Hello all! I've been watching you from the sidelines and I'd just like to say: It's good to have you back in my inbox, I had a feeling everyone had drifted away! I, myself, have been putting off writing for a while now - I was waiting until I had some "content" to provide, you know, the sort of thing that all 1500 (ish) of you might concievably want to look at. So First things First: I went to the Perth gig - I did! Honest! Were any of you there? I didn't see you, sorry. I'd have bought you a drink too, I'm that kind of guy. so, content! A Mini Style review: Stuart was wearing his "Eat the Rich" T-shirt, but it had shrunk - so it was awfully tight. One for the girls! Stevie was all besuited and looking Mighty Sharp. As Per. Beanz was in "colours" The Jury is still out as to whether they are this or last years. Ditto. Bob and Mick were in "fashion shirt" and denim troos. Smart, but Casual. I couldn't realy see the others, althought the backing violin / whistling girl with the ripped denims was awfully cute! For the completists (and David Moore, if he still does this kind of thing) The Setlist! Stars of Track and Field Seeing Other People Dylan in the Movies The Wrong Girl Meat And Potatoes Lonliness of the Middle Distance Runner The Boy Done Wrong Again Electronic Renaissance White Collar Boy Then a wee break, while they worked out a cover of: Olivers Army (Including "Stevie Jacksons Impeccable Elvis Costello Impersonation") Another Sunny Day If You're Feeling Sinister Woman's Realm Fox in The Snow Mayfly Me And The Major To be Myself Completely (I think, I misssed it as I was at THE BAR) The Boy With The Arab Strap If You Find Yourself Caught in Love Judy & The Dream of Horses The Obligatory Encores were: I'm a Cuckoo and Sleep the Clock Around. So we only missed out on "Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying" and we'd have gotten all of Sinsiter, just in the wrong order - Barbican? Hah! Electronic Renaissance was a highlight - with Struan "Feeling like Val Doonagan" as he was singing from the mixing stage - then having to get security to help him get back on stage! Another highlight: someone in the crowd stage left requesting "Arab Strap!!!" and someone stage right shouting "Good Idea!" Calumn's Mini review of the Perth Gig... Good. Other news? I'm not married(1), don't have a cold (2)and haven't camped out in any deserts (3) lately. I never made it to Mono to see the much-hyped Jens Lekman gig(4), so missed everyone that was going (5). Pretty much Business As Usual round my way. Sorry. Calumn 1) At least, I don't think I am - last weekend got pretty hazy. 2) My "Take a Break" Tip for Sarah & Stacy: Tea with blended whisky (Bells or Grouse works well) has all the benefits and saves the good stuff for when you can taste it properly! 3) Or desserts. 4) But DID get to meet him, so it's all good. 5) Is The Duke still "Keeping the Faith"? PS - Are we still wearing our badges upside down? PPS - I just worked out how to set Gmail to Plain Text - Sorry Honey, I thought it was. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+