Hey guys, good luck to all currently sitting exams. Rather luckily mine have now all finished. So last night i took the train down to the wah wah hut to see Dot Allison and wow! it was a great gig. I wasn't sure what i'd make of these new fangled techno beats but it was really special. Her new tunes sounded great and she did a great rocked up mo'pop which was a real treat. I was standing behind a guy doing these wicked projections although it didn't work that well being beamed onto the King Tuts drape at the back of the stage. still, i got the general idea and it was really entertaining seeing him scrammble trying to load another real whilst trying to pick up the set list and everything else he lopped onto the floor. I also got to meet Monica Queen. I was sure it was her but noone else seemed to take any notice so i wasn't totally confident unitl i saw her fetch a chair from the bar - a dead give away! So i went and said hi! and told her i was another crazy belle and sebastian fan but she was really pleasant, especially after she found out i had 'ten sorrowful mysteries', i got the impression not many other people had which is a pity cos its really good. so go forth and buy! anyway, after leaving her in peace i figured i'd forgot to ask that niggling question; was their any symbolic reason behind her wearing the tour de france yellow jersey at last years barrowlands gig? ah well, maybe another time. So it wasn't quite as excitng as having andy rourke back to your flat making morrissey impersonations but i was still quite excited. a couple other things occured too which are best not shared but needless to say i felt very remote and a little strange, uneasy and detatched and so by the time i left id seen a really moody and dark gig, and bumped into someone i'd have done a great deal to avoid. not great but no problem, i'll just listen to the mix tape marty thrust in my hand as i left the flat on my way out the door. Bad move., it was all the really melancholy bits of sigur ros, the blade runner soundtrack and other great gems of mogwai and so forth. Even the cheeriest guy would have been floored by this tape. as testimony to marty's great tape making skills it was all there, all the most depressing bits of songs with all the semi cheery bits absent. Afterwards i didn't feel so bad actually. not that the music itself helped but the fact that marty had actually gone through all his records to select the darkest bits possible, even it they were just 12seconds long, to create a mix tape which he regarded as his favourite. So if i felt mixed up that was replaced by my worry for him. theres always someone else worse. so incidently if anyones got a great sunshine mix they can suggest to sort the lad out please don't hesitate to post it to me. Thanks. well anyway, take care and best wishes, chris _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+