Stuart mentioning the West 54th sessions reminded me that I wanted to ask about them. Was that recording ever screened? Does anyone have a copy? I happened to be in town at the time and went along to see it recorded, so I'd like to get a copy, if only to see my own stupid face on American television. I went to a recording of the Jools Hootanany (New Year's Eve celebrations, for those in Paraguay - and yes I'm sure I've spelt the H word incorrectly), and it was very bizarre to be at a party at a friend's house on New Year and to see myself "live" on telly at the same time. At least I had a beer in my hand in both realities. The new Low album is excellent by the way. Thank you. x

from: "Gardiner, Stuart" <Stuart.Gardiner@ntu.ac.uk> date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:54:06 to: sinister@missprint.org subject: Re: Sinister: She only likes me when she gets drunk. And it would be just my lu ck; lately she's been thinking of giving up drinking.

In the spirit of the old-timers crawling out of the woodwork, shaking their head, muttering "I remember when it was all trees round here" and crawling off back to their hovels, I reckon it's about time I got round to writing something.

Hey, I've been busy you know. Spending the last week coaching / looking after / getting annoyed with 40 kids at a korfball summer camp. So I'm now knackered, and still probably a bit hungover from Friday night's final party. There's nothing like setting kids a good example. And getting blottoed, singing Bohemian Rhapsody at full blast and dressing up in each other's clothes is nothing like setting kids a good example. After seeing me in a tight girl's top some of them will be scarred for life.

I'll leave you for a moment to savour that mental picture. . . . . . I think that's quite enough of that, don't you?

As has been pointed out, we're now nearing five years old. That's mental age, obviously. A quick look back at the first page of the archives reveals that the old days were just as full of irrelevant five line posts, and just as lacking in content as now. It also leaves me wondering what happened to the two people on that page who I desperately wanted to meet, for not entirely un-carnal reasons. Oh well.

Other early highlights include a certain Mr Miller being smutty (so no surprises there then), whilst commenting that we would have to have more B&S content and less random stuff now that there were a massive 174 people on the list - http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/199708/msg00166.html

Most of the content consisted of whether Tigermilk would ever be re-released (Yes!), whether the Sessions at West 54th would ever be broadcast (No!), whether Loneliness of a Middle-Distance Runner would ever be released (Yes!), and whether B&S would ever get off their arses and do a few more gigs (Yes!). So you see, all the questions have now been answered. If only the band would stop doing so many interviews and let us get back to random gossiping about them instead, it would be much more fun.

I'm another one who thinks, great as the music is, B&S fans are more interesting. Let's face it, every time there's a gig, it's the audience that gets reviewed not the band (particularly in the NME). So many people here have spent the last five years getting new friends / new other halves / random snogs, which has got to be a good thing. Not me, obviously, I'm far too well behaved for that kind of thing.

Speaking of which, the list has been seriously lacking in smut recently. This may or may not be connected to the recent lack of Miller, Casarotto and Playforth. Of course, if anyone fancies creating some smut, I'm single yet again, after what promised to be requited love turned out not to be after all. All offers considered. Unless they come from Ken.

Big Stu

PS Due to a recent computer failure, if anyone has mp3s of either the Steve Lamacq session version of Sleep The Clock Around from '97, or the Legal Men / I Am The Resurrection finale from Manchester at Easter, I'd love to hear from you...

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