It is very strange when you find out that someone associated with one sphere, is also associated with another completely different sphere.
I was blown away by Des de Moor's interpretation of David Bowie's song when I heard him at New Greenham Arts. I immediately bought up his CD of Bowie's songs, which he did with Russell Churney, called "Darkness and Disgrace". I was then gobsmacked to open up my copy of CAMRA's "What's Brewing" to find an article written by "Des de Moor" on a specialist bottled beer. As it is such an unusual name (is he related to Othello? No - doh - sorry - feeble joke) I dismissed the idea that it was another person with the same name. It just seemed so crazily unlikely that there would be someone who had a deep enough interest in David Bowie's song catalogue to do an entire album of unusual interpretations of his songs and have an interest in specialist bottled beers - both enthusiasms of mine.
I had a similar feeling of "it can't be the same bloke" this afternoon. I managed to engineer some quality family time by time going to Borders bookshop. (It has a Starbucks. Relaxing or what?) Anyway, we saw for "The Edge Chronicles" on the shelves. Those books are credited to "Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell". I opened one of them and realised that it is the same Chris Riddell who does those remarkable cartoons in the Observer. You know the ones. Last Sunday he had a massive dark monster labelled "Recession" lurking on the left hand side of it. Well, he does the illustrations for this series of stories called the "Edge Chronicles" for kids. A strange marriage of output, but both genres of Riddell's feature beautifully drawn monsters and little people etc.
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