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The Les Vampyrettes Saga.

I must admit to being continually amazed by the distances involved in this Internet malarkey. Just like a kid. I hope I never get blase about chatting to folk dotted all around the globe. The Les Vampyrettes 12" which I've been championing has been a case in point. By-the-by, put "Les Vampyrettes" into Google!

As a result of reading about the record here, my pal cAREFUL kID from San Francisco (who works in Amoeba records there) picked up the record in Japan, where he was on tour playing bass in an Emo band. Jon Dale at Worlds of Possibility picked up a copy on his recent trip to Melbourne. Both were good deals by the sound of it.

You may remember Michael Manners (from Germany) emailing me trying to buy it off me, and subsequent to that Holger Czukay ripping him a copy onto CD. My friend, notorious record-dealer Sacha Dieu found one in London the other day (he called me on his mobile from the store: "Is this the REALLY DARK one you played me the other day?") and so I fixed him up with Michael. Sacha's price was too high apparently. The deal fell through.

Just last night I was having a beer with Sacha and he revealed that he'd sold the record to Jerry Dammers. Apparently Jerry loved it. Sacha told Jerry he thought he might have found it too dark. Jerry said nonsense, and put on Bruno Nicolai's Soundtrack to "Marquis De Sade." Word!

Posted by Woebot at December 13, 2003 08:50 PM