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About Book of DaysBook of Days is a website for Enya Brennan, aka the 'short shy serious kid who ran away from home'. Enya has, since school, kept a series of diaries which she calls her Book of Days. The song title, Book of Days, was inspired by the idea of keeping a diary, a book of days. It's unlikely that Enya will ever write an autobiography, or approve of a biography to be written of her life. Once every few years, she steps outside Aigle Studios, and outside of the bounds of her castle home, presents the world a gleaming treasure of a recording, promotes it for a few months and then disappears, returning again to the private, normal, life she loves. The Book of Days website is a repository of magazine and newspaper articles spanning nearly 20 years of her career. This is a library then, and the main subject is Enya. This is a Book of Days of her career. The original articles at Book of Days were once hosted by Peter Pehrson on his website, Shepherdmoons.net, and later held on Enya, Magic & Melody. They were gathered by various fans from as early as 1991, and posted to usenet newsgroups and Enya mailing lists. The names of these collectors and transcribers have been kept in the postings at Book of Days. Without them, much valuable information about Enya and her career would be far harder to find these days. In some places, I have corrected some of their comments, as time and new information as come to light. This brings me to a caveat about these articles. You're going to find inaccuracies in these articles, you'll find contradictions in them. Enya has gone across the board from 1987 to 2006 in how she addresses certain topics. You'll find her outspoken about her split with Clannad in the early years of her career, and then quiet on the subject in the mid-years of The Memory of Trees and Paint the Sky with Stars. With the release of Amarantine, you'll find her speaking out again in interviews about her time with Clannad. Enya's comments on the when, where and how of performing concerts have been here, there and everywhere since Watermark. Enya, like everyone of us, is capable of changing her mind. I also think that how she responds to some interview questions depends on how comfortable she was with the reporter. Who owns this website?I do. My name is TreeCat. Why do I manage it?Because I lack a life? I've listened to Enya's music since 1988, when selections from The Celts and Watermark were played on the Hearts of Space Music program on my local public service radio station. But one or two years prior to hearing those first Enya songs, I owned cassette tapes by her family's band, Clannad. My husband and I renovated a 60 year old craftsman-style bungalow in the first years of our marriage. Amazingly, we are still married; possibly because during that renovation a lot of Irish music was played in the house: Clannad, Enya, Silly Wizard, Altan. I literally scraped yucky green-flowered wallpaper from a guestroom wall to reveal a Caribbean Blue painted wall beneath, to the strains of Shepherd Moons. Something like that can make you bond with music. Who Helps You Out Here?I'm thankful for several friends who have put their beady eyes on the design of this site, and their thoughts and comments on its content: David Smith of The Avengers Forever is on hand to advise and help me with the design of the website. The present design is my own. With David's help, I expect to make a lot of improvements over the next few months. Kerry Brennan and Riene from the Unity Fan Forum have also been a big help in viewing and commenting on early versions of the pages, and catching my typos! Kerry has helped with site content in the Box Room. Kerry is also a global moderator of the Unity Fan Forum.. The Box Room at Book of DaysLook, we like Enya. We like Enya a lot. We wish we could go out for coffee with Enya, and then do some shopping with her--on her credit card, of course. We like Enya, but we don't worship her. As far as we can tell from interview statements, Enya's far happier with the non-worshippers than the worshippers anyway. At least she doesn't have to worry about us breaking into the Castle and tying up her maid! So, we have a rousing little pub here, and a dysfunctional high school. The Box Room is where you'll find Enya-related stories, songs, tall tales and insanity. If you need an Enya chuckle, this is where you need to go. Contacting EnyaThe acceptable way to contact Enya is through her record company, Warner
Music UK. That address is Warner Music UK Unacceptable ways to contact Enya are attempting to climb over the Mandeley Castle wall or sneaking through the gate disguised as the meter reader. Look, treading on her territory is not going to endear you to Enya. So, please, if you go to Dublin admire her home from afar. Don't attempt to stand on the grass, peer over the wall or huddle your little body up next to the gate in her driveway. Enya is a person just like us. Well, okay, she's petite, gorgeous, talented, one of the top-five best selling female vocalists in the world and rich as hell. But, like everybody else, she wants her privacy. Oh, and don't ask us to contact Enya for you. We are not in contact with Enya, though we understand her lawyers may contact us because of the Ultimate Enya Interview in The Box Room. We're excited! We could get her autograph on the filing papers! Contributing News Items and
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