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by TheSquirrel » Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:49 pm
I really like the news there is going to be a new album. I wanted to see her on a solo tour and am not the slightest bit interested in Lilith, but maybe I will get the chance to see her in a year or two on a solo tour, in the UK, otherwise Canada. Always wanted to go there and have been saving since the end of the last tour.
I really really hope the album is not going to be too much about the split with Ash. She really needs to be quiet about that and do what she did before. Let things lie around for a few years before dealing with them. As I have posted elsewhere, she spent ages on the last tour telling everyone before she played "Push" how bad she had been to Ash. She talked about how she had been shitty, and tempremental, and on one or two occasions spoke about how she virtually lost her mind. She said she wrote that song to make up for all of that. She wrote it for that saint of a man who was the most wonderful husband and human being out there. The man who took all of her worst and came up smiling. A total rock. Anyone else would have left her. Every night she went on about this. Frankly, she is going to look a little silly, if she now writes songs about the split. She just needs to keep quiet and focus on other things before IMO, she does make herself look rather silly. Ash has kept a dignified silence. I hope she does too.
I hope the album is being brought out with the best of intent and is not a chance to take a swing at Ash. It probably wont be, and I am just being negative. (Okay admittedly that is my natural state). After all, I have been totally wrong about there being a new album. I personally think she is better at writing songs about other people, and other things, from a distance, and writing about herself from a distance of some time. (Possession is my favourite song so there goes that theory, but I am generalising again)
I still like her art, so I hope I get to see her live again. I am starting to doubt that I will. Maybe the money saved will go towards Kerrville or some James McMurtry dates in Texas. But the big event for me is still Sarah McLachlan live. 1000 gigs plus in my life and the 10 times I have seen her are still the greatest memories of my 37 years going to gigs and concerts. I have to remind myself constantly that I really do like her music, because there has been some stuff in the wilderness years that she or her management have done, that really annoys, bores, or irritates me. I do not necessarily respect her as a person, but that doesn't matter. I do respect her as my favourite artist of all time.
I'm an opinionated old tosser and proud of it.
