Hiya Sinister! Yesterday afternoon I shook hands with JO PERRY (not the guitarist of Aerosmith, the other Jo Perry) and I promised that I'd post today from work. So here I am, rock you like a hurricane. And no. I never grow tired of quoting The Scorpions. Yesterday's Sinister meetup and B&S gig at the Barbie-Ken here in London was tons of fun. I am sorry that those of you who could not attend missed out. It started out as a nice picnic at Finsbury Circus atop the well-manicured hill. The weather was somewhat sunny when we got there and it was really nice to have our snacks and booze together. In attendance were KEN CHU (still unmarried), myself, the above-mentioned JO PERRY (not the guitarist of Aerosmith, the other Jo Perry), SAM WALTON, GRAINNE LYNCH, FIONA FAIRBAIRN, CARSMILE STEVE, ROBSTER BRENNAN, PAUL HEALEY, JORDI TRENZANO, OLA SZKUDLAPSKA and as we were about to transform our picnic into a pubnic, PINEFOX arrived. My apologies if I have forgotten anyone! No sooner than we decided to move on to the King's Head pub near the Barbie-Ken, it started raining. At first just a random sploosh on the scalp, and then suddenly a full-on shower. We had to take shelter a couple of times on our way, but managed to get there eventually. ROBSTER captured a brilliant photo of how wet KEN got. Once in the pub, other familiar faces and/or names with new faces showed up, so many that I probably couldn't name them all, but including MARK CASAROTTO, JIM PURPLE TROUSERS TAYLOR and SARAH MRS PURPLE TROUSERS, OLIVIER and ROCIO, and even my better half BEN APPS. KEN had smuggled in CARSMILE STEVE'S sausage and was practically forcing it into people's mouths. We were glad that we didn't get caught, KEN said it really filled him up. Some of the folks without tickets to the gig managed to get tickets, and that was very exciting. Some members of B&S were in the pub, too and some of the kids went to talk to them. the place was packed and there was a real buzz in the air. The gig itself was amazing - really good fun. The first few songs they played weren't on Sinister, including what sounded to be like a new one - a really good song. Also as if fulfilling a request by SAM WALTON they played Electronic Renaissance. Then they launched into Sinister and Stuart forgot lyrics almost immediately. Their sound was so good that a few missed out or modified lyrics added an element of old skool charm. During Judy and The Dream of Horses, Stuart called some dancing kids up on stage and they went mad. The encore was an array of other favourites including twattybus. People got up out of their seats and danced. It was a really good time. That's about all I have time to write as I'm supposed to be working - I'm sure some of the others in attendance might have something to say about it, too! love, Rachel fruitloop ______________________________________________________ Yahoo! for Good Donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+