hi there eric and anyone else in TX, you were asking about houston I moved from houston to oakland about 2 years ago. it is a fun place, but you do have to look a bit. i think I remember a scottish girl posting saying she was living in houston now as well. i wish there had been more b&s fans when I was living there. but there are some still. just hiding. first off, you should go to notsuoh. its one of my favorite places. its downtown at main and preston, its sort of a coffee shop weird hang out place. be careful though, becuz it is right near a lot of the awful yuppie bars that have cropped up around there. if you go and you happen to meet the owner, jim, tell him that I sent you, cuz he is a friend of mine. also, brasil is another pretty good spot for food and coffee and drinks, it is on westheimer and woodhead I think? there is a dance club on 802 fannin that is pretty cool, they play pop, and 80's/90's alternative, not super techno, the best you're gonna get for a houston club I think. also, rudyards on waugh is the place where most of the indie type bands play. its good. as for bands, I like port vale quite a lot. try to catch them. and sad like crazy too. I run a label with some folks who still live in houston. here is the website if you're interested. there are some links and stuff. http://www.ojet.com/ lessee, what else? oh yeah, pick up the houston's other, the local alternarag, that has good stuff in it sometimes. there is also a website about local music, its kinda weird, but has some good info, maybe outdated, i don't know. http://www.spacecityrock.com/ the thing to remember is that most of houston is about punk and metal. there is pop, but its usually pretty hard stuff. thats proly part of the reason I left, becuz I did not enjoy being booed and threatened for not bursting peoples eardrums on stage. but any town is what you make it, its all about the people anyway. there are lots of cool kids there, just very spread out, but when a good band comes to town, the kids come out in droves and you wonder where they are the rest of the time. cheers, g r a m _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+