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My Festival Romance
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1. Hello Tourists 2. The Big One Zero 3. Different Decade, Different Drum4. Reeling In The Years 5. My Festival Romance 6. Life Unfolds in a Small Field 7. 1975 to 1981: Pulling in Different Directions 8. Bristol Recorder: Happy Days 9. How Womad Began10. Shepton Mallet 1982 11. How Womad Continued 12. Back to Work 13. The French Connection 14. Fresh Air and Ambition 15. Drugs: The Early Years 16. Winter Dreaming 17. One Two Three 18. Hello Festival Tourists 19. Coming of Age in Reading 20. Another of Those Top Ten Gigs: David Bowie 1972 21. Womad Festivals and Happy Campers 22. It's a Family Affair 23. Artists and Some Close Encounters Remmy Ongala and Another Planet The Night That Rogie Died The Sabri Brothers: Mr Thomas, I Am Not a Juke Box Drummers of Burundi Purna Das Baul: Wired Into Love Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Mustapha Tettey Addy and a Rain Storm in Caceres Toto la Momposina 24. Brief Encounters Dr Nina Simone Bob Geldof Van The Man and a Very Narrow Squeak in Granada Shane McGowan and The Road Home In a Lift with Billy Connolly 25. And Being a Fan Al Green "Ever Thought of Writing a Christmas Song?" Split Enz: Neil and Tim Finn 26. Some Rock'n'roll Moments On and Off Stage with Thomas Mapfumo Pete Townshend Ginger Baker Lenny Kravitz and Being Guss27. The USA 28. Navigating the Voyage in Music Working in Music "Talk To My Manager" Not-So-Natural Selection The Orthodoxy of Pop An Albatross Called World Music 29. Womad Festivals and Some of The Places We Took Them To Australia: Land of Milk and Honey Finland and a Train to Siberia Carnival of Venice 1996 Womad Indian Pacific 1996 South Africa: Benoni Singapore 30. Postcards from Far Afield Photographs from: New Zealand, Japan, Sicily, Sri Lanka, Las Palmas, Spain31. Drugs and the Cliff of Death 32. And Two That Got Away Bali: Bamboo in Paradise and a Threat of Death Fiji: The International Date Line and Nothing That Kills 33. Places Southern Africa and the Healing Power of Music India and the Joy of Travel 34. Back in Bristol: Einstein and The Palace Hotel 35. Love and Trust: There's No Art36. Parting of the Ways: The Shortest Chapter37. The Day I Met The Queen 38. Where Are We Now39. The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But Some of The Truth40. Moi PS. It's a Heavenly PlanetAppendices1981 lettersGigsWomad Festivals 1982 - 2007

About the Author

Born in Bristol in 1954, he attended Bristol Grammar School and spent time during his childhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He attended Oxford University, reading English Language and Literature at Exeter College under the tutorship of Jonathan Wordsworth, graduating in 1976. The second child in an academic family, his father Frederick S. Brooman was an author and economics lecturer at Bristol University, subsequently Professor of Economics at The Open University.Returning to Bristol after graduation from Oxford, Thomas took a path in music, firstly as a drummer during the heyday of punk music in the late 'seventies with several bands in Bristol, including The Media, The Spics and The Tesco Chainstore Massacre. In 1980, with a group of friends, he established a record magazine publication called The Bristol Recorder, and through this project made contact with the English artist Peter Gabriel with whom the concept of Womad was born.

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