Hi List, It's A Cool, Cool First Sunday Of Advent Has been out in the UK for a week. www.jeepster.co.uk directs people from the rest of the world wishing to purchase to: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000051TTC/buro9/026-5894844-399885 5 I like O Come, O Come Emmanuel. Sounds to me like Stuart, Stevie, Isobel & Sarah taking a verse each in turn (albeit in the order 1, 5, 3, 4 according to my copy of Hymns Ancient & Modern). Good string arrangement, cool melodica(?) solo. As to the rest: some dross, with Grandaddy, Gorky's & Low shining through so far, hopefully more later. But its for charity, so bloody buy one! Disciplinary Action? I've recently taken to peeking at Sinister at work, but may have to stop due to the strange looks I get from passers-by catching sight of lines like: "Life In Porno ... teeth marks ... his knob." And I won't be following any more of Steve "Orange Tool" Carsmile's links, either. "I'd squash him" Over the years I've seen listees trying many ways of angling for crush votes, but it seems that after all the easiest thing to do is just to include a link to the crush page in a mail :) The Pines, The Pines! Listmummy Honey's proud Mum speech made me smile & get misty & reminded me of the afternoon I spent yesterday in the company of the London branch of the Sinister family in an Islington pub where the fug was blown away by the refreshing clean smell & sound of acoustic folk pop duo The Pines. The punters & windows were steamed & the music was great, both from listees Pam & Joe & DJ Tim, the Preacher of P!O!P. Thanks. Thanks too to Romain for continuing my series of occasional French lessons by explaining why it might be OK to use the name Le Pinefox but never the handle Les Pines. Oh, I nearly forgot :) Pines product (one song) is available on the glittering Fortuna Pop! Christmas compilation (contact fortuna_pop@bigfoot.com for details) & their own 3 song 7". If (because!) you want one of the latter contact either longlostcousin@yahoo.com or pamelab@mcmail.com to find out how. The evening was spent at the Colchester Arts Centre (a de-consecrated church for anyone who hasn't been there ( or played there :) ) First up was Whistler. A big bag of bollocks to their snotty cow of a singer (still wearing same ugly dress) who compounded the evil of their tuneless racket by swearing at, taking the piss out of & getting a security man to threaten a member of the audience for having the temerity to .... dance! at "her" gig. Props then to New! Improved! Rock! Hefner for restoring the balance of good vibes by playing a great long set spiced with oldies but goodies & inviting aforesaid idiot dancer onstage during their encores to perform in the pulpit so everyone could watch him. Nearly Done The new Arab Strap single is a return to form - 2 t*o*p tunes, and at last I know the name of that song they played at ATP (Blackness). There's a new Cinerama out today too, & if people are going to plug V-Twin's singles compilation, for anyone who doesn't have all Cinerama's (Princess Honey?) Cooking Vinyl have gathered up all 13 tracks from their first 4 singles for less than a tenner as "This Is Cinerama". As a Mr Gedge B side puts most bands' best songs to shame its well worth getting IMHO. All Tortoise's PostRockMates I think I know the answer to this already, but is anyone here going to next year's Camber Sands weekender? Close Up The Honky Tonks, Hillary David Moore Chelmsford, UK +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+