A ginormous thank you to everyone who attended 3RP and attended to our band.  A bouquet of martian fire flowers to Howard Levy for believing in us and booking us for the show.  I hope we did you proud.

Sadly, the show was running late and we had to cut our set ever so slightly short -- next time we hope we'll be able to end our "Seven Suite" with the keyboard orgy "Thermonuclear Cheese".  Valerie was going to show off her moog chops!   And to those who might have enjoyed our earlier primordially progressive tinged goth/glam album "Ghost Story" we had our little "Kiteman" all ready to go...

However, we were so happy to be able to play our music live and to see some audience mouths remembering the lyrics better than we did and wide open eyes.  Thank you for your ears and hearts.

The corniest thing of all is true.  The people who listen to our music and who take the time to come see us and especially who came up to talk or ask us to sign stuff are the water in the desert of the music business.  When we are discouraged, when we realize we probably are never going to "make it" we only have to remember your fantastic faces and friendly conversation to know it is all worth the late hours, monetary outlay and time juggling.  

And my favourite review of all was when someone said simply:
"Phideaux was pretentious, of course" (and that was a good thing!!!)

And to Roland113 on that other site, of course we read the user reviews!  (actually, I've had to swear off on the advice of my therapist!  So, it's no more for me -- perhaps a 12 step program)

Here is the set list:

Doom Suite:
   Micro Softdeathstar
   The Doctrine Of Eternal Ice (One)
   Candybrain (with new verse and rave up extension)
   Crumble (vocal version)
Thank Your For The Evil
Seven Suite:
   Prequiem
   Gift Of The Flame
   Fox Rock (a section of a song from forthcoming 7½)
   Dormouse - An End
Out Of The Angry Planet (from forthcoming 7½)
Chupacabras
Tempest Of Mutiny (from forthcoming 7½)
Microdeath Softstar

The set was calibrated to skew Doomsday with a bit of Number Seven thrown in and songs we enjoyed playing live from our eighth album - 7½.

I guess this is part one.  I probably will have to write about the brooklyn gig - a fiasco and our trip.  Plus the delight of meeting (very briefly) Peter Nichols and John Jowitt.  IQ was my band I wanted to see at the festival and they didn't disappoint.  Glass Hammer, the same, although I had a little more actual contact with those delightful Chattanoogans.  What a set, what excellent singing and keyboard playing.

Aside from that the magical Edensong and beguiling Singularity were the highlights for me.  I missed Persephone's Dream, a few wrong turns on the way to Kinko's and we were delayed on arrival.  It Bites looked absolutely great in their white.  Just like the gang in Clockwork Orange.  I must copy that look in the future.  Syzygy was tight and had great chops, Skelnick (? can't recall the name - Gabe has the albums, I'm sure to buy more!).  I missed Rob Martino, but rumour has it (direct from his mouth because I cajoled him into it!) he played Candybrain - which is pretty cool considering he's on the original playing flute.  I missed CTS and King's X owing to some airplane runs and Fed X shipping we had to do before we took off.

Thanks for those who bought T Shirts and CDs.  We love you!