Of course, one cannot say that what happened was the fault of the band, but one cannot help but say that there was a connection when things started to go wrong.
An era of decadence had begun. We both felt it come over us and I used to think we felt it in the same way, but my sister had her own journey, close to mine in location, but with a completely different outcome.
For me it felt like this: the new music, and something else too, grabbed me and shook me hard and as I was thrown and twirled this way and that, voluntarily and shrieking with joy …
Bio:
Tanya Tomasch is a Canadian writer, musician, and translator who grew up in Austria and Czechia and now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.