Bowie Style

experiment was over, and Bowie, by now “a
combination of penniless art student and hardcore
hippie” according to new girlfriend Angela Barnett,
hitched a ride on the new singer-songwriter boom.
He hoped to open a folk club in central London;
instead, he was forced to settle for a back room in
the Three Tuns pub in Beckenham High Street, a
short walk from his parents’ home.
The short-lived trio, Bowie, Farthingale and Hutchinson, in
1968. “I had absolutely no belief in Feathers at all,” says Ken
Pitt.
Nominally styled an ‘Arts Lab’, the weekly event was
essentially a showcase for Bowie, the intimate
atmosphere giving him the opportunity to develop a
rapport with the audience. He really began to dig it,
as this uncharacteristic quote to underground freaks
he e t International Times con firms: “I feel
compassion as a source of energy; the individual is
less important than the source of energy of which he
is part.”
With Dylanesque harmonica holder, obscuring bass-playing
producer, Tony Visconti.