{"id":313,"date":"2005-07-14T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-14T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-10-29T19:04:07","modified_gmt":"2005-10-29T18:04:07","slug":"313","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/313\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dickonedwards.co.uk\/images\/PRSstory.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"220px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mr Shaw writes to remind me I&#8217;ve made an appearance in the latest edition of &#8220;M&#8221; magazine, the business publication of the MCPS-PRS Alliance, who collect royalties for the UK music industry. It&#8217;s sent to all kinds of recording artists and composers across the genre spectrum.  <\/p>\n<p>He suggests my readers might want to see a scan of the anecdote I was invited to recount, as part of a feature called &#8220;My Worst Gig&#8221;. I&#8217;m next to someone from The Stranglers. <\/p>\n<p>Typically, I end the story being toyed with by inebriated women rugby players with 50s quiffs. They kept singing Japan songs at me, I recall. <\/p>\n<p>M Magazine also used my photo for the contents page, as scanned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickon-edwards.co.uk\/prspic.jpg\" target=_blank>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note that I&#8217;m by my computer, looking at a photo of myself on someone else&#8217;s web diary. <\/p>\n<p>The pattern of the curtains was also used on photographer Sarah Watson&#8217;s business card. <\/p>\n<p>She was rather taken with my curtains. The credit can only go to my tolerant landlady of 11 years.<\/p>\n<p>\nElsewhere, I&#8217;ve stumbled on a new photo of myself (below) from the site of Mr Michael Malice, who runs a successful and very amusing site of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overheardinnewyork.com\/\" target=_blank>NYC eavesdroppings<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>He is also the subject of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0345479394\/qid=1110645747\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/002-5166185-5432042?v=glance&amp;s=books\" target=\"_blank\">forthcoming graphic novel<\/a> by Harvey Pekar, of American Splendor fame.<\/p>\n<p>In the photo, I&#8217;m posing with Mr Grace from the band My Favorite, at their London gig the other week. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Malice writes &#8220;this is quite possibly the gayest photo ever taken.&#8221; I think I must have been in an usually silly mood. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelmalice.com\/2005_06_26_archive.html#112001607596018699\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=400 src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelmalice.com\/dickon_grace.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Shaw writes to remind me I&#8217;ve made an appearance in the latest edition of &#8220;M&#8221; magazine, the business publication of the MCPS-PRS Alliance, who collect royalties for the UK music industry. It&#8217;s sent to all kinds of recording artists and composers across the genre spectrum. He suggests my readers might want to see a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}