------------------------- careless talk costs lives ------------------------- i got myself a copy last week, and although this topic is a tad old now, i thought id just say what i think of it. it is very pretty. and the writing is on the whole quite good. it does focus on the music most of the time. BUT it is very self-referential. you cant quite read it as a mucis magazine. you're constantly reminded that 'this is careless talk costs lives. its written by everett true. i live in brighton. i know famous music types. we hate the nme.' it doesnt exactly spoil my enjoyment of the articles, but id rather it concentrated on being a good music magazine (which is it) rather than how crap the rest of the industry is, and how much better they think they are than it. ------------------ recording birdsong ------------------ i was listening to IWUTU the other day and when the bit with the birds singing in ILMC came up, i had the mental image of stuart murdoch sitting on a branch ('Up A Tree', if you will!) with a dictaphone trying to record the birds himself. dont know why i thought of it, but it does seem like something i can imagine b&s doing. very twee. :o) ------- UK tour ------- yipee! :oD i've never been to the usher hall before. does anyone know if it's good? i have a couple of friends who went to see travis there in december, and they said it wasnt the best. but they were sitting up the back with all the ol' folk. i have ordered standing tickets, so it should be ok. i am a bit annoyed though. i didnt think they'd be playing uk dates, so i was wanting to make a holiday out of it and go see them play abroad. i like the idea of a few days in stockholm. but now i have no reason to justify spending more money i dont have. YAY! to b&s. BOO! to no holiday. this will be the fourth time ill have seen them in the space of a year (barrowlands in june(x2), qmu in dec), and i feel a bit greedy. there's people who wont have seen them at all, and that makes me feel bad. sorry. :o( -------------- london village -------------- i am travelling down to london village on the first weekend in march to visit a friend of mine. does anyone in that neck of the woods have any suggestions of things to do, places to visit, record shops to plunder? id be very appreciatave of any suggestions. also, if anyone would like to meet up for a beverage or two, id be happy to oblige. :o) i should be down from sat.02/03 til the monday or tuesday. ------- america ------- nobody (so far) seems to have taken particular offence to my comments. that pleases me. i meant no offence by it. well, not to any of you, that is. http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,642108,00.html is a very good comment on the speech, if anyone is still interested. on my final (honest!) point on this topic, id just like to say this whole 'not with us is against us' thing seems very mcarthy-esque. if anyone even questions the actions of america in this 'war', you're shouted down as that automatically commits you to being anti-american, un-democratic, condoning of sept.11th. etc. it wouldnt surprise me if the americans started rounding up anyone they deem 'un-american' and put them on trial, or even better, putting them in cages exposed to the elements, starving them off their senses, and denying them the right to a trial at all. in fact..... http://www.whitehouse.org/initiatives/patriot/index.asp _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+