a while ago, someone (i think it was duke, but have checked the archives and unable to confirm it) wondered whether messrs. forster and mclennan might be playing around a bit in support of the soon to be released go-betweens retrospective. well they are - in london at least. the jazz caff in london's loverly camden town has them listed to play on 16-18 may. interestingly (if you care about these things, and you really should), the shows were originally listed as "forster and mclennan", but the more recent editions of time out have them listed as "the go-betweens". whether this indicates a miraculous full forster/mclennan/morrison/vickers (latter last seen playing dapper mod bass for a bored and boring lloyd cole in the usa some 7 or 8 yrs ago, with a transcendent but under-appreciated forster and mclennan in support) turnout, or a cynical vince power marketing ploy, i don't know. i suspect the latter, but whatever the case, i advise a strong sinister presence for each evening. age might be playing a cruel game with both of the formerly handsome devils (narrowing that already slim gap between forster/mclennan and russ abbott/grant mitchell) but they still tingle the spine and set the heart aflutter. happy to play past glories as well as recent stuff, they prove their status as the princes of poncey pop (star pupil -our struan) with effortless ease. you can stuff yer smiths - there is more poetry and grace in any two go-betweens songs ("draining the pool for you" and "cattle and cane" picked at random by my random song selector) than the entire morrisey/marr cannon. well, thats my view anyway in the meantime: - isn't the new jim o'rourke loverly? - whistler?!? - whats all that about then - can we really trust a band with bits of emf in it? - simon joyner? - did anyone notice the minnie ripperton song ("les fleurs") in the lead up to sunday's genteel warts gig (which my sister and her husband and i found charming)? - charles stepney - genius or what? see ya kingphilip +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+