Greetings! Firstly please excuse the directness of this email if i have not previously introduced myself to you electronically or otherwise. Your email adresses have been forwarded to me from trusted sources. This is a group email so I may also engage you individually soon. Please read the letter, and feel free to get back to me or Ian Thomas anytime in the future.
thanks for your time .

MEMORANDUM
RE: THEE MANHATTAN XFER

Not a year goes by that we don't receive a handful of e-mail re: Matt Middleton and when he might be coming to visit X city, town and/or country. Usually, I echo Matt's own sentiments on the subj: "buy me a round trip ticket and I'm there". But obviously, ours has been somewhat of an optimistic idea around something we could never afford to do...and Matt, bless him, has refused to suck it in and swim.

Yesterday morning, tho, we received some great news: by the good graces of New Zealand and the dogged determination of Matt himself, Masseur Middleton has officially been approved for a trip over to America; Crude will land on US soil in November of 2006, w/ his aim set on NYC. Despite a few tongue-in-cheek warnings of rats bigger than housecats, a monolithic transit system and Alan Vega manning a hotdog cart on the Bowery, Middleton was steadfast w/ his desire to experience NYC firsthand...and really, who could blame him?

So this, my friends, is where we call on you for help: if you're in a position to lend a hand and yer already familiar w/ Matt and his work, then you'll know what sort of rare opportunity this is. If you desire to help, but have no idea who Matt is, we'd still like to hear from you - we'll turn you on to Crude, and maybe you'll want to help make this happen. Some of you, I'll be contacting directly w/in the next few days - either cos I've lent you a hand in the past or 'cos my obsessive collection of data tells me yer a good cat to touch on this front.

Outside of a few gigs/places to play, Matt and I are also seeking a sub-lease situation for the period of a week or so, as well as a guide who's familiar w/ the city and interested in hanging with us/making sure we don't get lost. At this time, I imagine Matt's visit will fall w/in the first couple weeks of November (as wed like to avoid Thanksgiving travel issues for ourselves and anyone coming out to catch a show), so if you have a lead for us on anything during that time frame, please let us know.

We have utmost respect for NYC and the people who live/work/shit in it and we're not opportunists fishing for a free/easy ride. Whatever we take, we also aim to give. Which is why we're humbly reaching out here - to the underground community - w/ hope that we can kick this thing together old school network style. We're willing to put reasonable greenback on the table for a two week sub-lease in NYC, and we intend to pay our own way as well. Putting a thing like this together isn't cheap and we're mere working class folk, but we ain't freeloaders. We'll cover our own balls, but we need some NYC help w/ finding situations and setting this thing up right.

To reach Invisible Generation:
Email: operator(@)invisiblegeneration.com
Bat phone: 816-589-9987
Skype: invisible_generation

To reach Matt Middleton:
Crude696(@)yahoo.co.nz
http://www.myspace.com/cruder
http://www.myspace.com/crudecat

Keep yer eyes here for further updates re: Crude vs. NYC 2006 (a/k/a Thee Manhattan Transfer)...or give Matt's pages a feel. Meanwhile, let us hear from you if you think you'd like to lend a hand, and, lets see what Myspace can fucking do!

Yrs in White Light/White Heat,
Ian

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