Oh Laurie

 British Library has been obliged by circumstances to make their  recent 'Classic Album Sundays'   Home of the Brave a virtual event.

The recent talk (yesterday) with Laurie Anderson was (for me) fascinating, although Laurie has not been immune to the passage of time the twinkle remains and she continues to be both thoughtful and playful .

Recollections of John Peel asking for thousands of copies of 'Oh Superman' and driving her into the arms of Warner Brothers and talk of how she came to work with (amongst others) Nile Rodgers  were  close to spellbinding.

One of the areas of her life I would like to have found more about was her family , Laurie seemed to have had rather a 'hothouse' childhood recalling her mother sending her off to school with the word 'Win' as her instruction - more on Laurie here.

Of course Laurie mentioned her late husband Lou Reed who she confessed that she had thought of as a 'Brit' before she knew him.

A talk with Laurie would be incomplete without her playing the 'techie' and chroma key and vocal gymnastics were there tio be enjoyed - I'll be going back to the concert VHS to remind myself of her creativity and now have some extra understanding of the 'choreography' and deployment of her percussive mechanisms.