I went to see Mark Gardener's new band too on Saturday night, and can certainly agree, that they were amazing. I don't think there's anything like them around at the moment. It's really smart. The backdrop/screen thing behind them was wicked too, all fractals and colourful shapes bounding about. Don't know if you noticed me 'Kylie' but I was stood with Mark and Loz before they went on, to the left of the stage. I was the one with the skin head !! Name dropping over now.

Avoiding work too... What exactly then are Mark Gardener's new band like then? I liked Carnival of Light a lot, at least Mark Gardener's stuff on it anyway, Andy Bell spent the whole time doing a lot of posturing and trying to get into the limelight, but the harsh reality was that his stuff wasn't as good. I also found that album quite weird in the sense that a lot of rock drummers all wind up doing comedy songs, like Keith Moon, on "Cobwebs and Strange" and obviously Ringo Starr's efforts, however in Ride, the drummer manages to come up with his one and only song written for the band "Natural Grace" and it turns out to be one of the best tracks they've ever recorded. I thought the last Ride album was rubbish, which was a pity, there's quite a lot of neat "fretwork" on it, and lots of fancy "licks" (cheers Tag) but the songs are crap, oh well, never mind. Funny band Ride, I never seemed to be able to put my finger on why I thought they were quite good. All the signs were that they were a bit overrated. However, I think the first EP's and the first album worked well at the time, "Like a Daydream" was out in the summer, then "Taste" and the first album came out in the autumn which felt right for the way they sounded... if you get my drift. Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------