**B&S in Birmingham - Madeleine offers some advice** Oh, Isobel, Isobel, what were you thinking, flower? Red, pointy-toe, kitten heel sling-backs and black and white stripy ankle socks? Sack your, stylist, woman and get yourself some sensible flip flops. Although I did admire your skirt and top and no matter how large people say your arse it, it's still a lot smaller than mine. But why were you yawning so much? Boredom or just good old rock'n'roll exhaustion? Either way, you could at least have *pretended* to be having a good time. And Stuart. Stuart, Stuart, Stuart. Honey is right, you really do have arms of sex. You in your tight white t-shirt and smart trousers (also, not sure about the shoes, though) with your funky dancing. Your lovely Scottish accent and your endearing lapses of memory. And you're such a tease! When you pretended to take your shirt off..... oh my! And Stevie, you're cute as a button, although you shouldn't fiddle with your ears and glasses so much as it makes you look nervous. But your big deep voice in Legal Man was very impressive and your singing in Jonathon David was better than the record and everything. You dancing girls.... what can I say? It was certainly the first time I've ever seen people hand jiving to The Wrong Girl. The rest of you: you were all right too. It was a fantastic night, as James said in his earlier post. The theatre was old fashioned and huge and had photos of luminaries of British theatre and television: Peter Bowles, Edith and Rene from Allo Allo, Maureen Lipman, Lionel Blair and various others who have had bit-parts (sorry, *cameos*) in The Bill and Casualty. Beer was horribly expensive and there was a smell of sweaty people in the air. Sadly, people were not allowed to stand and have a little boogy. If they tried, a lady in white shirt and black bowtie politely asked them to "Sit the FUCK DOWN. RIGHT NOW!". Or something. **I've just realised that James and Stuart have already posted about this, so I won't bang on too much about it all** The set list was: Le Pastie Too Much Love A Peel song that I don't know the name of I Know Where the Summer Goes My Wandering Days are Over Jonathod David Slow Grafitti (which bought a tear to my eye is was so perfect) The Model The Girl's Got Miraculous Technique Interlude: Heroes Young Boy Smile (this is whst my notes say (?)) Twattybus You Made Me Forget My Dreams Family Tree Mayfly New Song The Wrong Girl - (can't read notes) Legal Man The sound was perfect and pure. I was expecting it to be a bit dodgy, as things are when played live, but the quality was often better than the studio recordings. It delved into your chest (and don't even think of putting your innuendo hat on, ken) and tugged on heart strings and stomach lining and made my face tingle with the purity of it all. Sorry this is so long. Well done for getting this far. Big shouts out and nuff respec to Stu, who at under 8 ft was something of a disappointment (ken.... don't even think about it!). He made me giggle and drove us all home which was amazingly kind of him. James, who is too cool to ever be afraid of a snake and really should have been allowed to strut his stuff in the aisles. And Danny and Dale, the Canadian Contingent, who are not Sinister, but now truly understand the maening of the word 'twee' (appartently, they don't use this word for Hello Kitty devotees in West Canada. How odd). I could go on and on and on about this all, but I won't. I'll just stay indoors and talk to myself about it. Oh, and enormous thank yous to Ulla for the sillistration (no. 41 on the web site). It's beautiful and I'm very touched. Could you send me your address off list so I can send you a little gift? Smoking fags and walking on air (which is harder than it sounds) Madeleine xxx _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+