Wow, another reply I hear you all say!

Just wanted to say that I agree with what has been said already. I do love Void though. If you can get past the grating sound, which for me sums up the emotions of the song, and listen to the lyrics, which I have to say Sharon summed up beautifully. Who knows what pain Darren must have endured to write lyrics as he has in Void, Unlovable and I Forgive You (brilliant live track). I, too think it’s a shame that most people who do not own the Affa album or TTATS, just know Darren from IKILY and TMD. Nothing wrong with either track in my mind but they pale into insignificance next to TLAM, IDKYAM and TBAACM.

From TTATS, I am still so sorry that it was someone’s decision to release Pop!ular as the first single. To me it is just not strong enough, although I loved it live but for a first single from the album, it was wrong. For me a far better choice would have been ILTW, because not only does it contain the title of the album, it is a great song. I just don’t think the majority of people ‘got’ Pop!ular and if they didn’t get the irony of the song, they would just think ‘what an arrogant git’.

By the way, Darren did perform Light on the tour. Unfortunately he only performed it in Manchester, which is a shame because it was just Darren standing at a keyboard and it was lovely. Very pure and very simple. I got the opportunity to ask Rob outside the Bristol venue why it had only been performed at Manchester and then dropped and was told that ‘someone’ said there were too many slow songs. A real shame I feel because it was beautiful.

Like Sharon, I thought the images shown on the screen during Insatiable on the DL tour were very poignant.

Joyce

xx