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as you may or may not know, my favorite band of al...

Monday, 24 November 2003

as you may or may not know, my favorite band of all time is a band called catherine wheel. or the catherine wheel, depending on what phase of their career they were in. though there was never any official breakup announcement, they havent put out any material since 2000 and probably never will again. though i got to see them live 5 or 6 times on their last tour, and once in 1997 or 8, this is not nearly enough to see one's all time favorite band in a lifetime.
so the next logical step after the breakup would be for some of the members to do solo work, especially the lead singer rob dickinson. so for the past 3 years ive been waiting and waiting and waiting. i mean, if you're a musician, thats what you do, music. i dont believe he has a day job at the tim hortons or anything. he has no family that we know of (hes rumored to be gay), so i think its safe for me to ask "rob, what the hell have you been doing for the last three years? hello?"
and finally, today, i get what seems to be at least the beginning of an answer. and let me say, its about damn time.

in my inbox today from the catherine wheel mailing list i belong to called texture:

"It's been a good couple of years since I posted to the list, but I
promise you it is something really good that brings me out of hiding.

I just had the opportunity to hear one of the demos that Rob has
been working on. I don't have too much information on it, but here's
what I've got -

There's a 1-track CDR out there, don't know the name of the song,
but I believe I caught a glimpse of the Sanctuary logo on the disc.
The song is about 4 1/2 minutes in length - very laid back, acoustic
based, reminds me a lot of "Adam and Eve"-era stuff, 'Ma Solituda'
in particular. One line repeated often is 'what can I do to make you
love me?' or something like that. There was a rather abrupt fade out
at the end, so I'm not sure if it was the full song or not, or
whether this was an unmastered demo version or final studio version
or something in between. No word on a release yet, he's still
working on the record. We got it in at the station I work for at
home which has always been a huge Wheel supporter, and the PD said
it came from Rob's management company.

That's all I've got. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get a copy for
myself, but keep your eyes and ears peeled as material is [finally]
starting to see the light of day."

this post composed while daydreaming about what the hell this new solo rob dickinson music would sound like

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