I don't think I ever saw him sober and I was a guest of his often patic after hours at Italian restaurants in Soho. He would do this thing of scrunching his collar up look disdainfully at all us pieces having dinner at his expense and insult people at random well he was paying I was v young so didn't appear on his radar he liked rough trade ...
I wish someone could have tidied up his studio, cleaned his brushes and neatly shelved all his books and cuttings. But he probably would have hated it.
"Cheeeeerio..." *hacking cough into interviewer's glass* xD I busted out laughing!
Public health：-1
I would prefer to say he is ‘unlocked’ ‘open’ and ‘free’ when he was drinking .. complete genius
Bragg was so good in those days, just letting the conversation completely flow.
He had a childlike openness in the way he talked sometimes that was deeply charming.
5:06; "I'm not
here for the sake
of my f**king health!" 🍻
I am so happy that this is on you tube. I lost my video copy years ago.
I cannot ever get enough of Bacon!! ❤️ ❤️
Tom Baker was also a regular in the CR in the 70s, he was a regular drinking companion with Francis et al.
mr Francis is a little drunk ahhaha
I don't think I ever saw him sober and I was a guest of his often patic after hours at Italian restaurants in Soho. He would do this thing of scrunching his collar up look disdainfully at all us pieces having dinner at his expense and insult people at random well he was paying I was v young so didn't appear on his radar he liked rough trade ...
Nice!!!!!
God how I love verbose, interesting, creative inebriates!
Ian Board shouting "I'm not here for the good of my fucking health!" Sums up how most of my days are spent also.
That guy without teeth looks like a cool ship captain
Brilliant. Please add Bacon's Arena to your collection!
Get the Artist drunk and they'll tell you the truth of it all.
how are you so sure ?
when hes drunk his face completly changes, the beggining of the eyebrow lifted and the end arched, eyes with flesh to middle. Serious
Fabulous!
Ian Board had a nose like a squashed aubergine - even Tom Baker remarked on it in his (Tom's) auto-biography !
Extraordinary to see FB in his environment
Cheerio Francis!
A true Penguin from Batman
I knew george dyer in the 60s, first in soho then in Brighton always drunk and always a total gentleman, a sweet man xx
Presuambly, the "Horrors Room" was where they kept that picture of Ian Board sat on the toilet...
He seemed very scarey.
What was the “horrors room”?
I love this party, Everyone drunk and in love with Art.
'Once upon a time there was a tavern...... '
0:59 I got really scared for a moment when he got up
"cheeerio" LOL
5:00 - Even Bryan Robson of Man Utd used to go there.
2:01 - He looks so like John Deakin.
The Aztecs were in their glory in their sacrifices. To meet the Creator was glory.
Today we sacrifice the unworthy.
Why? As we live and breathe; we should function. In all our essence of the things we shall be, create, do, instill… Making the most of it(life).🧑🎨♾️🎭
Ηe who understands the size of the artist Bacon would never accept to lower him in a state of drunkness .
Is that dark haired lady Henrietta?
Far be it for me to critique a professional artist, but why did all of Francis' portrait paintings look like Quasimodo??
mistofoles , I hear they are worth millions each .
Worth every penny x
A restless interplay with people and the passion to see his sitters as moving, not just stagnant, beings.
I wish someone could have tidied up his studio, cleaned his brushes and neatly shelved all his books and cuttings. But he probably would have hated it.
Probably he would have said "what a mess"
Ok no more for Francis 😛
2:24.
He's wasted!
Irish ......