From: Lluis Gonzalez, dafish@jazzfree.com
Subject: The band in four days
Date: 2/28/2002 2:31:57 PM
To: Seance List, seance@lists.no-fi.com


Yeah! Sorry if I don't write often. It's not easy for me to follow so much
mails in this format and in English.

Reading about how some people became fan, mine is not very usual, I guess.
The Church was one of the bands I loved in the 80s, but not more than I
could love The Cure, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Psychedelic Furs or even U2
before they get... well.... I had some records, loved it, and that was all.
Four or five years ago, by complete chance, I found a lost compilation-tape
I had forgot and a friend from those years had recorde for me, with a cover
that was a ticket for a Church gig. I played it... and I got caught for a
song that threw me again, uniquely and forever in the Church's world. Until
now and I'm sure that forever, since I recovered all the recordings from the
bands, at the same time I recovered some of my teen rememberings. The song
in this compilation is a song that they never play live, a song that not
much fans like in firts places, a song the band themselves think it's too
simple, a song that, together with Tom Wait's "Innocent when you dream" may
be the nicest sad raw song I listened to. Of course, it's My Church song:
the song is "It's no reason".

And next Tuesday, I will be in Valencia, 3 hours south from my hometown
Barcelona, watching the band play. And you know what's better? As I'm making
and interview before the gig... I'm going to have dinner with them.
Incredible. I'm excited as if I was watching Joy Division for the first
time... and very used to talk with bands. But this is different. If you let
me know how, here or in some place as Hotel Womb or so, I can place pics of
the gig, the dinner, the interview... the NIGHT.

Greetings from a Church's home.
Luis.