An exchange, just heard, outside in my street: Cyclist #1: "That guy had really cute eyebrows" Cyclist #2: "Pardon???" Like the second cyclist, I have some difficulty in believing that one can have really cute eyebrows. Mind you, until this afternoon I would have had difficulty believing it was possible to buy an Intastella compilation. I found one in hmv tho, and a 2 cd comp to boot! Intastella sound like a very unlucky band, judging by the blurb from Mojo's Lois Wilson, but listening to the first cd, the more misfortune they suffered, the better the music got. "Drifter" was absolutely superb, it was sheer pleasure to be reacquainted with it...it's just a pity it was overshadowed on the same EP by "Can You Fly Like You Mean It (Gungadin)" with vocals by that Shaun Ryder. Dunno 'bout you, but I never rated him at all post-Mondays. I never liked Black Grape for example. Stella Grundy. Overshadowed by a Monday. Fortunately only one one track. Where's Stella Grundy Now? According to Lois, she has released a solo single called "Now and then I get high". Well don't we all. I've prolly left it too late to say Happy New Year, or even Happy Epiphany, but it's here that my landlord's Slovakian calendar helps us out coz it shows how it's a saint's day *every day*. So, step forward one ST. RASTISLAV. Happy St. Rastislav's Day! The only Slovak dread? We can but hope.... Nice pics Ian. Nice smile Stuart. Angela, what of T.O.? Well, I was there two years ago, so things might've changed a bit, but I went to a great little venue called the Horseshoe and saw the super furries, an enormous warehouse of a venue called, erm, the warehouse where I saw Stereolab supporting Sonic Youth and went to a couple of clubs, one of which was called El Morcambo, played a lot of Northern soul, a bit of St Etienne and was peopled by characters dressed up like Gary Numan, Steve Strange and Suggs. There's never enough hours in the day to listen to all the bands I'd like to hear, but if anyone can tell me anything about Interpol, Serial P.O.P., Dudley Corporation or Of Montreal then I'd love to hear from you. I might be going to see Of Montreal at the end of the month actually. At the end of the week, the latest local lads to be bigged up by Nightshift, Elizabeth, are playing at the newly-refurbished Wheatsheaf so I will almost certainly pop along. Bye for now, Mark ps my blog now has, y'know, stuff on it: http://grandpontgenie.blogspot.com ______________________________________________________________ For up-to-the-minute music news, reviews and specials visit http://www.nme.com Get free e-mail (anyname@nme.com) now at http://www.nmemail.com The sender of this e-mail is NOT an employee or associate of NME, nme.com or any other IPC magazine. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+