Hi, all! Last night I dreamt I was eating lots and lots of sweets. Chocolate, fruit cake, cookies...and a girl was speaking to me in french. When I woke up, however, all I wanted was some toast. I'm de-lurking to tell y'all about the Across the Narrows concert, which happened Sunday in Coney Island. I left the list about 5 years ago, but recently rejoined after a bout of reminiscing. I was a young cub in those days, over-enthusiastic about everything and perhaps a bit too intersted in tailing our band around Glasgow. I'm more mature now - and studying to be librarian - but still willing to travel from Boston to New York to see Belle & Seb. It was a beautiful day. The crowd didn't get really excited until the Polyphonic Spree came on around 6pm. Favored activies until then included: cards, napping, journaling, people watching (my favorite), and for the young gentlemen: checking out the ladies. Belle and Seb came on stage about 7:15. Stuart had a Mets t-shirt on, much to the chagrin of the NYC crowd. He brought his baseball bat out and periodically hit a few baseballs into the crowd. I don't remember the set list, but the whole show a real feel of the good old days. Stuart forgot the lyrics to a few songs; everyone was having trouble hearing themselves in the monitors; and there was much shambling about on stage. Poor Mick's trumpet mic wasn't working and he pouted off for a few songs. The highlight of the set was a rousing round of "Happy Birthday" to Beans, who turned 30. Beansie then told the crowd we would all have to buy him a drink. The songs I remember are: Stars of Track and Field Woman's Realm A couple or three new songs Electronic Renaissance (YEAH!) Me and the Major I'm a Cuckoo Lonliness of a Middle Distance Runner Judy and the Dream of Horses Much love, Kara I will not be punished for my sins; I will be punished by my sins. -Stephen Asma __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+