Hello all, I've been lurking since this list was but wee, and my attempts at (drunken) posts have been disastrous. So I thought I'd try again. After getting back from the pub.... hey-ho. Ahem. Anyway, to the point, Rob wrote: "Stephen Eastwood (B&S type at C4's Planet Sound) dismissed the set as 'slo-mo metal guff'" Guity as charged. Sort of. I can't quite recall what went up on air after the copy was savagely (as opposed to mimsily, or even daintily) butchered, but here's what I originally scrawled: "On Saturday, the second stage hosted an act billed as "mystery guests" - and it was Mogwai, surely the worst-kept secret since "Mercury Rev are a large heap of festering Procul Harum B-sides in concert". The Gwai's slo-mo metal avant-garde emo-rock guff drew a huge crowd, mostly comprising shouty Scots blokes. We don't like people in bad tracksuits and cowboy hats, so we went to see Jon Spencer instead. Naturally, he rocked". (going to see JSBX was a lie, by the by). Oddly enough, myself and FunkySeb (who did an ad campaign today wearing my Stow tee-shirt for pamphlets which shall be distributed to every student campus in the land - yay!) have had huge arguments vis-a-viz Mogwai being any cop or not, most of which seem to end with me saying: "Aaaaah, but I remember Slowdive / My Bloody Valentine / Spacemen 3 / (insert name of suitably minimalist/brutalist composer here)!", to wit he replies: "Aaaa, but you're just OLD!!". Gah. I'd have got away with it too, if it weren't for you pesky kids. Stephen. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+