So there I am. At my second B&S show in a row at the Warfield in San Francisco, when this tiny Asian girl just ups and passes out. People scatter and the band stops playing. Stuart edges up the crowd. "What's happened to her?" The band is at attention. She's passed out is the general consensus. Security carries her off and I yell out, "You made her pass out with that purty voice of yours." He looks at me and nods his head. Silly Americans he must have been thinking. Those two nights they did a Smiths cover, the leader of the pack song, Sly and the Family Stone. At that point there I decided on my new favorite band. It had been Morrissey. Forever it was Morrissey, no question. But B&S did it for me that night. And now I contemplate lyrics being tattooed on me. "We know you are soft cause we've all seen you dancing We know you are hard cause we all saw you drinking from noon Until noon again" Not really, but its obsession. I even sent away for a tea towel. I live in America, where I've never even heard of a tea towel, but I have a B@S tea towel, and a mug and a mousepad and three shirts and all the posters and the postcards and everything on vinyl and everything on CD. And I'm the boy with the filthy laugh who's flying to Los Angeles and paid $143 for a two day festival to see B&S play for an hour or two. $100 for the plane, $75 for a rental, $100 for a hotel, $8 a bottle for water and you have the happiest boy for just under $500 for a two day weekend, not to mention that I only work on the weekends so blaggh. So I will confess to you this is my first post ever and I don't know how much longer I can hold no one's attention. Oscar Love +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+