Chris Herbert
@chrisherbert
Acceptable at a dance, invaluable in a shipwreck. Electronic abstractions. Organic drift. Birmingham, UK.
RIP Peter Watkins (1935–2025) Culloden, The War Game, and Punishment Park alone would cement him as one of the greatest British directors, but he delivered a virtually flawless run of films. A sad loss.
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henri Pousseur, Holger Czukay, Cologne, 1963.
Wishing you all peace and happiness in the dying embers of the year. Here's to great things in 2025. 🌲
My Black Eye Friday pick of things I've enjoyed listening to this year. Woefully incomplete, these are off the top of my noggin'. I'll dredge up some more as they occur to me.
Just ventured into the loft space to retrieve festive decorations and was reminded that Tom Baker is alive and well up there.
Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger, rehearsing in squalor. Ratingen, Germany, 1972. Photo: Peter Lindbergh.