I've been most remiss with my mail these past months, but I have excuses. I'm not telling you what they are, mind, but rest assured, they are really REALLY good excuses. Alcohol rears its handsome head in most of them... but you could have guessed that anyway. Someone not so long ago said that they were trying to organise an Exeter picnic on the 27th, either knowingly or otherwise to celebrate the birfday of the list. Ah, how fondly I remember those days, even if it is something of a blur and haze to me now. But yes, the 27th... I think the Exeter picnic is a tremendous idea, and I shall be broken hearted if, upon turning up at St Davids station at the allotted time of 2pm there are precisely, erm, no other Sinister looking bods around to cop off with. Or at least to go drinking with. Should this be the case, however, I will not despair, because thankfully pubs here still serve lonely old bastards by themselves, and anyway, in the evening I have a special party to go to ANYway. Everyone is welcome actually, especially anyone who might conceivably be in town for aforementioned picnic... it's a big gala unveiling of my friends' (yes! Really!) multimedia do-dah and there will be fab video and slide projections, little booklets (copyright ME), CDRoms and a smart buffet. Oh yes, and some shite Djing courtesy of yours truly. I will personally be celebrating the Sinister birthday in my own inimitable way by playing records that have nothing to do with Belle & Sebastian, thereby honouring the Sinister pledge of being completely off-topic at all times. Seriously, you are all welcome... 8pm, at the Timepiece nightclub. Be there, or quite frankly, be somewhere else. I am now off to the big city of London for a few days, to drink with friends and do a couple of interviews in the awkward moments between pubs. I might even see some art shows but I'm not holding my breath. I might even see some of YOU lot. Won't that be jolly nice? Keep the faith, alistair Tangents Ezine http://www.tangents.co.uk/ PO Box 102 Exeter EX2 4YL UK +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+