Sinister: Docklands Blues from a Docklands blue
Me again, Carrick: congratulations on giving the definitive CS Lewis answer. The bus reference was particularly well spotted. I think our list will go down in the annals (hur hur, eh Duke) of music crit history for being the first set of people not to resort to the 'They sound a bit like Love, Nick Drake and The Smiths, you know?' stock answer when discussing B&S. Now we can all chuck CS Lewis into the mix with confidence. Hurrah. Hats off also for the v. funny 'She and Me' punchline in the same digest. Even more arch than Amelia's original connundrum. Now then, it's just occured to me that in having a player called Morrissey and in being central to the very existence of Half Man Half Biscuit, Gary's beloved Tranmere Rovers are THE indie football team. Unless you know better, of course... For all of Richard Ashcroft's efforts, my team Wigan Athletic has never had such cachet, except for having a couple of supporters who still rock top, baggy haircuts. These Floyd bootlegs I'm listening to today are great. I'm onto the post 'Wish You Were Here' years now and have a very fine recording of Roger Waters camply complaining to the set designers on the The Wall tour that they're 'cheating'. (Imagine him, hands on hips, chest puffed out, going 'Wall builders, wall builders. Stop buliding The Wall. You're cheating now...') But there remain two problems with working in Docklands (beside the obvious ones): indie T-shirt types are rarer than rocking horse droppings around these parts and there are about four steros and three computer games playing at the same time in this office I'm in. This might explain my 'interrupt mode' style postings. One good thing, though: you can look across the wharf and watch the odd cormorant perching outside the buliding. Who knows, maybe I'll get a shag by the end of the day. Martin Horsfield, tw ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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