Hello Sinister! I've got that Friday feeling and it's not even three o'clock and the sun is shining and my dancing feet are twitching and I want to be outside! I hope it's sunny and kind when we're at ATP. I haven't been to the seaside for over a year, apart from a yucky trip to freezing, rainy Brighton in January, which doesn't count because we had hot chocolate instead of Mr Whippy. And tonight I'm going to see the Aislers Set, hurrah! And I'm going to see them tomorrow too, hurrah! This may be bordering on the crazymadfoolish, but the gig tomorrow is free and there will be Troy beer. Honour the Troy! Wanna hear about my latest Sinister dream? Miss Honey was taking assembly in my old school hall, wearing a well-cut tweed skirt (with a split right up the back showing her fishnet stockings) and a cream, slightly see-through blouse, a long string of pearls swinging from her neck and half-moon spectacles resting on the end of her nose. On every seat was the delicate behind of a Sinisterine. After Miss Honey had finished her sermon on how we should all love our neighbours, she said "now, we'll sing a hymn!" and lit up the overhead projector. Above us appeared the words to The Boy With The Arab Strap, written in green pen. I was sitting at the grand piano, so I started to play, my left hand going like the clappers. I looked up and all my friends were playing instruments too - Ally96 and the Pinefox had guitars, Lixi was striking her glockenspiel with precision and imagination, Mark C had a big pink double bass and Sally and David Moore shook tambourines and their hips. Chris Brown had a woodblock, Martin had his hands wrapped around a pair of big round maracas and Vel, Carey and Elena were special choir girls in special choir girl outfits who could do the difficult harmony bits. Handclaps were supplied by *everyone*. It was the only assembly I've ever been in where nobody had to be threatened with a ruler if they didn't sing. I'm not sure why I'm dreaming things like this. Maybe it's the sunshine! And ATP in one week! Yay! Are there donkeys at Camber Sands? Juicy Lucy __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+