The Fivehundredth

Yes well Merry Christmas and all that stuff. As a special present to you all I present my five hundredth post. Truly I have almost no life.

As you, my regular readers anyway, were all so forthcoming with your praise for this post, I thought I would do a follow up and 'release' a Christmas single (and unlike the Mint Chicks mine will be available for more than just one day).

I give you 17 October 1996, which, strangely, was the date I wrote the song. It's one of those songs which has stayed with me. There's a resonance in there somewhere. It was verging on the autobiographical then, and it still is somewhat - autobiographical in an 'if only' sense, rather than a literal sense.

And in the grand tradition of b-sides I give you Tasman Instrumental No.3, which I wrote around the same time and which happens to be the third instrumental piece I wrote while living in Tasman Street. In the grand tradition of b-sides, I've called it a demo, even though it's no more or less demo than any other track I've put up. What it is though, is a testament to my laziness, and my lack of guitar playing ability (i.e. clumsy fingers). Hence it is incomplete, broken if you will, cos I was too lazy to try and do a decent take all the way through.

Enjoy this special gift from me to you.