Ray Bartrip
Roots: East London.
School: Leyton County High School for Boys
Work: Various including sawmill, abattoir, shipping and IT consultant.
Worked and lived in far flung corners of the world from Leeds to Portsmouth
and Warsaw to Miami.
Likes: Driving, Photography, Travel, Railways and Collecting things as well as, obviously, Music, Art and Theatre.
Dislikes: Fanatics, Bigots, Technology that doesn't work, Junk Mail, Internet Spam and Beauraucratic Incompetence.
Favourite Musicians: My personal Keyboard heroes are (in chronological order as I was influenced) Will Bradley, Mose Allison, Ray Bryant, Ray Charles, Otis Spann, Jimmy Smith, Memphis Slim, Dr. John (Mac Rebennac), Professor Longhair (Roy Byrd) and the great James Booker (who must have been born with 3 hands to play the way he did).
Favourite Artists: Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali, Paul Nash, Max Ernst, Paul Delvaux, Georgio de Chirico and illustrators Rowland Emett and Heath-Robinson.