5th March, 2005
St. Pauls
Petra-Jean Philipson came over to add some guitars to her record. It all sounded pretty complete already so I just made some subtle sounds to shift the mood here and there. Petra is incredibly intuitive, unconventional and particular, but today everything just clicked into place first time. She has been working in St Paul’s Cathedral, cleaning and restoring every surface. She took me up on the scaffolding to see all the mosaics and stained glass up close, which was extraordinary, and she obviously loves the job; her work there will last for centuries. Unfortunately she wouldn’t take me to the hidden corridor that is, in her own words, ‘haunted to buggery’…
