*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* Hello You. On Monday, I returned to my temporary home in Sweden, after being e-mailless for a week to find that the Stockholm date had been announced. I got on the phone as soon as I found out, but was unfortunately too late. All tickets had been sold out. This was not a good start to the week. However, being the extremely cautious boy that I am, I had a contingency plan in place. I had purchased two tickets for the London gig way back when, just in case. As it happens, my boss wants me to go to England to do a few days work some time in September, which means a free flight for me and my tickets. I gave him my list of preferred dates, all of which contained Monday September 7th. Then the rumours started. The gig in Stockholm was being moved to a bigger venue, and another three hundred tickets were going on sale. Constant pestering of Pet Sounds in Stockholm finally paid off, and I'm now the proud owner of tickets for both London and Stockholm (or at least I will be, barring any Swedish postal disasters). [Quick question at this point - does anybody know who the support will be in Stockholm?] Unfortunately, I have now found out that my trip to England will most likely be cancelled. It's not certain yet - I'll know for definite first thing on Monday morning, but it's about 90% certain that I won't be going. If I had heard this earlier in the week, I'd most certainly have booked a flight myself, but seeing as I have my ticket for Stockholm, I've decided to pass my London tickets on to some deserving soul out there, and save my money for whores and crack. As I've said, there is still a 10% chance that I'll be holding on to the tickets myself, but if I'm not, then I want to be able to send them on as early as possible next week. Mail me if you want them. I'm not doing a first-mail-to-me-gets-the-booty, 'cos I always thing that's unfair to the people who do something with their lives, and don't sit in front of a computer all day waiting for mail. Instead, as a sort of a tie-break you have to tell me, in however many words it takes, why the hell you didn't buy the tickets when they went on sale originally. Like I did. Extra points will be awarded if your story is extremely embarassing, and you send it to the list by accident. And priority will go to those people that I owe tapes to - they are on their way, honest. I'll be selling them at the price I paid for them (which is face value plus Ticketmasters outrageous costs for sending tickets out foreign, even though they don't record or register the delivery, which caused major stress in my household recently). Proceeds from the sale will go towards buying an arab strap, the mechanisms of which I am still a little unfamiliar with, but was wondering if they will now become obsolete what with Viagra and all. When I'm finished playing with it, I'll be flinging it stagewards to Stevie in Stockholm. Knickers are so Tom Jones. So get those mails sent soon folks - I'll be picking the lucky recipient at lunchtime on Monday. I'll send a mail to all the unfortunate losers telling them that I could go to London after all, and they'll never be any the wiser. Thanks for your attention Mick +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+