Hmmm, where to start. It has been a busy week for me and I'm feeling weary now, only Drumstick lollies and csndy sticks are keeping me awake, but i must must report on events. YORK PICNIC Most of you probably don't realise, but this took place on the very same day as your own fair Primrose Hill event. We had no kites (although we watched someone else flying one) no football and no Tigermilking, but we did have a great time. I can imagine Lucy sniggering as she reads that there were only 11 of us, but i think it was the perfect number! There were enough to make for vibrant sing song and conversation, but not to many so as to leave some poor shy soul stranded on their own, drowning in a deep sea of inaudible chatter. The sun shone bright and the daisies looked lovely as we tucked into our party rings, ribena and that very english delicacy, the jaffa cake. After the initial quiet while people decided they didn't know anyone and didn't have anything to say, the party picked up. I was rather pleased at the quality of non Yorkites who turned up. There may only have been three, but James managed to get from Leicester, Jules from Newcastle and Ryan from Illinois, sort of. Rachel and Feather Boa kindly provided a guitar, which was played for the most part by Mr. S.Hallifax, and I provided album sleeve lyrics and a small violin accompaniment. Everyone sang very nicely, especially Gina, Jules and the quiet singer next to me. When it got cold, we went into the bar, ordered a pizza and dispanded to allow Chris, Stuart, Feather Boa, Dangerous Mike, Rachel and myself to go and cover Is It Wicked Not To Care? Sinister picnicsa are hard to leave though, and before long James was back wanting a room to stay in because he'd missed the last bus/train back to Leicester. It was a lovely day, thank you to all who turned up. PADDLING AROUND ASTRID On Sunday I went to Astrid at Fibbers, who were absolutely brilliant, almost as brilliant as meeting Splash from support band The Asylum Seekers, a sinister member and long time fan. PIZZA DEBACLE Now Stu D is no longer in Belle And Sebastian and what with Peacock Johnson's law suit, he needs a bit of extra cash. I never thought i'd see him working for Ali's Kitchen delivering pizza though! A skinny moussy man whith a whispy beard and wooly hat delivered my pizza the other night, and I was sure it was him, then tonight, as I walked up to this very room, I saw him again, and he was speaking with a wee Scottish accent! That's all I have to say about that. Chris Jones. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+