Two posts in two days. Sorry, but I had to say a few things. First, thanks to Brandon, who used his first post to advise travellers to the Warfield shows. Luckily, I happen to be coming for more than just the Belle and Sebastian show and staying with friends the whole week before, and there are 8 of us going, so I'm sure we'll manage. Secondly, I'm hearing a lot of grumbling coming from the east coast, and all I really have to say is that they need to get over it. East Coasters can complain when they get more looked over than mid-westerners. Since that is never going to happen, I'm not going to feel very sympathetic. I don't mean to start a flame war (and I hope I don't) but Belle and Sebastian didn't even play Detroit on their last US tour so that meant every Belle and Sebastian fan from Iowa to Ohio, from Michigan to Missouri had to do the Chicago show or nothing. Obviously, from the tone of Neil's post yesterday, the members of belle and sebastian like to hang out at home. And who can blame them. I often wonder how bands like the lucksmiths who travelled all over the US on their last tour could do it for three months. I think most people like to feel rooted and be around their stuff, so I think B & S have the right idea--come to the Western US and Canada for two weeks, then go home for 6 then check out Brazil. Sounds like a dream life to me... If Belle and Sebastian wanted to, they could do a massive tour of the United States and hit towns like Cleveland or St. Louis or Minneapolis and sell out just as quickly as they did in San Francisco and they would make a ton of money doing it. But they don't want to. And we have to respect that. It may not make us happy as fans, but we have to respect it. Brandt ===== "Selma, Jub Jub is fantastic! He's everywhere you want to be!" --Troy McClure __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+