I was struck by Marisa Stroud's post about there being a secret Sinister in-crowd. I'm not one of the Sinister Illuminati, but I was hanging out with Stuart the other day, and he was playing me a rough cut of the album they are planning to release in early 2006. "We're moving in an increasingly Drum and Bass direction", he was saying, but the tracks sounded a bit more Jungle to me. I'm not sure what the Tigermilk kids will make of it, but Stuart says he doesn't care. I also was hanging out at the Glastonbury Festival. Because I fear the yellowface I was late to the meetup on Thursday, and didn't meet any Sinister types there bar those travelling as part of the ILX party. On Friday morning I hid from the thunder in my tent, and thanked Tobit for the wisdom to not camp at the bottom of hills beside toilets. My favourite acts at the festival were probably M.I.A. and Billy Bragg. And Goldie Looking Chain. I think there should be GLC/B&S joint record sometime. I'm listening to CDs I'm thinking of getting rid of. Thus far The Tyde and Miranda Sex Garden are down for relegation, while Moonshake are staying... for now. Where did I get all these records? I've also been reading the Simon Reynolds post-punk book, "Rip It Up And Start Again". It is very interesting, and I foresee that I will be listening to much in the way of angular, anti-rockist music in the immediate future. Oh, is that the time? I'd better get myself down to the chapel, they're waiting for their sermon. rock! DV +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+