Micko Westmoreland Interview: Part 2 - Sooty, Essence of Innocence
Part 2 of Interview with Micko Westmoreland of Micko & The Mellotronics (June 2026) Sooty, a glove puppet, star of children's television show that ran from 1955 on the UK's national TV channel BBC TV until 1967 and then on the commercial-funded channel ITV until 1992, is an unlikely cover star for Micko & The Mellotronics third album, Trinity . The glove puppet, with its (her?) permanent expression of a naïf surprised by life, features on front and back of the new CD cover. Micko explains that the pictures, painted by his first teacher, Jacob Cramer at Leeds College of Art, feature Sooty because the puppet's character is " in some ways, the essence of innocence. Art Work Garry Barker "On the front cover Sooty is accompanied by two other more ethereal glove puppets, two mashed deities. A weird threesome, reflecting the album title, Trinity. The reverse cover shows Sooty being raised in two hands above the head of a sort of revivali...