Hello to Mrs Murdoch and her brood of sensitive types, Did anyone see the documentary on the Bay City Rollers the other night? A cautionary tale for us all... The Guardian described the Lady Shaves as "Enjoyable" this morning, commenting on how the backing band were as dour as "Campbell's labelmates Belle and Sebastian" (not sic - I can't be arsed to copy it verbatim, I'm afraid). On balance, sounds about right - a fair bit better than I thought they'd be, but then maybe I've got far too little faith. Still can't quite see Belle's voice as being "steely", though it's miles better than on The Gate (small mercies, etc.). Onto the picnic, then - certain people's lack of awareness of Sunday licensing laws made it a shade, erm, briefer than it may have been otherwise, but the Spread Eagle would have been disappointed if it had been anything else. The real shame was that no-one brought a football, especially as Shelley put in an appearance, guaranteeing the kind of welcome Ronaldo gets in Rio if she'd ever got onto the football pitch. Next time, pleeeeze, or I'll wobble my bottom lip at you... I also ended up with five packets of crisps in my bag and Pringles in my pocket. Greedy bastard. Steady Mike, you look grrreat! in the Select piccie - and Jennifer P-B, is that you banging the xylophone? Cheeky...I'm not quite sure how nice it is to be part of an officially recognised phenomenon, and I wonder what the effect on the list will be, but I did get a fair old glow of pride, so I'm not going to think too much about whether there are any negative implications. Except that anyone who comes up with any crap about "old fans being better than new fans" needs a swift rap on the knuckles with one of those heavy wooden rulers that the Duke no doubt has on his desk in Tiverton. No beer 'til Bowlie, Markxxx p.s. my spellchecker thingy has an entry for Pringles. Bless :) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+