BBC News have just reported that thousands of gay and bisexual men found guilty of decades-old sexual offences in England and Wales have been posthumously pardoned. The new law is being referred to as the “Alan Turing law” after the codebreaker and computer pioneer who was posthumously pardoned in 2013 for his 1952 conviction for “gross indecency”. In the final section of “A Man From The Future”, performed as part of the Proms in 2015, we referred to “an exception” being made for Turing while “the convictions for ‘gross indecency’ of tens of thousands of other men, dead and alive, remain unpardoned.” This injustice has now been corrected. Full report at the BBC link below. Neil x
Pet Texts
Pet Texts archive: January 2017
It seems incredible that it’s now five years since we were in Los Angeles working on “Elysium” with producer Andrew Dawson and the beautiful voices of Oran, Maxine and Julie Waters. Neil x
I just discovered this Polaroid by Anton Corbijn taken in Holland Park (I think), 1993. Looks like we were having fun. Neil x
Creative Review magazine has included “Super” in its list of the best record sleeves of 2016. Link to the full list below.
Happy New Year! Love, Neil x