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NewsLetter 6 Tuesday, March 8, 2005Planet Rezillo Newsletter _________________________________________________________________________________________ THE STORY YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ IS TRUE ONLY THE NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT This is the city. Los Angeles, California. I work here. My names Friday. I carry a badge. It was Monday March 7, I was working out of the interview room downtown with my partner lieutenant Bill Gannon. Now I don’t usually mind looking at dames but the one I was looking at now was worried, and that made me worried, I had questions. I hoped she had the answers.
"The facts Ma’am, just the facts". Friday focused his steely yet concerned attention upon the woman sat across the desk from him. She was no floozie from downtown he thought, she was smartly dressed and politely mannered, about mid thirties with nothing apparently out of place, well nothing except the current situation she found herself in. So what was her story, how had she become involved, how did a well heeled dame like her get mixed up in this in the first place? Friday drew on his cigarette, patiently awaiting her response, his concentrated gaze unflinching. "Of course sergeant" she began "the facts, of course, ..well; " "...The Rezillos will be playing at the prestigious 19th annual South by South West music festival and conference in Austin Texas USA. Venue: The Elysium, Austin, Friday 18th March Courtesy of support received by the Scottish Arts Council http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/artsinscotland/music/features/profile.aspx http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/latestnews/1001440.aspx " "You’re doing fine ma’am" Joe replied, "and this is all well and good, but in order to build up a profile here we’re gonna need a little more to go on. Now, is there anything else at all that you can remember? " Lieutenant Bill Gannon meanwhile had just returned to the interview room, he deposited a tray of three styrofoam cups of coffee onto the desk, then perched himself on the corner edge, looking down into the confused woman's eyes. "Anything at all ma’am, anything would help. Please, think hard" "Well" she continued " I didn’t really think it important at the time, as it would only seem to affect the British, but, ..it’s the same group of people who will be responsible I guess " "If you please ma’am, it could be important, do carry on" Friday leaned forward, eagerly awaiting the flow of information he hoped to receive from the tap that had now begun to trickle. The woman looked slowly across from Joe Friday to Bill Gannon and back again "Well, okay" she continued; "Later in April the band will be doing a series of dates in the UK running through May/June to promote the "Rezillos Radio Times" session cd to be released on the Damaged Goods label. The following dates are now confirmed: Friday May 6 Dundee-Reading Room Saturday May 7 Durham University with The Damned Sunday May 8 Leicester- Princess Charlotte Saturday May 21 Brighton-Concorde 2 Sunday May 22 Morecambe Wasted festival http://www.holidaysinthesun.net/ Wednesday June 1 Manchester Academy 3 Thursday June 2 Portsmouth-Wedgwood Rooms Friday June 3 Bristol -Bier Keller Saturday June 4 Stourbridge-Rock Cafe 2000 Sunday June 5 Leeds-Cockpit"
"Hmm, then this is far more serious than I thought," Friday droned on, pensively stroking his chin as he leaned back in his chair. "It could involve Scotland Yard, or even Interpol " "Bobbies on bicycles two by two?" "Say what Bill?" "Oh ..er, nothin’ Joe, nothing at all" "But that's not all" interjected the woman, " I heard something else, ..oh, it’s just too horrible, ..I heard them say, ..they said..." "..MORE CONFIRMATIONS WHEN AVAILABLE."
Tears of desperation began welling in the woman's eyes now, her hands involuntarily clasping the top of her purse as if to rip right through it with her white knuckled fingers. "And it gets worse" she said; "July will hopefully see the band playing some European festivals!" Gannon and Friday stared incredulously at each other "Texas, Britain and then Europe?" said Joe Friday "My God ..why, it’s just fantastic". * * * * * * *
There are over 5,000 men in this city, who know that being a policeman is an endless, glamourless, thankless job that's gotta be done. But the all too familiar officer that came bursting into the incident room later that day looked anything but morose. "Well stop your grinnin’ an’ drop your linen!" Bill Gannon exclaimed, waving a warrant upon which the ink hadn’t yet dried. "This is it Joe, this is it. I got the authority here in my hand and it’s official! We’re goin’ undercover, so dust down your stetson and your blue jeans cos’ we’re heading for Texas, we’ll pursue these goddamn people half way around the world if we have to, and we’re gonna read ‘em their rights if it’s the last thing we do!" * * * * * * * So if you spot the actual Joe Friday and Bill Gannon at any of our gigs, and you can prove it, then a ‘Poundstretchers’ One Pound gift voucher will be winging it’s way to you! And 10 unlucky runners up will each receive absolutely beggar all; "Do youse wiseguys think we’re runnin’ somekinda charity here or sumthin? ...Why I oughta......." * Previous News
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