joe and wilbur better post the fucking close ups NOW

A shout-out to the Asterisk, simple and powerful

✳️

It’s come to mean so much here, to the fannish and wayward who feel the #LoveforLovejoy.

First it meant the caveat, and not the good kind. Then it meant anticipation. Then it came to mean a bonus, an extra thank you, a promise.

In our house, it’s hope in the form of punctuation.

Caveats (the Google Problem)

Lovejoy 😎 pushed past the pain on their own terms, taking the hits without mounting any defense except to keep making music. I respect their position that private stuff should be private, but unchallenged bad-guy labels tend to become fact by plea of no lo contendre. Mentions come with caveats. Anyone who googles Lovejoy finds bad-guy stuff without a rebuttal. So they’ve got a Google problem. They’re a band with an Asterisk (until they’re not), and we’ve just gotta live with it.

Anticipation

Are you okay? New song when? Soon.

How soon??? ::Crickets::

WHEN? Soon.

WHEN?— and don’t you dare say s**n! Sheepish s**n.

Video when? Tour dates when?Album when?? S**n kittens, s**n.

THANK YOU

Bonus

One Simple Trick blew us away. It exceeded every expectation.

And just when the road looked long and boring (because nothing could be better that that) Lovejoy dropped Second to One.

The Asterisk as cover art was clever on multiple levels. Most obviously, it meant the EP wasn’t a stand-alone piece, but rather bonus tracks from OST, born from the same creative effort. STO is OST*, loud and clear.

The Asterisk is special to Lovenjoyers. Lovejoy released these tracks because they wanted to, but the cover art made it feel even more like a gift. Intentional or not, it felt like a wink, a nod to our common history.

Thanks for all the * this year, and thanks for the * you have in store for us.