Radio Gonzo

As regular readers of my inky fingered scribblings here and elsewhere will be aware I have a soft spot for Dutch performance artist René van Commenée who performs under the nom de guerre of 'Mr Averell'. He wrote to me the other day giving details of a record that is imminently being released by Gonzo. In 1992, when he was halfway through his forties, the legendary Van der Graaf Generator saxophonist David Jackson left teaching full time to practice, write, record and play gigs again. He created a one-man show of new and old historic pieces; some he had reworked in his studio and were never performed live before. At that time, Jackson had been seeing and keeping up with his young Dutch friend René van Commenée and knew of his percussive powers at the time. "He had recently spent a whole night at our house in Wokingham in the room below our bedroom practicing for an immanent 24 hour Indian Tabla exam - which was a strange and exhilarating sound to wake up with!" (D. Jackson) Van Commenée invited his lege