If you take a map of London, and draw a line from the church of St. Lucie's in Old Street to that of St. Anne in Limehouse, you will notice that the line's mid-point falls somewhere on the Bethnal Green road. I was astonished to discover last saturday that the exact location of this midpoint is in a public house called The Pleasure Unit. I was there last Saturday, attending an event billing itself as The First Bowlie All-Dayer. It went on all day, or at least from shortly after 3.00pm to around 2.00am, and a number of bands played (as did a number of DJs). Visual artists also had their work projected onto a wall for our additional entertainment. There have been some posts on the subject already, I notice, and a frank exchange of views between Mr Hester and the singer in one of the day's bands. Tribute acts are funny old things, and they will always have an inescapable lack of coolness. However, I find even half-decent examples of the genre entertaining, and the Brunettie band were considerably better than that. They provided me with much entertainment. It's an odd experience seeing a band fronted by someone you know from the internet who are actually good and stuff. Blimey. I didn't like all the other acts, but I was very taken with this rockist outfit called Echobeat. They rocked. I like things that rock. I also liked Language of Flowers, but I maybe did not pay them enough attention as I was DJing afterwards, and having to play amazingly good tunes in only 15 minutes was a bit of a trial. I did my best. After that popular band Wintergreen were on. Are they actually popular? Perhaps they are if MarkH came all the way to see them. I liked them, anyway. I also liked Mad Mr Chris Gimour, a Glasgow scenester some of you might know, who sang songs referencing the KLF with lyrics about how bad he is. then there was the Pinefox, who said:
I am awaiting a post from The Vicar, which will redress the balance, about the DJs, the Brunetties, et al - we like the Kontroversy - and also tell about the medieval walls and things that we explored, recently.
I like controversy too, but only when it involves other people. The other DJs were great. I particularly liked the chap who played 'Live Is Life', and the version by Opus, not Laibach. What a funny fellow. And as for mediaeval walls, what the Pinefox is talking about is the trip Rener, the Fox, and I all made to Canterbury last week. They have mediaeval walls there. And a cathedral. Whenever the Pinefox saw the cathedral he made an aaa-aaa-aaaaaah noise, like the music in some film about Canterbury he saw recently. The day before we went to The Globe in London, where these women were appearing in a Shakespeare play. One of them was Josie Lawrence, which was nice. The play was Much Ado About Nothing, and it was the usual Shakespeare stuff about misunderstandings and stuff.
That was exciting. The Vicar also has something to say about Rats.
Yes, I am reading a book about rats. They carry disease and spoil your food, but they are also cute little fellows who make great pets. Now I am back home in Dublin, where I am likely to remain for some time. Oh well. bless you all, DV +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+