day nine.one

briefly back in the office after a lovely chat with Jon Lord in advance of his performance in Lichfield cathedral tonight. In no way am I an expert in Deep Purple ephemera, so most of the discussion was about approaches to composition and the putting together of tonight's programme. It was also a relatively rare opportunity for punters to ask a few questions directly of the man, and while there were the rather expected questions of whether DP Mark III will ever happen, there were also some nice questions about the potential of a Lord film score and what classical composers he admires. I learned that Jon deeply admires James MacMillan, which is a happy synchronicity as MacMillan was performed last night, and will be imminently at today's lunchtime concert.