Its been a year now since I stopped reading every Sinister post so I'm a bit behind on what's going on. It's also a year since I got a job-the two events may be connected. If anything major's gone down in the last few months, can someone let me know. If anything big has happened regarding Belle and Sebastian or Sinister too, can you also let me know please. And before you say I'm lazy, may I remind you that I have hoovered my room today. I'm a bit disappointed that no one has been properly celebrating the demise of The Divine Comedy to the full. I had my own little partA, the climax of which was the ritual burring of an effigy of Neil Hannon. My hatred of The DC comes from their release of 'Something for the weekend' at the same time as SFA anthem 'Something 4 the weekend'. These records were distinguishable by far more than a numerical word... The SFA tune was destined to become THE song of the mid nineties, all set to steal Sleeper's Vegas crown like a thief in the night. It was only a matter of time before it got to no.1 in the hitparade and turned the masses into a covert unit that would bring down the government, end slavery in Luxembourg, and possibly stop buying manufactured pop records. Antichrist Minor-star Hannon had other ideas though. This new world order was'nt for him and his cigar puffing cronies, and he deliberately set out to confuse the record buying public by releasing said tune. His evil plan worked: the people stalled, SFA's song bombed, and the world remained the hell on earth place it is today. I went to see the still-together SFA at Brixton the other week, and I'm pretty sure that inbetween each rippin tune, Gruff made an anti-DC comment. He didn't actually say anything, but you could tell in his eyes what he was thinking. And if you think all this is hear'say, notice that last week, National Express Coaches announced major drops in profit. On a lighter note, I saw 'Her Boychart' legend Harvey Williams at the SFA gigster. He seemed slightly surprised the some half pisst kids who should know better recognised him. Me and my mate were more surprised though when he knocked around with us for the half an hour before the show. I was unhappy that I couldn't get him to re-release Her Boychart so it could get the credit it deserved. Maybe he'll save it for his 2018 comeback tour when the Trembling Blue Stars become his backing band. Whatever people say about Harv, Gruff or Hannon, at least they don't wear Slipknot style masks. I really struggle to understand how anyone could think that whole Slipknot thang is anything but utter tripe. Stop me if you've heard this one before but, the 'Knot once played a gig near my house and during the 'performance', one of the crazy chaps jumped from the balcony into the mosh and broke a fans back/collar bone/finger. Rather unfairly though, the Slipknot daredevil was wearing lots of protective clothing. I'm not sure if this story made the NME. I imagine it did not as the popular music paper (or should that be 'popular music' paper) could not possibly diss it's bestist band. Did any of you bigwigs used to be in awe of the NME. I know I did: all those clever journos bigging up new bands from Mansfield that within weeks were everywhere. I used to feel naive reading it, and I imagined everyone laughing about how much I didn't know. But whenever I read it now, I get embarrassed for the NME itself. I still don't know much about music, for example I just found out that The Almighty Clash didn't write 'I Fought the Law', but even I can see what's going on with bands like Korn, Roach, Cradle of Filth, Bizkit and Shitknot (what happened to Spinal Tap?). These sort of bands would have been laughed off a few years ago as non-4real, money making bullslip, whereas now their sold to us as the future. The NME ended when Marylyn Manson first appeared on the front, but I guess if they feel its more important to shift units and please the advertisers than to be any good, then so be it. I think I can hear Melody Maker spinning in it's watery grave. Summing up: I saw the Quantum Leap the other day where Sam is an old timer who plays Hendrix on his grandsons electic gutair. Does anyone think that the last ever episode of QL has the same feelings as Dylan's Desolation Row. I've never spoke to anyone who is aware of (and preferably in love with) both of these of these works, so if you fall into this category, please, please offer me an opinion, even if you're wrong. Time for bed I think. Me, not you. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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