Mark Hester spluttered: ""Christmas comes earlier each year" whingers are a perennial hazard. You know the type - people who insist that it is obscene that the deccies in the shops appear in early or mid-November and maintain that they can remember when it Didn't Used To Happen." Shops putting up Christmas stuff early (it's usually September rather than November round these parts) doesn't bother me at all, but people decorating their houses around now really spoils it, don't you think? Such as the people who live around the corner from me who always really go over the top and try to turn their house into a winter wonderland type thing, which can be nice and indeed heartwarming on cold, dark December evenings, but they usually wait until at least, well, December. But this year they've got all the lights and everything on already, so instead of looking festive it just looks garish. Almost as garish as Glasgow City Chambers, in fact. But not quite. Speaking of Glasgow (neat little segue there, did you notice?) there's an exhibition currently on at the Lighthouse there that might be of interest to listy people. Actually, the people who it's probably of most interest to are those from Glasgow, who probably know all about it already and I'm just showing how incredibly unhip and behind the times I am by mentioning this, while thinking that I'm being dead clever just cause I saw something about it in the papers at the weekend. But there might be people who don't know about it, or are maybe going to be visiting in the next few months or something. Anyway, it's called 'Electric City' and is about the underground (for want of a better word) music scene in Glasgow over the past 25 years and features such Sinister faves as the Pastels and Orange Juice and Postcard Records and suchlike. Belle & Sebastian were mentioned in the article I read, but I don't know if there's anything about them in the exhibition. It's probably worth a visit if you can get there and it's free to get into, which is good as well. It runs until 25 February (by which time I might have a job and be able to travel through!) and there's more about it at: http://www.thelighthouse.co.uk/electric-city See - sometimes I can post things which people might be interested in! Peter Miller and Carsmile asked about Sodastream in Hyndland on Friday. I was there, but far too dazzled by said Glasgow City Chambers Christmas lights and the sheer excitement of travelling on underground trains to form any coherent opinion, so I'll leave the reviews to people better qualified than myself! Ian N. ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+