Chris Monk wrote:Got to be honest here Andy, Im amazed that you haven't had a go at writing a TD biography yourself. Your encyclopaedic knowledge of all things TD and your seemingly endless supply of archive material would make you the ideal candidate.
As for Digital Gothic I never did buy a copy, the idea of a critical review really turned me off. I'm really not interested in what a critic thinks of TD's back catalogue, I'm old enough and ugly enough to make up my own mind about the music.
Cheers Chris, well to be honest there's several reasons why I haven't, firstly to be honest I don't think I have the talent to make it interesting over an entire book. With almost 40 years of material available, it's more a fact of what you'd leave out, rather than what you would include, and that draws you into the danger of only writing what 99% of fans would already know (and believe me that would be almost as boring to write as it would be to read). Secondly the whole copyright issue is a complete pain in arse, it would take years and years to cover all the legal issues. Lastly the shear amount of effort would be daunting. I've been collecting press cuttings for about 10 years (well over 1300 different items, including tickets, adverts, press photos and passes), I've got these in about 9 folders, roughly about 5 feet worths of shelf space.
One footnote, only one man knows all the real story about TD...and it aint me.
'for me' the whole blog idea is much better (many thanks to Jeffrey au Yeung for the idea), that way I can add things as and when I scan, correct or receive them. It might be a fairly random way of doing things, but it's really easy....and more people should do it
but i could not think of a better obsession 
