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In the course of researching Towards Tomorrow, we visited Delia Derbyshire's old house in the suburbs north of Coventry. The guy who lives there now, Andi Wolf, was the first to move in after Delia's mother died in 1995. While restoring the house he has found a good deal of stuff in the attic, much of it relating to Delia's early years during and after the war. We presented some of this material at the event, and we hope it will now find an appropriate home at an archive of some sort. Enclosed here you find a few extracts. (With many thanks to Andi for his support.)




"I came from - what they'd like to call themselves - an upper working class Catholic background in Coventry. I was there in the blitz and it's come to me, relatively recently, that my love for abstract sounds [came from] the air-raid sirens: that's a sound you hear and you don't know the source of as a young child... then the sound of the 'all clear' - that was electronic music."
- Delia interview

 

"a fascinating portrait of the woman behind the music"

- 4Talent


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