The Centre at St Paul’s is on the south side of the city of Cambridge, on the corner of St Paul's Road and Hills Road. 

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It is close to the centre of Cambridge and a 10 minute walk from the rail station. Buses from the station and the city centre (Drummer Street) stop immediately outside the building.

Pay and display parking is available in St Paul’s Road. There is a multi storey car park ten minutes’ walk away at Gonville Place and an NCP car park at the rail station.

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Syd Barrett was born a stone's throw from the Centre at St Paul's in a house on Glisson Road.

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David Gale's Peachy Coochy Nite

Cooching with St Paul - an audiovisual collision involving eyewatering imaginative freedom countered by massive constraint.

David Gale grew up with Syd Barrett then lived with him in London. In addition to delivering a talk at Borders and conducting guided tours of Syd's Cambridge, David will present a special edition of the image and text work he is currently both making and curating in London.

The Peachy Coochy format, as regularly presented by David in London's Toynbee Hall, features the presentation of a series of projected images, each of which is visible for 20 seconds only. The presenter must accompany every image with precisely 20 seconds of spoken text. The images need not be narratively linked but randomness is frowned upon. Thematic associations are embraced.

In the traditional Peachy Coochy Nite, a number of Coocheurs delight their audience in the course of the evening. Drawn from many walks of life - we have had visual artists, performers, poets, quantum physicists, dancers, journalists and green activists - we now look forward to recruiting a lepidopterist, a nun, a surgeon, a policeman and a robber.

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Very much in the experimental mode that emerged in the Cambridge years celebrated in City Wakes, the event in St Paul's will feature the planetary premiere of an Especial Cooch in which six successive presentations by David will be linked into one seamless piece. (The maths: One Cooch = 20 slides x 20 seconds = 6 mins 40 secs. 6 Cooches therefore = 6 x 6mins 40 secs = 40 mins).

The theme of the event, appropriately enough, is the attrition of identity. It will depict, in a generally lurid and preposterous manner, a man who has turned into a collapsible plastic packing case and urgently seeks personhood. He is advised on the matter by the songstresses Celine Dion, Jennifer Rush and Bonnie Tyler then, after partial success acquired by turning into Barry Manilow, he is given sound counsel by Johnny Depp, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs who urge him to take a stranger's life, Camus-style, on the desolate beaches of Algeria.

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