tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post9155490582610195767..comments2024-03-28T22:32:50.562+00:00Comments on Liberal England: Toni Savage of LeicesterJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-58436782507005148892023-09-15T21:33:52.504+01:002023-09-15T21:33:52.504+01:00Sorry for the typo, I meant Athena.Sorry for the typo, I meant Athena.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-48432115745888365762023-09-15T21:21:26.908+01:002023-09-15T21:21:26.908+01:00Hi Mark, Toni was my great friend and mentor. I me...Hi Mark, Toni was my great friend and mentor. I met him around 1968 as a young folk singer and apprentice bookbinder from Hinckley. I would play floor spots at all the local folk clubs. I used to spend many hours at his press in Highfields, Leicester. I bound books and folded handmade paper for his New Broom Press. I particularly remember binding Spike Milligans book and Canticle by Rex Brisland of the Couriers folk group.Also work by Bernard Breslaw and books printed by Duanne Campbell. I still have a large collection of the work and hundreds of Broadsheets. Toni had many contacts on the folk scene and would book us young singers in folk club and concerts around the country. He was a lovely, generous man who could tell many tales. As we worked we would listen to music and chat in the little workshop he shared with Duanne Campbell. I still miss Toni and I am in touch with Atnena.Terence Sharrottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-89134307273362544862023-03-11T20:24:19.287+00:002023-03-11T20:24:19.287+00:00Thank you both for your comments.
As a lad I had ...Thank you both for your comments.<br /><br />As a lad I had a Saturday job in a second-hand bookshop. We sold private press books, often with Rigby Graham illustrations, but I don't remember coming across Toni in those days.Jonathan Calderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-3595995933556486902023-03-11T15:05:10.968+00:002023-03-11T15:05:10.968+00:00Very interesting. I am married to Toni Savage'...Very interesting. I am married to Toni Savage's daughter Zeta and am aware of the influence Toni had on the Leicester Private Press as well as his friendship with Spike Milligan and Bernard Bresslaw. I am interested in any information on Toni's character as I sadly never met him.Mark Fouldsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-16897880972458824412023-01-31T17:39:31.589+00:002023-01-31T17:39:31.589+00:00I assisted Toni for several years as "MC"...I assisted Toni for several years as "MC" and "resident" singer at the Town Arms Folk Club and, later, at the Barwell Folk Club. I wrote poems and did illustrations for a number of his publications (including some illustrations for a collection of poems by Spike Milligan, who was an old friend of Toni's. Spike decided not to use my illustrations but, somewhere out there, there's a couple of proof copies of my pictures and Spike's poems!) I also designed and made the New Broom colophon which you can see on the Bernard Bresslaw cover. Chris Bartramnoreply@blogger.com