hello readers, I am writing to you from Dublin City Ireland, where we have been hosting some get together of important European fellows and welcoming our new friends from the East into our happy Euro-family. As part of this I went to a fair where some Portuguese fellow gave me a little bit of white port and some Irish guy who was working for the Cypriots gave me some sherry-like concoction. It was most enjoyable. I also caught some musical performances by people from around Europe. The best were some group of lovely ladies who are basically the Slavic world's answer to the Corrs. I think they will prove to be a great success, as they have all the elements that make people like the Corrs (lovely ladies, elements of folky music) only the lovely ladies are even more lovely & revealingly dressed than the Corr-women, and they jiggle around a lot more. Furthermore, the music seems like it is truer to the real spirit of folk music than the Corrs' pop-folk stylings. These all conquering sensations have great things ahead of them, but sadly I cannot recommend their name to you as I didn't catch it. I am excited about the way B&S are having a free concert in Glasgow on the very weekend I was going there for a meetup of another internet forum. This is an excellent development and one to be encouraged. I will look forward to seeing some of you there. meanwhile... didn't someone (Ian Watson?) bemoan the lack of ATP reporting back. Maybe no one went - apart from me. I was very impressed by the bands I expected to be impressed by: Sonic Youth, Le Tigre, & ESG. I realised that I had forgotten how good Bardo Pond and Tindersticks are. Vincent Gallo was a bit disappointing. Fursaxa seems to be endearingly artistic and destined for great things. That's about it really. Oh, except that the Chris Geddes DJ slot was surprisingly rub, especially when compared to the set that came before it. eh... that's it for now, hang loose, 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+