Hey Sinister People, Are you all well? And dandy? I'm not too bad, cept it's a little cold. You know the picnic in Sheffield on Saturday? I was in Manchester on Saturday morning and I saw a 95 bus going to Simister. And my vision was a little skewed and I was a probably still a little bit drunk, and my shoes were on the wrong feet and all that kind of stuff, and for about three seconds, I really believed that 'Simister' read 'Sinister'. Everything kind of clicked into place and I imagined the bus as a clunky, puffy old Charlie's Bus, crawling through country lanes over to Sheffield, driven by a twinkly-eyed cheeky Pilsbury DoughBoy in flares and a cap, honking the horn, and the back seats full of kids licking apple butter off each others' fingers. Stopping off various bakers' on the route, before letting everyone pile off to roll about for a few hours before taking 'em back to Manchester. But then everything cleared, and all I saw was a dusty old bus dragging itself out to Simister. Sheesh. I had a cracking weekend though. A Room For Romeo Brass is out on video next month. I've checked the archives and I know it's been mentioned on the list and I'm sorry to mention it again, but it really is fantastic. The use of B&S on the soundtrack is perfect, you get the feeling that Shane Meadows... um... gets it. Y'know, the sense of malevolence and of implicit violence and of things not being quite right that crops up in SM's lyrics. It's my favourite film this year, definitely. I've got a funny, queasy feeling about B&S not doing anything for a year. When I first heard "Dirty Dream#2" live I misheard "comedian" as "chameleon" and convinced myself it was about Stuart wishing he'd been in The Chameleons and stayed a perennially romantic underacheiver. I was sure it was code that something was wrong. I know I was wrong, but I've got that same, queasy feeling again. Oh, and before I forget, on Wednesday 5th July 2000 at 19:38GMT Emily Bishop said:
I don't want to turn into some mithering old woman...
And I thought "You've been nothing but that since Percy left, and even then you were the weak link..." It's late and I have to be up early tomorrow. We've got a drummer now, and we're all meeting up in Crosshouse. I'm proud in a funny way, I bet there aren't many bands who conduct their business in the hospital cafeterias. So I'll hit the hay. Be sweet, mouche +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+