Hi Guys,

I am not even sure if you still get these emails... but I will have faith and hope that one or more of you read this.

I unfortunatly missed the entirity of last year due to being hit by a car and having a long sleep (read coma) for almost 10 months. So I totally missed the release of your (sadly) last album, and the news that you had decided to disband and move on. I wanted you to know how much your music has meant to me over the last ten years (?). I have been a huge GC fan since you released the very first album back in 89 I think it was.

I also have another reason to thank you, and this is the reason I am emailing you. When I was hit by a car, back in December of 99, I was dead on arrival at hospital. However I was revived enough to be put on life support. Luckily for me, damage to my brain was minimum, and although I have had to re-learn to walk, talk, write, feed myself ... well most of the things you take for granted in life, I never lost any memorries of the music I love. And your music is featured heavily in those memories. Anyway..... I was, as I mentioned, in a Coma for 9 and a bit months, my wife and then 1 year old daughter spent most of their time at the hospital with me during this long year. They tried all sorts of things to get me to jump out of my coma, my friends and family would visit all the time and speak to me. They constantly played my favorite movies in my room, and music was something that was played almost all the time my wife was there.

My friend had borrowed my copy of "Machine Fish", and he had kept hold of it for months, in late September of 2000 he came to the hospital to vist me. He had with him my copy of Machine Fish (which I love) and after a couple of hours talking to Claire (my wife) he put on the CD. It was during 'Easy to Love' that I remember first being aware that I had control over my body (although very weak and hard to move). Well I came around, and saw my daughter for the first time in almost 10 months.. and the words "and you were so easy to love, sent down from above" are still with me when I think about that. So, I wanted to thank you for your music, and the fact that it has had so much impact on my life that I was able to come back from the brink and have my life returned to me due to its presence in my life.

I am slowly recovering, and although I spend a lot of time in a wheelchair due to various leg injuries I sustained and still being weak, I have returned to work, and have just managed to get on to your website for the first time in over a year. I must appologise for spelling mistakes, but I have pretty much had to re lean english in 6 months. This email has taken about 2 hours to write.

I wanted to make you aware, that perhaps your achievements in music have been more than you think they ever could have been.

I look forward to hearing the new album when i can find it in the UK.... late as it may be.

Thank you all, god bless you all and best of luck in what ever you do in the future.

Phil

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