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Sinister: where do they make balloons?
by Christine Irene 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

have you heard the children's album by They Might Be Giants? it really is quite fantastik ever since i discovered it some months ago, it has become a favourite of both my colleagues and my own. isn't it funny how, seemingly, you go from not really having anything to do to being so busy you forget to do things such as eat and use the loo? this is what i have found lately. i was busy enough from 7-5 monday through friday, but after that i was pretty open as far as schedule went....then i started working at the shelter...then i started my weight training....then i got a second job....then i began irish dance lessons....then i got a flat....now i have to move and am having a dickens of a time finding the time to do so. ah well. poor me. speaking of irish dance.....it's so much fun. granted, i have only had one class thus far...but i really liked it. i have some poor scheduling though....i have weight training on monday, which i always work very hard in....then dance on tuesday....yesterday i could barely walk :o) the christmas season appears to be in full swing....much to my chagrin. i have never been overly enthusiastic about christmastime however this year i am looking upon it with absolute dread. my family is lecturing me about how i shouldn't be that way. i think they should shut up, personally. they have never much cared what i thought. at any rate, i'll try my best not to be a scrooge....and while i initially intended to not by gifts or send out cards, i have been making mental shopping lists in my head....sometimes i'm just all talk. would you have guessed as much? ya know what makes me happy? presents. my christopher, who is a member of our lil community, sent me a mix cd. it's lovely. i love getting and making mix tapes/cd's. it's always so much fun to hear things that friends have selected expressly for your listening enjoyment. it is also so much fun to choose your favourites and share them with others. kudos to the mix tape/ cd makers of the world. ah well. i s'pose that's all. happy groundhog day :o) love ~stine __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.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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Sinister: tylenol isn't helping
by leyda campbell 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

'ello. all you lucky boys and girls who got to see B&S overseas are too fortunate. im stuck here in the midwestern vortex waiting for somthing to happen. that said, i had quite an exciting evening myself last night and i have the headache to prove it. went to a friends house and brought some wine with plans for a relaxing evening of junk food and drinking. at about 10pm the phone rings and it is decided that friends will come round. small gathering morphs into small party which morphs into chaos. the good kind. a friend i rather fancy puts on 'boy with the arab strap.' 'sleep the clock around' comes on. i turn it up. and it is sometime after midnight and a small but loud group of us start singing along and soon we are all dancing and it is like a scene from some coming of age movie where the mischeif is constant and the parties are legendary. fun stuff. but i wish i could have seen the show. while i nurse my hangover with plenty of water and chicken noodle soup all you boys and girls out there behave and have extra fun for me. kisses, me _________________________________________________________________ Our best dial-up offer is back. Get MSN Dial-up Internet Service for 6 months @ $9.95/month now! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: TOMORROW, the5th meet-up
by Stefano [Steady-State] 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

My Dear Sinister I can´t believe it is already December, and in a few weeks it would be Christmas again. Of all holydays, celebrations, festivities and whatever on, I reckon, Christmas is the only one I really like. I use to don´t love even Christmas. And I used to love all of them. I think I like the idea of going around for shops and buying gifts. Indeed I like making gift more then receiving ones. Not that I dislike it, but still the idea of bring someone´s a present appears more appealing at my eyes. And making gift is kind of a subtle art. I am not so sure I´ve learnt the skills. Might be just a few tricks. But, I´m confident, I´ll get better. There´s nothing better then a gift coming unexpectedly, though. And as I´ve thought for long while, joining this list is one of the best, if not the best, thing I´ve done in my live, I had a very special one. And that was bliss. [Lundun Gigs] I can´t believe it is already December, and I can´t believe I´m going to see Belle and Sebastian. I´ve waited quite a bit for this day to come. I must admit, I don´t like the catastrophy waiter. Well might be is not even true that I don´t like it at all, is just from B&S I would have aspect something more... something different... simple to say... was I looking for a IYFS #2? Well, it might well be... still, they are the bands who wrote some of the song that have changed my life, in one way or another, and I´ll always love them. And yet, I was quite trilled by the idea of seeing them yesterdaty and then again these days. I am a lazy lucky git!... I imagine that a few people are going to the gigs on friday... we have missed a meet up yeaterday, whcih is a bit of a shame since are always good fun... and good drinks... suprisely there are no sugegstion for friday... so can i put one forward? .... Well I would suggest the DOG & DUCK... because is near to OLD COMPTON... so is slightly B&S related and is close enough.... How to find it? Frith Street runs from the centre of the south side of Soho Square down to Old Compton Street. The Dog and Duck is halfway down on the right. http://www.fancyapint.com/thepubs/pub120.htm [tigermilking] For the one who are interested, I´ve uploaded some photographs from the last night we had, which was also a celebration for Mr. Jim Purpletrousers 30th birthday. And I´m glad we have another night set up for the 13th December, which will be random mixture of Christmas, birthdays celebration again, and general random stuff... plus a good occasion to get merry and dance yourself off to alt.indie.pop.rock. whatever... http://www.undermybed.org/tigermilking I haven´t moaned all through the post. Almost unbelievable! Yours, take care Stefano PS: I DO LISTEN TO (??intellectual??) HEAVY METAL! #~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~# When you sleep do you see an angel in dying light Or can you see someone standing outside trying to set you alight Or maybe you've seen someone somewhere before that I might have loved if i'd never loved you but you only see me in bad dreams +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: you're just a maybe
by kenneth.chu＠uclh.org 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

I think I watched Pop Idol too much nowadays to appreciate a good indie gig. However last night's B+S show was an exception I think - I mean, sure, at the start of every song I had all these witty comments about the various members commitment and singing abilities. However normally by the end of each song I'd be grinning like a loon. Big Stu talked about the lack of dancing. Well, there was just NO ROOM TO MOVE. I was my first time inside the Astoria actually and my God the place was packeder than ROCK CITY in Nottingham, and nobody dances there, they just mosh. I tried to initiate a pit where I was standing but I was too far to the side to start anything apart from maybe CROWD SURF - but then I chickened out when I noticed the unguarded 10 feet drop into the ladies loo (what a way to die though). Being near the ladies loo is just awful too, because all these people just keep rushing past you going to and from the toilet and probably not washing their hands and they come back out squeezing past you with their wee ridden fingers. There was this one girl with really big boobs and she keeps walking past and squeezing her bosom into me. "Keep your boobs to yourself woman" I wanted to shout, but I was too polite. The sound was fantastic, there was a good sound man for a change, and it was great - Sturan at certain occasions sounded a little tired maybe, or just couldn't be arsed, but still it was very nice. And nobody has yet mentioned the RAWKING OUT - hello Loneliness of the middle blah blah, Stay Loose and a RAWK version of You're Just A Baby!!! If I have a mutation in my gene each time I hear a guitar solo I'd have been toxic to every species of slugs by the end of the gig! Such is (re:carsmile) why seeing gigs before the bands are famous is RUBBIDGE! Wait til they learn how to play properly and have enough money to waste on collecting autumn leaves to fall all over your head during a gig! And FOXY VIOLIN(?) PLAYERS - standing mostly at the back of the stage during the B&S gig - Did Sturan recruit them based on FOXINESS who knows but woah! Makes my heart feel young again. Yeah right, before the band was on I was talking about INTEREST RATES and MORTGAGES with my flatmate. Good heavens. Ken P.S.: I didn't see the support band at all, in fact at the time they were on I was playing DDR at the Trocadero, whilst on the phone to my flatmate who was shouting "WHERE ARE YOU?", oops. Their website made me dizzy. ********************************************************************** This email is confidential and intended solely for the person or entity to whom it is addressed. If this email was not intended for you please notify the UCLH Mail Administrator at mail.administrator(a)uclh.org. This footnote confirms that the email and attachments contained no viruses when they left UCLH. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Reporting back - Sheffield gig
by Heather Swinsco 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

Hello Sinister, Its been a while since my first post, and then I was too shy to post on my own, so it was a joint post with Amy (daisychain). A lots happened since my last post, but Ive ended up back in Sheffield now (just in time for the gig) trying to while away a year before starting uni in October. So I thought Id report back. Im afraid I dont have a set list for you, so sorry about that. It was my first B&S gig, so I was obviously highly excited (in a dancing round the room singing Lazy Line Painter Jane kinda way). B&S didnt disappoint either. I half feared that they might concentrate on their new songs (not that I dislike them, but their older stuff just conjures up so many more emotions), but they came through with songs like Photo Jenny (a favourite of mine), Expectations, Judy And The Dream of Horses, Dog On Wheels, Im Waking Up To Us and many others which will no doubt come to me after Ive posted this. It was a pity that Lord Anthony wasnt among the new stuff that they played, because that really strikes a chord with me. It was also frustrating that I couldnt dance because I could only book seats in the balcony area by the time I realised that Id be back in Sheffield for the gig. Ah well, got to make a fool of myself by jigging around on my seat a bit and was able to watch Stevie dancing on stage. Awe. Hes so sweet when he dances. A big thanks to Offbeat for a great after gig party. Stuart and Stevie actually turned up and one of the girls I was with got to dance with Stuart! And the DJs played Eighties Fan and The Day That Thatcher Dies a couple of my favourite non B&S songs. Yay. The Sinister folk I went with were very welcoming, which means a lot to me, so thanks. Anyway, Id better go now and stop boring you with my ramblings. Im off to the Edinburgh gig as well, so I might see some of you there. We really have to do something after the show Bye, Heather _________________________________________________________________ On the move? Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: it could have been a brilliant west pier
by R.Playforth＠sussex.ac.uk 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

Y'all should clearly have got tickets for the Brighton gig, where admittedly most people are far too cool to like Belle & Sebastian but those who do will DEFINITELY be dancin' on Monday. I feel a bit left out, possibly like a small derelict pier on the edge of the south coast, actually. So if anyone IS coming to the Brighton show on Monday, give me a shout! God knows December has little else to recommend it. Especially since I'll be spending Christmas in Aylesbury. Ooh but there's the Christmas present exchange of course. And Sinister International Bowling Day, at which I may even be able to reprazent in London. Of course, I will have done so much comfort eating by then that I may actually be able to use my own stomach as a bowling ball :( Right, back to sticking address labels on corporate Christmas cards... Archel xxx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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'm a chaffinch
by Stuart Gardiner 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

OK, last night was crap. Not the band, obviously. B&S were the most professional I've seen them (and it's something like my tweflth time now). Slick as you like. Whether this is a good thing or not depends of course on whether you used to think they were amateur or spontaneous, but hey. Great playing, great light show, audible for a change, and Stuart only forgot the words twice all night. I have to say though, Stevie And Stuart's acting before they played their cover of "I could be so good for you" was terrible... Not the support band, either. Well actually, I thought they were a load of pretentious rubbish, but never mind, each to their own. No, what was crap last night was the audience. I know London gigs never get as lively or as much atmosphere as gigs anywhere else. But it was a great gig, great setlist, and hardly anybody was dancing! Seriously, when they played I'm A Cuckoo, or Expectations, or pretty much any of the songs really, you could count on one hand the number of people who were moving. Hardly anyone even seemed to join in with the handclaps on Women's Realm. So come on, Londoners, you can do better than that. DANCE YOU FCKERS!!! I think tonight I'm going to have to go nearer the front to show them how it's done... Right, see you in the pub beforehand for the motivational teamtalk... Big Stu _________________________________________________________________ Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: reporing back pt1.
by Stefano [Steady-State] 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

My Dear Sinister Last night concert has been absolutely great! Something more to add... I´m still quite astonished... it was absolutely my favourite belle and Sebastian gig. I haven´t seen that many but they absolutely rocked the stage, looked compact and sounded loud... We finally have an explanation about Struan silver (?plastic?) trousers, they are wee-proof, according to Chris, who was wearing the BEST JUMPER ever... I want one as well.. looked like one my granddad pyjama, but was terrific! And, for once, showing athletic fielding, I took my wicket, and had a set list: Here we go: Passion Fruit Expectations Step Into My Office Baby Wrapped up in books Women´s Realm (The loneliness of the) Middle Distance Runner The wrong Girl Slow Graffiti Travelling Light (maybe?) Dear Catastrophe Waitress You don´t send me Star of track & field Dirty Dream #2 NY Pizza catcher Asleep on a sunbeam I am a cuckoo She´s losing it You are just a baby Roy walker Stay loose Sleep the clock around Encore: Lazy line painter jane Judy and the dreams of horses I heard that they have played an almost completely different set list in Sheffield the night before... so more surprise to come for people going to more then one gig... can´t wait really, after last night... And a reminder, Mr Carsmile Steve has suggested to meet up at the Angel, in st. Giles... seems pretty sensible to me!...aye... definitely need a pint! Take care stefano #~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~# When you sleep do you see an angel in dying light Or can you see someone standing outside trying to set you alight Or maybe you've seen someone somewhere before that I might have loved if i'd never loved you but you only see me in bad dreams +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 sent this already but it got lost. you might get it twice please don't hate me
by robin stout 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

Lou said: << i always think i know something about music until i get involved in one of said conversations, and then i realize i actually know more about wham! than, say, the evolution of punk rock or something. and it's always a particular nuisance with boys. sorry guys. but it's true. anyway, i'm mad at all you boys today as it is. >> I've never made someone's knowledge of music a top priority, especially as I don't really know much about it myself. I've always thought it was more of a Sinister thing to fall in love with mousey-haired librarians or shiny-buttoned bus conductors, anyway. Your ideal man is more likely to have 45's of British Birdsong in his record collection than rock music. In any case, my key to successful dating has always been to go up to the girl in the laundrette with the determined chin and to tell her that I'm in the Secret Service, on a top secret mission, and she has to accompany me to the Co-Op for a cheese sandwich as a matter of National Security. Usually this results in the girl saying "lumee", or possibly "lord love a duck", and romance soon blossoms. It never fails. Carsmile atoned for his sins: << Also also also I have changed my mind about DCW (song). In fact, it sounds like deram era dame david bowie rather than MLS (sorry about that by the way asm). >> Then said (in his spot-on list of 7): <<2. how much struan sounds like nico on the bit in DCW (the song), where he rhymes town with clown, just as she did on femme fatale >> I'm convinced that the wondrous and obscure Desperation Made a Fool of Me sounds like a Velvet Underground song, but I can't for the life of me work out which one. So there's one for allmusicisintrinsicallylinked, if anyone knows. Steve, no one is going on Thursday, not even Belle and Sebastian. They're going to substitute themselves with robots, who have been carefully programmed in how to lisp and play their guitars like pansies, but will no doubt break their programming, as robots always do, and start playing bad Kraftwerk covers instead. Make sure you wear your robotproof hat. I'm currently having a deep personal crisis over whether to sing Yes Sir, I Can Boogie for karaoke on Friday. Part of me really really wants to do it, but another part of me knows that it will probably be the worst mistake of my life. I have been practicing in front of the bathroom mirror with a toothbrush, just in case. I suppose it depends on how drunk I am. So, if you want some top-class entertainment, you're quite welcome to buy me drinks. robin x _________________________________________________________________ Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: London day 1
by Mark Brading 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

So - here I am. My first post. Hello everyone. For years (literally years - I've been here since 1999, on and off) I've been wondering what my first post should be. There have been so many fantastic ones, it seems imposable to do the list justice. I'd always thought that some reporting back would make a good first post, but I never managed to get a setlist for any gigs I went to, so I thought I'd wait until I got one & report back properly. But this evening I got one - for the first time. Trouble is, I lost it again almost immediately in circumstances bubbling with surprise and sexual intrigue. I'll tell you about them in a minute (a cliffhanger you see - that should keep you reading). But nonetheless, a setlist I had, albeit only for a few seconds, so here I am reporting back, just like I promised myself I would. (Breaking promises you make to yourself is the first step towards disaster and rack and ruin, or so my mother used to tell me. Frankly, I have reason to doubt alot of what she used to say ("don't do that, you'll go blind!"), but it seems like good advice nonetheless). I arrived around half six, and (after picking up a couple tins of refreshing beer from the bar) positioned myself quite near the front. To get to the very front you probably have to start queuing at about 4pm, and also not get any beer. I'm happy with the trade-off. People bustled in around me - including a very pretty girl with pigtails who completely ignored me when I said hello to her, so I completely ignored her back from the rest of the gig. Bet that showed her... Scatter came on after a bit and were... superb, I thought... Unexpected anyway; playing spoken word pieces which I didn't like at first but which really grew on me by the end of the set. Certainly one of the better support acts I've seen. The guy standing behind me liked Scatter too. He turned out to be Jonathan Skinner - which was cool. I felt like I'd met someone famous. It was nice to meet you... Thanks for holding my stuff while I went to the toilet - I would never have fought my way back to the middle if you hadn't... There was about a 45 minute wait before B&S came on, which seems pretty normal these days, but when they arrived it was well worth the wait. I can't tell you the setlist, cos I lost it in a steamy close encounter (keep reading), but I can tell you that they definitely played: Expectations SIMOB Sleep the Clock Around Slow Graffiti Wrapped up in Books You don't send me Stars of track and field Woman's realm Stay loose I'm a cuckoo Asleep on a sunbeam Stay loose Dear Catastrophe waitress You're just a baby But not in that order, and loads more too. Stuart seemed in a really good mood - in fact the whole band looked like they were having a really good time, bantering with the crowd. Stuart told us how he liked to pee in the open air, and Stevie said he'd once peed on the white-house lawn. All the talk of peeing made me feel sorry for Jonathan Skinner's mate, who'd wanted to go for a pee ever since Scatter went off. Should have gone during the break, mate... The crowd didn't dance much, but got really well into it, and dragged the band back for two amazing encores. People had been shouting for LLPJ all night, prompting Stuart to ask if there were any girls who wanted to sing it. A girl finally went up and did not a bad job, once she actually stared singing instead of making funny faces. It was very brave and she was very cool - Stuart gave her a medal for it. They finally finished with Judy - probably my all time favourite... so I danced a clapped and bounced and had an amazing time. Fantastic. I always wonder, at B&S gigs, why nobody ever reports back how beautiful Sarah looks. I think Sarah's lovely - I always much preferred her to Isobel, and she seems to be a fun person too. I hope she is. I think she's the member of the band I'd most like to meet, given the chance. As everyone left, I pushed to the front to see if I could get a setlist. He had loads to give out, and he pushed one straight into my hand. I stood there admiring it for a few minutes, waiting for people to leave, and after a bit a very cute girl with freckles came up to me. (This is the bit you have been waiting for, if you're still awake). "Wow, you got a setlist", she said, "can I have it?" She smiled at me so prettily I was about to say yes, but I glanced down at the list for a few seconds to see if I could memorise it. "Oh please", she said, "I'll give you a snog for it", and before I could say any more she snogged me, right at the front of the Astoria (if my girlfriend reads this, she jumped on me, and there was nothing I could do, honest injun). I was so surprised just handed her the list, and with a little smile and a final peck on the cheek, she skipped off with her prize. So, whatever your name was, you could have had it anyway, but it's given me a good story to tell. And there we are, the longest dullest ever reporting back; the longest dullest ever first post. But it's late, so hopefully I might have helped you to sleep. I love reading sinister, do keep posting. Maybe one day I'll meet some more of you in real life... mark +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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