Bruce Lacey

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Name =Bruce Lacey


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Notable_instruments = "Professor" Bruce Lacey, (along with Viv Stanshall), remains one of Britain's great eccentrics. After completing his national service in the RAF he became established on the avantgarde scene with his performance art and mechanical constructs. He has been closely associated with "The Alberts" performance group and "The Goon Show".

His most famous appearance was as Paul McCartney's flute playing gardener in the Beatles' feature film Help!. He also gains mention on the Fairport Convention L.P. "What We Did On Our Holidays" in the song "Mr Lacey", written by Ashley Hutchings. He toured England in the mid seventies with his children's SCI-FI theatre show and became involved in 'Earth Magic' with his then wife Jill Bruce, mounting a number of performance pieces and exhibitions. Now aged 79 he lives in a farmhouse in Norfolk surrounded by a bizarre collection of his creations. In spite of ill health he is still working. His latest project he calls 'vox humana exploration' using his voice through a series of effects to perform his own songs plus those of David Bowie, Rod Stewart and Queen.

Lacey contributed to Jasia Reichardt's Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, exhibiting a robotic owl and actors: "Rosa Bosom" and "Mate" plus a sex-simulator. Photographs of some of his mechanical devices can be found in Reichardt's book Robots (Thames and Hudson, 1978).

External links

*http://www.zen39103.zen.co.uk/Site/bruce.html Interview
*http://burning-brightly.tripod.com/mrlacey.html "Mr. Lacey"