dear sinister, like mr moore, i also know where i will be on the two nights of chickfactor @ bush hall. there is a reason for this, as some of you know, i work there (bh not chickfactor, sigh). the bonus of this is, of course i get to see you when you turn up there and prolly tick you off some kind of list. we've had more than our fair share of b&s related gigs - camera obscura/trashcan sinatras being the one that really sticks in my mind, because it was the first time i was on the door, and it felt like about three quarters of the attendees were people i knew through sinister. of course it's not all fun and games. this weekend there was a uriah heep convention. uriah heep! it featured the band demanding copious amounts of, er, red wine. could have definitely been worse. i stayed up and watched the 12:34 thingy (i'm underemployed at the moment and can just about afford to spend most of my day asleep). i found it strangely moving. there were no actual what you might call shots of struan, the camera lingered on the view out of a train window going from (i assume) glasgow to london. nonetheless it was interesting to hear what he had to say about music and his favourite songs. i saw him in a restaurant in brighton, oooh, ages ago. it came as some surprise to walk up from the toilets and see his face. i spent the rest of the meal all a-quiver, over-excited and slightly jittery like i'd drunk too much coffee. post-student life is treating me fairly well, i have at least got my masters now (dissertation title: 'music journalism and the weblog phenomenon', i was going to put you in the acknowledgements, but decided not to put any in after all). i regretted using the word phenomenon when i came to have it bound - £2 it cost me to have that printed on two copies. i could have just called it 'music journalism and the weblog' and saved my money. but i wasn't thinking of frugality when i named it. i am pretty bored though - daytime telly is only interesting for so long. i'm considering going on work experience again, but i find it somewhat soul destroying. i cried quite a lot about jp. i thought about the night described here [http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200106/msg00261.html], and a hundred other such nights, and i was horribly sad. for a long time i had sinisterine's block, it's like writer's block but subtly different (in a freudian slip, i wrote that it was like writer's blog, which of course is the real reason for my recent silence). let this be an end to it. pip pip fb X ******************************************************************************* http://featherboa.blogspot.com - bandwagonesque http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yorksini - big up to the york sinister massive. innit +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+