.... of music. Music lovers. Yeah. Hello! Any interest in makin' sweet love...ly music and saving the world AT THE SAME TIME? Ooh! I've gotten myself involved in helping to organise the UK's biggest music festival. It'll take place over the entire month of October, in loads of venues across the UK, and all proceeds will benefit Oxfam. It's cleverly called Oxjam. Last year was its first outing, and they made half a million pounds! This year, we're aiming for a cool million. Anyway... I thought I'd try to lure some sad yet soulful bedroom devotees out of their bedrooms to get involved. We're currently recruiting official event organisers, who will be all trained up proper-like, to put on some of the bigger events, or a bunch of small ones, or whatever their little twee hearts desire! There's only a few more days left to sign up for these posts, but you can do it here: http://www.oxfam.org.uk Otherwise, we'll take all the help we can get, so even if you don't want to commit to throwing a big shindig yourself, you can still get involved in other ways. You and your colleagues can get sponsored to participate in a 'work opera', for instance, where you spend an entire day communicating solely through song. Or you could dress up as a gorilla and deliver singing telegrams. Or you could fry up some banana and peanut butter Elvis sandwiches as part of a rock star luncheon. Or you could just volunteer to be my minion as I try to coordinate a couple hundred gigs in Glasgow. Phew! Won't that be fun! If you visit the above site, there will be more info and local contacts, or you can email me. I'd especially like to hear from Glasgow folk, as I'm bursting with ideas for events here, but I'm not supposed to put on any of them myself. Some of them even include our beloved belles and friends. Mmmm hmmm. Incentive enough? In other news, another festival was in town this weekend - Triptych - and some of us Sinisterenes were lucky enough to attend an epic day of fab music organised by the illustrious Stephen Pastel and friends. although I've lived in Glasgow now for coming on five years and see Stephen about toon on a pretty regular basis, I had never seen The Pastels perform, so it was quite a treat! There were tons of them on stage, too. They roped in loads of friends, mostly of Teenage Fanclub and Tenniscoats fame, and did TWO sets - an early, wee bit experimental 'quiet' set, and a full-on closing set at the late hour of 11pm (which was sadly more difficult to hang on for than I'd like to admit). It was pretty gosh-darn special! And in between we were treated to other fantastic sets from the adorable and talented Tenniscoats, the amazingly rockin' ladies of Electrolane, wacky local popsters The Royal We (featuring our very own wee Patrick!) and the quirky cool Pierre Bastien. Sadly, I had to work yesterday and therefore missed what was surely another amazing show for the Ballads of the Book, a super ace project combining Scottish artists and musicians. If you haven't heard about it, check it out here: http://www.chemikal.co.uk/news.htm There's a CD to be bought there too, so if you're willing to part with a few squid, there ya go! There's been loads of good stuff happening 'round here, with even more to come! Indian Summer is shaping up to be a pretty ace, so if anyone is looking for an excuse to come visit, July 14-15 would be a good time. http://www.indiansummerglasgow.com Yeah! Hope y'all are well! -stacey _________________________________________________________________ MSN Hotmail is evolving - check out the new Windows Live Hotmail http://get.live.com/betas/mail_betas +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+