When I Died For The First Time

Tim Booth became the mid-wife for this manuscript when Seth Brakes's attorney had instructions to pass this directly on to him if anything happened to Seth, and unless you've been hiding under a rock, you will know that something has happened to Seth Brakes.



Did Seth really choose to send it to Tim because a psychic told him to? Tim can't think of any other plausible reason.



To his knowledge Tim met Seth two times. Once at a party and once at Brian Eno's house where he dropped in on one of Brian's acapella nights. He was not in a great condition and found it hard to sing Gospel and Folk songs he was unfamiliar with. Tim guessed like most Indie band singers singing was not his forte.



Perhaps Seth related to the fact that Tim is a (generally) sober singer, and sobriety is rare in the music industry. He had said complimentary things about James in past interviews, which suggests he admires them, but still, Tim was greatly surprised to be used as his conduit.



When Tim read the manuscript he was hooked. Is this a diary, fiction, confession or a mixture of all three? He has no idea but he did find it a good read, way better than most of his lyrics. So he passed it on to a literary agent, who of course wanted him to edit it but he didn't want to betray Seth's trust, so here you have it, more or less intact as the author intended.