My mind was flashing back fitfully: wandering sober and suited in the aftermath of 9/11 through Brighton car parks accompanied by four serene female musicians (Electrelane), merry and sea-swept near the carousel on Brighton seafront, utterly charmed by bassist Ros Murray’s previous band, the Marine Girls-referencing Lesbo Pig, arguments caused by guitarist Mia Clarke about music and friendship, the deep dark days upon being informed of my dad’s imminent death and recording several spoken word pieces influenced by same, soundtracked by Susman’s tumbling, wastrel piano (and later, when he died: one of those songs played as his body departed the crematorium), radio shows in tandem with Gaze (and also a first tentative entry back into the live arena)… the fact that Electrelane chanced across my vision (late 2001) the same time photographer Steve Gullick first mooted the idea of the magazine that would become Careless Talk Costs Lives to me - and have now called a halt to their music (“an indefinite hiatus”) just as Plan B enters the most problematic period of its existence… the fact that during the entire period of these two magazines’ existence they supplied a constant to my life’s changing tapestry (and vice versa)… Her voice sounded so powerful, magnetic - yearning, caught up in the loneliness of imminent separation, throwing out high-pitched notes seemingly unknowing amid the motorik beat, driven organ and resolute guitar. Verity Susman had just finished performing a totally stunning version of recent single “To The East” with the band she founded back in 1998 with drummer Emma Gaze, the defiantly individual Electrelane - and I was choking back emotion. “Do you think people will be in tears by the end?” asked my wife where we were stood, halfway back at the Brighton Pavilion. E-mail your sniffles to Everett at And Kisses Plan B publisher/SOC weekly columnist Everett True just caught the band’s final hometown send-off. A few months ago, Brighton four-piece Electrelane went on “ indefinite hiatus.” We sniffled.
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