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6 unusual facts about Bruce Lacey


Bruce Lacey

Lacey contributed to Jasia Reichardt's Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition in 1968 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, exhibiting a robotic owl and actors: Rosa Bosom and Mate plus a sex-simulator.

Ken Russell made a fifteen-minute film about him called The Preservation Man (1962), which linked Lacey to Chaplin (in a Keystone Cops-style sequence) and featured some of Lacey's nightclub act (knife-throwing/robots) and a lip-synched performance of 'Sleepy Valley' which Lacey had recorded with The Alberts.

Cybernetic Serendipity

Bruce Lacey contributed his radio-controlled robots and a light-sensitive owl.

Rob St. John

St. John wrote the original music for the Jeremy Deller and Nick Abrahams film The Bruce Lacey Experience, and produced the "Pendle, 1612" compilation album with David Chatton-Barker, commemorating the anniversary of the Pendle Witch Trials.

The Alberts

They also along with Bruce Lacey presented a version of The Three Musketeers at The Arts Theatre and then at The Royal Court, Sloane Square, The Three Musketeers Ride Again which also starred Rachel Roberts as Madame de Winter, Rosa Bosom and Valentine Dial as Cardinal Richelieu, Alex Jawdokimova as Aramis and Sinbad Gray as Pustule and many others.

Along with Bruce Lacey and Stuart Samuels The Alberts starred in two short comedy films directed by the infamous pinup photographer George Harrison Marks.



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