Hello new friends (hopefully), First post so a quickie introduction: I'm Craig, 21, living in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Graduate of Religious Studies (people chuckled at me in Freshers Week for that one) and currently trying to find identity outside of full time education. I was hoping that said identity might be found outside of the general rat-race or the call centre culture of the North-East and so embarked upon a journey into writing. That's been going okay but alongside it i have had to embrace that which i was trying to avoid by data-entering for the DSS. Not fun and not clever. So here i was expecting my first post to be full of woe, bemoaning the lack of stimulating employment and more seriously the lack of anywhere in Newcastle to go for a night out to hear some decent indie music. (Stone roses is about as alternative as you get if the urge to dance bites.) But then i only go and get myself a new job in the same week that i hear about a new club starting in Newcastle and so things are looking up. The job ain't fantastic but its in the design school of Northumbria University so i should get to meet some creative types. More importantly it looks like i'll be able to socialise once a month while listening to the music i so dearly love, rather than sitting at home with my rabbit (who seems to like Mogwai but hasn't divulged his tastes too me in any greater detail - guess that's why he's called Silent Bob). I'm guessing there must be some fellow sinisterees in the North-East so it seemed a good topic to begin posting with. From reconnaissance so far i have gathered that the night is called 'The Walk' (after the Aislers Set song perhaps, who knows?) and it promises to play all the best new alternative releases along the same lines as Offbeat in Sheffield (which i have unfortunately never attended.) That means i should be able to dance badly to Belle & Sebastian without being out-monkeyed on the dancefloor by Ian Brown fans. The first one is on the 6th February, a Wednesday night i know but this is surely a cause worth supporting so i suggest that a sinister presence is necessary. Whaddya reckon? There's live music too!! Who's with me? You can e-mail iamwalking@hotmail.com and ask for a copy of the flyer and it is beautifully nonsensical. Let me know, and hello again!! Craig. _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+