"I had devoted so much of my girlish daydreams to Rimbaud. Rimbaud was like my boyfriend." ~Patti Smith

Well!That is simply the best gig I've been to this century!I took loads of images/videos/audio files{10}.Here are just 2 of them.Her voice,spirit& range are intact!
{my photos&videos here:}.{I have 10 audio files that ,eventually, will be stored here}

{johnpeel-tibet}

Thursday night at 10pm we got a knock on the door.Angela! I haven't seen her in several years! (Don,you will remember her once,us seeing Dylan at the M.E.N.).She had a belated Birthday present for me with 2 days notice.......a ticket to allow me  the seeing  of  Patti Smith at The Hebden Bridge Trades Club The Trades only holds 190 people.So tickets are like rocking-horse shit.Its not  part of  her official tour schedule.She's not with her band.it was a solo reading of her poetry & suchlike.A Rare Evening.the smallest gig she's played in years......................................(with money going to  The Hebden Bridge Flood Fund .)

"Sheep In Fog" +"Beneath The Southern Cross" 

{Hebden Bridge Times:"punk icon gives gig cash to flood victims" }
Bob (pictured below),Neil,et al are back from Transylvania.As i told you I had to drop out at the last minute...so seeing these photos make me jealous /sick etc....But its more than that.It's odd  and uncomfortable me viewing them.'Something almost existential about searching   the gaps within the pictures.Trying to guess were i would have been had  I not air-brushed  them in advance.What  a most strange absence and retreat.........