So this bowling thing sounds cool. Apart from the fact that I go bowling every week, so it's not so much of a novelty for me. But if I knew some sinisterettes round my way I would certainly be up for showing them how it's done. Ahem. I'm exceptionally happy, if it's true, to hear that bowling is now in the Olympics; it was in the Commonwealth Games in 1998 cos it's the national sport in Malaysia, go them. But then it got taken out again, boo to Manchester 2002. We (Warwick Tenpin Team) were in lovely Nottingham last month for the BUSA championships, my team mate got onto the national student squad, she's ace. She's the 7th best girl student bowler in the UK. I came 16th. (Out of 51.) Must do better. So yeah we were in Nottingham. Much twee-er than Coventry, though I wasn't very twee that day, wearing my bowling kit. We are hoping to get American style shirts soon, which will be nice. I liked Nottingham so much I went back twice, to the lovely Selectadisc and Fopp. Then last week I ventured even further north to my town of birth, Sheffield, for a special gig. But you've heard all about that off other people. I drove there, drank some coke while the others had beer, and then danced, stood in front of my seat, all thru the gig. Isn't Bobby the cutest! At Offbeat's after show party Stuart nearly bumped into me as he went charging past, but I managed to jump out the way. Stupid me. Could've ended up in a heap on the floor with him. Damn. But he signed my ticket anyway, and tried to talk to me, which is more than I can say for Stevie - I tried to talk to him and he wasn't interested. Hmph. Then I stood around encouraging a Bowlie friend to go talk to him abot the Rolling Stones, he wouldn't get up the courage. But he did in the end. On the drive back it was really foggy. I had hoped to get home in an hour (it took two hours going) cos at 2-3am there's no traffic, but not being able to see 20 metres ahead is quite a hindrance to going 80 miles an hour. So I slowed down, and passed lorry after lorry, and some crazy guy who kept over taking me and then slowing down, and swerving around in his lane, I don't know what his problem was, bloody road rage in the middle of the night! We had exhausted my tapes so one of the guys put in a tape of acoustic songs, really lovely versions of Delgados songs, and some Bright Eyes and stuff like that. Fantastic. Driving along the empty M1, feeling a bit tired but nervous of the weather conditions, all foggy AND raining, wondering when the hell we'd reach the M69 junction, the three lads all asleep, I passed a sign for Alton Towers...now I thought we'd already passed that...maybe, in this terrible weather, we've already died, I thought, and are destined to travel this dark road forever; but if we get to listen to amazing music like this all the way, that'd be fine. Then the fog cleared, I realised Alton Towers is much further south than I had thought, and later the sign for Coventry popped up, and we were ok. Still alive. A friend of mine went to the Norwich gig and he was wearing the same t shirt as Stuart, apparently the white Fred Perry shirt he always wears. But when I asked this friend if he bought the shirt *because* Stuart has it, he didn't reply. I'm not sure if he reads Sinister or not, so he may come and defend himself, but in the meantime I shall speculate. love, Joanne _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail messages direct to your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+