Hello! Because we've moved to the first Friday in Brixton and the third Saturday at the Phoenix, every so often the calendar does a weird temporal shimmy and deposits the two weekends next to each other. The next time this is due to happen is in September 2007, so prepare yourselves now...! So even though we've just had (a storming, and quite chaotic) HDIF in Brixton, there's another one this weekend. I was thinking about how to make this one special on the coach back from Oxford on Saturday night, and I put "The Boy With The Arab Strap" on my walkman to help me ponder. I don't think I've listened to it all the way through for years - definitely not this decade - and it was a real revelation. All those ghosts! Stuart David and his spaceboy dream. Isobel wondering if it's wicked not to care. Memories of the moment when our secret suddenly broke out into the real world. I sat there with my beer, watching the lights of the M4 glide by and just got lost in it all again. And that's when I realised what I should do. Apropos of absolutely nothing and tying in with no relevant anniversary, I'm going to play every song from "The Boy From The Arab Strap" on Saturday night. Not in order or all together - just sprinkled through the night like old love letters. It seems to me that two of the songs were designed to be played back to back, so I'll play those as a pair. Doors open at 9pm and "It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career" will be aired at 9.15pm sharp. From then on, who knows where we'll go. The indie song of the week is: "The Kids At The Club" by Comet Gain The soul song of the week is: "Little Ole Boy, Little Ole Girl" by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell Our guest DJ this week is Andy Strickland from The Loft. Hope to see you on Saturday! Ian x ----------- How Does It Feel To Be Loved? Saturday July 15th The Phoenix, 37 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0PP, three minutes walk from Oxford Circus tube station, 9pm-3am, £4 members, £6 non members. Membership is free from http://www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk Guest DJ: Andy Strickland (The Loft) We play: The Smiths * The Supremes * The Go-Betweens * Dusty Springfield * Belle & Sebastian * Love * Tammi Terrell * Aztec Camera * The Ronettes * Orange Juice * Beach Boys * The Temptations * Velvet Underground * Felt * The Shangri-Las * Primal Scream * Otis Redding * The Field Mice * Dexys Midnight Runners * Camera Obscura * The Four Tops * Melba Moore * The Orchids +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+