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friend Ray Stevenson, ‘he never had to pay any rent.’
Mary Finnigan had an impeccably middle-class
background, but after a brush with the law and
conviction for drugs possession – ultimately overtuned
– with a consequent brief stretch in Holloway
Prison in 1967, she had taken up the hippie cause
as a writer for International Times. She and David
soon became lovers, and the singer became her
new cause; within three weeks she had helped
organise a regular Folk Club at the Three Tuns on
Beckenham High Street; by its fourth week, on
Sunday 25 May, the venture was titled the
Beckenham Arts Lab, and eventually started drawing
in street musicians, puppeteers, poets and other
artists. Working with the eclectic group of volunteers,
David immersed himself in mime and the visual arts,
as well as music. The group became his main focus
of activity, soon after his partnership with Hutch
came to an end. The Yorkshireman had spent many
intense evenings throughout the spring working on
material with David after a long day in the office. In
April, when a hoped-for deal with Atlantic for the duo
failed to materialise, Hutch returned up north, in
search of a decent salary to support his wife and
young son. David seemed unconcerned, but later
Hutch heard he’d been telling his friends, ‘Hutch
thought we were never going to make it.’ It seemed,
Hutch thought, that ‘David simply had no grasp of the
concept of having a family to feed.’
With Hutch’s departure, David immersed himself
in Arts Lab meetings. The group boasted two
formidable administrators in the form of Finnigan