Dearest Plague Rats,
Have I taken the time to thank you properly for being there with all of us lunatics on the N. American tour? If I have not, THANK YOU!!! From the bottom of my plague-ridden heart, thank you. As I said so many times on stage, you have proven me right and everybody else wrong (we have no audience in America? Really???), and I love you for that. Many of you drove for hours to see us, and god knows we drove for hours to see you;), and I now sit in a cell surrounded by letters and paintings and poems and rats and tokens of remembrance given to me by you, but the most cherished gift of all is that you sang with me. You sang with me, and you knew every word, and I will never forget that. My girls and I saw MANY of you beautiful Muffins coming to show after show after show, and in the end we felt like we were singing to old friends...and don't think I don't realize that a lot of you had waited more than five years to see me, and I thank you sincerely for not giving up on me that I would ever come to you, because I know for some time it seemed that I would never make it back to the homeland. I thought perhaps you would have forgotten me, but I didn't give up on you, and we made this happen at last, both of us hoping and praying that the other would be there, and the magic is that we all were! So, is the economy down? Yes. Are ticket sales down more than 60% for all concerts in America no matter the artist? Yes. But did we all make it happen, and do what it took to find each other at last, despite these odds, AND dress up in our finest Asylum best? YES. Should I stopping asking myself questions? Yes.
Of course, for my VIP Book Reading PRs (you know you are all VIPs to us, PRs): You gave me your time and your love each and every night. You cried with me. You watched me bleed. You heard things about me that my closest friends don't know, and you accepted them with open ratty hearts. And you sang "My Fairweather Friend" with me and gave new and happy memories to a song I had only before associated with sadness. I adored meeting you, I adored holding you in my arms and taking beautiful sexy crazy photos with you, I adored singing with you, I adored teaching you all about leeches (THE AMAZING LEECH!!!), I adored sharing out secrets, and we ALL enjoyed the tea cookies many of you made for us;)...we had some sweet after-show bus parties with those!
Lastly, I want to thank all of the parents (and there were many) who took their young Plague Rats to see us. Some of you knew about us and wanted to sing along too, and others just went because you saw how much it meant to your little ones that they could be there that night, and you may be sure that it meant just as much to me and the Crumpets, because (a) we recruit early;), and (b) there is something in the Asylum for everybody, regardless of age (we're pretty much a dinner theatre children's show anyway...). I saw (and was happy to meet many of you) mothers and daughters (often both dressed to the nines), fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, fathers and sons, (no, I won't go through every genetic combination here) fathers carrying tiny daughters on their shoulders so they could see...having a four-year-old with a heart painted on her cheek call out "I'm still innocent!!" after the song "I Want My Innocence Back"...well, it just doesn't get much better than that.
Now, Europe...N. America has raised the bar, so get ready to fight like a girl, because we are coming for you;)...and we can hardly wait!!!
Final note: Sir Edward and the Asylum presents a very limited number of
Autographed German "Opheliac" Promotional Posters on eBay. These are up for
one day only, and are a bit special if I do say so myself as they have never been made available to the public for sale, but were used for promotional store use only. They are also
really big, and the ratties want to have them for dinner, so get them before they do...
So, for the moment, I wish all of my little rats all over the world a very Happy New Year of Plague spreading! I am so proud of us all;)!!!
With Love & Bloody Crumpets from the Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls, Block B, Cell W14, Inmate A,
EA, Sir Edward, and Basil
P.S.
The Asylum Army: Are You Committed?
P.P.S.
The Plague: Get it. Feed it. Spread it.
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They were made with love! And even though this may just make me look like a dork, I want to apolozige for grinning like an idiot when you were talking about how sad "My Fairweather Friend" is to you. I was just so happy to be in your presence...
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