John Row in conversation with musician and Unitarian church minister, Andrew Brown

 

Below you will find the blurb on my old friend John Row’s YouTube channel, Pootling Through: a Life of Diversions, where he’s been putting various interviews with many of the people he’s worked with over his extraordinarily varied, and long, career. I’m honoured to have been included in his series of interviews, thank you John, and, for obvious reasons, I repost it here. I hope readers of this blog will enjoy it and find in it some clues about why this blog is like it is . . . but don’t forget to check out the other interviews.

John Row has been a professional artist, writer, performer for sixty years. He’s been everywhere, man, studying at art school with a teenage Brian Eno, in at the early days of Rock Against Racism, touring with punk and reggae bands, hip hop artists and, more recently, in his mid-seventies and during Covid lockdown, curating the World Story Telling Cafe website and directing the Marrakech International Storytelling Festival once the borders were reopened. Dive into a collision of memories, anecdotes and thoughts drawn from six decades of being at the cutting edge of street poets and alternative lifestyles, giving voice to the unheard and celebrating life in all its diversions and diversities. John Row is a force of nature. Take it from the one who knows... Himself!