Wilmington, North Carolina
I'm visiting my friend Robert Lurie for the first time, on the occasion of the first public reading from his biography of Steve Kilbey, the lead singer of The Church. I've run Shadow Cabinet, a fan site for the band, since 1995 and been a fan for many more years. During all that time there hasn't been a single book about the band or its members, so fans who wanted to know the band better (whether the band wanted it or not!) had to rely on collections of interviews, such as the hundreds I collected for the Shadow Cabinet website.
But many of those interviews cover the same ground over and over again and leave one hoping for a more in-depth work. Then Robert Lurie comes along and just does it! The project was done for his Masters degree, and will also be sold to the public, with the possibility of more books to come. He interviewed Steve many, many times and let me be among the first to thank Steve for participating in a project that will make a lot of people very happy.
So I flew in to Wilmington last night and will spend this afternoon typing up some relevant items for Robert to look at. I love hotels with free wireless Internet access!
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- Brian Smith
- I've lived in the USA since 2000, and in Florida since 2002 where I work for a medical software company. My hobbies include music, politics, juggling, avoiding exercise and learning doing more with my money. I play the guitar and trumpet and am a member of a local community concert band. I like knowing a little something about everything I can and sharing the most interesting and exciting finds with my friends. I was born in Malta and my whole family is Maltese, but I have lived in Germany, England, Saudi Arabia and Australia and now the USA!
2 comments:
In regards to your posting on Shadow Cabinet about Richard Ploog leaving the band as a possible drug issue, I spent a lot of time w/ Richard when they were in the U.S. and never saw him do anything more than smoke some pot...
I think he was under a lot of presure to use synth drums which he had no interest in. He was very laid back and not as hard core driven as Steve. Different types of people, but I find it hard to believe that drug use played a part.
Hi Sam,
Thanks for commenting; I've never met Richard and hope to do so one day. I think the pot use was more serious than you might think; take a look at what Donnette Thayer (steve's girlfriend at the time) said about it (bottomof page at http://www.shadowcabinet.net/archive/dthayer/questions/dtchurch.htm)
Basically, yes, he stuck with pot and avoided the cocaine, but he used too much and his studio performance suffered.
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