OFF: History (Was Re: test)

[mike coleman]

just _WHERE_ did Thomas get that NEU t-shirt?????
I have just sprained or broken an ankle........
God is NOT like people think (and this is NOT negative) (what this has to do
with FF, likely notta)
I wonder if he has figured out how to say Simon House (correctly) in E.V.I.L.,
which is the way I spell U.S.A. now


On 8/24/07, Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 08:09:36PM -0500, mike coleman typed out:
> > then how about some info on the guy who sang "and I just wanna die, and
> I
> > just wanna die, and I just wanna die, I'm sure you know of him at least,
> > there is certainly a connection, and those guys might not even have
> their
> > own forum yet, FAIK
> > hint, first name starts with a T
> > first band initial is a :F
>
>        Or a P, or an A and an L, or a B... It seems only the A & L is
> doing much at the moment and even they seem to have been silent for a
> year or more. I guess a big break somewhere didn't happen. But I, like
> you Mike, would like to know what's happening with the F. Two or more
> years ago there was a project to release the two Flipside albums in a
> box set with some other things including the hardly-released film
> soundtrack they did, _When Science Fails_, and the unreleased album that
> was being projected in 2003, altogether in a box set. And I mailed
> Tommy and said "yeah man tell me more" and he sent me back a rambling
> mail being glad at my enthusiasm, and then six months later I sent him
> another saying, "so, any news on this?" and only silence came there
> back...
>
>        The annoying thing is it sounds as if there is whole bunches of
> material, but too many obstacles, possibly including fecklessness, for
> it to actually make it to a label. Not to mention that of the last three
> labels Farflung (for yes, that's who we're talking about guys and girls)
> released on, two are now dead. Oh but come on. I've still never forgiven
> myself for not finding out in time when they came to England. Yours,
>                                                                     Jon
>
> --
> "When fortune wanes, of what assistance are quantities of elephants?"
>            (Juvaini, Afghan Muslim chronicler, c. 1206)
> Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
>