Thats the first time i've quoted from a song, thus abandoning my original and meanlingless home-made subjects.... aaah well i'm too tired... sorry and all that.... Also sorry because this is another one of those 'gig and picnic' emails so i'm sorry about that as well. especially to you lovely americans who are all being very patient... i 'spose you might not be being patient and might be unsubscribing as i type. so sorry about that as well.... i'll try and make it as interesting as possible for people who weren't there.... honest i will.... Everyone comfortable? right then i'll begin. *Piiiiicniiiiic* (the overly excited way of saying picnic) I spent about half an hour... maybe more... of my sunday walking round victoria park looking for twee people... i phoned james and he pointed me in the vague direction.... so i stumbled over in that direction and eventually found them... and then the fun *really* began... erm... ok well thats when i sat down and got my ribena out. i played a couple of chords right on a guitar.... and quite a few wrong... and then we chatted about lots of fun stuff... and madeleine got a text message from ken... who would have been there apparently... and we were all disappointed that he wasn't.... After the picnic i ran home (in the car) and worked out how to get onto #sinister which they were talking about at the picnic.... and it worked but i was a bit scared by it..... *Giiiiiiiiiiig* (the overly excited way of saying gig.... duh!) The gig the next day.... yesterday in fact.... ooh well what can i say that i haven't already said?... it took us a good couple of hours to find the theatre because birmingham is really horrible to get round...and there are home and away posters everywhere.. also it was quite bizarre and a bit surreal because me and becky (non sinister.... eek) were at the merchandise stall thingy... i was buying the place out... and we turned round and there were madeleine and danny... which was a bit strange but that wasn't too unlikely to happen was it?... but then when we sat down in our seats we discovered that directly in front of us was james.... which was even more bizarre and a lot less likely to have happened methinks.... but t'was grate that it did... sorry we didn't see any of you lovely people afterwards... hope you enjoyed it (forgone conclusion??) Anyway Stuart said that he wanted to still be part of Britain and we all cheered.... And Stevie Is Pregnant apparently... or did i misunderstand that? Stuart replaced the word 'hell' in i know where the summer goes with something about birmingham... not quite sure what... but we all cheered anyway... Stuart forgot the words to slow graffiti and we all cheered..... Three little girls danced for them and Stuart gave then each something at the end (jealous) and we all cheered.... I took lots of photos when the security guards weren't looking and the girls in front got told off for it .... hehe... sorry... but i got loads of graaate photos... you'll see them when i get then developed.... Set list was the same as everywhere else except no 'fox in the snow' or 'lazy line painter jane' they did 'you made me forget my dreams' instead which was lovely. It began with 'Le Pastie....' which Stuart said was about a cake (??) and finished with 'Legal Man' which i previously disliked quite a bit but now love (l...o...v...e.... love dum de dum).... So thats that... Happiness all round Ooh needless to say i didn't go to school people who were worried about that... John +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+