Yes,
Sometimes I forget too, that what we actually did actually meant quiet a lot
at times to a significant minority.
I'm Paul by the way- I founded the orginal thing (wrapped in long nights of
passion, panic, and the occasional liquer) along with Dimitra and Rachel.
I have never written to this board before, but wrote quite often (QUITE
often in the early days ;-)) in Friends of the Heroes.
You know, other people have asked me what's happened to FOTH. I tell them
it's been buried alive, which sounds quite gruesome but, in a perverse kind
of way, it's not actually dead and buried. Some heart and a morsel of muscle
still beats; through this group, through the people that remember, through
the people that told me they cried at Tom's stories, guffawed at my
shenanigans, fell off their chair at Ian's inventions, felt affinity with
Dimitra's musings, and wanted a nice cup of tea with Rachel and Belle.
There's many, many more people to thank (and I never have) for keeping the
thing going when, for some people, everything else was falling apart.
Time for a cuppa I think...


>From: "Dimitra Daisy" <DimitraDaisy@...>
>Reply-To: friendsoftheheroes@...
>To: friendsoftheheroes@...
>Subject: [friendsoftheheroes] A story
>Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:38:58 +0100
>
>Hello everyone.
>
>I think I have never, ever posted to this list before. I didn't even
>remember it was on yahoogroups. In fact I first typed out
>"all@..." without realising... But, anyway. The
>story.
>
>On Saturday, I went to see ballboy, as some of you know. Yesterday, I
>posted on the Bowlie message board on a thread about that gig. So
>what, I hear you say. Well, someone noticed that I had "a friend of
>the heroes" under my name, which is funny, because I had considered
>changing it (I entered it three years ago, when I first joined Bowlie,
>though I never really posted or read it much) but decided against it,
>mostly because I couldn't think of anything as cool. Said person sent
>me a comment saying that "I read one of your zines ages ago and it was
>the best thing I'd ever read!"
>
>Of course I messaged him back, and he told me this:
>
>"Gosh, was it really three years ago? I used to keep the first page of
>that zine, the ink polaroid story, sellotaped to my door in Ireland
>when I lived there to remind me of there being beautiful things in the
>world.
>
>It was the first time I'd heard of the Aislers Set too, and I bought
>an LP after reading thta zine, and then they became one of my very
>favourite bands, and kept me coming back to Bowlie to learn more about
>them, which then changed my life in rather a lot of ways, (not to
>mention the way I sing and write!). I wrote a wee story, tangentially
>based on the writing in that zine, for the Bowlie Slow Graffiti zine
>that came out last year, too.
>
>I guess sometimes things you do have effects well beyond what you think.."
>
>I have to say I am speechless. I just thought you'd be interested to
>hear this too. I keep forgetting -- no, wait, I find it hard to
>believe -- that there were people out there who cared about what we
>did, even though we never got to hear about it. But I do so like to be
>reminded.
>
>I hope everyone is fine, by the way.
>
>Dimitra
>
>
>--
>Because "happiness will be our revenge" is the only thing I've ever
>seen written on a wall that I whole-heartedly agree with.
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/dimitradaisy/
> http://www.sprinkledpepper.net/diaries/
> http://www.friendsoftheheroes.co.uk/

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