hey everyone i went to see primal scream last night and it was the most unbelievably fabulous fantastic gig i have EVER been too!!! they played this tiny venue in oxford which was absolutely heaving, and they crammed 9 people on a stage which has problems accommodating 5, having to squeeze duffy and his keyboard behind one amp stack, and proceeded to create the most amazing sounds i have ever heard. i can't get over how songs that i absolutely adore could be made 10 times better!! i've seen the primals once before and they were good, but this was magnificent. they showcased loads of songs from the new album 'exterminator' which i *think* is out january 31st, which you should all go buy cos on the basis of last night it has to be stunning. every time i close my eyes i can picture bobby gillespie looking just such a rock god, even GRINNING during kowalski!! i didn't think anything could get any better, when as a final encore they played an emotional 'movin' on up'. wow. the whole place erupted, it was mental. i am so happy!! can you tell?! i am listening to 'vanishing point' very loudly now, that is why this post is *even* more disjointed than usual, cos i keep stopping to dance around the living room. my cat thinks i have lost it. she is giving me quizzical looks. when i was younger i was damn good at P.E. i was even in a county cross country competition thing. it nearly killed me though, and i think that was when i started on the slippery slope to become the unfit lazy skiver i am today. first i stopped doing the running events in sports day, and did the jumps instead. i had a bit of a respite by discovering a knack for triple jump, but i really couldn't be arsed. i was in the useless/skiver group while everyone else was doing gcse, which was funny. as we were the sporting scum of the school we only ever did trampolining (pervert teacher alert) or badminton on a continual rotation for two years. now, i am shit scared of heights so there was no way i was jumping on that trampoline. by the time those two years were done they'd got me on the trampoline, where i sat on it clutching to the sides until my 30 second 'go' was over. badminton was hilarious. i am terrible at all sports that involve some sort of racket/stick. and badminton was the worst. did anyone else have leagues where you moved up/down the courts? well our teacher sectioned off the bottom court for myself and my 3 partners in skiving laziness, where we sat and chatted for the lesson. just as long as we turned up, brought our kit and got changed that was fine!! and people moan that schools don't put enough emphasis on sports! maybe i'm just ultra unobservant (which could well be the case) but i'd never noticed jim gilmer's e-mail ending thingy before. it's a jeff noon quote from 'vurt' which is one of the best books ever. just because you can find jeff noon in science fiction sections in bookshops, don't let this put you off. i can't stand 99.9% of science fiction, but jeff noon, he's something else. he draws you into this manchester-based world, and honestly you get in so deep that it's hard to get out again. his books are astonishing, they really are. go read! if you've got this far you will be over the moon to know i am going now, off into my primal scream soundscape lots of love rachel xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+