Bluebells in the Graveyard # 1 & # 2.
Archie.
We’re still not doing much. The albums we own will slowly appear on iTunes Spotify and so on. We’ll let you know. Trying to find who owns Astronauts so I can add that to the bunch. We should have a new Lilac Time album to add to the pile by this time next year. I don’t know if we’ll have released the live album, film and book by then. I think not. But we are exploring ways of not losing money. Rock on x
On a clear day you can almost see the 70’s. . .
Leaves at last. . .
Hipstamatic April 2010
As the rain gently falls into the sea I sit listening to Bessie Smith with the dogs. We have decided not to play any concerts this year and make a record instead. Or two records. We also have another film project underway. That’s me and the Lilac Time not me and the dogs. Although the book and film of Memory & Desire are finished I have yet to find and acceptable “business model” that allows the manufacture and distribution of physical copies. Until one comes along we will continue to create but wont release anything. Although Sapphire Stylus has almost broken even Runout Groove and the three concerts we played in celebration have left us, perhaps forever, in queer street. Filming and recording everything we did 2007 was it seems improvident for troubadours with so few devotees. Some of the festivals we spoke to about playing this year really went out of their way to try and make it possible to play (thank you Moseley) but we are coming to realise that it may take a supernatural phenomenon for all of the Lilac Time to play simultaneously ever again. I would like to release our records on iTunes as complete albums, not for Floydian reasons but for elementary economics - a percentage of 79p does not provide anything like the mazuma needed to keep five minstrels and a balladeer on the bandstand. Manifestly I am blessed to be of an age that made it possible for me to make money from the sale of vinyl albums and compact discs whilst strapped firmly to the breast of the man. The Guggenheim Museum opened on October 21st 1959 shortly after I was conceived. Sorry to lay all of this on you when it’s Monday and raining and all but what once was right on is now right off. I try to live in what I remember of the seventies though the internet will surely destroy us all. The 60’s seem to have become the 20’s and the 70’s are viewed as I once saw the 30’s. Let us instead take comfort like Bessie “He boiled my first cabbage and he made it awful hot. He boiled my first cabbage and he made it awful hot. When he put in the bacon it overflowed the pot” Keep the faith. Keep on keeping on. Keep going. Keep it up. Chin up. Chin chin. Cheers. Here’s how. Your health. Skol. Prosit. Salut. L’chaim. Bottoms up. Down the hatch. Man the guns they’re coming x
