'You do know who that was, don't you?'
'No. Wait, I have an idea.'

Brian bought a copy of the SnowboundInternationalPopClub fanzine before I did only because he took the change from his pocket more quickly. I returned a little later to get my own copy, but, I can only assume, Dick and Keith had left a note saying that they went in due to cloudy skies. A missed chance; I know those too well. The entire weekend was nearly a missed chance, but the English seaside, spring days, and Belle and Sebastian took precedence over money and final exams. Really, a simple choice.

The first issue of SnowboundInternationalPopClub commemorates the Bowlie Weekender with, oddly enough, writing about the Field Mice, the Chesterfields, the Flatmates, the King of Luxembourg, and Belle and Sebastian. Snowbound is scraps of memories about pop music, but it is trying to build from what happened ten years ago to an enthusiastic and exciting present. Concerns range from pop music to living and loving to... just everything and more.

Snowbound is calling for a renewed passion of life and pop (or perhaps that order should be pop and life?). Things just are not as they used to be, obviously since you change and the world also changes, and you do not necessarily change together. But there is still that certain magic in the world if you choose to find it. And it is easy to find.

Snowbound makes life simple:

Socialism Love Pop Faith
Fun, Punk and Chocolate Digestives

At the airport Brian bought chocolate digestives within the first twenty minutes of leaving the plane. We snacked on them during the day and left our crumbs around London--Primrose Hill, Camden, Leicester Square, Farringdon, Wimbledon, Victoria Station, and finally at the Bowlie Weekender where we finished the pack. But I doubt that those crumbs could help us find our way back, and if we did, it would all be different and not really something to go back to. The only way to go then is forward.

It is back to basics, starting with communication. Steal kisses.

Write to SnowboundInternationalPopClub at p.o. box 3126, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 1BZ, England.

'You do know what that was, don't you?'
'It is the promise of great things, my friend.'