SUBJECT LINE I couldn't resist that quote from a post by Robert Brennan, which came in the same digest as Rachel Toast's nude adventures and Shannon's revelation about what she was doing over the tapes. I don't know if I can be seen in the same company as this list much longer if it's going in that direction. PERNICE Elise wrote: <<Can anyone tell me about the Pernice Brothers>> I was at a Joe P gig in Dublin very recently. Stacey Dahling had warned that he was very serious, but I imagine it was intensified by the P Bros having flown out of NY 10 hours before the crashing. So the live gig was quite serious, beginning with the line "Gimme some more of that morphine..." (approx) and references to suicide in 3 of the first 6 songs (approx). But I was reared on Leonard Cohen and, unlike so many Irish males, I got through my 20s without hanging myself. So I was fine with that kind of stuff. The females in the party were a bit shaken by the gloom but that could be the fault of the excellent sound system which delivered every word clearly. If you don't listen to the words, the Pernice Brothers sound chirpy and very melodic - Beach Boys meeting Teenage Fanclub with very rich vocals and resonant guitar. For example, Working Girls in the background sounds Joe is very happy that there are working girls. But listen to the words and there's a vivid guide to the barren nature of existence in a way that Start Murdoch could have written before he was famous. Joe did nearly 2 and a half hours,with a local keyboard player (John Hegarty?) coming on for 30 minutes and he played nearly everything the crowd asked for. But the Dublin crowd, who had got Bill Callahan to smile, couldn't break down that determination to "make the worst of a bad situation." But it was a great gig and I reckon GO AND SEE HIM/THEM - YOU WON'T REGRET IT. SANDY DENNY The fully digested Peter Miller wrote: <<I've been listening to a bloke called Sandy Denny..>>. That solves the mystery of how the late Sandy fell down the stairs to become "the late Sandy Denny". Now I realise it must have been that he couldn't handle high heels. Not many people know that Philip Lynott was taught bass guitar by a guy called Brush Shiels and was in a Dublin band called Skid Row, led by the same Mr Shiels and they released a single (for Irish market only, I think, 1969 approx) called "Sandy's Gone". Maybe it was about Mr Denny. NATURE OF LOVE Madeleine McNeil's interesting comments sparked off some responses on LOVE. With more life past than life future, I was going to Report Back that it's probably most vivid from 20 to 25 or so and that it's just chemical, but that it seems to provide the biggest hit at that stage. But I won't. Instead I'll remember that I went into a church called the Madeleine in Paris on Good Friday many years ago and there were literally buckets and buckets of flowers and a smell of incense and candlewax and the stained glass light and it was grate. Happy second decadence Martin C, who didn't ask for the F and doesn't want it This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+