Even Natalie Merchant Catches A Cold Sometimes!

You know when you travel half way around the world and then borrow a car and drive 3.5 hours to see a Natalie Merchant concert - and find out she’s sick and the show gets cancelled? Yeah, that.

Dear Natalie Merchant,

I’ve been a fan since I saw your old group 10,000 Maniacs do the MTV Unplugged show. Well, I live in New Zealand, so I probably saw it a little after it was broadcast. For a while there, we got to see the best of those gigs, and I used to record them all onto VHS, I had a bunch of ‘em that were favourites (R.E.M., Crowded House, 10…