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Oundle School. Certainly the most pretentious ensemble of my schooldays was the 'Poetry and Jazz' team, photographed above for the Peterborough Evening Telegraph. (We were pictured on the front page, sharing space with news of the first B-52 raids of the Vietnam War). Portentous declaiming of typical adolescent poetry was accompanied by stuff that sounded rather like, but wasn't actually anywhere near, Modern Jazz. Hilariously awful, but we managed to do quite a few gigs. The cool youth in the shades would become the playwright David Edgar, while Judge, with his swinging bongos, Max Hutchinson and David Mitchell are on the left. Like, wow, man... Photographer unknown |