[kj] (OT) Cardiacs news:

[powens]

Beautiful  - Why can't KJ talk to us like that?

john-paul

ps: yes, drinks  - soon.



2009/6/25 Phillipps Marc <Marc.Phillipps at enfield.nhs.uk>


>   I know there are a few Cardiacs fans out there that may’ve not seen the

> latest missive from ABC:

>

>

>

> A full year has now passed by silently and stealthily yet with ever an eye

> on promptitude and a passion for consistency it now falls upon THE ALPHABET

> BUSINESS CONCERN to provide this timely annual update to YOU our ever

> faithful family regarding the health and condition of Tim Smith.

>

>

>

> One complete year on from Tim Smith’s ‘accident’, THE ALPHABET BUSINESS

> CONCERN is only too aware that since its previous gloomy news bulletin there

> have purposely been no further updates. In this time YOU have been both

> patient and respectful to the family of YOUR IDOL and to those so called

> friends with whom he keeps regular counsel. If rumour and tittle-tattle have

> reached the collective ear of THE ALPHABET BUSINESS CONCERN then we have

> seen fit neither to extinguish nor fan their ugly flames.

>

>

>

> It is at this time, then, that THE ALPHABET BUSINESS CONCERN has chosen to

> clarify the CURRENT situation At the time of his cardiac arrest Tim Smith

> effectively died.

>

> Resuscitation allowed his passage back from that world of mists and spirits

> to this one of foetid edges and filth, but upon re-entering this VALE OF

> TEARS it became apparent that he had suffered a terrible brain injury from

> the inability of his faltered heart to supply its regular goodness in the

> quantities required to sustain a healthy condition within his brainbox.

>

>

>

> Quite what the sickly lad experienced over the course of the remaining

> months of 2008 remains largely unclear. He claims at one point to have been

> surrounded by ‘cheap microphones’ while at other times that he was visited

> by ‘multiple cigarette smoking’ friends whilst languishing in a ‘cafe that

> served exquisite fruit juice’ all set within a ‘beautiful surreal landscape

> of rivers and curtains’.

>

> In keeping with our reputation as The HONEST Concern, THE ALPHABET BUSINESS

> CONCERN can state categorically that none of these constructs was of our

> making.

>

>

>

> Since the accident Tim Smith’s body has become his enemy. He is in a great

> deal of pain and is experiencing difficulty with the finer points of control

> with regard to his extremities so obviously perfected prior to the unhappy

> event, but Tim Smith, his family and those so called friends, (with whom he

> keeps counsel), all assert that his mind, however, has been sharpened by the

> episode. THE ALPHABET BUSINESS CONCERN can confirm that no part of YOUR

> favourite pop star’s intellect or personality has been found to be absent

> WHATSOEVER.

>

>

>

> So where does that leave CARDIACS and where does that leave YOU?

>

>

>

> At this point Tim Smith can neither sing nor play his guitar. THE ALPHABET

> BUSINESS CONCERN, in keeping with its enviable reputation as THE REALISTIC

> CONCERN, can state that it is extremely unlikely that CARDIACS will perform

> live for the foreseeable future. THIS IS NOT, IT MUST BE NOTED, THE END OF

> CARDIACS. YOU must once again be patient before events can reveal themselves

> as foodstuffs for YOUR greedy little mouths.

>

>

>

> Unlike the so-called prescient ways of that, at best, ‘cosmic chancer’

>

> Nostradamus, THE ALPHABET BUSINESS CONCERN claim no ’second sight’,

> therefore it would be mere folly to muse upon how future events may unfold.

> Tim Smith’s condition permits no such speculation, but there is in his own

> words ‘A glimmer of anticipation . . . Quite a glimmer.’

>

> And it is to give that glimmer the oxygen that it requires to become the

> roaring flame we all need to warm our clammy flesh, that he is participating

> in the trials and tribulations required within the system of neurological

> rehabilitation where he is making many small but positive inroads into his

> recovery. We are therefore left in no doubt that it is a long and arduous

> road beset with many trips and stumbles along the way that has yet to be

> travelled.

>

>

>

> In respect of the awful events of last year, much of the machinery

> surrounding your favourite group, CARDIACS, had ground to a halt. In honour

> of YOUR patience, YOU will observe the cogs begin to turn and the pistons

> sputter to life once more. THE ALPHABET BUSINESS CONCERN will soon make

> available to YOU the goods and artefacts YOU so hungrily crave.

>

>

>

> Tim Smith and it goes without saying, THE ALPHABET BUSINESS CONCERN, would

> like to thank all of YOU who have sent him YOUR kind thoughts and beautiful

> words and indeed in a few thankfully rare cases, your daubs and photos. They

> have all been gratefully received where appropriate and both Tim and

> ourselves would encourage you all to continue with your correspondence.

>

>

>

> With Respect

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