Tomás Graves Tuning up at Dawn Hardback edition 4th Estate || 2004 || £16.99 + p+p Click for big pic A wonderful and crucial book if you want to understand Daevid and Gilli's time in Deià Also available in paperback This very entertaining and well written 422pp hard-back is the first book that embraces the importance of the music scene in Deià and it's role in the development of popular music in general and the Canterbury scene in particular. It's a vital book for anyone who wants to begin to understand Daevid and Gilli's times in Deià, the atmosphere in which they lived and worked and perhaps what drew them there in the first place. How and why did this artistically rich and nourishing place come into existence in the first place, and how did it survive and prosper in the midst of the most authoritarian country in Western Europe, Franco's Spain? Although a host of characters well known to all Canterbury devotees (Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Ollie Hassell, Lady June and many more) appear throughout the book, in the end it is Tomás' charming and engaging personal recollections which give one a real flavour of the uniqueness of life in Majorca. The author, Tomás Graves is the son of poet Robert Graves. He lives in Deià on the North Coast of Majorca. He is a graphic designer, printer and musician. He has known Daevid and Gilli for most of his life. A less expensive paperback edition is in the pipeline and is due for publication next year. And then there's always your local library. Please note: The shopping cart system will automatically add VAT tax to this item. Ignore this - You will not be charged VAT, just the price of the book and whatever the p+p works out to be. As this is a heavy hard-back book the p+p will probably be more than the shopping cart shows, especially to overseas. However if the p+p is more than a pound more than shown I will e-mail you to have the order confirmed or cancelled.