Cheerleaders and perverts,
I see Chris just beat me to the Glasgow picnic report - but that's OK
because he didn't mention anything in the pub - funny that. I had a
suspicion he'd forgotten it all when he mailed me this morning and
said could I do a report and he would "follow it up". He wanted to
make sure what really happened I think.
Well the day in Glasgow started spiffingly when, not wanting to be
the first because that's not C!O!O!L!, I wandered in John Smiths and
flicking through their small and perfectly formed CD collection I
found some cracking stuff, including "Songs For The Jet Set". I have
everyone's favourite Thai listee, Oon to thank for this who sent me
the most fabulous tape of stuff, of which Tomorrows World's "Kites
Are Fun" briefly eclipsed "Je T'Aime" as world's greatest pop song
last week for ten minutes, which is something of a record.
Wow. Sentence two and I am babbling. OK - we were due to meet at
1pm outside Fopp Records on the Byres Road for a blissful lazy
butterfly-strewn Christopher Robin picnic - at 12:58 the heavens
opened and it pissed down, which I thought was quite funny. We met a
huddled group of about 15 wet B&S people (wet as in damp, I should
add) hiding in the shop doorway - guess which dickhead had brought an
umbrella ("for goodness sake Paul, it's a picnic you don't need one
of THEM.."). Chris and Keith looked like bag ladies with their
cheesy straws and dips and fairy cakes. Anyway, we all bravely
trudged off to the botanics, picking up a dodgy looking character on
the way, some Stuart Smirnoff or someone who "said" he sang in a
"band". We're friendly types so we tossed him a few sandwiches
without checking his credentials. When we got there, we sat on a
bench in a line like we were waiting for the doctor, nibbled like
rabbits and fed the pigeons.
It started pissing down again so we ran for the big Victorian
greenhouse thingy and admired a rather plasticky orchid show in true
B&S spirit and Mr Smirnoff showed us his 60s camera he keeps in a
sponge bag. After a bit the murmurs of "pubbb" from Chris Leonard
got too much, so Keith got us all together, tied our shoelaces and
wiped out mucky faces, and led us off in a row to the pub.
That was it really. We went to the pub. We stayed there for - was 7
hours and a jolly time was had by all 15 (approx of us). All I can
remember is:
o Much amusement at Linda's clip from the Daily Record about Arab Strap
being a "disgrace to Falkirk" (the mayor)
o The appearance of Keith's genetically engineered clone, Leon
o Stuart's story about being trapped in a hawthorne hedge for half
an hour by a herd of wild ferocious cows
o An unhealthy fascination with testicles and medical experiments -
not in the B&S spirit I feel
o Ghost stories
o Garlic dip all over everyone's coats
o Stuart's rain-shrunken dog on wheels hat doing the rounds
o Chris peeing his pants
It all started running down in numbers around 8 oclock, but Susannah
kept us all going with tales of missing ears. I can't report on the
rest of the evening, as mummy said I had to go home, but it sounds
like noone else can really either - I wait with bated breath.
Anyway hello to everyone like Anne, Julia, David, Stuart's mate Paul
who promises he'll join the list, oh god I can't remember all your
names, but thanks for coming anyway and especially to those of you
who didn't know anyone at all - we're not that bad really are we? Oh
and thanks a million to Keith and Anne and Chris and Julia or whoever
it was who bought all the food. Resounding success seems to be the
general opinion, so there will be more, although whether we will have
the gall to keep calling them "picnics" and stretching the Kitchen
concept to the limit remains to be seen.
Sunday saw a little soiree in Edinburgh with Linda, Keith, Susannah
and Mick, fresh and besuited from an Amphetameanies gig, all stuffing
curry down their gobs. Guess what we talked about? Bull's
testicles. I begin to see a theme emerging for the new LP...
Honey xxx
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>>Had a lovely if brief time at the Glasgow picnic on Saturday. I was in
>>Glasgow for my best friend's wedding (there being no cinemas in
>>Hammersmith...) and hung around for the meet up. It was a real pleasure
>>to meet all you good good people - hello to Chris, Keith, Paul and my
>>ferris wheel pal Julia, Owen and the lot of ya.
And indeed hello right back atcha. And to each and everyone of you
wonderful indie style picnic filmstars. Owen, Julia pointed out later
on I'd been calling you Colin all day. Sorry, how embarrassing. As was
most of my turbo alcohol injected patter in the later hours of the
afternoon oops. We should have had name tags. Either that or I should
have paid more attention. Sorry to everyone. I was rather excited
you realise. But Linda does look like Cameron Diaz, you know its true.
It was a great day though, it was *fine*. For youz that didn't make it
let
me set the scene....
It was a great sunshiney morning y'all . About five to one it turned
into the rainiest day in the whole world ever. We all got wet apart
from honeyPaul cos he had an umbrella. Stuart Murdoch was there. Paul
had a splendid idea for a game - see who could kick stuart murdoch up
the arse in a father ted stylee ha ha. I bet i get a row for saying
that - i had the idea to see who could be the first to get stuart
murdochs hat on their head. i won, probably because i didn't advertise
the fact a game was in progress.
It stopped raining long enough for us to scoff some cheese things and a
fairy cake, so that was good. Then we went and played in the jungle
place in botanic gardens.
>That onion bread thing..."
HA HA I thought the dough with bits on it was tasty but no else did.
Safeway dough and onion cheese bread. Great stuff. I tell you later on
in the afternoon those dairylea things were oh easily the tastiest thing
in taste.
Then we went to the pub and i got drunk. Later in the evening i
thought i was fireproof and burned my tongue. That's how good a day i
had. And all you boys and girls with a glint in your eye for the boy
murdoch will be glad to know he is every bit as lovely as you want him
to be. He's really good at telling stories hehe.
Unusually however, I did not get offered any drugs in the toilets.....or
maybe i did but i didn't notice. Lord i was rather silly. I dont
think i'm telling how it was very well, someone take over........i'm
shrinking.....ABANDON LETTER
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Had a lovely if brief time at the Glasgow picnic on Saturday. I was in
Glasgow for my best friend's wedding (there being no cinemas in
Hammersmith...) and hung around for the meet up. It was a real pleasure
to meet all you good good people - hello to Chris, Keith, Paul and my
ferris wheel pal Julia, Owen and the lot of ya.
I'm hoping to appear in future BandS tunes after thrilling Stuart M with
the aplomb with which I handed out the cheesey sticks...
"Boy in the park
Having a lark
As you're handing out the dips:
The cheesy straws and salty chips
That onion bread thing..."
And somebody (not a listee I hasten to add) offered me drugs in the
toilet of that pub we went to after the heavens opened!!! This has never
happened to me before and as I don't know the first thing about drugs I
was amazed/fascinated/embarrased so I made my excuses and left. But what
a polite young man, I thought. Coz drugs are dead expensive aren't they
but there he was offering me a go (or whatever you have with white
powdery christaline drugs). How charming
Glasgow's miles better
John
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David Fanclub typebloke wrote :
>so yes, come, bring some friends and some pringles or snacks to share,
>you're welcome, and so is everyone else, NO EXCEPTIONS.
>we're accommodating, so long as you'll find space for us.
So much innuendo.
You can have me Pringles but I will not share my good lady with anyone.. thank you all the same !!!
Come to think of it I must get my apology in early and say that as much as I am looking forward to crawling out of my shell that is Exeter and meeting some more of you lovely folks, it is going to have to wait until the Autumn shows I'm afraid - cash crisis 'n all that. I do hope you all have a Famous Five (hundred??) sort of a day without too much bellyache.
PICNICS ?? I PREFER LIONBARS.
And whilst we're on the subject.........
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I have not got child-bearing hips.....alright ?
Adrian Evans
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ok, all this fun with translators and the like, i thought i'd put
huw's last message through my patented english-grouch translator and
here's what i got:
Huw Jenkins (Huw.Jenkins(a)rmf.co.uk)
Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:16:59 +0100
>Anyone know the name of the song after The State I'm In on Dog on
Wheels
>as my brother gave me a copy of the EP yesterday with no track titles
>and I reckon it's my favourite B&S song ...ever.
"my brother has ripped off a copy of dog on wheels for me cos i'm too
cheap to buy my own. i'm also too lazy to fire up my web browser and
look at any of the 4 or 5 sites that will tell me the information i
need so instead i'll bother 500 people with an email asking them"
>------ =_NextPart_000_01BD71C5.9E624BE0
>Content-Type: application/ms-tnef
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>eJ8+IgIJAQaQCAAEAAAAAAABAAEAAQeQBgAIAAAA5AQAAAAAAADoAAEIgAcAGAAAAElQTS5NaWNy
>b3NvZnQgTWFpbC5Ob3RlADEIAQWAAwAOAAA
"i also don't know how to use my email software so i'll continually
send them pages and pages of base64 encoded crap"
there, that was fun.
btw, the dog on wheels ep runs thus:
Dog On Wheels
The State I Am In
String Bean Jean
Belle And Sebastian
andy
who sometimes wonders why he bothers.
==
andrew dean (koogydelbbog(a)yahoo.com)
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DO YOU YAHOO!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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Hello all
In response to the people who have mentioned H & L
over the last few days, if you see the single BUY IT.
I came across it at the weekend for 2 quid and remembered
somebody talking about it on the list so I took a chance.
4 songs, 10 minutes, not a second wasted. It's great.
I hope there's more to follow.
Thanks to whoever mentioned it in the first place.
I was listening to "Seymour Stein" at the weekend and
I noticed for the first time the line about Chris(I think) looking like
Johnny Marr "Before he went Electronic". Is this what
Stevie sings or did I imagine it? It brought a huge smile to
my face regardless.
Ronan
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I've updated the details to reflect the fact that two picnics have
passed (and please, let us know how they were dearies!), i've also added
a few things to the london details, such as a number for an ansaphone on
the day where ou can pick up last minute changes and directions to the
hill. plus added the carious games that are now going to be there.
katrina and i were talking about the picnics over the weekend and
thought that it would work better if, instead of bringing just your own
meal, how about everyone bring an item to go into a communal type buffet
thing. for example, bring some pringles/crisps and some dips, or how
about a pile of rolls with a slab of cheese (remember to bring a bread
knife!), even better some quiche. we will supply a great pile of paper
plates and napkins and probably some crisps and dips too. but everything
else is up to you.
if you're going to bring a large item (cake? massive quiche? 100 sausage
rolls?), let me know and i'll put the info on the web page and ansaphone
so that other people can see/hear and bring other stuff instead!
anyhow, the reason for the great biog buffet? well it's cheap, only a
couple of quid max and would supply a great pile food, so we can eat at
leisure and just luxuriate all afternoon! also, it's very much a
communal thing in that the community spirit would shout through the
roof, and then we can all discard life and it's trials and run of and
live up a hill somewhere with Honey and Peter Miller!
david :)
looking forward to it? you bloody should be!
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as two people kindly pointed out, i neglected to include carolina
menedez's e-mai for people to mail her, anyhow, to correct that;
Carolina Menendez (roca11(a)hotmail.com)
and again, if you have a moment and would like to make someone smile in
spain, just send her a chirpy e-mail as she really wants to hear from
other people who like b&s and hasn't met many in spain.
thanks again
david
someone wrote:
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> Dear David
>
> I would like to send an email to Carolina Menedez--but I didn't see her email
> address in the message that you forwarded to Sinister. Am I blind? Probably.
> No, I do not live in Spain, but I can still try to bring a smile to her face.
> We all need to smile a bit more anyway.
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Label- gallery (gal001cd)
"Hopkirk&lee sublime debut ep features the classic «free arthur lee».
A recent single of the week on London´s XFM, the song has been described
as «two minutes of pure magic»"
Lush arrangements a la B&S. COOL !
Pedro.
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well but yes i already do...
this is for suggesting a picnic date los angeles listers...
courtney suggested the 2nd or 9th of may and i would like to cast my vote
for the 2nd as after that it will be many graduation parties and that sort
of thing at _our_ (surprise!) school and i have some of those to attend
its just my selfishness but i think that may 2nd is the day i think is
best... of course this means we will have to throw things together in a
bit of a rush but i think we can manage!
and where will this lovely picnic be? should we take advantage of the fact
that we live and make everyone else jealous by picnicing on the beach? or
we could go to griffith park which is rather nice too but very big and i
dunno where the best place to meet up would be - the observatory?
so that is my proposal i think i will say to email me privately so that we
donot clutter up this list too much also if there are things that people
want to bring shall we all bring a dish to share? i am vegan and if there
is anyone else who has things they cannot eat or whatnot we will work it
out
and courtney i am emailing you as soon as i am done with this so that we
might work something out as i think that we are the most obviously in the
same vicinity...
so los angeles and surrounding area people lets go!
take care
allison
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