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We were introduced by
Simon House.
Bob wanted some cello on one of his albums and I came to the session.
I enjoyed it and we got on well.
We met a few times at my house in Friern Barnet, where we worked on the
four tracks, later released as the Revenge
tape.
They
were really just pieces of music, but Calvert was very good at picking
out simple but effective melody lines, and putting them into lyrics.
We were both interested in the Futurists,
which is where the spoken piece Fascism
/ Futurism came from.
I've just remembered
the first time I realised that Calvert was erratic, unpredictable,
and not to be relied on. I had just split up with my girlfriend
in Friern Barnet, and was looking for somewhere to live. Calvert
said he had a flat in a block in Hampstead, and that I could stay
there for a while.
I moved in with
a few bits of furniture. It was a nice little flat, a few minutes
walk from Hampstead Heath. I was happy, (I was young, naive, you
know how it is...).
I had been there
2 or 3 weeks. I was coming back one day after walking on the Heath;
I climbed the stairs, and noticed that the front door was open.
Inside the flat were two men. One of them was changing the locks,
the other was holding a piece of paper. They were batiffs, and they
had come to reclaim the flat and turn me out.
Calvert had neglected to tell me that he had not paid the rent for
6 months...
Thanks a lot, Bob. <
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Pete Pavli 
