Greetings all! I live in America (Arlington, Virginia, at the moment) so I'm afraid I'm rather removed from that awful news about the van-break in ... Salford, eh? Maybe, you should have chosen another hotel or something ;) Just, kidding, sort of; I bet your van would've been safe at the Manchester YH! (down near the Hacienda and the Manchester Science Museum - or whatever it's called). ... Yes, although I'm American; I was lucky enough to have a visit to Manc. some two yrs. ago! Quite nice; and thus, it's been quite interesting reading all the posts about the Town Hall gig: I can't believe it was held there!! I remember seeing it - walking by, and that - but of course I didn't go inside ... Is anyone on the list familiar w/ the Manc. City Library? It's a rather impressive building/place in its own right; at least I thought so! Re. the merchandise news - part of which I was already aware of from being on the web-page: why have you taken everything down? I guess it'd be just too difficult to sort things out piece-meal? I'm new to the list, and everything ... Could someone explain to me the whole deal w/ the Ink Polaroids; i.e. what are they exactly?? I'm sorry it happens that I'm making my introduction to the list in response to a less than cheery set of circumstances! ... But, nevertheless: cheers! ...Hope they catch the merchandise bandits! Waiting for the American Invasion, --Michael Gilham Arlington, Virginia, United States of America PS Manchester is nice, but Leeds is even nicer!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------