Stories

• Scot McPhie asked Chris Gilbey, producer of Of Skins and Heart and the man who originally signed The Church, for some recollections of his time with the band.
• Gary Assa created a page about following the Church on tour in 1988.
• Doug Berry, organizer of the fan network helping to promote Hologram of Baal, bought a guitar from Marty and a bass from Steve. He has kindly sent pictures of the bass, the guitar and the two resting together.
• Craig Wood had a phone call from Steve Kilbey and posted a summary of what was said to the Seance mailing list.
• I'd like to get photographs of all the places in the world that are mentioned in Church songs. Can you help, or find some I've missed ?
• Robert Lurie tells the story of how his grandfather's best friend saved Steve Kilbey's life !
• Pat Day Cobb dug through the archives and found a newsletter sent out to fans during the 1984 US tour.
• Jim Booth met the band in an interesting way...
• An email correspondent tells me they've known Steve quite well in the past and will gradually send me some stories about him. Don't worry - nothing bad in here :-)
• Sample autographs have been scanned and made available to you. Why ? Because Kelly Brown asked me to !
• Dreams about The Church are quite common, and seem to share a few common threads, as this page shows.
• My Dad taught Steve everything he knows. At least that what Steve claimed when I first met him.
• 3 Letters that members of the Church e-mail list ("Seance") have received from Steve Kilbey.
• Another Letter was received by Paul Webb.
• Yet Another One was received by Karl Reinsch. Steve reveals what the whispering in The Golden Dawn. Karl has scanned a self-portrait.
• Song Parodies: I wrote some of these - hope you like them !
• English concerts N.J Andrew, Our Man In The UK, relates a couple of incidents
• San Juan Capistrano Thomas Irvin tells a few tales revealing the band's ability to deliver one-liners.
• San Francisco & Palo Alto Morten Skjefte and Matthew Green tell an intimate tale
• Soho NY 1992 Adam sees JD at Steve's concert and generally enjoys himself.

Our Reviews

• Melbourne 1995: Brian Smith goes overboard with detail about this fine performance. There's something in here for everyone. The photographs of this concert are also here for your viewing pleasure.
• Brisbane, The ZOO James McKay reports on the first of two Brisbane performances.
• Brisbane, Grand Orbit The second performance went off better.
• Return to Melbourne 95 Steve recovers for the return trip to Melbourne and publically comments on Shadow Cabinet.

Other Stuff

• Many Church and solo vinyl releases have messages written on the inner/run-out groove. Here's a list of those we've found so far.
• He said WHAT ?! Have you ever misheard the lyrics of a song ? Why am I asking; of course you have ! You're not alone in your cloth-eared state and here's some examples from members of Seance, the Church mailing list.
• If you need more proof of how far I'll go to put a Church spin on something, check out these anagrams. There's some funny stuff in here, plus links to the WWW pages that generated them for me.

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