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Gary is back after 29 years and I am going to see him play in Melbourne tomorrow.



I caught him for the first time during WorldCon in 2006. I had just finished Saturn Returns so his lyrics and music were very much on my mind. You know how sometimes you're afraid that the reality won't live up to the dream? Well, I felt exactly like that. (Sharing a suite with that trio of mockers--Simon Brown, Garth Nix, and Jonathan Strahan--certainly didn't help.) I shouldn't have worried. He was amazing.

If you're thinking "Cars" and "Are 'Friends' Electric?" then you've got some catching up to do. Here's a taste of his latest album, a song I've quoted many, many times through the Astropolis books. The last line is a killer.

And another with a very different sound:

I am excited!

Date: 2009-03-05 11:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanwilliams.livejournal.com
Yes! The new album is a Goth masterpiece and works very well live. (A couple of tracks I'd thought of as fillers were completely reborn, as sometimes happens.)

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