The boy who never grew old

Our Out of The Blue (Into the Black) issue is dedicated to Anno Birkin.
Poet and musician Anno Birkin was killed in a car crash in 2001, alongside two members of his band Kicksjoydarkness. Although merely twenty years old , he left behind an impressive creative legacy of 57 recorded songs, twenty hours of mini disk and over 1200 poems and lyrics scattered on pieces of paper, in notebooks and on walls everywhere. Thanks to the massive cataloging effort of his father Andrew Birkin we now all have the privilige of being privy to Anno's thoughts, words and music. As Bruce Robinson so aptly puts in the foreword to Anno's Collection of poetry 'Who Said The Race Was Over', : "Anno didn't need death to be brilliant. Death isn't part of the judgement. "
Find out all about the importance of being Anno at www.anno.co.uk
The King is gone but he's not forgotten.

Listen to Kicksjoydarkness ' majestic songs here.