Hi All, Thanks to Spanish Tranny Sister Disco for drawing our attention to the BBCs Mercury Music Prize poll. I would like to think that I am a straightforward guy who wouldnt endorse cheating, vote fixing or anything underhand like that. So I was a little puzzled when someone who used to live here, & who is well-enough known in B&S circles to be mentioned by surname from the stage at B&Ss Somerset House show on Saturday posted this on his board: Click here to register a vote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/polli...ok=ok&vote=Vote Note that once you have voted, it will place a cookie with details like these (the value will be unique to you): Domain: bbc.co.uk Cookie Name: BBC-UID Value: 54b06fedc3373c07926ad317814c8ff86cf2b2c0d0b0a0b21a 056aaa2f61e5d90Mozilla%2f5%2e0%20%28Windows%3b%20U %3b%20Windows%20NT%205%2e1%3b%20en%2dGB%3b%20rv%3a 1%2e7%29%20Gecko%2f20040707%20Firefox%2f0%2e9%2e2 Delete that cookie to vote again Note that you can't disable cookies, because you need it to vote with I am not quite sure what it all means but see what you lot can make of it. Minor Reporting Back from the weekend: 1) Whilst sat in a pub by Waterloo Station before Saturdays gig it occurred to me that it would be highly appropriate for the band to play The Kinks top tune Waterloo Sunset, so I txted someone in the band to request it, & blow me down, there it was later being sung by Our Stevie. Thanks a lot! 2) Whilst swanning around on the terrace of Somerset House at Saturdays aftershow I spotted Alison Newman!! (For those of you who are not aware of her, she plays a character called Hazel Bailey in favourite TV drama Footballers Wive$ (see http://www.footballerswives.tv/chs/chs_hb.html ) Nice to see so many Sinister people old and new both before & at Saturday's concert. (A lot of the older ones didn't go!) Love to all David Moore Chelmsford, UK +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+