The basic facts - So on this tour as far as I can remember we've played the following songs: Kingdom of Love, Old Pervert, Where are the Prawns?, My Mind is Connected to your Dreams, Mr Kennedy, I Wanna Destroy You, Queen of Eyes, Insanely Jealous, He's a Reptile, Each of her Silver Wands, Evil Guy, Sleeping with your Devil Mask, The Lizard, Human Music, Leppo and the Jooves, Tonight, Pulse of Your Heart, Train Coming Round the Bend, Astronomy Domine, Sudden Town, Underwater Moonlight, Only the Stones Remain, Bells of Rhymney, You'll Have to Sideways, City of Shame, Face of Death, Rock and Roll Toilet and (at last!) I Got the Hots for You. 28 songs. Usually we did a 13 song main set and 2, sometimes 3, encore sets. Half the shows - Boston, Toronto, Seattle, San Francisco, Hoboken, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles - were sold out or very nearly.

Thanks first to Gerard at Matador, and to all the amazing characters who turned up on the way, the jesus candle girl, Eddie Tews (f*ck capitalism), woj, elevator girl, the rubber band and anton barbeau, ferris - that was some of them. And Robyn for ... well, he's amazing, I know most of you'll not get to meet him, but he is as special as you all might think - amazing MIND, amazing MUSIC ..... Morris for his beautiful drumming and singing all the way through, never not smiling, never freaking out, never not being brilliant, he is THE soft boy ...... much the same could be said about Kimberley, but to him also for making the difference, guitar-wise ....... I'll thank myself for the bass and the tour diary (and on that point, hugely also to Tracy for building the site and doing the funny links and recently Laura with the tour diary/captions and in the early days Theo with the java for helping .... then huge thanks to Paul, Ryan and De Witt for keeping it all going and the YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS for living up to their holy name and to Michèle for being here and being a big part of the good mood ..... thanks of course to Rick Gershen for coming on the road and being a bit of a teacher about this whole thing althogh he might not like it put that way ...... thanks to Patrick, Donovan, Nils and Ben and Nicole and all the others at Matador for big stuff they did behind the scenes, for doing the reissue at all and for great great packaging which just made such a difference ...... thanks to Thomas Dolby for an amazing guest stint at the Fillmore which helped make that a famous night ..... and thanks to everyone out there for keeping this thing going through the years so we could come back with was has to be one of the best surrealist jokes of my life to that brilliant headline and a glitterball at the Fillmore .... the journey from obscurity to oblivion doesn't necessarily include either of those things and if it is going to be like this, it is worth the price of the ticket at least.

Where we go from here, well it's first stop UK ...... and there's another studio record brewing at the moment. What I've heard so far, it's different from Moonlight. I think it's kind of an equal mixture of Moonlight and Can of Bees in places, but more intimate than either of them. People who've heard "Mind is Connected" on tour will know what I mean. When we did the first sessions in January, it felt better than anything we've done because it happened so quickly, even faster than Moonlight, but the finishing off may be the hardest bit - and you shouldn't talk about things until they're done so please forgive my superstitious silence.

So one of the most inaccessible, obscure, invisible and non-existent bands in music become all friendly and available and here. Funny eh? Or like that one day in AWAKENINGS? There's questions still unanswered. I think the Fillmore was the big clue. Or the big joke. We'll see.....

— Matthew