a letter from one of
the
close lobsters
This
was found in a bulleten board about the
Close
Lobsters:
Shawn
- 11:36pm Feb 24, 1998 EST (#6 of 8)
Hey
guys, I too am a huge Close Lobsters fan...the greatest band EVER...I think.
Awful shame they had to disband. About a
year
and a half ago, much to my surprise, I got an e-mail from none other than
Tom Donnelly. Here's what he had to say:
Subj:
Close Lobsters Date: 96-09-25 13:15:33 EDT From: amartin@sol.co.uk (Andy
Martin) Reply-to: amartin@sol.co.uk
To:
SHalfpenny@aol.com
Hi,
a Close Lobster here (honest) to fill you in on what happened to us all.
Where do I start?!? The last thing we actually recorded was the "Headache
Rhetoric" album, which was sort of cobbled together 'cos we'd been too
lazy to write any songs (we did however record a version of Leonard
Cohen's "Paper Thin Hotel" which is probably one of the best thing we
ever did - none of the band had heard the song before we did it). Thereafter,
we toured the UK to promote the album without much success - falling
out with our record company in the process. For some reason somebody in
the US wanted us to
tour,
so we did in Summer '89, promptly falling out with our manager in the process.
We had another crack at America (and Canada!) in Nov/Dec '89, finding
ourselves in the position of touring America without a record company,
without a manager and trying to promote an album which hadn't been
released yet! In spite of this, the tour was pretty successful, except
that by the end of it we had all fallen out with each other - leading
to scuffles at JFK Airport and other unpleasant scenes. I was promptly
kicked out of the band because the drummer wanted to kill me (the feeling
was mutual). They carried on without me for a while but I don't think
released any more records - I saw them playing in Glasgow in Jan. 1991,
they were pretty good and there was quite a big crowd but after that
I didn't hear anything else. About a year and a half ago there was talk
of
a
reunion, so we decided to all meet to discuss it (at a gig by Peter Perrett
- about the only person everybody in the band liked), within 30 seconds
of first meeting the drummer said something disparaging about my haircut
- the reunion was off! Since then, I've met various members of the
band and decided to confine our activities to merely drinking (which was
an integral part of what we did anyway).
TOM
DONNELLY
P.S.
If you want any further info, you could try writing to me at:
8
Leven Street. Glasgow G41 2JQ Scotland U.K.
..pretty
cool, eh? What a great band they were. My all time favorite tune (by anyone)
is "A Prophecy"
Cheers,
Shawn Halfpenny Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada drumme59@sprint.ca
