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Tony R
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Posted: January 03 2009 at 15:51 |
Fish 2008 - A Happy Hogmanay
Dear Fishheads, Freaks, fans and the Company,
It seems apt that on the closing day of 2008 I received the news that I had been hoping for in a phone call from my ENT doctor.
The biopsy samples taken from my vocal chords have come back negative
on any malignant or pre-malignant growth. It appears that the source of
all my problems has been a cyst which has been present for quite some
time and was surgically removed during the recent examination.
I have been given a clean bill of health and told to start vocal exercises in order to stretch the repairing tissue.
I can't explain how relieved I am.
My voice has dynamically changed since the growth was removed and was
noticed on the phone by my doctor and commented on by Mo when she
visited the studio yesterday.
Even the muscle movement involved in swallowing has eased and for the
first time in a couple of years I don't feel as if I have a golf ball
in my throat.
I have to admit that certain newspaper reports got me down when after
gleaning all their quotes from my blog they then came up with the
assumption that I was finished as a singer.
It appears they have most definitely got it wrong and one of my first
calls was to Yatta to tell him to go ahead and book festivals for the
Summer. :-)
The other plans remain the same and I will be actively pursuing a
revitalisation of my acting career and working on my novel as of the
beginning of next year 2009.
I've already been approached to present and co-produce a series of
programmes on '60s and '70s Scottish rock music by an independent film
company; something that I find exciting and which will take me into an
area I have wanted to investigate for quite some time.
It's most definitively going to be a busy year.
With the promise of festivals in the Summer there will obviously be a
couple of warm up dates as I will have to put together a new set with
hopefully my existing band line up. With this in mind I am going to
look at the possibility of a convention in Haddington sometime next
summer.
Yatta and I will need to put our heads together to work out the
feasibility of it all as I don't want to commit to any touring outside
of festivals and staggered dates are difficult to maintain a settled
band line up as some musicians will have other commitments that I have
to respect and adjust to.
I am confident I can make it happen and at least hit some stages in the middle of 2009.
I just want to wholeheartedly thank all of you who sent me emails and posted letters of support on the forum.
It meant a lot to me as it was a difficult head space to be in for
quite some time.
I sincerely appreciated your best wishes and genuine concern and it
continued to remind me what a special group of people I have out there
and who are brought together by the music.
All I can do is wish you all a very happy and brilliant new year when
it comes in and I will raise a glass to you all when the bells call in
2009.
You are most definitely the Company I choose :-)
Thanks for being out there for me!
Slainth Mhath
lots of love
Fish xxx
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Dean
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Joined: May 13 2007
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Posted: January 03 2009 at 15:57 |
![Clap Clap](https://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley32.gif) excellent news
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Angelo
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Posted: January 04 2009 at 05:11 |
Well.... for a second that golf ball he lost was in my throat. This is great news!
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A B Negative
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Joined: May 02 2006
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Posted: January 04 2009 at 07:36 |
Tony R wrote:
I've already been approached to present and co-produce a series of programmes on '60s and '70s Scottish rock music by an independent film company; something that I find exciting and which will take me into an area I have wanted to investigate for quite some time.
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Looking forward to it!
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"The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time."
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Peter
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Posted: January 04 2009 at 10:27 |
Sorry -- with no disrespect or lack of sympathy to Mr. Fish or his fans intended or implied -- but when I first viewed the title of this thread just now, I honestly thought it might be the name of some new metal band someone was proposing for addition!
It would make for a pretty catchy metal band name, you must admit (especially if you think of the "fish" named as being the finny animals, not the singer).
It has the requisite reference to something distasteful and likely fatal, the fear/suffering element....![LOL LOL](https://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley36.gif)
Edited by Peter - January 04 2009 at 10:36
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: January 04 2009 at 14:19 |
Peter wrote:
Sorry -- with no disrespect or lack of sympathy to Mr. Fish or his fans intended or implied -- but when I first viewed the title of this thread just now, I honestly thought it might be the name of some new metal band someone was proposing for addition!
It would make for a pretty catchy metal band name, you must admit (especially if you think of the "fish" named as being the finny animals, not the singer).
It has the requisite reference to something distasteful and likely fatal, the fear/suffering element....![LOL LOL](https://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley36.gif) |
I see I'm not the only one who thought this thread oddly titled. So I have to raise the question, if Fish were a fish what kind of fish would Fish be?
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lazland
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Joined: October 28 2008
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Posted: January 04 2009 at 14:43 |
![Cry Cry](smileys/smiley19.gif) I wish him all the best. We went to see the Big Man in Pontardawe (S Wales) at the end of 2008, and he was in great form - a thoroughly enjoyable gig which will be remembered for some time.
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AstroAvia
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Posted: January 08 2009 at 03:40 |
I wish him all the best. This man has been very important in my life, yet he doesn't even know that!
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