From the opposite end of the age spectrum. Yesterday's picnic was held in Regents Park on a hammeringly hot day so we sat in the dappled shade of a
Hi All, Pardon me for interrupting. REPORTING BACK tree near the camel & llama enclosure. About 40 people turned up, I think. Sally, Lucy, Liz and Carey (lovely surprise to see her!) all proved that they were honouring the day correctly at various points through the day. Not me though: the maroon ones I wore for last year must have, er, shrunk in the wash or something as I couldn't manage to get them on comfortably. Elena wore a stunning top, and the girls practised hip-swinging walks to the loos & back. We listened to B&S live, The Loving Spoonful, the Eurosexuals (or would have done if the CD could have got past the 58 second mark), The Aislers Set, & the Moldy Peaches (I think - anyway, one of those bands you young people like nowadays) As I sit here listening to Belle and Sebastian and writing to the Sinister list whilst drinking coffee from a B&S Girl Reclining mug, I can't recall what I said when interviewed by the R1 researcher with the lovely smile who came along with Carsmile to collect material for her piece on fans. I'm certain it was bollocks though, so luckily it won't be broadcast. I wonder how we compared to the Manics fans she met last? What else can I remember now? Elena's story of her Papa being covered in llama spit when she was four, Lucy admiring Marks's meat & one veg up the leg of his shorts (Carey saw too), girls laying on the grass posing for early 90's indie band cover shots, goats, emus, sheep and an elephant, the lunatics playing football, (afterwards Peter Carter looked like he was going to have a heart attack & Robbo's veins stood out on his forehead like one of those transformation sequences in a horror film)and the birds getting restless as the sun began to set. (Epecially a great big one that looked like a toucan.) Others reporting for duty: Le Troussé, 2 Polish girls whose names I don't know how to spell, picnic uncle Cabbage, Robbo, Richard, PeetSketchSteve, Paul Field, Mike Winship, aSm & some cult leader bloke. (Bless you!) Lilly 96 attended via the phone from his lonely satellite picnic in Kelvingrove park. (Aaah!) Then off for the ride in aircon comfort listening to S Club 7 & Ronan <swoon> whilst adjusting our makeup to The Betsey Trotwood for TIGERMILKING where DJ's Cabbage, Casarotto, Lixibell & Lucy did their utmost to keep the dancefloor filled. Mark I hope you reached the magic 42 people break-even number. Here Archel, Matt and Chris Butler/Señor Droolcup joined the throng. Star-shaped velcro hairslides were in vogue, people danced like loons to Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie & other hits & I wondered what kind of perverse snobbery made me not rate Dexy's Midnight Runners at the time. Apologies to all those particiPants whose names I forgot or don't know. OTHER STUFF How completist do you guys want to get? There's a Shoeshine Records sampler (only £1.99) available with a bonus cut "You Don't have To Cry" (Gene Clark, who is as we all know the 22nd GREATEST SONGWRITER IN POP HISTORY) by Frank "Jackson" Blake (Norman Blake, Stevie Jackson & Francis Macdonald) - see here: http://www.shoeshine.co.uk/Sampler.htm & you can get Stevie Jackson's version of Future Pilot aka's Beat Of A Drum from the Domino site here: http://www.dominorecordco.com/sounds/futu_beat.mp3 Love, David Moore Chelmsford, UK +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+