i'm having a hard time letting go of that memory, that's the one i'll carry with me for as long as i can. 
can you imagine that? i don't even know why it's so important but it feels very special, its some karmic thing i always intuitively think. 
i guess its stupid me even writing but i love him and his many arts. its given me so much nourishment over the course of my life, that kinda creativity has surpassed even bowie whom i idolised for a long time when i was in london and berlin, but he had that awful lets dance period in australia, while the church were on the ascent somewhere out there in london where i watched old grey whistle test and heard them. i guess they were both equal in influence over me 
but very different ways, whereas bowie imprinted upon me deeply as a teenager bowie also let me down with his malarky in disco land, i'm not talking young americans period which was indeed brilliant, i'm talking 'let's dance' disco period! 
the church have remained true to some spiritual element which exists in their work. i use the word spiritual in a very loose way, read into it what you will, but it's the real church, a spiritual music, there's more experience and wisdom and intelligence and imagination in one song than there is within anything else i can think to listen to, and then steve collaborates, paints, acts and writes and tells stories and jokes does impressions equally as brilliantly, on the spot, man i wish you could see the 'zimmer jacket' story or hear it, it's not just hearing the story it's steve is acting it, you don't often see that kinda theatre in a theatre even. i have i seen steve act in lots of plays, he did a merchant of venus beach once that was magnificent, and van camper is fucking brilliant to, so my thing is with all the talents and gifts steve kilbey is a beautiful creative spirt in the world. he's always been someone i followed whereas i left everyone else behind me. 
i do occasionally listen to a random non church band in the car, just to keep me coming back to the church, no, that's not fair, i listen to a lot of other music, i like obscure london post punk bands, classical music, music i gen get lost in i guess but there's other types, i like xtc, hawkwind, massive attack, be bop delux, iggy pop, shriekback, talking heads, eno, patti smith, kate bush and bob dylan, the velvets and maryvin gaye, i love grace jones and faithless, i like heaps of stuff, but these days i only play the church at home. and in particular the new kilbey kennedy cd, it's got everything one would need, it's like the dark side of the moon through a black hole, 'songs from the real world.'
it's the perfect cd. the way it was made and the way it sounds,it's beautiful positive intention but it feels like love, it's a loving intention that you fall in love with. 
that is this music!
it's the writers music, novels will be written, film made, peoples music, painters music, creative switched on people, all over the world will just fall in love with the spirit of this music and create something inspired, that's the beauty in this music, it's exactly what genesis is all about, once you take out the junk, it's about the spirit of creation. vishnu into dreaming it up, jesus turns it into love, buddha  lets it go.