Drowning on Dry Land

Very few people have seen life from as many angles as Ray Jones After a regular upbringing in a workingclass area of Swansea Ray veered off the rails into a life of shoplifting and smalltime drug dealing fuelled by alcohol and driven by gambling Inevitably Ray was sent to prison and eventually left Swansea for London such was his growing notoriety with the police and magistrates in his home town In London he settled in Ladbroke Grove and became a key figure in the burgeoning music and art scene emerging from the boho pubs around Notting Hill He toured with Joe Strummer hung out behind the scenes in Paris fashion houses and ran Dylans bar in San Francisco before being ripped off in a massive drugs deal leaving him destitute