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Thanks! Sorry for not sharing what it is just yet, I just don't want to get ahead of myself in case it doesn't happen. Hopefully more news anon...

If what I'm planning comes off, I'll have many things to reach out to Johan about!

Great - thank you.

The other question, then, is whether the mention of the Velvets on the other side of that poster was contemporaneous with the May 1965 event, or a note made later. Probably impossible to know.

Ah, that's interesting. It does look like the image I posted has bits scribbled out. Can anyone confirm?

Thanks so much! The 28th May 65 Dream weapon poster - do you happen to remember if it was this one? https://www.thewire.co.uk/images/the_wire/main/angus-mclise.jpg That's the one shown on Olivier's date with the same date, but that seems to be a mistake as it's pretty clearly labelled 2nd-7th Nov ...

If anyone's going to this and can capture any of the content, please let me know - I'm hoping to do a significant project on that period of the VU, fingers crossed.

Cale's archive would seem to be the final frontier. Sadly it seems we'll have to wait for him to die before we find out what's actually in there.

Thanks, that's helpful. Too bad he's dead - might have been an interesting person to talk to about memories of that day.

Question about the famous CBS/Walter Cronkite 'Making of an Underground Film's clip:

https://youtu.be/nGZevzVuFkU?si=SXWC2HaUFrX5nVvR

Can anyone make out the name of the reporter? He says it at the end, sounds like Dave Nuygens / Dave Nugent or something?

Correct, most of Heliczer's films were shot on silent 8mm and had soundtracks on separate tapes. Presumably for this he just taped the audio from the CBS broadcast, which may have had audio from the band (unlike the released version of that footage, which has a suspicious silence where you'd expect ...