How do Like quite a few of you here I was at the ATP festival over the weekend. All in all, not a patch on last year's Bowlie - none of the friendly atmosphere, plus the vast majority of the bands were, frankly rather crap. But still the weather was fantastic on the Saturday, and it was a brilliant day down at the beach. Myself and my 3 chalet-mates were interviewed for some new website called, I think, "k-grind.com", the bloke said it would be up in a few weeks. For some reason he was really keen on understanding how we got into music, and if we were persecuted for liking alternative music. Yeh, I'm often stoned for wearing a Hefner badge.... Anyway, as far as bands go, so many were such a great disappointment, especially the appalling Sonic Youth, who persevered with 4 fifteen minute tuneles drone dirge improvisations, even though no-one was interested.. However, delight was to be found in the heart-stopping Sigur Ros and the wonderful Alfie, who seemed to charm everyone who saw them. But undoubtedly the highlight for me was being served by Stuart Murdoch at the merchandise stall. After gathering ourselves together after being quvering wrecks in the presence of such stardom, we asked him what he thought of the line-up compared to last year, he said most of the bands weren't his cup of tea, but he did enjoy Sigur Ros. As far as tours go, he said B&S would be going to the States first, and then some UK dates in late summer. I asked him if he'd be playing Belfast (my hometown), and he said he definitely wanted to, what with Richard's Snow Patrol connections. Also, I was talking to Johnny Quinn from Snow Patrol, and he said he's bringing Chris & Richard back for a return DJ set in the Belfast Limelight next month, so watch out for that. One finally thing, was anyone here on Sinister in the Covent garden Rough Trade shop on Mon at about 3pm ? I saw a chap with glasses, brown jacket and shoulder slung bag there with an upside down B&S prefect badge. Just curious Hope this informs and entertains Stuart Flanagan +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+