A. L. Lloyd: History and anecdotes?

Subject: RE: A. L. Lloyd: History and anecdotes?
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 25 Oct 11 - 05:04 PM

Just been re-reading this terrific thread with huge enjoyment. I must ask - Does anybody know when or if that biography will come out? I want it. Burl.

Subject: RE: A. L. Lloyd: History and anecdotes?
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 25 Oct 11 - 05:23 PM

It's listed: Bert: The Life and Times of A. L. Lloyd [Library Binding] by Dave Arthur, available for pre-order at Amazon (and elsewhere). 20th April 2012 given as publishing date.

Mick

Subject: RE: A. L. Lloyd: History and anecdotes?
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 26 Oct 11 - 05:54 AM

Thanks for the info Mick. Much obliged. Burl.

Subject: RE: A. L. Lloyd: History and anecdotes?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 26 Oct 11 - 06:26 AM

Belatedly ~~ I have only been on the Cat for 3 years ~

I visited Bert at his Greenwich home in the 70s, & did a long interview which appeared in Folk Review, Sep 74. Unlike the young lady who went there to interview him above somewhere, he forgot{?} to offer me a cup of tea, but was perfectly affable all the same {we did, in fact, know one another tolerably thru the club scene}. My interview made a fair impact at the time ~~ I recall Ailie Munro of the school of Scottish Studies remarking that it had given her a lot of insights.
When Bert died, I wrote his obit for The Guardian; it got a bit messed about by a smartarse obits editor who looked him up in Grove and added in some inaccuracies which he found there without ref back to me, at which recollection I have just spat yet another bucketful of blood! But Charlotte Lloyd & their daughter, whom I met not long after at a memorial concert for him, remarked (I think sincerely ~ sounded so anyhow and they didn't have to say it) that it had been their favourite among his obits as the one by someone who knew him & what he had been about.

~Michael~

Subject: RE: A. L. Lloyd: History and anecdotes?
From: mark gregory
Date: 21 Apr 12 - 02:45 AM

Bert: The Life and Times of A.L.Lloyd by Dave Arthur is being launched on 31 May 2012 at

Venue: Cecil Sharp House
Start Time: 7:30:PM

Music by Dave Arthur and his band, Martyn Wyndham Read and Iris Bishop.