Hello everyone, a number of disjointed thoughts have I to share with you. i) I have a new favourite band. They are from Dublin and they are called The Chalets. They do that thing of having boy-girl vocals. And what makes it great is they have two girls. So it's really girl-boy-girl vocals. Someone described them as being like the B-52s crossed with the Gang of Four. Certainly the guitar playing is very deliberate. Look, go and look at their website and download their song and then they will be your favourite band too: http://www.thechalets.com or is it http://www.thechalets.ie ? one or the other anyway. Apparently one of them is also in the WARLORDS OF PEZ (Dublin's other G*R*A*T*E band), but I can't tell which one as he doesn't wear his Pezmask on the Chaletsite. ii) I went out dancing a few weeks back, to a club called Mojo Club. This has nothing to do with the oldarse music magazine, but is rather a club here in DUBLIN specialising in psych and soul music. Woahhhh, that's what I want. It's run by the same people that do Dublin's other good club, Helter Shelter. I went along and I danced a lot. however, and perhaps this was just a curious side-effect of the *drinks* I had consumed, I did find odd thoughts going through my head... I mean, at one point I was standing there watching all the people having a good time and I imagined what it must be like in other countries to watch people having fun and then trigger the explosives you have strapped to your body. I know, I am weird. iii) I've developed this sudden love of the Dublin music scene and am going to this Wonky festival thing in the Guinness Storehouse on Saturday. Sadly, the WARLORDS OF PEZ are not playing, but the Chalets are. And so are The Jimmycake, who are also actually good in a textured instrumentals kind of way. And the Dudley Corporation are playing too. They have a Sinister link - none other than Princess Honey herself sings backing vocals on one of the tracks on their album ("The Lonely World of the Dudley Corporation"). Blimey, eh. I still haven't worked out whether I actually like the Corpo, but seeing them will be nice. iv) and finally, in an unlikely sequence of events I have wangled a DJing slot at BLEEP, the trend friday night "club" (is a pub with a bar extension and DJs playing eclectic and undanceable music a club?). I am going to play nothing but songs about WAR and the current INTERNATIONAL SITUATION. So no Belle & Sebastian (and yeah, I know there's 'I Fought In A War', but it's not very good, is it?). v) Jonathan mentioned going to a wedding and not liking it. the thing to remember is that there is a big difference between family weddings (bad) and friend weddings (good). wait till your friends start getting married, then the fun will start. ma es salaam. DV +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+