hello again Sinister, I hope the new year is treating you well. For me there is the excitement of repenting of sins and turning over a new leaf, for I have just this evening put my Sinister Christmas Presents in the post. They should reach you in time for the start of the Chinese new year. I am determined that I will never again be late with the despatch of Sinister Christmas Presents. meanwhile I read in an e-mail that Belle & Sebastian are on another European tour, but sadly are not playing Ireland. One of the annoying things about Ireland is that bands don't play here when they're on their UK tours, because it's not in the UK, but they don't play here when they're on European tours either, because it's on the other side of the UK and no where near the rest of Europe. I have applied logic to this question, and have resolved that if B&S won't come to the vicar then the vicar will have to go to B&S. Accordingly I am going to time my long postponed trip to Berlin to coincide with their gig there. I am bringing someone very special with me, and we are applying a lot of thought to the question of who will support the B&S in Berlin. I think SCOOTER would be a good choice. Maybe B&S and SCOOTER could join each other onstage and the whole gig could turn into a totally mad for it happy techno rave. That would rock. Failing that RAMMSTEIN would be good too. Actually, what would really rock would be if B&S covered a SCOOTER or RAMMSTEIN song at the gig. I'd love that. Special friend Irene has the idea that bemulleted sex siren PEACHES is currently resident in Berlin, so maybe they could have her on the bill too. I'd buy that for a dollar. Beyond that I've been listening to a lot of electropop and post punk. Ladytron are currently rocking the rafters here in the vicarage. I wish they would come and play here in Dublin, I really do. moving along, moving along, moving along I go, bless you all, DV +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+