The Belle and Sebastian gig was rather ace. I regret not knowing who everyone was, as I could tell by what I could see that a large number of Sinisterestas were converging round the upstairs bar. You don't look like regular devotees, you know. The Delgados were on form. Their cellist, apparently, used to work in my Hamilton local. The woman who played the flute on Peloton was a music teacher at Earnock High, my old school. It's hard not to feel love for bands which were once so phisically close to you. It's even harder when the bands are actually really good. An acquaintance of mine played the brick (yes) on a Mogwai track, as part of his fourth year work experience as it was recorded in Hamilton. I feel that the silveryness of Mr. Murdoch's trousers has been greatly exhaggerated. If they were all reflective, real tinfoil style, then I would be impressed! I am too tall for the gigging experience. I hate standing infront of people, because then they can't see. Sometimes they deserve it - when I saw Tenacious D two girls kept kicking my leg, I raised my shoulders defiantly. In general I am a gig wall flower. Two gig-goers, during B&S's set, one to my left and one to my right, were on their sodding phones! Phoning! In the middle of a gig, at the same time! Step Into My Office, Baby does definitely sound like Good Vibrations. My girlfriend and I were singing that to B&S's tune on the night. It's still rather...fab! Greig +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+