As every serious fan knows, Third Ear Band used the squatted Cambodian Embassy to rehearsal at least two times - in July-August 1988, just before the first Italian tour, and in November 1989 for a new Italian tour scheduled for next December, then cancelled because Sweeney's personal problems.
You can see here a sequence of unpublished photos of the TEB (taken by Carolyn Looker) playing at the Embassy in November 1989:
TEB at the Cambodian Embassy (L-R: Dobson, Carter, Sweeney, Allen) Photo: Carolyn Looker
Maybe it's interesting to know that, inspired by the story of the squatted Embassy, Dave Tomlin wrote an interesting trilogy titled "Tales from the Embassy" - "a non-fiction book; a true story about a group of hippy artists in the ‘70s who squat the abandoned Cambodian embassy and turn it into a Transcultural centre for Art" (according the same Tomlin).
A long review of the book is available at www.scriptconsultancy.com/4Consultancy/Samples/SampleBookReport.rtf
no©2010 Luca Ferrari
I thoroughly recommend everyone who reads extracts from Dave's books gets in touch with him and buys them. I found them to be a fascinating account of a life on the margins, and I return to them periodically.
ReplyDeleteRight, Andy. A very intriguing account...
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