I had recently bought my first house, in North Finchley. It was an end of terrace two up and two rooms downstairs. I wanted to enlarge it and the council was offering grants for improvements to homes at the time. So I put in for a grant and got one, that basically paid for the costs of building an extension on the back of the house to add a bespoke kitchen downstairs and a family bathroom upstairs. I'd have to live there for 5 years for there to be no penalties on the grant. This all coincided with me getting the job with Kate Bush so you can see from my datesheet I was on a constant building programme while at the same time setting up the Tour Of Life as it was to become known. I moved back to East Finchley for the building period, renting the flat next to the one I had moved out of when I bought the house.I've added these photos above in the photo album. Anyway, as the datesheet shows, I went to meetings with KB and take her to the Hammersmith Odeon the night after Nazareth has played there. I wanted her to hear the sound system, an ML Executive sound system with a bespoke built Neave sound desk, one of two they had bought for their systems. At that meeting I introduced Kate to Gordon 'Gungi' Paterson the sound engineer, that was a sight, Kate all of 5 foot not much more and Gungi, 6 foot 7 inches. Anyway we hired ML and Gungi and that is half the story now, of the head microphone Gungi helped design for the tour.