*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* um, having worked for 7 hours yesterday (unpaid overtime, still, it gets me out of the house...) i decided to take an hour or so and pop into town this morning cos there was some record by some band or other new out. anyway, i picked it up (along with the new mojave 3 single (not as good as the last one, still rather pleasant though) and the new helen love single) and took it to the counter and she scanned it and it beeped, she scanned it again and it beeped again. tried putting the number in by hand and it beeped again. she looked it up in the other computer (they have 36 copies (35 now!) in hemel hempstead virgin meagrestore if that's of interest to anyone) and tried that number and it beeped again. she ended up writing it down on a scrap of paper. i'm just worried that this isn't a local thing and that there'll be hundreds of sales that go unrecorded the length and breadth of the country and the album doesn't do as well as it should and susannah's prophecies come true... so, i now have a real copy of the lp, nice cd booklet full of pictures and all. but i also have this superstition about not listening to a band's music the day before seeing them live (they're playing a gig in london tonight, is anyone going?) so i can't really listen to it until tomorrow... sigh. duke: [nottingham was full of wankers and they oughta play smaller places]
Does anyone understand what i'm saying? i guess it comes down to: the really 'dedicated' fans would have got their shit together and got tickets for a venue half the size and all the hangers on who probably just went cos it was meant to be 'hip' or something (i dunno, i'm making this up as i go) would have been left out in the cold, and that's just fine.
except, of course, that selling half as many tickets means half as much income (or the tickets have to be twice as expensive). but yes, intimate venues are better naturally. um, i've just realised that duke was complaining about a 500 seater venue being too large when tonight they play a 2000 seater venue... oh um, back to the grindstone... andy i've also noticed that going to town on the bus around 9 in the morning the bus is always full of old women. why do they always need to be in town as soon as everything opens? don't they realise they have All The Time In The World and oughta leave the early buses for people with more important things to do? pah! == andrew dean (koogydelbbog@yahoo.com) _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+