Sarah Fimm has been released without bail in the USA and is ready to tour. Here I am after a few backstage on my last support date with him in Greece in 2009 after a few beers! I was feeling quite emotional. I owe Peter a lot for that experience…

Wishing you all a happy peaceful easter love from alicexxx

Easter Postcard addressed to Marjorie Sims never sent

With aunt’s love ad best wishes for a Happy Easter 1911

It’s so great to hear Zac Alford who so kindly played on my album, ‘Good Fortune, Bad Weather’ on David Bowie’s fantastic new album. Zac is quite possibly one of the best drummers out there right now….

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February Fast Forward

Posted on February 12, 2013 by lettiemusic

Even if my news of music is at times quiet it is with great pleasure for me when someone finds a picture on my blog that means something to them and one such picture, a few months ago may feature somebody’s great aunt and uncle. So it carries on it’s journey this time for Portobello Road to California.

February seeps with sadness; I wish to thank David Baron once again because without him I wouldn’t be writing this and there would be no music. Without the support of his family too I would be nowhere. Mark Beech who writes for Bloomberg amongst other publications gave ‘Good Fortune, Bad Weather’ one of his top albums of the year along with Lana Del Rey. Click here for the article which came out in December 2012. It really was a highlight of last year to receive such an accolade and be compared to so many established artists especially as I did struggle to get it out there and largely failed!!

I focus on some postcards now; Norway place of my ancestry.

Norway Flydalsjuvet abyss, Geiranger Foto by Normann T-13-1

Elveseter Turisthotell Norge Foto by Arold Lund Oslo

Elveseter Turisthotell Norge postcard

The light is returning. It is Valentines Day.

I Love But Thee! Printed in Great Britian (unmarked postcard)

I Love But Thee! Printed in Great Britain (unmarked postcard)

I have been away and I’m so lucky. I have been away a lot. I have been flying from the attic.

Cancun-Mexico Distribucions Y Souvenirs S A CV Tel 9988921917

I have never had the pleasure of a boyfriend giving me a piggyback.
Unknown Mexican Film Stars bought in Mexico Jan 2013

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in ‘Play It Again, Sam’ (1977) from Screen Lovers by Anne Billson Photographs from the Kobal Collection published 1988 by Conran Octopus Limited

That above is my kind of love!

Put a light in the window…

‘Put A Light In The Window’ – The Four Lads Lyric by Rhoda Roberts Music by Keny Jacobson Dominion Music Co Kassner Associated Publishers Ltd, Denmark St, London copyright 1957 Planetary Music and Dominion Music

‘Come On Over To My Place’ Words and Music by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil Recorded by The Drifters Atlantic Records copyright 1965 Screen Gems Columbia Music Sheet Music

Then come over to my place…

And…

‘The Birds and The Bees’ Words by Mack David Music by Harry Warren Sheet Music published by Maddox Music Company Ltd Copyright Gomaico Music Corporation

Anyway, I then searched through some old singles and found some studs:

‘Just Another Night’ Mick Jagger manufactured by Columbia Records 1985 ‘Okay Okay’ by Pino d’angio -una notte da impazzire – 1981 Flarenasch

Antonio EP Columbia Records – Spanish Music Antonio…the combination needs no description. The is complimentary to the other ….virile impetus, the indomitable fierceness …irresistible sorcery, arise

And some recipes for the evening:

‘Grace and Flavour a La Mode’ by Michael Smith Cover photograph by James Mortimer published by British Broadcast Corporation 1980 printed by Belmont Press Northampton

Anyhoo…back to music! I saw the wonderful Simi Stone playing with Simone Felice and Conor Oberst at the Barbican last Monday. It was great to hang out with her and the band afterwards. She is recording a solo album with David Baron which I am very excited about:

Simone Felice band Supporting Conor Oberst Barbican 4th February 2013 I missed Viv Albertine by about two hours which was a shame (she was finished by 7.30pm!!) because I particularly like her song ‘Couples Are Creepy’! Anyway, it was fantastic apparently.

I went to see Rupert Everett in ‘The Judas Kiss’ the play about Oscar Wilde. It was all about unrequited love. Such a bummer unrequited love. It was great to see a play as I hadn’t been for so long!

Unknown postcard Foto Lupex Unknown girl

So I’m playing Norwich Fashion Week: Latitude and Knightshift Dance Company presents in March which I’m very excited about hopefully with Louise Dodds who has just finished her own album which I’m looking forward to hearing. I have no other performances scheduled at the moment. The main reason being the struggle I have with transportation and the need to concentrate on the day job. I wish I could shrink my keyboard and fold my guitar into pieces. I wish I was light but I am very very heavy man!

I am finishing the track ‘Hold It’ on Friday back in the studio and I’m writing over some tracks with Anthony Phillips and have an idea to record very simply in the next few months. I’ve found a place that might just be the ticket. It would be almost like recording at home. I have no long term plan. I just want to write more.

I’m looking forward to hearing David Bowie’s new album! Zac Alford who played on quite a few of the tracks on my new album kept it very quiet. He really is a phenomenal drummer and long time player with Bowie. I still can’t thank enough all the musicians who helped me with ‘Good Fortune, Bad Weather’.

David Bowie The Rock & Pop Collection Figurine Panini printed in Italy

Here’s a mysterious postcard from Italy. It’s so extraordinary the stories that lie behind the pictures.

Constatine’s Trumphal Arch and Coleseum Italy World War II Self Portrait Mexico January 2013

Happy Valentine

xXx

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Happy Christmas!

Posted on December 24, 2012 by lettiemusic

It feels like a long time since I wrote. Another Christmas is here, another island has been visited and another Birthday passed.

Picture taken of Lettie on Iphone 5 at Southbank on her Birthday on 9th December 2012

Picture taken of Lettie on Iphone 5 at Southbank on her Birthday 9th December 2012 by Graham Barrett

My musical journey is twisting on in unchartered waters. The world didn’t end, the rains came, the snow fell and terrible things continue to happen.

It’s Christmas Eve and I’m very lucky.

Christmas postcard date unknown

Anon old French Christmas Postcard

Leavenworth at Christmas Time

The album ‘Good Fortune, Bad Weather’ which arrived on my doorstep exactly this time last year, which was two years in the making and I continue to be eternally grateful to David Baron and all the great musicians who played on it who are noted on my music page – I made films for nearly every song. I did a few gigs and the library music I wrote with my friend Anthony Phillips seems to have been picked up somewhere in the world albeit in a quiet way. Most recently I contributed vocals for an advert for my friend for transmission in South America.

Old Christmas Postcard

My plan for next year is to do a song a month. I am very pleased about my new track done with my friend called ‘Hold It’.

Alex at Friendly Ghost Studios

It’s timeless and I shall release it with a homemade film at the end of January. I will then endeavor to do a song a month for the next twelve months so I can carry on my day job and enjoy the side of music I most enjoy, which is ultimately the writing. It has to be said that the promotional side: the gigs, the selling, the marketing and push I find very difficult.

Sold For A Song A Study of an Arabian Mongoose by Clare Kipps Illustrated by L R Brightwell published by Frederick Muller Ltd London 1956

Despite the good press, I have found the years between my albums have made it much more difficult to get it out there with the demise of myspace and the general speed and attitude people have to music which is basically that it is free. My costs have been spectacularly cheap thanks to this collaboration, which has taken me from London to New York and the Catskill Mountains.

Happy Christmas and here are some photographs of some places I have visited in the last year and best wishes for 2013!

Mexico shrine January 2012

Mexico in January 2012

Atlanta Airport Restaurants (Photograph by Lettie January 2012)

Martello Tower in Suffolk November 2012

Man on beach in Folkestone 2nd December 2012

Flats in Folkestone December 2nd 2012

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Happy New Year Unmarked

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Remember remember

Posted on November 9, 2012 by lettiemusic

Just to say I am very happy that all my friends across the Atlantic are safe including my writing partner David Baron. I watched all night as the 800 mile Hurricane Sandy hit the coast of America and my heart goes out to those who have been affected.

Blackpool postcard Aug date unknown ‘I am having a jolly time here but the weather is not very nice’

I am also relieved Obama is back in- another marathon news watching session. If you ever want to know about the history of the United States, watch Alistair Cooke’s series on it and you will wonder at how any one man could ever be able to preside over a country (if you can call it that) so vast.

My friend noted last night that I had not updated my news for a while and this has been on my mind recently which is why I went to the Ephemera Society’s latest postcard fair to feast my eye upon some new and interesting stuff and I have also been very busy with my day job- this week working 11 hour days.

60s Pop Group unknown

Unknown Boy Band (date unknown)

I am also retiring from gigging for the time being opting to record more. It’s not that I don’t enjoy playing live but rehearsals, travel (sold my Ford Escort and it didn’t go very far anyway) but I have played London at least four times since May but again it’s not cost effective to do lots. Sadly, I cancelled a gig in Colchester. I don’t wish to let anyone down but if I’m not told where to go and at what time and for an event that already had been cancelled once (at quite a lot of rehearsal cost to me) I’d rather be at home painting plates!

Girl Painting a Plate Royal Delft Ware Factory Fa. W. A Reijinders Delft Holland

My head is better when it’s set to either secretary mode or music mode. When I try and mix them all up in the course of a week it all goes wrong. The heady days of touring with Peter Murphy in 2009 where I was a month and a half being spoilt on a tour bus seems now a distant memory!

Foto W Masshardt Kino Interlake Tel 1086

Hoverllolyd produced by Barnes Harris Associates London

When I was going to do a date in Europe I had suggested in the days when I was working with Mike we take the Hovercraft not remembering that they had been phased out of existence some time ago.

Inside Hoverllolyd produced by Barnes Harris Associates London

Instead I’ve been enjoying other events such as seeing Das Fluff support David J, the wonderful Ceasarians and meeting Dave Barbarossa (Adam Ant, Bow Wow Wow), basically enjoying other people’s work! A big thank you to Guy Sangster Adams for running such great evenings now at the top of the Betsey Trotwood two weeks in a row.

Guy Sangster Adams and Dave Barbarossa at Mustered Plectrum Pick Live Edition Betsey Trotwood 25th October 2012

Pamina Caruso Brassey with Bird on her head Halloween 31st October 2012 for Guy Sangster Adams The Cultural Pick Plectrum Presents

The Witches Mill, Castletown, Isle of Man (Copyright John Hinde Studios)

I spent most of my student days writing gallery and gig reviews in between working as a chambermaid for the Malmaison hotel! Here I am at a five star hotel in Kennybunkport called the White Barn Inn:

Chambermaid at the White Barn Inn, Kennybunkport, Maine (the window was dressed for Halloween)

I’ve been going to a lot of gallery openings for inspiration. If I had the money I would buy – maybe one day! In the meantime, I’m trying to help organise a show for Michael Seymour’s work hopefully in Soho next year. His photographs of Terence Stamp, Julie Christie and a little known Pauline Boty are wonderful. Here is a photograph I suspect is from behind the scenes of either a film shoot or advert. Michael was nominated for his work as Art Director on ‘Alien’ (1979) but worked on so many more projects. It is quite incredible to see his diary from the 80s where he literally is every other day in a foreign country. I love his behind the scenes photographs when everything was handmade.

‘Eddie Butler and partner’ by Michael Seymour from behind the scenes (copyright of Michael Seymour)

I’m now a member of the Ephemera Society and get a beautiful quarterly magazine on lovely thick matt paper.

The Ephemerist Journal of the Ephemera Society No. 158 Autumn 2012

I browse as an amateur and listen to the chit chat of these very knowledgeable people. The lady did say that the young aren’t very interested in all these things because of the internet and she said it was refreshing to see someone younger perusing.

Unknown unmarked postcard

I looked up and did note that I was the youngest visitor in the room possibly by a few decades! So I will be going to the Ephemera Christmas Party as I don’t really work in an office and pretend it’s my office party. Last year I spent my ‘office party’ having a glass (or two!) of wine with my friend Christopher Battye, a wonderful Soho painter.

Charbleroi le 17 Septembre 1939

This postcard above is just as World War II is breaking out.

This looks like just after World War II.

Unknown postcard

I have just left a job working for a man born in 1920. There are very few people left who remember World War I. It’s amazing to think that. The poppy. Within a few decades there will be nowone who remembers the World War II either.

Other things I have enjoyed since I last wrote was David Byrne and Matthew Herbert talking about music and do we need it anymore – pretty inconclusive but very interesting conversation I thought but few answers for artists trying to break through which really is the holy grail for anyone. It’s called creating a seminal work of art (in a painter’s life) or in a musical one ‘ a hit’!! Maybe it requires patience.

Die Patience (La Patience), 1943 by Balthus The Art Institute Chicago Joseph Winterbotham Collection copyright VG Bild-Kundst Bonn, 2007

This is from Atlanta Airport January 2012 on my way back from Mexico. I had a stop over of a few hours. It was one of the most amazing airports I have ever had the pleasure of dropping into.

Do Drop Inn by Sheila Turner at Atlanta Airport (photograph of a photograph January 2012)

I very much enjoyed Noble and Webster at the Mott Collection, Walton Street, shouting ‘optimist, nihilist’ for about a minute against a backdrop of some portraits of them. She said it was a bit like having an argument with two words. I really like their work. They create shadows from sculptures.

Another shadow work copyright of the artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster from Creative Review Blog 200

So I’m finishing off my new song next week called ‘Hold It’. Here is the studio.

David of the Friendly Ghost Recording Studio, near Brick Lane Oct 2012

It’s called ‘Friendly Ghost Recording Studio’ and we did wonder when we were there, whether or not there was a ghost in the room. The lava lamp behaved very strangely creating strange amoeba like patterns and none of the instruments worked. Anyway, the track is sounding very good.

I really enjoyed the showing of a film by Ed Edwards and produced by Sam Edwards ‘The Promoter’ about Robert Pereno. We had a great talk and show of the film at the Sanctum Hotel in Soho.

Another final highlight was seeing Hugh Cornwell perform not only his new album ‘Totem Taboo’ but also ‘No More Heroes’. Just incredible!

It was very hard to sell my boss’s teddy bear on ebay as there was something really special about him but he had to go….! He went to Durham!

Steiff Teddy Bear Sold on Ebay September 2012

From New Larousse Gastronomique The World’s Greatest Cookery Reference Book published by The Hamilyn Group 1978

When did food become so sexy? I was looking at this old cookbook and really the pictures are anything but. In fact they’re really surreal! I think i might have a Christmas party and try these out. I had to redeliver a parcel for a N Lawson last week. After a bit of googling I knew exactly who it was intended for!

I’m going away soon to an island! From one island to another…X

Lettie with her bedside light globe

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September Swimming

Posted on September 16, 2012 by lettiemusic

A lovely lady who has known me since I was about six and was intrinsic to my musical journey, sent me this review from the Grapevine and I think it was the most touching one I have read. Thank you to Graeme Mac and Richard Haugh at Radio BBC Suffolk who continue to support me so much. I have to keep thanking David Baron because without him no recorded music would exist. So again I must credit my writing partner on my whole ‘career’ which I know is a slight one but still…He’s just returned from the Bahamas playing on Lenny Kravitz’s new recordings. I have had some great press including MSN, Bloomberg, Edinburgh Evening News, Irish Times which has all been very encouraging as well as lots of blogs- many are on my homepage.

Review from Grapevine Magazine July 2012

I returned last weekend to Suffolk to swim in the sea.

Wosley’s Gate Orford Castle Framlingham Castle published by F W Pawsey & Sons Ipswich

As I drift on my back under the still September sky the noise of unearthly sounds filter through my ears and I am somewhere close to heaven. In the evening I had the great pleasure to watch Thomas Dolby, Murray Lachlan Young, Bess & Georgiana Cavendish and Frances Shelley amongst others perform in Butley Priory a beautiful building dating from the 14^th Century.

Thomas Dolby’s ‘Windpower’ Venice in Peril Records 1982

I have been listening non-stop to Bob Dylan’s new album ‘Tempest’ and Hugh Cornwell’s ‘Totem and Taboo’. There is a rawness to both these records that just can’t be beaten as well as songs to cry for.

Sonata 1, 2009 Collage by John Stezaker Collection Stephen Bennett Germany copyright The Artist

The Half Moon gig went well thank you so much to everyone who came it really was appreciated! I had spent five days in a rehearsal room next to the Vaccines and I’m trying to get better each time and make it a great night. I’m still a bit tied up with my complicated routine but at the moment I can’t work out whether I should simplify it or not. People do seem to enjoy it and it’s certainly not boring. I have at last found my perfect rehearsal room and felt relaxed over the Bank Holiday to spend most days in there on my own. Louise Dodds came down and was fantastic on bass and backing vocals as usual. In regards to other dates I believe I am performing at Oxjam Clapham which is being held over a day on Saturday 13^th October and at the Twist in Colchester on the 18^th October for the The Leftfield Retro Music Awards where I am presenting an award.

Miss Simeta Marsden Celebrities of the stage Raphael Tuck & Sons Glosso Postcard Series 5765 June 29 1908

I am looking forward to performing at the Elgin, Ladbroke Grove, with Anthony Reynolds on Thursday 29^th November who is coming up from Wales. This is going to be a very special night.

Tiroler Gruppe Hotel Maria-Theresia J Schlegel Innsbruck Hormayrstr 9 Tel 285032

As a fan of Anthony since his Jacques days it’s going to be a sort of Birthday and Christmas party celebration and its free again. In the meantime I have been quietly working on new tracks – nothing that I can quite concentrate properly on yet because I’m so busy working my day job again but I’m enjoying the process. I’ve been writing more over break beat tracks with someone I have not even met but I hope to do some raw material very soon. He’s done a great remix of a song called ‘Mission’ I did on ‘Age of Solo’ which I hope to do something about! I have to prioritise my work over any music. I’m just about managing to balance it although I’m slack at responding to emails and things.

Anthony Reynolds Life’s Too Long 1995-2011 Album Cover Chaffinch Records

I have been to so many exhibitions lately– I went to Toby Mott’s Mott Collection and Vinyl Factory presenting a new book of the album artwork of Kraftwork where I saw a member of the band Visage and a lot of other people I don’t know!

From New Sounds New Styles Magazine September 1981

I do love September. I drank cider with a friend and contemplated that detectable change in the air before entering Tate Modern for a late night viewing of Munch which we only got half through before being chucked out. It was wonderful. We even found a minute rave on the beach down by the Thames. There must have been about fifty people!

Cover image ‘The Girls on the Bridge’ 1927 Much -museet Oslo copyright The Munch Museum The Munch Ellingsen Group BOO Solo DACs London 2012

I bought a book on dolls and found them very creepy.

German doll Wonderland Brighton dated 1903 in Doll in with googlie eyes from ‘Dolls and Dolls’ Houses’ published by Hamlyn Publishing Group 1989

But I did find this rather inspirational – a barely known artist Enrico Baj but I love his paintings- they make me think of ‘Aluminium Man’.

Enrico Baj’s ‘Tu quoque Brute, Filii mi !’ 1964 from Studio International Magazine June 1964 published by The National Magazine Company Limited

Enrico Baj Nuclear Satire In Collage by Gillo Dorfles Photo by Adelmann from Studio International Magazine June 1964 published by The National Magazine Company Limited

I haven’t been away since a mini-break in Prague and Mexico at the beginning of the year.

La Plaza de la Luna y la Calzada de los Muertos San Juan Teotihuacan Mexico published by Ammex Asociados

Feels like a time ago.

Cooks World Travel Services -holiday tickets

I got to sell my car first…

From Anon Photograph Album 1963 Wadsley Common Sheffield

I wouldn’t say no to a mini break in Canterbury even. I love hotels…

Slatters Hotel Canterbury J Arthur Dixon A Dickinson Robinson Group Product

Back of Slatters Hotel Canterbury J Arthur Dixon A Dickinson Robinson Group Product

But I do love to swim so ….

Hotel Las Salinas Lanzarote copyright Edition Reiner Loose Puerto del Carmen Lanzarote tel 82 57 62 Foto Reiner Loos

Venosta Lago di Resia Campanile di Curon Foto Franzl Bozen Nachdruck verbofen

Oh who knows…got to sell quite a few more CDs first. Need a hit!

quick hit from super smoothies 50 drinks for health & vitality

Back of ‘quick hit’ from super smoothies 50 drinks for health & vitality

Until October… xx

Where am I?

In the Village.

What do you want?

We want information.

Whose side are you on?

That would be telling. We want information… information… information.

You won’t get it.

By hook or by crook, we will.

Who are you?

The new Number 2.

Who is Number 1?

You are Number 6.

I am not a number, I am a free man.

(The Prisoner 1967)

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Auger well for August and beware of hubris

Posted on August 1, 2012 by lettiemusic

So many things have happened since the last gig I have had trouble picking myself up.

Back of Paris postcard 1982

In my crisis I headed down to get my cards read a tarot card reader I found on the internet and it turned out to be someone who had come to my gig! She read my cards & I signed her CD! How bizarre!

Miniature Tarot Pack

I very rarely get my cards done but when I have a question they have always given me an answer. If you don’t believe there is anything out there such as those meetings where you met a particular person, the telephone call when you were just thinking about them, the night that you met the one, then sad for you. I do believe there is something more than what we see. I dipped into the Bible recently after reading an interesting article about Michelangelo; there is something in it whatever it is, stories, parables, avatars (I once took Darshan from Mother Meera) there are people who are some kind of vessel.

Untitled From What We Bought The New World Scenes from the Denver Metropolitan Area 1970 -1974 by Robert Adams

The hangover lasted a week and wasn’t helped when I turned up to Plectrum with only half my things and I wasn’t even doing a full set. A man who said he suffered from biopolar said I really touched him and that I was a female Lou Reed which is one of the biggest compliments I have ever had coming from a stranger. It was another great evening ran by Guy Sangster Adams who does a brilliant job and met Jerome Alexandre (The Scuzzies) who is doing a new album.

So I’m releasing a single in August called ‘Mister Lighter’.

What the hell does that mean; not much these days. Here are some singles from Fara my local charity shop- somebody who had a big 80s collection has obviously gone digital and left them so I bought about twenty of them;

‘Land of Make Believe’ single by Bucks Fizz 1981 RCA

Sometimes I wish I felt more:

‘Hyper-active!’ single by Thomas Dolby Single 1983 Original Sound Recording EMI

‘Twistin’ The Night Away’ single by Divine 1985 In Tune Music Ltd and Photo Records Ltd

‘Twistin’ The Night Away’ back of single by Divine 1985 In Tune Music Ltd and Photo Records Ltd

‘Bette Davis Eyes’ by Kim Carnes EMI America 1981

‘Fin De Semana Me Conformare’ single by Los Diablos 1971 EMI

‘Friend or Foe’ single by Adam Ant EMI Music Publishing 1982

The other thing I am doing is merging my Facebook accounts. Never very good at it at the best of times, I’m going to at least try.

I saw a wonderful film called ‘Searching for Sugarman’. I saw Rodriguez almost as a holy man, living to a kind of ‘chop wood, carry water’ philosophy. I suddenly thought maybe you just have to have music running parallel to your day to day existence and embrace the moments. I then dipped into ‘Status Anxiety’ by Alain de Botton who I adore. Everyone feels anxious about their status and the fact I live in one room (which I now pretend is a hotel room) should make no difference because half the time the people living in very large houses are living in one room. If you feel a bit low about your status grab a National Enquirer. Nobody’s life is perfect.

From the National Enquirer May 7 2012

I have been very lucky to be cheered up by Eddie Izzard, Sean Hughes and my cousin, Alan Cox, in School of Night at the Soho theatre last week at the Soho theatre before they all head to Edinburgh. All of them were excellent.

Printed & Published by ETW Dennis & Sons Ltd Scarborough & London (no date)

I also saw Louise Dodds, who is playing bass with me, upstairs at Ronnie Scott’s – she is an amazing Jazz singer with a natural innate musicality. Also there was Andrea Marongiu on drums and Ant Law playing guitar and later that week Louise’s group the Bellinis were performing at Floradita in Soho. In fact I’ve been spending a lot of time in Soho lately. stopping by the French, glimpsing Phil Dirtbox walking down Dean street in a seriously wicked jacket. Parts of Soho are dying but there’s still a pulse.

Mr and Mrs Santinelli, residents in Soho since 1923 from ‘Soho Now’ by Stephen Gill in Granta 65 Magazine Spring 1999

Wow London is quiet though. All the shops are empty:

Design of a Modern Shop Simpson’s New Men’s Shop Picadilly from Industrial Arts Magazine Summer 1936

All the restaurants are empty:

Hotel Oriente Costiera Sorrentina 80069 Vico Equense Tel (081) 8798143- 8790077

I very much enjoyed the opening of the Olympics and Brian Kavanagh who took my photographs and did my website was one of the many drummers drumming at it. I did try to spot him on my tiny TV and he did point out there were quite a lot of drummers and implied it was a rather stupid thing to do. David Baron, my writing partner was deeply disturbed that none of the musicians were paid but we are on a tight budget here in the UK! I used to work part time for Special Olympics which is a wonderful organisation and all the people involved truly remarkable. I am enjoying watching all these fantastic and at times strange sports such as synchronized diving (Chinese impeccable as usual) and wonder why miniature golf isn’t considered worthy. I know Ace Man Tim Davies has been trying to get the committee to take this sport seriously to no avail.

Miniature Golf Course Cannes France

My next gig is at the Half Moon in Putney on Wednesday 29^th August at 8.30pm you can buy tickets here as this is my last gig in London for a while before the Elgin with Anthony Reynolds on 29^th November 2012 for a pre Christmas celebration. In the meantime I search for my elusive hit and look forward to Laurie Anderson on Friday.

Here are some pictures from a rainy day at Blenheim Palace for Coys car auction in Oxford. This is dedicated to my godfather Robert Peel who has helped me so much.

Photograph of Lettie in a Peel at Coys Vintage car auction at Blenheim Palace by David Bagg

Coys Vintage car auction Blenheim Palace, Photograph by Dave Bagg

Lettie by James Ussher

You can still buy my album from me on my website including specially chosen ephemera all unique and chosen by me.

I saw this on a tree.

Missing Dog Frank

Click on any of the images to make bigger

Over and X

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