Reporting Back Took the Greyhound bus to Toronto with Sheila. Looking forward to the show and a trip to the big city but we both have essays due. So, balancing binders and Yeats and Paradise Lost, hard to concentrate. Pass through a cute little town named Tweed. When we arrive in Toronto, the first image that greets us is rather ominous one involving a dead pigeon. I guess you can never lose that country-bumpkin face, no matter where you move to, weird man sits next to me and makes creepy commentary about the pigeons, "There are probably more pigeons than people in Toronto." But anyways, the show. It was very good. We were in the first level, so it was nice for a change to overlook the whole scene. There seems to be more of a budget for the light show. The dreamy green ones are nice but the blinking white ones remind me of Science class and the magnesium experiment. Vincent Massey hall is very fancy. The ushers show you to your seat and everything. Stevie said it was a very "grand" audience. Struan talked about imagining a soul dance hall, Northern Soul style, and did we know what Northern Soul is? A couple of handclaps. They do a good version of I Want You Back. Struan invites people to sing the spoken-bit in Dirty Dream #2. Richard in lumberjack shirt. Struan in a black and white striped t-shirt. Mick in Led Zeppelin t-shirt. And did I see on here, a few posts back, Mick is now a father? Congratulations! Wasn't it only yesterday he was Scotland's Most Eligible Bachelor? In the middle of their set, Struan says this is the time they take a break from their own songs. Any requests for a choon? "Give us a choon" is such a nice expression. Struan asks, so then can anyone play? A woman says yes, she can. When they ask what her request says, she says her own song. Struan says she is a brave girl. So they play her song. Struan says all the world's a stage, eh Bob?Silence. "I guess you didn't get the Rush reference?" At the end Struan doesn't like the gap between front row and stage and invites everyone forward, they all dance. Oh, and during one song Struan invited a boy on stage to dance, he was rather slim like Struan and they both danced in that same style, elbows bent, legs apart, big steps and little jumps. Toronto 8 November 2003 Instrumental Expectations Step Into My Office, Baby Wrapped Up In Books Seeing Other People Dirty Dream #2 You Don't Send Me Travelling Light I Want You Back Lord Anthony The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner (attempt at Rhoda) Stars of Track and Field If She Wants Me Photo Jenny Piazza, New York Catcher There's Too Much Love Roy Walker Stay Loose You're Just A Baby (encore) Sleep the Clock Around I didn't know the new album that well going into the show, but I had a bit of a Legal Man feeling, different opinion after seeing certain songs live. I was happy they played You're Just a Baby, that's one of my favourite of the older songs and I have good memories attached to it. So, my favourite bits from the show, concerning the new songs: In the middle of Step Into My Office, very beautiful and dreamy ("laid down with a sigh") If She Wants Me, around the "if I could do just one perfect thing" bit. Like how Struan's voice sounds on the verge of breaking, "And it was Huh-ard" Roy Walker...lovely singing & harmonizing, Stevie asks for finger-snapping audience participation (replacement for flamenco style handclaps?) You Don't Send me and Stay Loose, both how they begin...the lights compliment the feeling and Struan's dancing and pose. There's nothing, there's nothing! The guitar in Stay Loose, reminds me slightly of Loneliness of Middle Distance Runner. Makes me feel a bit funny inside, like I am 14 years old and listening to Belle and Sebastian on my walkman during gym class wishing I had a boyfriend who plays guitar. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+