now, for viewers of a certain vintage, the name robert lloyd holds special significance.efect and the nightingales, lloyd is something of a folk hero — a musician whose lengthy career has been untroubled by fame and fortune but still touched by greatness. so this pub, the eagle, in balsall heath, that was the offices of vindaloo records...

now, for viewers of a certain vintage, the name robert lloyd holds special significance.an ofjohn peel favourites the prefect and the nightingales, lloyd is something of a folk hero. a musician whose lengthy career has been untroubled by fame and fortune but still touched by greatness. so this pub, the eagle, in balsall heath, that was the offices of vindaloo records... it was, yeah. so you had an office above it or in the back? no, it wasjust — the back bar was where... you mean, you were in there a lot? in director michael cummings' affectionate and insightful documentary king rocker, comedian and fan stewart lee draws a parallel between lloyd and nicholas monro�*s giant statue of king kong, both of which were rejected and then later reclaimed by the city of birmingham and the wider world. i thought, "right, i'll make a song out of that," which i did... capturing lloyd in his natural surroundings, be it a pub, a curry house, ora gig, king rocker does a brilliantjob of exploring what makes lloyd so special and why his music is beloved by die—hard fans while still remaini

now, for viewers of a certain vintage, the name robert lloyd holds special significance.s a brilliantjob of exploring what makes lloyd so special and why his music is beloved by die—hard fans while still remaining unknown to so many. but i begin to worry that what if i peg it and they still don't buy the record! now, i have said many times that the true test of a documentary is whether it engages you in a subject in which you had no previous interest. but for me, the idea of a documentary about rob lloyd presented by stewart lee was always going to be a slam dunk. but the real triumph of cummings' anti—rockumentary is that even if you've never heard of lloyd, i guarantee you'll come out of this wanting to track down his back catalogue. eschewing the talking heads clips and interviews format, king rocker is closer to an andrew cotting—style collage, finding moments of truth and apparently chaotic happenstance making connections that are more intuitive and emotional than factual and historical. then you go, "no, that's not true! "who told you that?" you did at an earlier da

now, for viewers of a certain vintage, the name robert lloyd holds special significance.lengthy career has been untroubled by fame and fortune but still touched by greatness. so this pub, the eagle, in balsall heath, that was the offices of vindaloo records... it was, yeah. so you had an office above it or in the back? no, it wasjust — the back bar was where... you mean, you were in there a lot? in director michael cummings' affectionate and insightful documentary king rocker, comedian and friend stewart lee draws a parallel between lloyd and nicholas monro's giant statue of king kong, both of which were rejected and then later reclaimed by the city of birmingham and the wider world. i thought, "right, i'll make a song out of that," which i did... capturing lloyd in his natural surroundings — be it a pub, a curry house, ora gig, king rocker does a brilliant job of exploring what makes lloyd so special and why his music is beloved by die—hard fans while still remaining unknown to so many. but i begin to worry that what if i peg it and they still don't buy the record! now,

lloyd wright. the critical influence here is probably robert mills but he did have, when he was living in philadelphia he began to take some or a young man and to mentor them and some concepts were successful but sometimes it was not. but in terms of mentoring other architects one can go through the list to louis sullivan and then down to frank lloyd wright and it's a wonderful kind of genealogical architectural tree but again, there weren't a lot of architects so when one looks at latrobe's career one of the things to understand is that he really tried to establish architecture as a profession and that was hard. it was hard because it was so much competition from carpenters, books and from artisans who simply built houses without any desire to make them the kind of splendid spaces that he wanted to. as far as low domes i would answer no, others did not share his affinity for low domes. that is why we have the capital today. you probably know this but on the eve of the civil war that the great dorm of thomas [inaudible] was being erected and congress wanted to have more and congressman liked it and th