Here goes. Enjoy - Katrina tells me it's on Mick's band site anyway, if you've been there today but if not, well, it's here too. Honey ---------- Forwarded message ---------- DIARY OF A BAND 27th October 1999 Stuart Murdoch passes the baton on to Chris Geddes for the next Belle and Sebastian diary Being a Guardian columnist has afforded me a lifestyle I could previously only have dreamed of. After my first one was published, my friend Andrew Divine and myself were invited to DJ at the London girl-group night Da Doo Ron Ron. The night went pretty well, if you'll pardon my unchecked egotism, even though Andrew wouldn't let me play the Roxanne Shante record I had with me. It was probably fair enough. Most folk there were pretty 60's doing that London mod dancing. We dragged them right up to date though, with a set ranging from 60's female soul right through to 70's female soul. Somehow they kept the roof on, but the night was livened up with the presence of a fair Glasgow contingent. Among them was Stevie Jackson who along with Richard had been at an awards dinner the previous night. Also at the dinner was living legend Ronnie Wood. Woody was allegedly too inebriated to speak, so Stevie, ever the gent, gave him a glass of champagne as he was leaving. A typical evening for both of them, obviously. I briefly attempted record shopping this afternoon, but my head was too sore to do much so I went for the train to see my parents. Mum is going to Canada with her sister to visit their other sister at the weekend. I've not been down here since Christmas so I thought I'd come through to see her and Dad before she goes. The upshot of all this jet-setting about is that this time the deadline catches up with me in Essex. It's not all glamour, though; I missed the 'History of Pornography' to write this. Anyway, I'm going to have to submit this by electronic means which is quite a leap forward considering I walked into the office with the last one scrawled on a reporter's notebook. Times change fast. Chris Geddes +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+