Ivor Cutler
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Ivor Cutler (15 January 1923 – 3 March 2006) was a Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist. Originally a teacher, he taught at A.S. Neill's Summerhill School. He appeared in The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour as Buster Bloodvessel, on Neil Innes's television programmes, and on john peel's influential BBC radio programme, for which he recorded a total of twenty-one sessions between 1969 and 1991. In live performances he would accompany himself on a harmonium.
Many of his poems and songs involve conversations delivered as a monologue and, in these, one party is often Cutler as a child. The humour often develops from the child's curiosity and the playful or self-serving lies the parent tells him to get, for example, a chore done or simply to stop the incessant questions.
More of Cutler's poetry is in the form of short, almost epigrammatic, observations and micro-dramas, usually surreal. He could draw impossible pictures of the thoughts and actions of ordinary people, animals, or objects with the same sense of an outsider's wonder.
Phyllis April King appears on several albums and used to be a part of his concerts. She usually read small phrases but also read a few stories. The two also starred in a BBC Radio series, King Cutler, in which they performed their material jointly and singly.
Cutler recited his poems in a gentle burr and this, combined with the absurdity of the subject matter, is a mix that earned him a faithful, if small, following.
Cutler died on 3 March 2006, following a stroke the previous week.
Many of his poems and songs involve conversations delivered as a monologue and, in these, one party is often Cutler as a child. The humour often develops from the child's curiosity and the playful or self-serving lies the parent tells him to get, for example, a chore done or simply to stop the incessant questions.
More of Cutler's poetry is in the form of short, almost epigrammatic, observations and micro-dramas, usually surreal. He could draw impossible pictures of the thoughts and actions of ordinary people, animals, or objects with the same sense of an outsider's wonder.
Phyllis April King appears on several albums and used to be a part of his concerts. She usually read small phrases but also read a few stories. The two also starred in a BBC Radio series, King Cutler, in which they performed their material jointly and singly.
Cutler recited his poems in a gentle burr and this, combined with the absurdity of the subject matter, is a mix that earned him a faithful, if small, following.
Cutler died on 3 March 2006, following a stroke the previous week.
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About Ivor Cutler
Ivor Cutler (15 January 1923 – 3 March 2006) was a Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist. Originally a teacher, he taught at A.S. Neill's Summerhill School. He appeared in The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour as Buster Bloodvessel, on Neil Innes's television programmes, and on john peel's influential BBC radio programme, for which he recorded a total of twenty-one sessions between 1969 and 1991. In live performances he would accompany himself on a harmonium.
Many of his poems and songs involve conversations delivered as a monologue and, in these, one party is often Cutler as a child. The humour often develops from the child's curiosity and the playful or self-serving lies the parent tells him to get, for example, a chore done or simply to stop the incessant questions.
More of Cutler's poetry is in the form of short, almost epigrammatic, observations and micro-dramas, usually surreal. He could draw impossible pictures of the thoughts and actions of ordinary people, animals, or objects with the same sense of an outsider's wonder.
Phyllis April King appears on several albums and used to be a part of his concerts. She usually read small phrases but also read a few stories. The two also starred in a BBC Radio series, King Cutler, in which they performed their material jointly and singly.
Cutler recited his poems in a gentle burr and this, combined with the absurdity of the subject matter, is a mix that earned him a faithful, if small, following.
Cutler died on 3 March 2006, following a stroke the previous week.
Many of his poems and songs involve conversations delivered as a monologue and, in these, one party is often Cutler as a child. The humour often develops from the child's curiosity and the playful or self-serving lies the parent tells him to get, for example, a chore done or simply to stop the incessant questions.
More of Cutler's poetry is in the form of short, almost epigrammatic, observations and micro-dramas, usually surreal. He could draw impossible pictures of the thoughts and actions of ordinary people, animals, or objects with the same sense of an outsider's wonder.
Phyllis April King appears on several albums and used to be a part of his concerts. She usually read small phrases but also read a few stories. The two also starred in a BBC Radio series, King Cutler, in which they performed their material jointly and singly.
Cutler recited his poems in a gentle burr and this, combined with the absurdity of the subject matter, is a mix that earned him a faithful, if small, following.
Cutler died on 3 March 2006, following a stroke the previous week.
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