Hi All, IT'S A COOL, COOL, CHRISTMAS The Oct 12th edition of Marketing Week contains an article about a Christmas album (title as above) put out by Xfm to raise money for The Big Issue Foundation, stating that Belle and Sebastian have recorded a track for it. So apparently have Teenage Fanclub, Grandaddy & The Dandy Warhols. On sale 20th November for £10.99, of which £4 goes to the charity. Anyone want to divulge which song they recorded? OUR MAN IN THE MOSHPIT (1) ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL Busy week for gigs. Followed V-Twin with the Incredible String Band & Delgados. The former weren't as appalling as I dreaded: although 30+ years have deepened the voices & cropped the range they still managed to move me when they sang numbers such as Air, old Sinister mix-tape favourite Ducks On A Pond, Painting Box, etc. The 36-legged Delgados were excellent, ending with a storming version of No Danger which even drew some audience members from their seats to dance! OUR MAN IN THE ... (2) SCALAGAIN Took Liz' advice & went to see Broadcast. The 60's theme continued (Delgados took the stage to a Bert Jansch song, Broadcast to Pentangle's Light Flight). Mostly I always just listened to the singer's voice & what the keyboard player did before, but on this occasion I was especially struck by the tricky time signature power trio that constitutes the rest of the band. The drummer is great, not just the way his gold tooth glints in the light of the films projected on the backdrop, but because he puts his entire soul into what he does. Even Trish just stood at the end of the gig grinning with pleasure watching him. Drums On Fire indeed. OUR MAN ... (3) GARAGE Where we met "Sinister's most beautiful couple" (Ailsa, if my memory serves me well) Arantxa & Robin. Hmm. If Whistler are getting so many gigs, couldn't that girl afford another dress? Another great gig from Cinerama, even though Leeds' answer to Bruce Springsteen was more RAWK! than I had ever seen him before, encouraging the sad sight of a 30 year-old moshpit. NOT DRAGGING UP KIDS TV ON THE LIST AGAIN, BUT... Erica can't be a stupid bint, because she's actually Lady Penelope. GET YOUR YA YA'S OUT Which one of The Pine Fox's Stones posts didn't get replied to, The Alternative ATP one, or the Stevie Reverb as Brian Jones one about the Millennium Tube appearance? I'll discuss 5 string guitars with funny tunings with you anyday. LITERARY LIST I haven't seen any recommendations for Laura Vview's site for a while, so why not try this ripping yarn which I heartily recommend to all Sinisterines (or at least 80% of those posting recently) http://www.missprint.org/sinister/faq.html#rules Judy is a Calientapollas, Love, David Moore Page 3 of November's "Aircraft Illustrated" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+