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Written by Phil Hall

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Written by Phil Hall

"The Unearthing Diaries  December 15th 2007 Met up with Mitch for a drink and the conversation turned to Unearthing pretty quickly. He’s looking for an older woman to feature for a picture in which he wants to depict a nightmare. I said I have a couple of people I think I could approach, but I’m worried t..." [Read More]

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Written by Phil Hall

"December 3rd 2007 Today has been different. Got a text from Mitch this morning asking if I’d had any luck tracking down a suitable venue for this particular shot he wants to do and after a couple of phone calls I gave him an affirmative. What I didn’t expect was for him to come back and ask if we can arrange the shot for tonight. Fortunately, for Mitch, this was doable and it meant I got to be fi..." [Read More]

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Written by Phil Hall

"November 23rd 2007 Wow! That was weird. In all the years I’ve known Mitch and the amazing fact that I’ve had my photo taken by him in the 70s, the 80s, the 90s and now the 00s, the experience was never like this. In 1979, he took my photo in the small studio of Northampton’s Chronicle & Echo building, where he was working as a Photographic Assistant; in the 80s it was in the back of..." [Read More]

Prologue

Written by Phil Hall

"BACK in the 1980s, when Maggie Thatcher was in charge of the country and it felt like the future was hopeless, I did nothing. If I wasn’t stoned, I was drunk. I played mammoth backgammon matches, lasting over 100 games. I did lots of mix tapes, and I went to a lot of the cheap gigs in and around N..." [Read More]