for mike (and anybody who wants to read this i suppose) the gig was in the church of john the baptist on the corner of grainger street and westgate road, next door(ish) to yates's wine lodge and the pub was the head of steam, over the road from the station. the gig on the 28th is at the cluny (opened last year, under the byker bridge and right on the ouseburn, it's a renovated warehouse which is now a venue/bar/cafe/gallery/studio complex and is quite cool) they hold a night called cluny tunes and mos eisley are playing along with sonus and comatose, they are quite a cool band who sound like a cross between supergrass and ash and the rhythm section, jack and jed, are the sons of lindisfarne drummer ray laidlaw. i met them by interviewing them for my short lived internet fanzine venture thing called the hieroglyphic, the interview and a live review are on the internet still i think but i haven't got them anymore coz a virus wiped my hard drive a few months back. i think mos eisley played upstairs at the highbury garage a couple of months back but i'm not that sure, might have been another mos eilsey as the ad in the nme said you should come along, i'll be handing out flyers for my own gig at the tut n' shive on the 4th of january if you're still home but since it's a whistlestop tour you probably won't, oh well. anyone's welcome to come (he said blatantly mis-using the list to advertise his own band) my band's called lola my aura and i'll be dj'ing between bands (also playing are toaster) for tweebunny as newcastle has been voted the 8th best night out in the world you've come to the right place but as glasgow was 6th i think , then maybe you'r taking a step down. for gigs: since the closure of the riverside and the mayfair in the last couple of years, the only place left in town (or toon) for touring bands is the arena (for robbie williams and dteps and their ilk) or the uni for more 'our' sort of band, the uni is the hottest, sweatiest basement in the world but it's worth it to see bands the size of primal scream on a tiny stage and within spitting distance. for local bands there are multifarious (what a nice word) pubs around and especially the aforementioned cluny for clubs: the two best indie nights around are stone love @ foundation on thursdays and bulletproof @ rockshots on fridays. both have local superstar dj big niall (think 250 pounds, bald, zztop beard and crutches) but both have regular 'names' like mani, clint boon, gilles peterson, brendan lynch et al playing. and durham has a pretty cool mod night that happens once a month i think. for pubs: basically walk down any street and you'll find one worth mentioning so i won't mention any. except bar oz coz it's got a circular pool table sorry if anybody has read this and thinks they could have spent the time better by excavating their nostrils but i think everybody should visit newcastle at least once in their lives coz it's just so fab and groovy so i'll end on a song in the deep mid winter frosty winds made moan earth stood hard as iron water like a stone snow had fallen snow on snow sno-ow o-on snow in the deep mid winter lo-o-ong ago i love that song but frozen water and snow, in israel? even at this time of year i expect it's moderatly mild. see y'all soon pez* ps why won't it snow? it's fricking freezing but no damn snow, it's not fair. pps i've looked for my website but it seems to have disapeared into thin air, maybe i didn't feed it or something, maybe i should start it up again, i still have a paper copy of it so it's just a case of retyping it. oh mike, if you want a copy of the review and interview with mos eisley send me an email and i'll get them to you somehow, ok? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+