I see Laura just wrote in about the Atlanta and Durham shows, rendering the reason I began to write this post moot. [coughs nervously] Cheers, Laura! But it's too late to turn back, and maybe I'll never think of something else to say, so I'll just delete the first paragraph I wrote and start partway through. So I'm Joe, and just recently out of the nursery, and only a day away from seeing Stuart et al for the first time, here in Chicago. I'm quite excited about it really. The last time they were touring in a place where I could have seen them was in 1998, in Chicago. I'd just bought TBWTAS as a present for someone, but for some strange reason I decided to open it and listen to it myself. Of course I kept it. Maybe I didn't get this person anything. Oops. Then I saw they were playing in Chicago, but it was only a couple of days later and the show was sold out, and I was a broke student anyway. So again, I'm very excited to see them. It's been Scottish music week as Travis played last night, quite a rousing show. I often wonder if it's a bit of a letdown for bands that are big in the UK to play here. Travis, a band that has played Glastonbury and T in the Park, playing to about 1500 in their only Chicago show. A few years back the Manic Street Preachers were here, and they played in an even smaller venue. I think maybe you get more hardcore fans that way. Damn, I'm excited. Hope we'll have a proper report from the Chicago show as well. cheers, Joe ===== Joseph Vess josephvess@yahoo.com ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.uk +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+