Nowadays I get all my Gentle Waves news from Jordi's list. What happened to all the fans of no-nonsense, heads-down boogie-rock on this list? Aren't you all excited about the forthcoming gigs? London's East End and Dublin. The Cromwellian Conservatives at Jeepster have claimed Dublin for the UK. The new EP has got a picture of a nudie lady on it. Inexplicably, even though it's only a drawing, you can't see her nipples. The LP has got a pciture of Isobel forcibly holding a cat against its will. If you look closely at her face, you can see her trying to conceal her annoyance as the cat wriggles and squiggles and sticks its claws in her. There's a song called "Loretta Young". Who's he? I'm really looking forward to hearing it. I had a terrible shock this morning. Future Bible Heroes were on the radio. I tried to plug up my ears, but it was too late. It really was absolutely awful. I've got Record Collector magazine. Lucky old me. It calls Stevie Reverb's contribution to the Brian Wilson tribute album "lovely". I like to think Big Dave grabbed Wee Chris with one of those Tommy Cooper style extending arms. The other day I saw the trailer for "North by Northwest", which is a film by Alfred Hitchcock. In the trailer, Hitchcock churchills on about the plot and actors and so on. He says "Eva Marie Saint" to rhyme with "paint", whereas Lloyd Cole says it to rhyme with "font", sort of. But who is right and who is wrong I cannot say. Was Hitchcock being deliberately dim, or was Lloyd Cole trying to sound sophisticated by showing his mastery of the French language? Perhaps The Piefox will know. I wish I could go and see that exhibition of photos by Gail Chickfactor. There's nowhere I'd like to go less than New York, but I'd go just to see The Foxgloves gurning down at me from the wall. By the way, National Poetry Day passed virtually unnoticed this year. Coincidence? I think not. Does anyone know if there are going to be any more Papercuts, or have we all retired? Nice to see Simon Reynolds talking sense for once. Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+