I only found out about Alex's death today and am very saddened by the news. I have lived in Blackpool for 22 years and lost touch with most of the people in the Norfolk folk scene, whom I was very much a part of in the 80's. I first met Alex at the last Norwich Folk Festival in 82 at which I was a steward. Over the next few years I got to know him very well and he was even going to play piano on one of my songs but due to my sudden departure to Blackpool it never happened. He once told me a gig he did where he was lead into an empty club by the secretary and was asked to play one note on the piano which puzzled he did and they then said 'Thank you Mr Atterson you have fulfilled your contract, here is your fee'. He never did find out why the gig was cancelled. My fondest memory of him is when he was playing at the Wymondham Folk Festival in 85. He was supporting my band the Hethersett Kazoo Orchestra and said he had been reading letters published in a newspaper written by one David Tinker I believe his name was who was serving in the Falklands Conflict. I believ he was killed. Alex performed this brilliant song which he called The Tinkers Tale and watching from the wings I was in tears. It was an incredible performance which I felt honoured to have witnessed. It brought the house down and he then closed with another anti-war song and got a standing ovation. Great days. I also knew Alex through my job as a science technician. Serveral times he was at events I attended at places like the Unniversity of East Anglia. He was a great bloke.