Rupert's Relics

Having spent a fruitful and pleasant afternoon chatting to Rupert recently, I can confirm that there’s likely to be some form of semi regular input into our website by him.
This will probably be in the form of an almost quarterly artefact, photograph, piece of artwork, instrument or prop (it will probably vary considerably) displayed on the site with a related anecdote or story, and anyone viewing it will have the opportunity to add their thoughts or a tale of when and where they might have seen it.
We hope to set about this in the next week.
Having asked Rupert in what way he felt our website was lacking an element of Vivian’s personality, he informed me that...
‘He’s cheeky. Not a rogue, but almost, not a blaguard, but sort of. How do you portray cheekiness? When an animal dies the glint goes, you know it’s dead, it’s the same with a person. But some glint’s are far more powerful as such.
Certain people have got that look where you know they’re going to make you laugh or they’re going to ask you something uncomfortable, but you know they’re going to get away with it, and you know you’re going to give them the answer even though you normally wouldn’t. It would be nice to get his cheekiness like that across somehow.
Looking at your site and gingergeezer.net together you see that the latter is very visually dark, I don't know why but yours is at least clearer.
There are virtually no relaxed photos of the guy. I never took pictures of my Pa, it wasn’t something we did, so for me it was natural not to, we didn’t take photographs of each other so there aren’t really any pictures of him in a relaxed condition other than on stage or whatever.
I would happily look to see if I can find anything that shows him in a happy time as a happy chappie, that’s what it was about, he’d make you laugh and that was important.
That would be something nice to put in there.’
‘It needs colour because my father was very visual, it hasn’t got enough actual colours in it.
When you come to look at his artwork it’s very powerfully colourful, maybe you can use some artwork of some description from him to make the site to make it, again, different.
And also to make it stand out more with his cheekiness, that would be good.’
Upon asking Rupert what his thoughts on Rawlinson End were, he recounted his enjoyment of it.
‘Firstly, for me, Florrie’s Waltz is possibly the most beautiful piece of music he’s written, I love the flow of it, it’s like a babbling stream. It’s lovely, it washes over you and I really like that.
It’s great fun, the whole idea of it is just lovely. You don’t need the visuals to read it, you can be there and enjoy it.
I’m really proud of that piece of work, as a complete item it really is superb.
I hope channel 4 continue to show it now and again, it’s a real gem of a film, you can watch it from any angle and get joy out of it.’
Also, Rupert told of the immense trials and tribulations involved in trying to get the final Warner Brothers album Vivian was working on when he passed away released, it does exist, but not in Warner’s vaults as Vivian’s biography says, basically after ten years and a lot of stress W.B. said it wasn’t good enough or up to scratch.
 
We should have more conversation and anecdotes from Rupert ready just after Xmas day 2007.