This morning I opened a new CD which arrived in the post, which I’d – in a small way – helped crowd fund. ‘Banish Cherish’ by Paul Bradley. Sitting on the sofa, I let myself be transported into vocal beauty, fearless passion and poetry, and a wild state of artistic vulnerability. It’s filmic and theatrical, local and cosmic and has moments of humour. There is no single genre. A few years ago, I was lucky to write for and direct Paul in ‘The Owl’, a theatrical performance for children, and get to know his lovely family. Paul had asked me to write a story to wind it’s way around the nursery rhymes and songs which feature in his children’s album ‘Calico Pie’. He performed – as always –  with talent, freshness and humanity. It was a Bristol Old Vic collaboration: Paul had been given a slot with Bristol Old Vic’s Ferment festival, and afterwards it had a staging at St George’s Brandon Hill and around some festivals.