February 2002 - Sinister

Sinister: those fancy keyrings, that you whistle at...and they whistle right back.
by nafees saeed 16 Feb '02

16 Feb '02

this time last week, i sat down with my notebook and made a list of things that i was going to do over half term. at the time, these things were essential, and i had every intention of doing them , and during the week i actually managed to do them. my room was cleaned, and re-arranged, i started making revision notes and i sat for hours writing essays on middle aged political commentators whose names were difficult to spell. it feels weird to have done all these things because usually i make elaborate plans which never get followed through, and live forever in my head, along with my good intentions. but this time i've actually done stuff, and i feel quite strange. i've become so used to having something impending looming over me that i've forgotten what it feels like to be on top of things. it sort of struck me this afternoon after i finished my last essay. for the first time in a while, it wasn't windy and there wasn't any rain...and for a change the sun was out which changed the greyness of the sky to orange and if the calendar on my wall didn't tell me that it was february i would've easily of thought that it was the middle of summer. everyone knows that summer is just the best time of the year. i never appreciate it at the time, it's only in the midst of winter when i've got no time and the weather's shite do i really appreciate it. i think the one thing i always miss about summer is the time. there's always so much of it. there's no sense of being rushed and you can stay in bed until lunchtime everyday without feeling the slightest bit guilty. that all seems so far away at the moment, there's still months to go, which include exams and more coursework deadlines. but thinking about it, once it comes, those things will make it ten times better. so i i've come up with some strange logic for myself, which means if i work harder i'll appreciate stuff more and i'll be the happiest boy alive by august. i told this to my friend, and she smiled and told me that things don't actually work out like that. i sort of know this, but still. dreaming's not that bad is it?, and it'll pass the time. tonight, i went to a slipknot concert with my friend. not that either of us are fans of the 'knot, but had to chaperone my friend's little brother. he's only eleven or something, and was pretty adamant on going. so, me and my friend were given the task. i didn't know what to expect, because i remember seeing them from a distance at leeds festival two years ago and all these crazy people going mad because the performers were inflicting pain on themselves. but when we got there, it was nothing like that. the crazy people, had been replaced by a swarm of people all dressed in black and bearing the most excited grins on their faces. i couldn't help but feel out of placed whilst queuing to get in, mainly because i wasn't wearing a costume and my t-shirt didn't have any slogans on it. me and my friend made a plan, we'd take it in turns to look after his brother. one of us would stay with him near the front and one would stand at the back, and every twenty minutes we'd swap. we even bought a newspaper to read and everything. this plan quickly disintegrated once the first band got on stage. everyone went crazy, even my friend's brother who looked as if he'd been possessed. he was jumping and kicking and punching as if he was going to die. it was quite funny to see a little kid behave like this, but once loads start doing it at the same time it gets sort of annoying. so for about four hours i was kicked and punched, people jumped over my head whilst various bands "sang" songs about being outcasts and generally unappreciated. this was then concluded the a lavish firework display which blinded most of the audience, which temporarily caused a halt in said moshing so i was thankful for it. by the end i was exhausted, incredibly sweaty (luckily my odors were made insignificant by a big looking biker man) and slightly bruised. the weird thing was, my friend's brother loved it. he was smiling as if someone had just told him he's going to live forever and kept telling us how it was the best experience of his short life. for a moment i feared for the future of the planet, but then i remembered how i felt when my brother took me to see radiohead when i was about his age. there was no possible way to understand what the songs were about at that age, but still i had something to be involved with and something to belong to. so i suppose that's what my friend's brother was feeling. his little group or whatever may be more brutal than mine but it's his. this sort of relates to something that my dad used to tell me and my brother about people having individual pockets of happiness that you'll keep as your own, things that give you some sort of identity and in a way shape who you are. umm. --- everyone's talking about storytelling, i would too but i haven't seen it. instead i'll talk about 'monster's inc.' which i thought was great. although, when going to see it, i forgot my glasses and after the first ten minutes the characters lost any identity and became just coloured blobs on the screen. i sort of felt bad, i mean, all those animators spending all that time trying to make stuff real and i was laughing at something that can be achieved by putting M&Ms in a washing machine. Stuart Gardiner wrote: I notice that my concert tickets haven't turned up yet. Which is interesting when I've paid £4.50 for them to be delivered. For that price, I want them hand-delivered by the band. heh me too! i ordered my ticket for brixton ages ago and they still haven't come yet. looking forward to the gig though. somebody whose name eludes me (sorry) wrote about making cereal and getting stuff mixed up. i do that all the time. my mother's getting annoyed at finding crunchy nut cornflakes in the fridge, and the milk in the breakfast cupboard. i haven't posted for a while, so this has been suitably rubbish. apologies. take care, nafees. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. 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Sinister: He dips his toe into the water...
by Peter Madden 15 Feb '02

15 Feb '02

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Sinister: The Boys Are Back In Town!
by Genevieve Wesley 15 Feb '02

15 Feb '02

Dear Sinister, Oh my! Joy Joy Joy! It has been so many years of waiting but finally patience will be rewarded and I will get to see Belle and Sebastian. I got my tickets for Detroit and Chicago and now I'm just waiting for this Toronto show. KOOL HAUS - I don't understand! On Ticketmaster.ca there is no B&S event listed for the Kool Haus. Are other people getting this? Toronto will finally be revisited. This is so funny, I am getting a flood of memories now. I remember threatening my mother that I would run away to Toronto to see them a few years ago and then it never even happened. I would've looked so silly. I'm so excited, I don't know where to start!? Is there going to be a Sinister MidWest meet up? I am imagining our very own B&S Crossroads. The girls can get together and braid each other's hair before the show in a giggle-fest of delicious anticipation. Struan, Struan, Struan! But yes, maybe if there is a meet-up we can help each other out driving to various cities, offering floor space, accompany each other while hitching rides, etc. What of our friends in Montreal? Some of you must be going. I have relatives in Detroit so maybe I can help some people out. Will May ever arrive? I'm already very hyper, this can't be healthy for prolonged lengths of time. My leg won't stop shaking, I'm like Thumper! I haven't been to a concert since 1999. Parents would drive me out to the Big City (Ha!) of Ottawa and I'd sit out on the concrete steps for ages in the lovely early summer weather just hoping to catch a glimpse of that tour bus, oh those were the days. The May 10th date is very interesting (for me), because on that same day in 1997 I stumbled into my then love-object Brett Anderson (hee hee, seems so silly now) at an A&W. It is a lucky day! They should do some fabulous Motown cover when in Detroit. Yeah yeah yeah right here in my heart it's like a Heatwave. Or maybe This Old Heart of Mine. I would die! So, my departure for Scotland is going to be pushed back to May now. I fear I'll never have this opportunity again you know and I must take advantage. I actually am in need of a little bit of help. I am very probably going to be an au-pair over there and will be living with the family, but after that I will need to find somewhere to live. Where is the best place to look for that? Is there certain Scottish websites or newspapers that are better than others? I would appreciate any suggestions or helpful advice. I have to go to and serve lattes now to weirdos, how terribly anticlimactic. Too Much Love, Genevieve p.s. So Toronto-Detroit-Chicago people, email me if there are any meet ups or carpools planned. xoxoxo _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Ticketslut...you make me feel oh so good
by John T. Cat, Esq. 15 Feb '02

15 Feb '02

I got through. I got floor seats. Whoo Hoo! The Hammerstein is a bad place to see a show. Its big, the sound sucks, the floors are concrete so you back starts hurting after 15 minutes of standing. Unfortunately, there are some shows that only play there. I saw Kraftwerk, Bauhaus, Portishead, Orbital. Just about all these way cool bands I thought would never play again. Good luck to everyone else. If I can't find enough people to take all my tickets (I got 8) I'll post something here when it gets closer to the date. I'll make them available they way they should be made available. To those who genuinely love the music, for what the tickets cost. John +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: nyc tix
by * carla * 15 Feb '02

15 Feb '02

it is possible to get tickets! i got through! im just so amazed! dont give up hope! carla >From: "Christine A. Zardecki" <zardecki(a)rcsb.rutgers.edu> >To: ahnatta(a)hotmail.com >Subject: Re: Sinister: More confirmed Belle & Sebastian >Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:36:23 -0500 (EST) > >cookie, get back on -- i just got through to the "next screen"... _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: and then, the lighting of the lamps
by Toy Stephen 15 Feb '02

15 Feb '02

hello sinisterguese, Ill add another post to Big Stu's bored-at-work genre. Work this morning is a disaster too. Systems, machines, a universe of 1s and 0s or something is rebelling and everyone's in a panic. I take my cue from Kara instead: >Now if we can all manage to do the dance at the same >time, the planets will align and there will be world >peace. With all that >tail wagging, how could there not be. Me too! Tickets for Chicago, triplicated and filed. Has anyone ever been to the Congress Theatre? Hows it? I wanna dance! What's most frightening is the image that appears in my head when I think of dancing. It's a trauma seared onto my psyche. The night after I saw the film _Tom and Viv_ with Willem Dafoe & Miranda Richardson, I dreamt that Tom Eliot and Bertie Russel were dancing a hybrid gigue and grinder. It haunted me for days. I think what scares me most is having T.S. Eliot as a lover. There are few people in history I think would be a worse lay. No segue (except that the word looks like 'gigue') but: JenOwl rightly chided me for a depressing post abt being mental. I didnt mean for it to be a dreary injection. Sorry if it brought anyone down. The only thing valuable in it was applauding Rachel Fruitloop's courage. & affirming that it's perfectly normal to admit things are bad, & you feel like a traitor to yr own life. Things improve anyway. Altho' I still hold firm on disliking Skittles. But, since Jenowl used them nicely to object to my melancholia, Ill happily send her many packages if she provides a post address. I lay in bed the other night thinking up forward-backward words, and not because Im a satanist and used my imagination as that mysterious LP that speaks to you when played in reverse. Counting sheep never does the trick. Any, what's the name for a word that spells another word backwards? Is there a more specific term than anagram? I came up with: Evil lives in dogs and gods. i bored myself sufficiently to fall asleep. can anyone think of others? for Valentine's Day I tried to see a performance of the Vagina Monologues. Tickets sold out before my chance in the queue. I saw my old lover with a ticket near the door. The first time Ive seen her in months. I felt oddly defeated (and delighted) that she was getting into Vagina tonight, even though I wasnt. Big Stu also said: >Of course, Thursday nights are currently booked >into my diary as Banzai night (the bizzarest, >funniest and probably best >thing on TV for ages)... Oooh, I agree, tho it's ruthless at times. I did a sketch for the show; payed £25 for two hours of work. There were nine beautiful people in the dressing room. 5 girls and 4 other boys. The studio Channel 4 was using was backed-up, so we had to bide our time. everyone checked their makeup, everyone had head shots with them, everyone had at least 3 agents. i looked down at the tin of Stella anytime I felt someone was going to ask me these questions. I eventually had to confess Id only seen a flyer in the Notting Hill Record Exchange for paid TV extras work. They all became quiet as if I told them I was terminally ill. hehehe. but the sketch was Guess Whose Mobile has the Swing-Low Sweet Chariot ringtone. They didnt even give me a mobile. I was a decoy. The sultry lights and camera made me wanna shoot a plastic gun and wave to the world like Mike Teevee in Willy Wonka. Pow pow, look at me Im on TV, it makes up for the shortcomings of being poor. I have a B&S memory that came by all Proustian-like when my long-absent copy of IYFS was returned; but words feel clunky & Id rather celebrate the coming spring and show. all the posts abt Midwest meet-ups -- can we devise a fete for that May weekend in Chicago? sinistercerest, t.s. Other echoes Inhabit the garden. Shall we follow? Quick, said the bird, find them, find them, Round the corner. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Re: Sinister: Ticketslut
by kristi wheeler 15 Feb '02

15 Feb '02

hello. has anyone gotten tickets to the chicago show and had these sorts of problems? i logged in to get tickets about 15 minutes after they went on sale and didn't have any problems. but i have had trouble with tm before for other shows. i feel your pain. i hope everyone is able to get tickets! ticketmaster is notorious for all sorts of terrible, terrible things. by the way i am kristi & i am from ohio, usa. i think i have been on this list for nearly 6 months now but i seem to find myself really busy with work and projects and such that i have failed to send a fond hello. >From: "John T. Cat, Esq." <johnw(a)about-inc.com> >Reply-To: "John T. Cat, Esq." <johnw(a)about-inc.com> >To: <sinister(a)missprint.org>, <Katrina.House[shop(a)banchory.net]> >Subject: Sinister: Ticketslut >Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:55:29 -0500 > >To Katrina and whoever else wants to listen - >I've been trying to get tickets via ticketmaster for the last 45 >minutes. > >First I got - > >Error. Currently there are too many users processing transactions. >Please continue to hit the Refresh button on your browser until you get >through. (118) > >Then after I follow the directions to keep hitting refresh. After about >5 refreshes, I get - > >Couldn't connect to ticketing system. >We believe that you have violated our terms of use. We may have >restricted your access to our web site. Please try again later. > >I've been trying continiously for the last half hour to get tickets. I >even called ticketmaster and they couldn't help me. Its really >dissapointing. I flew to San Francisco to see Belle and Sebastian during >the last tour. Now it looks like it will sell out before ticketmaster is >able to service my request. > >Does anyone know of any other route to purchase tickets? > >Thanks, >John Wojcik > > > >+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ > To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe > send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to > majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister > +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ > +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ > +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ > +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ > +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ > +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ > +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ >+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: nyc tickets - damn ticketmaster!
by * carla * 15 Feb '02

15 Feb '02

hi.. i was just wondering if *anyone* has gotten tickets for the nyc show thru the ticketmaster pre-sale.. so far 3 of us have tried to no avail.. the system seems to be overloaded by b&s obsessives.. has anyone managed to get thru? carla _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Ticketslut
by John T. Cat, Esq. 15 Feb '02

15 Feb '02

To Katrina and whoever else wants to listen - I've been trying to get tickets via ticketmaster for the last 45 minutes. First I got - Error. Currently there are too many users processing transactions. Please continue to hit the Refresh button on your browser until you get through. (118) Then after I follow the directions to keep hitting refresh. After about 5 refreshes, I get - Couldn't connect to ticketing system. We believe that you have violated our terms of use. We may have restricted your access to our web site. Please try again later. I've been trying continiously for the last half hour to get tickets. I even called ticketmaster and they couldn't help me. Its really dissapointing. I flew to San Francisco to see Belle and Sebastian during the last tour. Now it looks like it will sell out before ticketmaster is able to service my request. Does anyone know of any other route to purchase tickets? Thanks, John Wojcik +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I had a dream that I'd written Lord of the Rings, but then I realised that I was just Tolkien in my sleep
by Mark Hester 15 Feb '02

15 Feb '02

I had a dream that I'd written Lord of the Rings, but then I realised that I was just Tolkien in my sleep Hi everyone, Funny....I've seen the sign for Stokenchurch loads of times, yet I'd never noticed that it has "Ken Chu" in the middle of it. I am a fule. But maybe I might redeem myself from my foolishness by pointing out that if Mr Walton were to move to the Channel Islands then we might be in for a dose of SarkAsm. As Archel said, I had to leave the Brighton sinister meet-up early to return to London for Strange Fruit. This meant that I missed Mark C's Frank Spencer meets King Canute moment. I did however witness a spectacular fall from a guy in Paddington Station the day before, tho. He fell speradeagled on the floor in front of me . I looked to see what he'd fallen over. It turned out it was one of those yellow plastic cones which have a picture of a falling man and "Caution Wet Floor" on them which had ITSELF fallen over! This struck me as the ultimate irony. My interest in these signs had previosuly been limited to being tempted to say, "Look here, wet floor. I've told you once..........." Not to be outdone, I tripped over a car jack in my parents' road and went flying through the air direectly into the path of a climbing plant (which may have been ivy) and poked myself in the eye. Ow! Oh dear, this is beginning to sound like an episode of "You've Been Framed". Strange Fruit was one of the best I've been to. I arrived right at the end of Capratone's set, so was unable to make a judgement about them, but Norwich band Kaito, who followed, were superb. They were very loud and punky, reminding me of Sleater Kinney at times but that doesn't really do them justice. I first heard of Kaito when Matt Tullett, with whom I shared a chalet at last year's All Tomorrow's Parties, raved about them. Lots of great tunes followed including Hot Topic by Le Tigre which I first heard on Andrea Kittenmouse's radio show (or rather a cd of it). We haven't heard anything from Andrea lately, have we? Verity played Gentle Waves' "Sisterwoman" and I found it IMPOSSIBLE to dance to. Other people seemed to be managing, however. There were at least three other sinister types at SF, Mell Street's Matt, Martin and Rich, but they didn't stay until the end, which was a shame, as at three o'clock Paul Haswell played "Lazy Line Painter Jane" and another DJ (don't know his name....shirt and tie, lanky, bleached blond hair) invited us all up onto the now-cleared stage where we sang and clapped along whilst photos were taken by Verity. It was absolutely brilliant and made my evening. Someone had been taking photos of individual people earlier on too. I have no way of knowing whether this was for the SF website or purely for their own amusement, but if its the former I might end up on the site for the SECOND time, as my picture at the long defunct Oxford SF was on there until recently. In the (admittedly unlikely) event that you might want to check to see if I my mugshot has made it, then make sure you include the dash in the url (http://www.strange-fruit.co.uk) as http://www.strangefruit.co.uk is somethin! g very, very odd indeed............. Next day was the first SUSSED in its new location. Being Oxford, they couldn't possibly call it a club. Oh no, the Cellar is a Music Orientated Drinking Establishment! Steve demonstrated his new webby bootlegs which kept Emma amused guessing how many songs had gone into the mix. I was back in the Cellar the following night for Medieval Matt and ColaCube Cay's band Endless City Lights and for the first time in my life I have acquired a set list at a gig. YAY! Or maybe it should be <whispers>yay</whispers> because unlike super furries in Toronto (set list snatched from under my nose) and Stereolab here in Oxford (set list written on a paper plate is thrown and goes whizzing past my ear), ECL's set list was simply left on our table where I picked it up, which is not quite the same somehow........ Anyway, considering it was their first gig, Endless City Lights were really good - I particularly liked their opening number "Summertime". James Tramping Flatpack was telling me about his time in Poland visiting Maja, which reminded me that I hadn't thanked Maja for the two cds she sent me. Luckily he was able to give me her e-mail address so I put that right as soon as I could and incidentally one of the cds has been gracing my stereo for quite a few days now. Myslovitz is a fine band and worth seeking out. Robster, I have to say that I think a sinister meet-up in Southsea would be a fine idea indeed! I went there on a school trip on the way back from the Isle Of Wight...it has a fort with cannons as I recall (ok, so the memory's pretty sketchy). Also I need more opportunities to practice DDR, although I'll never be nearly as good as Ken. No DDR machines in Oxford y'see - maybe it's got something to do with its distance from the sea? I may have made you think in my last post that its all doom & gloom in my workplace as a result of the in-fighting upstairs. Nothing could be further from the truth. Their are regular duels with rubber-band guns and G. must regret the time he got up from his desk to talk to a manager whilst he was working on our esteemed publication "The Journal of Sexual Dysfunction". No sooner had he done so when J. had saved a colour pic of a flaccid willy as wallpaper on G's pc......as you can imagine he was not impressed! better parse some xml.... Mark. ______________________________________________________________ For up-to-the-minute music news, reviews and specials visit http://www.nme.com Get free e-mail (anyname(a)nme.com) now at http://www.nmemail.com The sender of this e-mail is NOT an employee or associate of NME, nme.com or any other IPC magazine. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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