Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

My memories of the mid-1970s CH/Craig Pruess/Visitor 2035 production Cain! are getting pretty hazy now, so it's definitely time someone dug out their old vinyl copy of the privately-issued album, turned it into a file and posted it on YouTube.

I've recently been listening to Visitor 2035's one and only studio album on YouTube and am pleasantly surprised by it. Equally surprising is the number of mentions that the Cain! album gets on the Web, the most substantial of which is http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/ ... tery_play/ Not bad for a school production.

By the way, does anyone know what became of lyricist/former CH teacher John Mason? Mention is made of him here and there on t'Internet re. his former Belfast-based band Fruup (http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/fruupp) and their albums are listenable-to on YouTube. Do I vaguely remember hearing that he had passed away?

Hi! You were asking about me! I'd be happy to tell you what you want - but maybe there isn't the space for a life story?! Let me know what you're interested in and I'll reply. I am - as you can see perhaps - living in Denmark. And I am still alive!

Good to see that John Mason who was a teacher at CH has replied.
Please note that despite what's on the internet, lyricist/former CH teacher John Mason is NOT the same John Mason as the keyboardist with Irish progressive rock band Fruup.
I knew the late John Mason from Fruup during the 1980s and 90s. A very talented keyboardist, he had no connection with CH, Visitor 2035 or Craig Pruess.

Hmm, I have the vinyl album at home in the UK, but I'm in Azerbaijan - and even when I go back I don't have an easy way to digitise it. But I'll think about how I might be able to do it. I've digitised vinyl before, but I was living near a sound engineer at the time, and he must be getting on a bit now. It's at least in good condition having not been played for at least 40 years but stored carefully.

I took some of the photos on the album cover, along with another Col A photographer Peter Boys.

The review that says "unfortunately of an amateur level" spectacularly misses the point that it was a school drama production!

So John, you're the modern languages (German?) teacher from ?Thornton A who played (classical) guitar and had a Thorens record player in those days? Not sure why I remember all those things...