Touched is an independent creative venture based in London SE21, between the Gipsy Hill and the Crystal Palace, the online home of The Children, John Gibbens and Armorel Weston. Making music and poetry is our occupation. There’s all sorts of art, sounds and literature around the site, so please explore.

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WRITINGS
Poetry and prose
by John Gibbens,
books and pamphlets

RECORDINGS
Albums by The Children
and The Mind Shop,
featuring Armorel Weston

THE CHILDREN
Gigs, galleries,
biographies

Updated 4th February 2012

A Song for Today
Click the button to hear.
The words are here:
Dr Jas

The Improvised Vision
A gallerxy of musicians

The Nightingale’s Code
A poetic study of
Bob Dylan

EVENTS Mon 6 Feb, Armorel Weston at Boat-ting on the Thames. Thur 9 Feb, The Children at Christ's Chapel, Dulwich.

SOME RECENT WORK

Musical prose including

• Steady Rollin' Man: a revolutionary critique of Robert Johnson With musical examples

• There’s Hot Stuff Here and It’s Everywhere I Go A Young Person’s Introduction to Modern Times

Miscellaneous poems including

• The Gun Site An allotment poem: lines from the beginning of Spring

“No agitators, no clubs, no epidemical errors, ever were, or will be, fatal to social order in any nation. Nothing but the guilt of the upper classes, wanton, accumulated, reckless, and merciless, ever overthrows them. Of such guilt they have now much to answer for – let them look to it in time.” – Ruskin