why steve should really get a life. Did a bit of research last night, and it would appear the auction has raised £2700, 81 of the 173 lots received bids ranging from £10 to (i think) £405. Struan made the most money, his two lots raising over £600 and Struan also won the most things including badges, a haircut, clothes patching, a personal thrift store shopper and video editing, for which he paid ten squid each, obviously a man with an eye for a bargain, as is our very own list mummy who i think scored three bargains herself. No other members of the band seemed to bid for anything, unless they used elaborate pseudonyms (of course "stuart murdoch" could be a pseudonym, but i think we can assume that it was the man himself), although our favourite merchandising person put in a couple of bids. It was worth noting that the twee poetry lots did very badly, whereas the going out and getting pissed lots did very well, although this theory kind of falls apart when you look at how well the knitting/crocheting lots did, and i can't wait to hear dj pain at the next tigermilking... Got the xmas album last night and on first listen it's rather sweet, although following the world of sadness above, i'd like to point out that it's stuart, then stevie, then isobel singing, i think. Still not as good as my tijuana xmas record though ;) I'd also like to second mr miller's call for a review of friday nite, i know people were there, some nutter even drove up from chelmsford for it apparently... xoxo CarsmileSteve +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+