Jackie Leven - 1950-2011

Tribute by the Pennyblack writer Ben Howarth and his brother Charles after Leven's death. Ben recounts how Leven's overrunning set at the Canterbury Fayre festival caught his father's attention and how Leven asked the audience to stay in the tent rather than go and see Robert Plant; the friendship with Robert Fisher of Willard Grant Conspiracy also began there. He learned of the death from a press release and was one of the last journalists to speak to Leven. Charles describes his first Leven concert, at lunchtime in a pub in Bath, and singles out “Museum of Childhood”; the recommended starting point is “Classic Northern Diversions”.