start the week with rener! or don't. Alexander Bartilson wrote:
yesterday there was this pretty cool music festival in Stockholm, Sweden called Accelerator. <snip> My personal favourite was the Magnetic Fields. They were really great. Even though Stephen Merrit didn't seem to be on such a good mood.
that was probably the old food poisoning kicking in ... i went to see the Mag Fields a day or two later in dublin, and they'd been on the point of cancelling the show because stephin had been so ill. but he recovered enough to do the show in his pyjama top, fair play to him. he was quite subdued compared to normal, and they altered the set list so claudia got to sing more songs, which was lovely - claudia's great. it was a completely top show. from experience, my top tip for avoiding food poisoning is: never eat prawns in dublin. not even those dublin bay prawns (recogniseable by their beards and their tendency to break into renditions of The Ould Triangle at the sight of a pint of guinness) dirtyvicar wrote:
Rener made a new friend who it somehow became apparent had kept going to gigs to see the Mull Historical Society support someone, only to arrive late and find the headliners already onstage. He then told her an amusing anecdote about the time he met Isobel Campbell, but that's Rener's story so I'll let her tell it.<<
it's not that amusing, really, but oh all right. the conversation between isobel and this guy somehow got around to Fans, and isobel said that she was a bit scared of them, especially the ones who send her their favourite childhood cuddly toys in the post. she then elucidated: <passable chirpy scottish accent> "i wouldn't mind, but ... well, some of them haven't been washed for years, and they're really *smelly*"</chirpy scottish accent>. i hope no-one on this list is offended by this story. i didn't make it up .... and i have a giant cuddly ladybird that i've had since childhood (it was my last santa claus present, sniff). it is pretty smelly. i'm not posting it to isobel, though. will salt wrote:
I'm not a fan of summer. It's too hot and sweaty. I prefer autumn, when I can snuggle up inside under my quilt, against the rain and the wet leaves. Can't we just get this season over with?<<
Could someone, preferably called Keith, please tell me which Thin Lizzy records Phil Lynott used his
too right. another month should do it, and then we can all take to the streets once more. yay! peter miller wrote: perspex bass on?<< someone's mentioned here before that the perspex bass was a gift to stuart murdoch from philo (as we ould dubs like to call him, whuh whuh whuh). is there any truth at all in this story? i ask because phil lynott died in 1983, and therefore i'm a bit skeptical. or sceptical ... furthermore, i grew up being forcefed thin lizzy and i don't remember philo having a perspex bass, only a mirrored one. of course, the perspex one could have been post-lizzy. anyone know more about this? bye! rener ===== "Yarr, its kind of you to deliver these copies of Jugs. They'll keep my men from resorting to homosexuality fer about 10 minutes. harr harr harr." - The Cap'n ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+