hello list, I'm going to tell you all about the Manics and Mogwai gig in Stoke because...well just because I want to really, but because some of you might be interested as well, and it's all very amusing. So fast-forward if you couldn't care less. I've never seen a performance like it before in my life - anyone who's seen Mogwai live before knows how incredible they can be. But Mogwai playing to a Manics crowd? - nooooo, I thought, this cannot happen - for all their walls of white-noise, they're gentle lads at heart - the eyelinered-ones will tear them limb from limb, (what, no lyrics? but how can they be POLITICAL and DANGEROUS with no lyrics? - burn the witches!). Oh, how wrong I was - never in all my years have I seen hecklers dealt with in such an admirable way! One tune to go - numerous witty ejaculatiuons from the crowd, ("MANICS!", "GERROFF", "BOO!") - Dominic gives them the two fingers for the third time -Stuart takes the mic: "This one's for all you cunts out there who......(it goes incomprehensible here but you get the picture)" Then it's straight into the most blinding version of "Like Herod" you are EVER likely to hear. The quiet bit is drawn out for a simply unbearable amount of time for those in the know, who, like the band, stand grinning from ear to ear, in joyful anticipation of what is about to happen. And then.....BANG - like an electrical storm it kicks in, and the feather boas leap three feet into the air before their collective ears begin to bleed in a most satisfactory manner. I take such enourmous pleasure from seeing the two girls in front of me with their fingers in their ears, that I begin to question my human decency, but then I think sod it, and cackle away gleefully. Call it indie snobbery if you like, but I was there and I know which side the intolerance was coming from. And the irony is that what Mogwai stand for in music now, is exactly what the Manics stood for in 1991. Never have I seen a band treated so rudely, but like I said, never have I seen a crowd chastised so severely for doing so. The Manics were shit by the way. And I speak as a long-time fan, who was deeply saddened at the fact, but felt I got my money's worth anyway, thanks to Mogwai. And who was the boy in the blue Belle and Sebastian T-shirt? Are you on the list? nuff from me love from Molly xxxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+