Have you ever lost music? I mean, have you ever gone for days without switching on the stereo because you couldnt think of anything to play? Did you get bored with it all? I did. For ages, I hadnt had that feeling. That Feeling. When you hear a song and run to put it on repeat after a few bars because you know already that in three minutes time youll want to hear it all over again. When you dance around your room knowing full well that you look a bit stupid but you dont care that the lights are on and the curtains are open and theres a whole row of tenements looking in on you. When a record hits on something inside you and it swells up in your chest and feels like its about to burst. I hadnt felt it for months. In spite of helping to run a club, DJing every month, expecting people to dance to music when well, it just wasnt doing anything for me. And Id get home and Id forget to unpack my CD player and itd sit in my living room cocooned in its polystyrene and cardboard until I found the time to get it out again. I should have been running to unwrap it and play some more music as soon as I got it home, but I didnt. And then something changed. I think it started when I heard Stay Loose at Allys house. Somebody had managed to download it from somewhere. When you havent had That Feeling for a while, you dont quite recognise it when it starts happening again. And if you cant take the music home with you and play it to death, it doesnt have the full effect. So I heard Stay Loose a couple of times and rather liked it and was kind of hopeful that the whole album would be just as good. Then I pretty much forgot about it for a while. The next thing that happened was Steady Mike came to visit. Now, Im not going to accuse Steady Mike of stirring up emotions in a girl, him being a happily married man and all, but something happened that week. It came to a head in Borders, where I bemoaned the fact that, upon entering a record shop, I could never remember what it was Id intended to buy. And then I looked down at the racks and staring up at me was Jonathan Richman. If it was a fillum, hed have flashed a smile and winked at me. Just as attention-grabbing was his big red Special Offer sticker. And then I noticed that he had a bonus CD with, amongst other things, six songs by the Rubinoos! And I remembered that both Richman and the Rubinoos were on my wishlist and I took them home and played them and played them again and again. The following Friday was Winchester Club night. Quite a lot of you were there. It was particularly nice to see people coming from a long way off, like Robin Stout and the Rev Dirty. I cant really write about it properly because remembering it makes me grin my face off because it was such a great night. I cant tell you how wonderful the bands were, how amazing it was that the Lucksmiths and the Aislers Set would want to come and play for little old us, how we danced our socks off when Into The Groove came on and how people kept coming up and telling me it was their gig of the year? I dont think my descriptions could ever convey what it felt like. Feels like. That Feeling is back and I hope its here to stay. Itll at least extend to Saturdays Camera Obscura gig and Sundays Sodastream gig. Good grief, four of my top five bands in the space of 10 days. How is a girl to cope? This has been quite a wussy post. I will try for a knob gag next time. Juicy Lucy ===== The one, the only Glasgow Indie List! http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/glasgow-indie/ ************************************************** The Winchester Club http://www.geocities.com/the_winchester_club ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.uk +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+