Bespoke: Rockstar Tailor of Hendrix, Jagger, Bowie

ep.03 Beatie Wolfe interviews tailor Mr Fish (of Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger, David Bowie) aka David Mason about living in the former home of Hendrix, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Yoko Ono (and birthplace of “Eleanor Rigby” & “The Wind Cries Mary”) 34 Montagu Square and the art of bespoke. Listen to this dublab radio show which takes you from Bond to Bowie via the thread of history and storytelling. 

Orange Juice for the Ears with “musical weirdo and visionary” (Vice) Beatie Wolfe explores the power of music across Space, Science, Art, Health, Film & Technology by talking to the leading luminaries in each field from Nobel Prize winners to multi-platinum producers and hearing the music that has most impacted them, their “Orange Juice for the Ears”. Beatie Wolfe is an artist who has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN Women role model for innovation and held an acclaimed solo exhibition at the V&A Museum, which included the Montagu Square Album Jacket, cut by Mr Fish out of fabric woven with Wolfe's music recorded in the room where McCartney wrote "Eleanor Rigby" and Hendrix penned "The Wind Cries Mary".

Mr Fish aka David Mason’s Orange Juice for the Ears

  • First song that imprinted? “We Have All the Time in the World” by Louis Armstrong

  • First album that shaped who you are?  Siren by Roxy Music - track played "Love is the Drug”

  • The music you would send into Space? “The Man Who Sold The World” by David Bowie

  • The Song you would have at your memorial? “Dedicated Follower of Fashion” by The Kinks

  • The Album you would pass onto your kids? Rumours by Fleetwood Mac - track played “Don’t Stop” 

The show opens with “The Wind Cries Mary” by Jimi Hendrix, a track Beatie Wolfe most associates with David Mason as it was written in his current home, 34 Montagu Square. 

This show first aired live on LA’s dublab radio. The podcast was mastered by Dean Hovey. For rights reasons, the music in this podcast version is shorter than in the original broadcast.