Hi All, Not much traffic at weekends I think so I'll risk another post. Scalarama-lama-ding-dong Bit like an indoor Sinister picnic really, with great company, music, glamour, day-time drinking, polaroids & football. No food sadly & for chat read shout. The Cuban Boys, Baxendale & Whistler left me cold: my musical highlight being David Gedge playing records (in between having his photo taken), arriving to play the theme from Goldfinger & leaving to the wails of Felt's Primitive Painters. In between he engineered the feat of getting a space substantially filled with Sinisterines dancing to Hole. And not only dancing but singing the words all the way through & gesticulating too. I think I even saw an air guitar. I think a list of names usually goes here like credits at an awards ceremony but today I consider that boring. Bit like my performance in the table footie. V-Twin The Sinister hard-core stalking team left Scala-etc. early due to starvation & to see V-Twin (or possibly more accurately their guest players). Blowup at the Wag Club was weird: seemingly ran by West End gangsters for backless 00's teenage girls to dance to nonstop 60's music. Soul records I never heard of, The Who's Can't Explain, cover versions (?) of Like A Rolling Stone & I'm Waiting For The Man by soul singers trying to sound like Mick Jagger. The band played for a pretty entertaining & energetic ?30 minutes/seven songs. V-Twin's singer is an astonishing fashion statement from the soaked toes of his shoes to his enormous brown fur hat. He also was either accompanied by a couple of fleas or afflicted with severe heartburn from nerves or something as he had to keep scratching/rubbing himself. The vocal performance was less easy to judge due to his microphone incomprehensibly not being switched on. Thank You Baby is still my favourite & Delinquency *Rocks*. All the band seemed to have a great time on stage, including their guests Chris, Richard & Stevie. Richard thrashed hell out of an assortment of percussion instruments, Chris is brilliant & smiled a lot & Stevie played harmonica & guitar, for one number employing the interesting technique of resting the end of his guitar on the amp & modifying the feedback by toggling the L/R switch. Isobel was in the audience. In a beautiful black dress. Shame Sincere apologies to Mr Geddes for chasing him across the club & tugging his sleeve: really boorish of me. My only defence is that Lucy made me do it (& you like her) Sally & I left at 1 a.m. for the delights of the night bus to Greenwich so Lucy will have to supply the rest of the goss. Tonight Sally & I off to see The Delgados at the RFH. Fascinating apprehension about seeing The Incredible String Band for the first time. I know they're going to be shite. But could that spark still be there? Love, David Moore Chelmsford, UK +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+