Good Morning Sinister! Patrick Doyle said:

I just wanted to wish Isobel the best of luck in whatever she does, blah blah wibble. Good Luck Isobel.

And the man-hunk Rob Brennan said:

Sorry to hear about Isobel - best of lick to her in whatever she chooses to do.

(actually, he didn't. But I can't be bothered to correct my own typos today) You people, you know, you're all too nice. You should be all fuming with rage at foaming at the mouth at Miss Campbell's storming off and leaving the band. Or, on the other hand, you should be jumping up and down and cheering and shouting "yay, they can go get a cellist who's actually CHEERFUL on stage now" -- well, I know a few of you are. We shouldn't be just sitting back and saying "aw, sorry you're gone, hope the future is wonderful and sunny and full of little sluffy bunnies." How insipid is that? We'll get a reputation as a mad crowd of incredibly twee little fuckers. And I know none of you would want that to happen. Was there anyone at all who was genuinely surprised at the news? I mean, after she pulled out of the US tour, and after it was revealed (by Mick, wasn't it? my memory is foggy) that IWUTU really is about her and Struan. I bet nobody had told her; she must have been thinking "bah, it can't be about me, he wouldn't do *that*" Maybe it isn't, and it's just that everybody thinks it is. Incidentally, I've been working on all the replies people sent in to the Sinister Questionnaire. When the results are all finished and online I'll let you all know about it. Feel free to send more answers in, though. Yesterday, I got all inspired courtesy of Miss Popnoodle Idleberry. She invited me to go shopping with her in Glasgow, and we wondered round Buchanan Street and Queen Street for an afternoon. We saw the David Mach exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art, which was rather good. Lots of collages, larger-than-life sculptures made from coat-hangers (looking like velcro people), and teddy bears (with big long sharp teeth) aggressively wielding household appliences (all of which had 3-inch power cords, bizarrely). After going round the gallery, we went round the art supplies store over the road, and it was nearly as good. Long racks of paint and pencils all arranged in a big rainbow. Idleberry came up with a rather good plan for some guerrilla art, but sadly (sob) we couldn't find all the stuff we needed to do it just yet. It's a damn good plan, though. All this art and shopping made me all fired up to make and create and just generally do stuff. I want to get some canvas and make my own handbag. I want to plant art around the city without warning anyone. I'm going to go now, and make a collage of the risen Christ being worshipped by Kirsten Kenyon's parents. xx caitlin http://www.btinternet.com/~wpsalt/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+