....as a matter of fact, I haven't, and the fact that I haven't was contributive to me gaining a rather high score on an "How Much of a Snob Are You?" on the modern interweb some time ago. Now, Beefeaters, they're different. I've been to plenty of those. In fact, when I move offices in a couple of months' time the nearest thing approximating a pub will in fact be a Beefeater called the Longwall. A couple of weeks back we all headed down to the new building to see what it's like. Seriously odd is the answer. Whereas our current place has a pond, the new one has a Water Feature, which is no good for fish as it consists of a very, very shallow sheet of water moving over a metal plateau. With coloured lights. The new office also takes open plan to new heights (or depths) as there are NO DIVIDES AT ALL, not even between the restaurant and the reception area, which'll be, erm, *interesting* when there's fish on Fridays. All the references to Harvesters in the archives are about combine harvesters, unfortunately.... Anyway, those of you who've heard the new St Etienne offering "Finisterre" will recognise the line at the top from Michael Jayston's spoken parts, which he utters with such gravitas that they seem of the utmost import. I had no idea who Jayston was, so I went a-googling, natch, and discovered that he was a "character actor" who'd been in loads of stuff without actually being the real star. Donnie Darko has real stars - Drew Barrymore and Patrick Swayze. It's a really great film and v. funny in places - go see it. There's a bunch of kids in Oxford right now called Trademark who look like the Cuban Boys, play eightiesish synth-pop (a bit like Nemo) and fill the gaping hole left by the (presumably) defunct Holy Roman Empire in the wackiness stakes. They even gave a physics lecture in the middle of their set last night, to precursor their song "Sine Love". Stuart Djing at TIHIFTBL? Yay! Mark. ______________________________________________________________ For up-to-the-minute music news, reviews and specials visit http://www.nme.com Get free e-mail (anyname@nme.com) now at http://www.nmemail.com The sender of this e-mail is NOT an employee or associate of NME, nme.com or any other IPC magazine. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+