OK, so I didn't go bowling, but there you go (I was in Cranfield, of all places). If I HAD, I certainly would have REPORTED BACK by now. Then again, I haven't even told you about the gig yet and that was agesandsges ago, mumble mumble, lots of work before xmas, mumble. Anyway, suffice it to say (this is Thursday at the astoria, by the way), they were good although S a little moody, lots of old classics (Beautiful!!! Dog on wheels!!!), the new ones sounding good too. And hey, franz ferdinand RoX0r also, which is nice. Also when they played DoW just for a second I got a whiff of the main room at Camber Sands, which, if you recall, stank of cheap pizza all weekend, which was very odd, I mean, I'm certain I've heard them play it live since then. Also youn said: I've been waiting, in vain, to hear reporting back from the Chickfactor shows, L'age d'or de pop. And daddymoore and ian did a bit, but just to add my tuppenorth: aluminum (sic) group are grebt, steven duffy was rub, and the pines were magnificent, as was the fashion show. On Thursday of this week I am going to see JUSTIN TROUSERSNAKE and am very excited. Also I thought struan was on my bus this morning, but maybe not (the bloke's nose was a little pointier). Also I got an ipod for xmas and it is fun. This also meant that I had to buy a new computer (well, I didn't *have to*, but it seemed like a good enough excuse), and, oh no! good bye life, oh no! it came with Civilisation III which has taken up most of my waking hours (and some of the non-waking ones as well, mmm, dreaming of computer games, niiiice) since then... Also evey time I hear about the beagle2 mission I start humming a song called beagle that I downloaded off t'internet about a million years ago. I knew it was sinister-related but couldn't remember why. Fortunately the archive search is a wonderful thing: http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/199909/msg00540.html http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/199911/msg00189.html Unfortunately <ahem> "sinister martin robinson's" site seems to have fallen off the interweb, which is a shame as it is a lovely little track, if rather heavily indebted to b&s (judy and her dream of horses in particular). Maybe if beagle had had that as it's tune rather than blur's noncesense it might not have fallen into a hole/been eaten by mars monster/worked... Anyway, stop hiding you lot, or I'll be round your house... xoxo CarsmileSteve +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+