GUEST, 22 Jun 07 - 01:51 PM (and perhaps later posts):

Sharp edited texts for publication; this was so that they could be published. His early collaborator, Rev Charles Marson, rewrote some quite extensively (and unnecessarily, even for the time), and this appears to be part of the reason why they fell out. There is no mystery here; no 'more than likely'. Sharp's original notebooks survive; the originals are at Clare College and copies are at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. Anybody who is sufficiently interested can check for themselves what was changed for print and what was not. There is no need to speculate, as so many people who merely repeat rumour and hearsay do. The truth, as the saying goes, is out there.

'GUEST,Sharp eye for bullshit' (how I wish that people would use their real names. It's bloody hard trying to have a conversation when you have to quote all these stupid 'handles' all the time) is of course perfectly correct to point out that the first paragraph quoted in the first (anonymous) post is utter rubbish. Later comments in the piece show a decent general knowledge, so perhaps that bit was just an ill-judged aberration. Hard to tell without knowing who wrote it. The piece doesn't seem to be on the 'real world' site at all. Was it an email press release? Who did write it?

There, 'sharp eye'. Somebody has agreed with you after all. I'd have done it sooner if I'd had time.

I look forward to hearing the record. 'Afro-Celt Sound System', despite its silly name, was really rather good; though by the time I saw them live the original concept had been diluted overmuch: too many 'transatlantic' accents and not enough Gaelic. The pre-release blurb is, like so many such, overblown; and contains some pretty ambitious claims. We'll see, eventually, if they are justified.