Hello, I thought I'd mail again before my existence was forgotten. I went to see some bands last night. They were Pram, Future Pilot AKA, and The Jimmycake. The Jimmycake are a local band, playing loud avant music with lots of people onstage. Very enjoyable. They have a record called "Brains" which is likeable but less hardcore. Future Pilot AKA meanwhile reminded us of early Cornershop - shambolic can-do multiculturalist rock. The way the vocalist's accent kept drifting between Glasgow, Jamaica, and Bangalore was endearing. Aren't Pram also Scottish? They're not unlike Broadcast and can be liked in the same way, even though they've been going much longer. One of them played a really strange looking synthetic instrument which made lovely wibbly noises. I'm really taken by the Angelina Jolie singing with B&S thing, though I bet the band are too afraid of her to let it happen. Harry Hunt asks "Isn't there somewhere in Ireland that you can buy a horse for a fiver, and all the ned/spydes on the council estates have one, and call it Prince? (The one called Sheba died)" There is such a place. I live ten minutes from it. It's brilliant, mangey ponies for half nothing. Every house needs a horse. What is great is if you walk around there when the fair is over and all the creamers are racing home on their new mounts. It's like Genghis Khan's army have invaded. Peter Carter commented ages ago that Isobel Campbell is carefully cultivating a false image of cute innocence when in fact she is a saucy little pop vixen. But the more recent Gentle Waves stuff I've heard (say 'Sister Woman' and 'Fall From Grace') sounds kind of raunchy, albeit raunchy with la-la-la-la-la-la vocals. So where does that leave your theory? The Pinefox has started claiming that Deacon Blue are not completely rubbish and implying that they are a bit like Belle & Sebastian. The Pinefox is surely taking the piss. Deacon Blue are awful - Marxist science proves this. I remember when they had a big hit with 'Real Gone Kid' and wish I didn't. Sacharine sickbag music of the worst sort. And their covers of Bacharach & David songs were enough to put me off those great songs for a decade. So no more Deacon Blue. A-a-a-a-ages ago Lucy Adler teased me with a subject line: "Bel sings Billie". And it wasn't about how the Gentle Waves were doing a cover of 'Because We Want To' or 'Honey to the Bee', it's just boring Billie Holiday. very disappointed. I'm listening to Laibach at the moment. does anyone else know them? I'm trying to think what B&S song they'd be most likely to cover. It's a tough one... I'd say B&S songs have so many words that Mr Laibach Vocalist's throat would have been coughed up by the time the song had finished. 'Der Stadt bin Ich in' could be amusing. All your talk of picnics has made me think of more ways to indiefy my life. Currently Rener and I are talking of flying over to sunny London in late August to go to Track & Field. Anyone fancy any picnic action around then? and now it's time to go. bless you all. DV +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+