Back to bed

The homecoming

Breakdown assistance

Down the road

"Further on down the road
Trying to find my way back home
Further on down the road
Down the road of peace"

Down the Road - Van Morrison

Drive

Who's gonna tell you when
It's too late
Who's gonna tell you things
Aren't so great
You can't go on
Thinking nothing's wrong
Who's gonna drive you home tonight

Who's gonna pick you up
When you fall
Who's gonna hang it up
When you call
Who's gonna pay attention
To your dreams
Who's gonna plug their ears
When you scream

You can't go on
Thinking nothing's wrong
Who's gonna drive you home tonight

Who's gonna hold you down
When you shake
Who's gonna come around
When you break

You can't go on
Thinking nothing's wrong
Who's gonna drive you home tonight

The journey so far

The rear view mirror

But it was long ago and it was far away, oh God it seems so very far
And if life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car
And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are
And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are

- Meatloaf

The passenger

"And everything was made for you and me
All of it was made for you and me
cause it just belongs to you and me
So lets take a ride and see whats mine"

The Passenger - Iggy Pop

Mirror Signal Manoeuvre

Taken from BBC Online 14 June 2007:

The Long and Winding Road

The Long and Winding Road, is a journey that perhaps in one way or another we have all taken or seen a close friend take. It is about the experience of loss, memory, mourning and recovery.

It follows the artist as he drives from Nottingham to Liverpool to collect his brother’s belongings. Pinchbeck’s brother died in an accident in 1998.

As I arrived at the Ikon, I saw a car parked outside. The car had been heavily spray-painted and was packed full of brown paper parcels. On the side of the car sprawled the title of the project. This is the car that took Pinchbeck to Liverpool and back.

As the performances began it was my role to schedule each performance and take visitors to the car. Luckily I got the opportunity to ‘take a ride’ with Pinchbeck myself and it was hard not to cry.

As I sat down next to him he offered me a travel sweet and told me the story of his journey, his eyes penetrating my soul, not directly but gazing at me through the rear view mirror.

The parcels were his brother’s belongings and each had their own personal registration number.

Later in discussion with the artist I learnt of the fate of the car, it is going to be immersed in the Mersey and then withdrawn, crushed and cut into cubes and distributed to the people that made this project happen.

Laura Dexter
http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content/articles/2007/06/12/fierce_blog_5_feature.shtml

Other guest’s comments:

"The event was a whole new experience for me as I’ve never done anything like this before. I enjoyed every moment" 5/5. "Emotional, Loving and Caring" 5/5. "Distant story, yet intimate setting…very personal story – I wanted to open the parcels!" 4/5