velvetina | still nostalgic

i saw this in Newcastle when I was still at school....I suppose this was about 1980, because i remember being frightened to travel home again after I caught the train....there was a creepy tunnel leading from the station then thru' a small woodland. I love it when my imagination runs away with me!

I can't remember however who i went with.....I want to say it was with Claire, who shared my delight in such things as velvet, patchouli, veils, graveyards, Syd Barrett, poems and, of course the Darkly Romantic.

we believed....rightly or wrongly...we channeled a fusion of Kate Bush, Sarah Bernhardt & Lucy Westenra to Morpeth!!

I lost touch with her, sadly, as she simultaneously fell in love & tried to commit suicide.....she just vanished. Of course, I had already left Northumberland, but my letters to her went unanswered.