Dreamboat from Blang! by Lach

SONG NOTES: I started reading the comic book Sandman. I loved this book and kept try¬ing to get Geoff to read it. "It's exactly the kind of book you and I would write. It's like this guy knows us. It's great!" I told him. A week later Geoff called me and said he had been reading Sandman and did I know it was written by Neil. "Yeah, of course, Neil Gaiman, the cur¬rent god of comic books!" I said.
"Yeah, also known as Neil Gaiman my oldest friend from London, the guy I got kicked out of school with, the singer from my first punk band, Chaos. When you said it was like this guy know us…he does!”
Hmmmm, just another in a very, very long series of coincidences between Geoff and me.
Dreamboat is my tribute to The Sandman and his creator Neil Gaiman.
STUDIO NOTES: I was attending a play about the Golem. Every time the creature appeared this remarkable sound similar to a Theremin was heard. After the show I went up to the musicians and asked what produced the tones. They showed me a bizarre metal container encircled by metal rods. They said it was called a waterphone and that they were pretty rare. The next day I was talking with my producer Richard and told him I heard the perfect instrument for "Dreamboat" and described it to him.
"Oh, you mean a waterphone. I've got one of them. They are made in Hawaii by a guy I know named Richard Waters. I'll bring it in." He said.
It is now a fact, Richard knows everybody in the world. We had three versions of the song and on the best one Billy had broken his drum brush halfway through but kept on playing. If you listen closely at the end you can hear Billy saying, "Fuck, the brush broke!"
And my reply of "Cool."

Lach, founder of the Antifolk movement and star of BBC Radio 4's The Lach Chronicles.

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