Hup hup hup, Well, slap me twice with a chamois leather, Spring has sprung down here in the South-East and it's going to take a legion of sturdy-legged representatives of the local Townswomen's Guild to shove the bastard back in its box. Or else the damp cold front that's forecast for later in the week. Ho-hum. I had a veritable grain-silo of ersatz Genocidal Waves info with which to confound you all with (code name: Easy Target), but I see Peter and Chris stole all my best ideas before I had a chance to think of them. So that's buggered that thread. A quick trip to the archives reveals some fiendish font tomfoolery has taken place. Whether it's my browser, the archive software or a deliberate act by Honey (all scagged out on Toblerone and Sunny Delight, no doubt) - the text of each Sinister message now resembles nothing so much as a letter written on one of them fancy early-80s electric typewriters. All scripty and Barry Took-era "Points Of View". Keith Watson's last Rock Epistle resembles a missive from Appalled of Tewkesbury, voicing their concern at the rising tide of filth filling our screens before the watershed. Scanned the Looper live review in the NME this morning at King's X; the gist of it seemed to be "quite nice, but members of B&S, like their fans, should learn to escape their cosy world and expand their horizons a little" (I'm paraphrasing here). And this from the NME. Gordon Bennett. Little do they realise that uberfan Andy Dean was probably busy emptying the Rough Trade shop of brutalist technoid bleepscape nonsense as Looper played their set. Cardigans of steel, pal. Mike. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+