greetings and salutations! So what have persil, batchelors supernoodles and Offbeat got in common? They've all been advertised by John 'God' Peel I was supposed to be going to offbeat tonight, with it's free stickers and penchant for 1/2 man 1/2 biscuit songs and gills perpetual pulp embargo. But I was in a bit of a spirit ditch, and even though I'd managed to find chris a fox badge to give him, I stayed home and baked a chocolate cake for mikeys birthday. It looks pretty impressive. I covered in with melted chocolate and made a heart out of smarties in the middle. I wanted to get more for him for his birthday, but it kinda snuck up on me, and so I'm just taking him out to our 2nd fave pub in sheffield to spend all day drinking. We heard that B&S are touring again, and after much discussion, we've decided not to go. For one thing, money is pretty tight, and for another thing, we both end up crying through most of the songs. we remember listening to them late at night, alone in the darkness and finding meaning in every word, every sigh. I miss the stories on the sleeves, I used to buy 12" versions just for reading them. well, I'll pootle off now, and just add that anyone who misses the black fox can find her at www.theblackfox.co.uk, where there's a new story and illustration. sleep well Jules _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+