so, yeah, finished the bastard didnt we, and feeling pretty dam' prolific as it goes

Here's the track listing:

Now it only remains to send off copies to Mike at Malicious Damage Records where his team of magic goblins will make it into a proper record with nice pictures and thanks be to God and our parents etc and who played what and thus into the fossil record it goes. Suddenly the gaping void of Completion opens up, not at all unpleasantly. Whatever next?

Meanwhile, in another affiliated part of the forest, Monstrance lurches into the party wiping it's arse on the tablecloth and frotting the host's dog. The reactions have been, as far as I have seen, from one of three positions:

1: those who accept what it is and like it

2 those who dont accept what it is because they want it to be something else

3: those who see what it is, accept this, but still dont like it

1's ok obviously, 2's ok really ('their problem, man') but 3 amounts to a negation of our essence and cannot be endured -luckily not too many of those, otherwise, well, we would all be very very sad, oh and wrathful.

The discussions among the XTC faithful are indeed fascinating to behold, especially the polite beasting of the heretical dude who was in the '2' camp. A jungle out there I tellya..