Not wanting to post the only message that I have written in the last year as it didn't quite take me the 15 minutes to write (it went: "Last night I had my first B&S dream. I dreamt Legal Man wasn't shit."), I decided to wait until I had something positive to say before posting for the first time in a year. So, Stephin Merritt is as much of a genius live as on record. Even if the songs weren't nearly all things of utter beauty, just seeing this odd, serious little man singing "Let's pretend we're bunny rabbits/Let's do it all day long" would put a smile on anyone's face. Even the venue was great, nice leather seats to fall into for a prematurely old fogey like myself who likes his comfort at gigs. I'm sure non-believers here are getting tired of hearing this at this stage, but do buy 69 Love Songs please. 6 months on, I still listen to this as much as the great one-month old Badly Drawn Boy LP and the sadly patchy "Fold Your Hands.." £16 or so for 3 CDs has to be worth a chance. By the way, if anyone out there has a tape of the Birmingham gig Stephin played do let me know and I'll swap you for my friend's soul or something. See ya Ronan +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+