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yay, Elastica are back and going to release new music. Elastica... the band who almost run my sorry homeless ass over when I was sleeping in the Hacienda car park in late 1993, and apologised by feeding me from their rider before then shooting me a lot during Laserquest. I went on tour with them many times, and they never made one bad record and in Justin Welch they have the best drummer I ever saw, and in Annie one of the best bassists (ignoring problems with drugs)... and in Donna a gem of a person so creative on guitar... and Justine. Justine was so unfuckingbelievably kind, like, you don't know how much. I called her up one time as I needed to sell some records at the tape exchange so that I could eat yet I didn't have any ID so they wouldn't accept the sale. she came and met me, refused to give her ID but instead just gave me more money than I needed. she also had this really strong cohort of intelligent women as friends, you definitely know some of them (now famous artists and musicians)... and she never wanted fame. yet that first album... every song is excellent. and because I know the people behind a lot of the songs I like the songs even more (usually the reverse happens when you know the people). my favourite song on that album was called Blue, which became the name of a fanzine I sold to keep myself alive and feed myself.