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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsIvor Cutler by KT Tunstall
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he world needs its eccentrics,
and Britain is as good as
anywhere at delivering them.
Yet would a bona fide
oddball such as Ivor Cutler,
the cult musician, poet and humorist,
have such a fêted career today? Hard to
imagine. He had no interest in pleasing
people or winning easy approval, the
very currency of social-media culture.
It was the notion of the great British
eccentric that made Ivor Cutler by KT
Tunstall, the latest Sky Arts profile by
an adoring celebrity acolyte, a moreuniversal film than it sounded. You
wouldn’t need to know anything about
Cutler or care a jot for his strange
songs wheezed out on a harmonium,
to be attracted by the idea that it’s OK
to be a bit different — and that people
might even like you more for it.
If today’s British eccentrics — Bake
Off’s Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas,
for example — are fun entertainers,
Cutler was far more laconic and odd,
a dour Scot who swapped teaching for
low-fi musical nonsense on BBC radio,
sometimes accompanied by poet Phyllis
King, with whom he had a romance
occasionally conducted in Morse code.
Cutler’s mindset could be summed
up by the stickers he arbitrarily placed
about: “How to be. Climb inside a dot
and shut the door. Leave yourself
outside”; or “Illiterates against the
Nizis”. It’s of little surprise that he was
adopted by the Beatles to appear in
their Magical Mystery Tour film as the
baleful bus courier Buster Bloodvessel.
Unfazed by the Beatlemania around
him, Cutler nevertheless took the
rock-star lifestyle to new extremes: his
backstage demand was a two-bar fire
and marmalade sandwiches.
But what does being so determinedly
singular mean for those close to you?
That was an interesting line of inquiry,
and Tunstall (whose versions of his
songs were a lot prettier) heard
enough from those she met to make
this more than a simple panegyric. Inparticular, Cutler’s son, Dan, was
revealing about how his father was
loving when he was around, but “he
wasn’t around that much”.
I guess you don’t get to be such
a one-off without living your life like a
piece of performance art. If there was
a thought to be taken away from this
film, it was summed up by Tunstall
when she said Cutler made her feel
“it’s OK not to make sense”. In fact,
watching this film may have reminded
some viewers of a feeling they had
forgotten since their student years —
to embrace your individuality in its
quirks and not be a boring conformist.
Mike Bartlett’s Life continues to
offer an engrossing Play for Today
shoehorned into a midweek soap. In
the third episode the fallout between
Gail (Alison Steadman) and Henry
(Peter Davison) featured pages of
recriminating dialogue more commonly
seen on stage at the Bristol Old Vic.
Steadman and Davison are so good
in this marital power struggle, who
cares about the other plotlines? There
was yet another “no way!” twist
involving the morose lecturer (Adrian
Lester), but there does at least seem to
be an interesting theme emerging
from Bartlett, summed up by the vicar
who advised Gail: “As we seek to live
authentic lives, we must allow space
for authenticity in others.” Quite an
excuse for infidelity — sorry, love, I
Poet Ivor Cutler at his home in Tufnell Park, London, in 1970 needed some space for my authenticity.The weird, wonderful world of a British eccentric
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