Well well...they came at last. Hi all, after months of super-excitement leading up to the show, I finally got to see them in Melbourne! I am from Adelaide (in South Aus. for all you non-aussies), so I made the trek with my girlfriend to Melbourne. It was well well worth it... When we got to our hotel, which was just down the road from the Palais Theatre where thay were performing, we started chatting to the hotel-desk-guy (a respectable title), and told him why we were there, the conversation went something like this...*uhem* Me: Why hello sir, may you be so kind as to check us in? Desk-dude: Yup Me: By the way, we are here to see a super-dooper band from Scotland tomorrow night. Desk-dude: Would that be Belle and Sebastian? Me: Why yes, how did you know? Huh!? How!!? Desk-dude: Why Sir, it's just that they are all staying in the hotel... Me: *THUD!* (me hitting the floor) ------------------ Anyhow, it went something like that. But the important thing was they were in the same hotel!! All plans were immediately scrapped and the plan was to hang out in the lobby for the next three days...well, i would have but my girlfriend wasn't going to Melbourne and coming back to Adelaide without shopping. So I figured I'd run into them anyway. Myself and a few friends all went in and bought a copy of Catcher In The Rye and all signed it and wrote a "how are you doing" kind of thing in the cover, in the hope that I might run into Stuart. When I got back to the hotel, I thought that maybe I could get Desk-dude to call Stuart's room and ask him to come down, which he let me do, and even gave me the phone while it was ringing!! But he didn't answer, all hope was far from lost!! As I was doing this in the lobby, Stuart walked right behind me and was waiting at the elevator to go up to his room. It was now or never...I built up all my courage and went over to him. Me: Excuse me Stuart? Stuart: Mmm hmm. Me: Umm..uhem..I...I was wondering if I could get an autograph? (on a tigermilk record cover which i carried around with me everywhere while in the hotel) Stuart:Umm, sure, but I really need to take a pee (laughs) Anyhow, I ended up having a quick chat and getting an autograph and a photo, it was wicked!! To wrap up, as my hand is getting sore, throughout our stay we bumped into Stuart three times, Chrissy G! three times and Sarah once just after the concert. I also had a 10-15 minute chat with Chris about the band, how they met, why Isobel left, how good her current work is etc. If you have any questions or would like my autograph (J/K, just e-mail me. I hope all the Australian listees enjoyed their concerts!! Until next time. Have a good week everyone. xxox Nathan P.S - Colin, sorry sorry, tapes are in motion. Give me another week. PPs- Astrid, yes I am still at the same address. and HI! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+