Did anyone else see the Beta Band in Manchester on Tuesday? What did you think? Personally I thought they were seriously good. After publicly slating their own album upon release and during the gig (which I couldn’t quite understand), I thought they would: 1. Re-arrange most, if not all, of their material 2. Play more stuff from the 3 EP’s They didn’t. A few were a bit more percussive and a few more upbeat but on the whole, not much different, so why slag the album if you don’t intend to improve on it live? The visuals were cool, complete with a Cindy doll, fashioned after Bonnie Tyler, being beamed down for the song featuring the sample of “Total Eclipse of the Heart”! There was every kind of percussion you can imagine plus a few you can’t (I saw all my presents for the next few Christmas’ and birthdays’ for the foreseeable future on display). The band regularly swapped instruments with everyone taking it in turn to play one of two drum kits, decks, sequencers, keys, trumpet, steel drums, etc etc. Top. Anyway, go see ‘em if you get chance. Bless Leaky P.S. Thanks for the mail Chris-t-opher - the name's mine! Sorry about the gig but we went on the train anyway. I’d really appreciate it if you could get us in touch with that guy from Action Records/The Warehouse. I’m still looking for a new female vocalist, violin and/or cello plus virtually any other kind of instrument for my North West based band, come on it’ll be fun. You know you want to. ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+