Hello all, I am still trying to recover, a) from seeing Struan and pals live, in the flesh, for real, less than 100 metres from my distant, distant circle seat at the RAH, b) from my seething jealousy of all those who managed to get into the standing area down at the front, (and more so of those who managed to meet them at various other gigs) and c) from my disappointment at missing the meetup before hand. Grrrrrrrrrrr. Nonetheless I was first into the bar on our level (alcoholic? me?), and managed to pick up a rather nifty set of badges from the cawkney merchandisers, and the posters. Oooh, the posters. Not quite up to the Tigermilk poster I saw in a club once (man sized, although not particularly man shaped), but they'll do :) I would also like to take this opportunity to apologise to the Irish girl sitting next to me (Circle row 2, X block, seat 110ish) should she receive Sinister for my friend's loud and very poor imitation Irish accent. She meant no harm, and was mimicing the guy on the door, not you. She is suitably embarassed... I was wondering whether anyone who was down the front at the very start (7.30 - 8ish) could shed some light on the first support act - they did an _interesting_ cover of Legal Man, albeit without singing. We suspected a bunch of band members arsing around for the over-enthusiastic people that arrived early, but couldn't see anyone properly (due to what looked like comical Harry Enfield scouser wigs), only hear Scots accents. Again, we couldn't make out what they said when they explained themselves due to the terrible accoustics... Oh, and Lazy Line Painter Jane. Woooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww. Wow. I'm going to stop now, before I get carried away... Anyway, I hope everyone with gigs to come has fun :*) Bye bye, Mark O +----------------------------------------+ | http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mjo199/ | |"Go to bed; brush your teeth; but don't | |bother cutting your ears off" | |-Ray in the Rattle & Hum, Cheltenham | +----------------------------------------+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+