for your convenience

countertenor and piano/melodica
for Andrew Watts and Gavin Roberts
Premiered in St Marylebone’s Parish Church

Published in 1937, For Your Convenience is, on its surface, a guide on where to find London’s public toilets. Couched in uniquely English euphemism, the guide offers a plethora of suggestions for where to go when one finds oneself ‘in need’.

What might be euphemistic to some could also be double entendre to others. When Pry tells us that, on Broad Street in Soho, we can find ‘full service,’ what exactly does he mean?