Hello once again all. I haven't been posting much recently, largely cos of my workload at uni, and it's going to be even worse this month. Good news anyway - the concert I sang in last week went really well. Unfortunately, I've got three more to do this month as well as all my uni work. Still, I think I should enjoy them while I can. And, if I'm lucky I could be seeing the Super Furry Animals with my mates next Friday. At long last a decent band comes to Derry. That was odd, last year we had JJ72, Ash and (sigh) The Divine Comedy all playing in the space of a month. In fact, nothing seems to come to our supposedly wonderful city. We get a lot of visitors, but no decent films or bands. They've yet to release Amelie here and every critic's going on about what a lovely film it is. Shame. On top of that, I've been trying to get the Perfect Lovesong single the last two days - it was released on Monday, and yet (surprise, surprise) there's no sign of it here. Funny really, a lot of you seem to have had brilliant Hallowe'en's, and mine was average at best. What else can I say apart from the fact that I saw the fireworks and went out for a drink? Anyway, all your messages (including the ones I've had time to read all of) have cheered me up a lot. And here are my notes to all: Ian Rivamonte - Your DC messages were great. I don't know if Parlophone intentionally caused the break-up mind you. I still believe the whole thing had something to do with the poor sales of Regeneration. Great story about the postcard from Neil as well. Paul Arathoon - Funny that you hate National Express, it's excellent. Lawrence - Europop is far better than Electronic Renaissance. But then, am I saying that cos ER hasn't grown on me, or is it just cos I'm a massive DC fan? It seems you like High Fidelity as well. It is a really good film, although they did mention B & S in a bad note at one point. Stuart - the live TV message was excellent. Andrew - you stated the TDC split-up was 'A very sad business. My view is that they went from being a big small band to being a small big band and it didn't quite work out. The world is a poorer place without them, and I for one do not believe that Divine Comedy=Neil Hannon.' How right you are. Joby Talbot has played a massive part in their albums since Casanova, at least. And I wouldn't say they were that small before Regeneration - the orchestra was massive for Fin de Siecle. Rachel Fruitloop - Surely the release of "Something For The Weekend" doesn't have anything to do with the SFA song? I haven't actually heard the SFA song yet, but the words have got to be different. Rachel Sunset - I'm sorry to hear you've a lot to worry about. But if you had my workload, it'd be a lot worse. Christina - I haven't enjoyed Trick or Treating since I did it in the States when I was 7 (seriously...)! Take care, Psi +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+