christmas, a time of year when many are encouraged to leave this mortal coil by purveyors of musical euthanasia; an opportune time then to give thanks and be grateful to those who were fearless in their support of the good US, not the bad US.so here in order of appearance in the bewildered brain. take a bow:
the family
the don - supporter, supplier, soul purchaser
offically medium Mac
b 'occasionally sober' p
the king of the empire
the ladies and gentlemen who wrote kind words and advertised
the ladies and gentlemen who spoke kind words and testified
the soundmen who've wrestled manlyly with the acoustic
rsj for shooting us
the bands we've shared stages with and showed us how its done: the redneck manifesto, giveamanakick, tenpastseven, the ghostwood project, mirakil whip, the dirty sweets RIP, orson, larrikin love, the flaws, the dublin guitar quartet, the skinsize kings, 79 cortinaz, jemson green, the cartoon thieves, the aftermath, the dudley corporation, 66E, so cow, byrno chairs, rustic tacki, derek devine and the lamps, devils child, ciarán BMU, waiting to explode, innate, blood on the wall, delorentos, crayonsmith, patrick freyne, scenes, hostile combover, sticky digit, the grudge, endfindead, windings, the brad pitt light orchestra, exit: pursued by a bear, bulls on parade, past the point of influence, the jimmy cake, pinky, oppenheimer, the jane bradfords, superfreakz
'proper fucking musicians' lady (compliment of the year)
the rastafarian farmer who got us out of trouble in buttevant
the 777 people who bought cds
the 69 people who bought t-shirts
the 3 people who wore them
the man, for raising himself an army of tough sunzabitches
the cool jazz cats in chbb
222 friends who climbed aboard
and to all the Big Time Operators, see you in lucky no. 7
peace, thanks and goodwill
eddie and james