hello. umm... it's been quite a while since i last wrote to this list so i've kinda forgotten how to do it. so bear with me. not that there's a any technique to simply writing an e-mail but, i suppose you need some form of structure...maybe you don't. it's just an e-mail after all. i don't know why i haven't written in so long... just didn't feel that i had anything to say. not saying that now i do, just it's one of those sunday afternoons. the ones where you just sit around your house not doing the work that you should be doing listening to music. so... umm. i'm fond of the word 'umm' both whilst writing and whilst speaking. i don't know whether it's actually a word, or just a sound... umm... it's good. a-ha(!) i've found something to talk about. atp. atp this year was rather good. actually no, it was very good. i know it's probably a bit late to talk about it now, but i figured i might as well. it was the first time i've been to atp and it was very good. i met some of you sinister people too which was nice. i met this one sinister-type person and we were discussing what a collective group of sinister-folk should be termed as. we settled on sinister-eenies or something like that. anyway, it was a rather good weekedn plenty of fun had by all i'm sure. i'm probably going to go next year seeing as though will oldham has been scheduled to play. they're having two different events next time aren't they? that'd be good. i suppose it means that more people will get to go... which is always nice. so hello to every sinister-eenie i met there. another event i went to that probably had lots of sinister-folk was the RAH hall gig. i would of liked to have gone to the picnic before-hand but i had my friends with me and picnics aren't their thing. i would have gone to the preston gig as it was nearer to manchester but it would've been just as much hastle getting to preston as it would've been getting to london. i've never really liked london too much before this trip but for some reason i came away loving it...well not loving it, but there was an extreme liking towards it. it was really weird to have such a strange sense of anticipation before the gig. i've never really had that before a gig, and it was a nice feeling. i suppose it was just the build up. it was good getting to the tube station then going in that tunnel thing towards the RAH. we didn't know where to go after that tunnel thing ended so we asked somebody who said "just follow the librarians" which i found really funny for some reason. i think the RAH was a good choice for a venue. everyone inside was just so nice too. people just sitting down on the stairs and in the corridors just talking and drinking, which is always good. we got there early, and the support...umm...person wasn't really up to much so we just walked around. we sort of took a sight-seers internal tour of the place. although the staff were a bit weary of us. which i suppose is fair really. we also did something bad. well i don't know if it was bad, maybe slightly naughty [i love that word]. we booked our tickets late, so we had to get seated ones, which we reasoned was better than nothing. when we got there we just walked down into the standing bit. nobody checked our tickets so we just stood there. talking to some people who went to the strokes gig in london a few days ago. the gig itself was amazing. it's the second time i've seen them, and i suppose this time was the best. it was like someone playing all your favourite songs in a really nice place. everyone seemed to enjoy it too. dancing and stuff. it was really good to look up and see everyone in the seats dancing away. even the ones in the seats right at the top...made me smile. another thing. there was this bit where stuart invited people to come up on stage and sing. these people went up, three of them i think. one who looked like morissey. i volunteered to do it, which is very unlike me. i think halfway through 'the state i am in' one of the ladies shouted 'sinister'. so hello to her. you did very well, considering. just in case you're wondering, i wanted to do 'get me away i'm dying'... the only song they didn't do, *sigh*. after the gig was good too, we met some people and wandered the streets of london in search of a kebab. we got one...eventually. nice weekend, best thing to do just after finish your exams. speaking of exams, i did mine this year. i did well, which i'm happy about. i started sixth form...which is a bit dull. i take my mini disc to keep me company... which i'm sure you're all really interested in. so i suppose i should talk about music. it's been a good year in terms of music i think. i've found loads of good stuff. one of those being will oldham. i jumped on the bandwagon at 'ease down the road'... which is a rather amazing album. i then went out and got the rest of his albums, all 673953347 of them. they're all rather good. although my friends make jokes about them, usually around the theme of 'a mule bleating to death whilst singing about sleeping with his sister'...heh. umm, this year i found the strokes too. lovely, brilliant strokes. i noticed some people on this list don't think much of them but i reckon they're rather superb. compared to a lot stuff around they're so good. another nme-loved band i thought were good, were the white stripes. i haven't heard their other two albums, but i think 'white blood cells' is rather good. what else did i stumble across? umm... ahh that magnetic fields album '69 love songs'. somebody mentioned it to me a while back...how good is that? i only just got it a few weeks ago, i don't think i've stopped listening to it since... i love that guy's voice. bjork, vespertine. that's another amazing album. it's not as good as homogenic, but still brilliant. one album i am disappointed with though is the new hefner album. 'we love the city' wasn't as good as the other two, so i was expecting this to be really good...but it's not. it's actually pretty bad. i think 'trouble kid'' is the only song worth listening to. i got the new smog album too, but i haven't listened to it yet. i love smog. right, i'm going to end it here. tonight i'm going to the twisted nerve anniversary party in manchester, so if any sinister-folk are there enjoy yourself. it should be good. tomorrow, i'm going to get tickets to go to a douglas coupland book reading type thing. he's ace. apologies for any spelling mistakes, or missed-out words. take care, nafees +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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