Firstly, the surprise, ( but not too surprising, for we knew after their Peel Sessions that they were great) of the week was the Delgados at the Merc on Saturday night. This band is sensational and if they continue to develop the flute/strings ideas that they showed off there, their next record is gonna amaze. Of the three B&S shows (PBS and two at the temple), Sunday's set and the PBS show set were quite similar. Saturday's set was shorter than Sunday's, but songs included Judy, State I Am In, Seymour Stein, Get Me Away From Here, and the VU's What Goes On, which included the 30 seconds of magic where Stevie babbled about being in NYC and doing the song for that reason, the Stuart saying, but Stevie, i am the singer, so why are you talking so much, then Stevie calling Stuart a "fuckin' cunt," then the bandgoing into the song full force, Steviesinging, and Stuart taking off his guitar and dancing for the first half of the song. It was brilliant. It was groovy. Stevie play guitar like he's in a 6tees soul band. And finally we caught the Pastels/Autumn Leaves/Delgados/Orange Peels/HoneyBunch show in Boston last night, and though we were close to death for both the drive up and down from NYC, it was well worth it. Delgados were just as thrilling w/out the strings, Autumn Leavesare a unique 6tees pysch-pop foursome from the Twin Cities with total grace and style on stage-new album on Grimsey out in the very near future so look for it-and the Pastels closed it out with a set that included Over my Shoulder and Through Your Heart. B&S review in the NY Times today. yours, bts ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net -----------------------------------------------------------------------