Hello angst-ridden teenagers, Nice to see Sinister has turned into some sort of retirement home for parodies of Smiths fans recently. I went to see Looper last night in Picc Recs, and at least 4 other Sinisterines were present. Fluffy was particularly resplendent with a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon stuck to her jumper. Looper were good although there was an excrutiating moment where no-one whatsover clapped after the first song. That's Manchester for you. Given that the Stephen Hawking machine was saying "thank you" after the rest of the other songs, it's just as the applause began, otherwise poor Stu D would have egg all over his face. It says a lot for his confidence in the technology at his fingertips that the Looper machine could also say "I'm so sorry" when technical hitches occured. I'm very impressed with the Looper LP too. Nice to see they used the Duke's ideas to such spectacular effect. Anyway, I've been hearing all sorts of things about the Bowlie website from various spies. So off I trotted to see what the fuss is about. These are my favourite bits, all sound advice I'm sure you'll agree.

bring some pyjamas, afterall, most of you are sharing your chalet with people you only loosely know.

We're sharing a chalet with Chris Leonard and Keith and you don't get much looser than that.

remember to bring some condoms! and no, we're not joking.

if you're a girl, i know it's taboo, but remember to pack your sanitary care and bits.

I wonder if it says that on the Monsters of Rock festival website: But Sister Disco the Immaculate can:

I agree that The Corrs are diabolical, but I quite like that song they've done with The Chieftans. I bet they all had a right old orgy after recording that, with the little fella who looks like Benny Hill's mate taking the initiative. And then I bet they had a nudie fart contest, and the drummer won.

My father is a Chieftains groupie. There are some extraordinary revelations in their biography, which I bought him for Christmas...apparently while Derek Bell, the harpist, played, seemingly rapt in study of the sheet music, he was in fact reading "Big Knockers and Hot Front Bottoms" or some such publication of dubious morality.

I've seen three films this week, award winning Joey Deacon epic "The Idiots", award winning Ronan Barret epic "The General" and award losing crime caper "Serial Mom" by John Waters. Can you guess which one was best?

I hope it was "The Idiots" cos I've got to go and see it next week. It sounds positively filthy and possibly criminally insane. I'll let you know. Love tag xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+