Guest: Fuchsia bandleader Tony Durant.

Exeter University, 1971. Hearing classical music played in lunchtime concerts sparks a creative idea for a young student who decides "I can do that!". Corralling 5 classmates, they help develop his uniquely written songs melding rock with classical instrumentation. Together they record a brilliant album that goes completely unnoticed. Without an opportunity to record a follow up, the band split and the album is forgotten...until 40 years later when it makes a suprise comeback re-igniting the career of their songwriter and bandleader, kickstarting an unlikely "Act II" of the Fuchsia story.

A fantastic interview with Tony Durant who helps tell the story of this amazing album. I hope you dig Fuchsia as much as I do.

-FJ

*ERRORS AND OMISSIONS: Tony wanted to ensure that songwriting credit for the song "Me And My Kite" was properly given to Bob Chudley, this was not mentioned in the epysode.

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Want to hear the full versions of the songs used in this epsyode? Here's a Spotify playlist of all the tracks used (note some songs are not available on Spotify):

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2JpQBeWIUxWWSjM769xlIx?si=91887391abe9472a

I used excerpts from two other sources for this epysode:

1) a portion of an interview with drummer Chris Cutler, interviewed by Progdocs.com. You can hear the full interview here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLCKNg9XbBU&t=59s

2) I used a portion of the Gormenghast series, by Marvin Peake, narrated by Padded Cell Studios. Specifially book 1 "Titus Groan", chapter 6: Fuchsia. Here is a link to this chapter, and from there you can seek out the entire series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdCa9FGnZdE&t=7s