![]() “I have a similar bone structure to Daniel Radcliffe, but I don’t know what they think they’re articulating.” Brazil, for the crime of wearing a brimmed hat, was once declared ‘Indiana Jones.’ “My partner was once wearing a big red cape and someone walked past and was like ‘It’s Paddington Bear!’ That was very annoying, because Paddington doesn’t wear a red cape at all. ![]() “It’s been happening my whole life,” he sighs. “Apparently Samuel Smith’s forbids live music in their pubs, but there was no stopping us,” says Gatherer.ĭid they get funny looks as they wassailed around central London? “Loads, yeah,” says Gatherer matter-of-factly, “but there was no rude shouting.” That kind of thing happens more in smaller towns, he says like in Margate where he was heckled with cries of ‘Harry Potter’. They ended up, as we do in The Angel pub next to the church. It was as much a drunken pub crawl as a history lesson that got “more and more unhinged” as it progressed, as Brazil puts it. “There’s a lot of spikey fences in the area, so we used them instead of apple trees – you’re supposed to put wet slices of bread on the branches for the spirits,” says Gatherer. ![]() As well as the site-specific wassailing songs that were performed as they went, they also left soggy slices of bread in their wake. Unintentionally, we’ve followed an abridged route of an outing that the band hosted a few weeks prior – ‘A Musical Tour Of Tottenham Court Road’s Lost Orchards’. Giles’ church – raised slightly higher than its surroundings, Brazil points out, due to there being so many corpses dumped there during the Black Death that ground above them was pushed upwards. Within ten minutes, the square closes unexpectedly and we’re booted out, so we wander past St. There, Brazil points out the mock-Tudor hut in the middle of the park – an access route to an electricity substation designed to blend in with its historic surroundings – and tells us of rumours that it is the cottage where the term ‘cottaging’ to mean gay hook-ups originated. The posh coffee shop across the road is too full, so we take advantage of unseasonable warmth to find a seat in nearby Soho Square. TQ meets Rowan Gatherer and Sonny Brazil opposite Hobgoblin Music, near Tottenham Court Road, the shop where their group Goblin Band first formed during after-hours sessions, and where several of their membership are still employed.
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