Well hello there Big news of the week is that Slint are playing ATP, this means that I need to go, therefore if anybody needs an extra body to fill a chalet then drop me a mail and you can have me (so to speak). I promise I'm clean, tend not to get too drunk and my days as a legendary womanizer are probably at an end. Thanks to all the people who replied off list to my last post (especailly the adorable girl with the coolest email address around) it's really good to know that people do read this stuff and bother to have an opinion about it. It all got me thinking about Sinister which scared me a bit 'cos I realized that I've been on here for over 5 years now. In that time I've met loads of cool people from the list (and even kissed a few of them), I've urinated next to Stuart Murdoch on a night out with the sinisterines, I've chatted in nonexistent spaces with foreign folk and I've went to see lots of bands that I otherwise never would have got to see. When I first joined this list I kind of figured that everyone here had been listening to the band far longer than me but now I feel like listening to them since 1996 probably makes me some sort of boring old fart who could bang on about the good old days and how the list was so much better then (it wasn't it was just different, livelier, more volatile, less international). So I've spent 8 years loving B&S and 5 years loving Sinister and at some point turned into a sad old git but what the hell, B&S still have a strange appeal for me and even if I don't think later albums have been lyrically as good as the first two I still think they're pretty special. Well time for me to get back to work Thanks for listening (for all these years) Owen so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens (William Carlos Williams) Support Care2 Email: 1,400 whales may be killed this year. Take action! http://www.care2.com/go/z/17954 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+