If you support the war against Iraq - I hate you. Well, not you personally, but your opinions. Hate the sin, love the sinner, that's my motto. Mark C., meanwhile, was asking how the meetup of the other B&S hobby in Nottingham went. Actually, it was a lot of fun. Spread over two nights it was, the first being us lot gatecrashing a Track & Field Night. There I met two Sinister subbers, Big Stu and Robin Stout. The latter turns out to be another split allegiance kind of guy, meaning that he also came to the purely Bowlie meetup the next night. Big Stu remains true to Sinister and was only at the T&F night. We discussed issues surrounding the interviewing of B&S, something he has done and I haven't. The T&F night was fun. Being in a club where they are obliged by law to play B&S at least once every hour was a bag of fun, particularly as they at no point played 'Legal Man'. Top marks. The following night was the strictly Bowlie bit of the weekend. although not that strictly Bowlie - you could walk in off the street and go to it, if you had the hireys. A source of some concern on the Bowlie forum is the lack of an identifier for forum regulars, there being none of this upside down badge business to indicate who is a friend and who is not. Anyway, I was one of the DJs at this amazingly brilliant event, starting off with Edwin Starr's 'War' and thereafter playing a somewhat rockist set. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, I know I did. I also managed to introduce the Rock Lock to the Bowlies, raw power. Of course, it probably wasn't as much fun as has been had in ye olde days of this here sinistere liste from before I was a subber, but I wouldn't know about that. It does seem at times as though the great days of Sinister meetups are behind us, and were indeed already over before I signed up to this list. But of course, I'm sure that there will be a monster Sini-picnic in Glasgow the day B&S play there in May. There will, won't there? I am sad that I will not be there, but my ministry requires that I be elsewhere. someone mentioned that I'm always going on about popular band The Chalets. Well, I've just been to see them. They are still the best band that Dublin has ever produced. Sadly, Dublin audiences are a bit under appreciative of them. Nyeh, who cares? Prophets are never appreciated in their own town. time to go now. bless you all, 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+