Hi all, Well Scotland's favorite sons and daughter invaded the heart of America's heartland on Tuesday night and a hoot was had by all. I wasn't lucky enough to grab a set list and the cheap booze at the venue sort of rendered me useless for the task of remembering the order of things. Still, the set was in most respects similar to those that have been posted as of late. Almost everything from the latest, nothing from either FYHCYWLAP or Storytelling, and various bits from the first three full lengths. Plus Photo Jenny and Dog on Wheels, to boot. Stevie did an improvised cover of the Shangri Las' Train From Kansas City. BUT, the big highlight of the evening (for me at least) was Mick's first-ever (at least that's what they said) fronting-the-band singing effort. He did Burt Bacharach's This Guy's In Love With You and it was fantastic, even though he looked as nervous as can be. During the set someone kept yelling "Gentle Waves", to which Stuart replied (something to the effect of), "It looks as if someone out there is a bit enamored with Isobel. Maybe you could have done more than I could to make her not want to quit the band." Chatted with Stuart and Richard a bit after the show and found out, to my chagrin, that there would be no after-hours as they were off to St. Louis that night. My friends and I then headed to some bar, where we proceeded to plug up their box with Ween and Husker Du. On the way back to our hotel we saw the caravan pulling out for the trip to Missouri and we hooted and hollered and waved at them all as they drove by. Quite bittersweet knowing that there they all were; so close and yet probably they wouldn't be coming back to these parts for many a moon. Still we'll take what can get and I hope all of you Stateside get a chance to catch them on this latest outing. Be sweet, -Tom __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+