Radio Gonzo

I recently saw the entry an old schoolfriend had made on 'Friends Reunited'. Under 'Music' he wrote: "I think that anything released since the beginning of the eighties is shit" and I thought that this was such an appaling thing to say that I decided not to bother renewing our friendship. The fact that the boy who taught me to roll spliffs and introduced me to Joy Division is now a senior policeman also had something to do with it. Because one of the things that I like about my job, indeed my life, is that I am constantly being introduced to new artists, authors and musicians. One day a few months ago Rob Ayling copied me into an email exchange with a bloke called Martin in Toronto. It turned out that he is a musician and a visual artist of rare prowess. I asked for more information and both Rob and Martin pointed me towards his website: "Martin Springett was born in Crayford, Kent, England, in 1947. He studied art (that is he learned to play the Guitar) for two semesters at the Brassey School of Art in Has