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Phyllis King

Contains 2 performances.

Poet, children's author and special needs teacher. Long-term partner of Ivor Cutler. Appears on his albums Dandruff, Velvet Donkey and Jammy Smears and designed some of their sleeves. Cutler's song 'Beautiful Cosmos' is about their relationship: 'What do we talk of whenever we meet? Nothing at all. You sit with a sandwich, I look at a roll'.

  • Ivor Cutler, Phyllis King, The Popticians

    Performance: Ivor Cutler, Phyllis King, The Popticians

    12 November 1983 at 
    Roebuck (46)
  • Anti-Apartheid Benefit

    Performance: Anti-Apartheid Benefit

    4 September 1985 at 
    Southbank Centre (29)
    Apart from the great line-up and the great cause, this show surely boasts the best take on the ‘apple/snake’ motif to have graced an Apples & Snakes flyer. The circularity and the black/white symbolism are entirely appropriate, and that ‘apple of the eye’ is a touch of genius.
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