ah isobel, what are the boys going to look at now that your pouting face and shaking eggs will be absent from b&s shows? still, with solo and collaborative projects planned etc, maybe they will get to see you Sans Pout, which could well have been just a reflection of your discomfort at international touring/recording/tv/interviews and all those things that happen to you when your modest beat combo steps up a gear on the success machine. may you find your new directions more inspiring and less exhausting. so, i hope y'all who had jubilee bank holidays enjoyed them. my fun started on saturday when i got very very sunburned (mad dogs and englishmen is right), and came home to find a copy of storytelling inexplicably balanced on a can of air freshener (though in fact it wasn't inexplicable for long as there was a message on the answerphone from matt saying 'there is a copy of storytelling for you on top of that can of air freshener'.) through my sun-addled haze it seemed quite lovely, especially 'scooby driver' which is POPtastic. (it was particularly impressive that matt got back from japan so quickly after scoring that cracking goal against cameroon, too. i hope the rest of the irish team didn't miss him while he went back to his alter-ego as record shop manager and archel's boyfriend.) i didn't do much for the rest of the jubilee weekend because i am a lazy arse who has no money, but my playstation skills are now as finely tuned as they're ever likely to get... i am very stressed about moving in a couple of weeks, so if any brawny sinister men or women fancy driving a van/humping sofas around/making me cups of tea you would be very welcome. ok, so that's not an invitation i expect anyone to take up, but here's a better one: i have taken care to sandwich the trauma of moving in between two lovely gigs in brighton - looper on 16th june and moldy peaches on 21st, so if anyone wants to join me for either, let me know. i have a newly acquired 'fuck peacock johnson' t-shirt and everything. luv archel xxx ps. hm, it seems to be my BIRTHDAY the day after i move, too :) ****************** Visit www.buzzwords.ndo.co.uk for the best new writing on the web. Email submissions to buzzwords@bigfoot.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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+