Sinister sinister sinister, Where have you been? SHAMELESS ADVERTISING Ack hang on, you've been here all along. I, meanwhile, have been trying to get a degree, and getting myself into all sorts of hilarious situations along the way. It is, it seems, becoming common practise to plug blogs to sinister so I feel that its necessary to mention that you can read all about it in my shiny livejournal. Some of you have. Yes. THE NEW ALBUM: ME RAMBLING So, lots of stuff has happened since I last posted. I'm sure you don't want my commentary on it all, so I'll keep the majority of my inane ramblings to myself (or *ahem* my livejournal *ahem*) but I will say that I like the new album very much. So much in fact, that it had the honour of being ripped immediately onto my pride & joy iPod, and is thus following me around in all i do and everywhere I go. I was listening to Stay Loose (is that what it's called?) on the way to the computer room that I am now posting from, and it is, disappointingly, a little too fast to walk in time to. Its still rather good though. Yes. THE NEW DVD: ME RAMBLING SOME MORE The DVD is a strange strange thing. Friends who have never heard of b&s seem to think its the bees' knees - they huddle around my ibook and sway, giggling at the absurdity of the videos. From those who love b&s like me though, it elicits grimaces and sounds of pain - 'if I saw this before I knew them, I would never have bought the album', one person told me... twee, alack, isn't the flavour of the month, but the dvd is... well... twee as fuck. Its true. THE LEICESTER SINISTER MASSIVE The Leicester sinister massive did once exist. It did. Honest. It was a long long time ago though. Such a long time, in fact, that for many it has become a thing of legend. But lo! What is that on the horizon? Is it the phoenix, rising from the... Ok I'll stop. There is to be another sinister meeting in leicester though, and I'm going home especially for it, because I'm just so darned exited. On Sunday March 7, Yo La Tengo and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci are playing at the DeMontfort Hall in the aforementioned midlands city. One or two of us are going, and to celebrate 'one or two' sinister-ines being together at the same time, i'm think a sinister picnic on the sunday afternoon before the gig, so we can all get to know each other, is in order. Good idea, huh? To be honest, if you're in leicester, you don't have to be going to the gig to go to the picnic (or pub trip, if its too cold for picnic-ing), but I thought I'd give you a wee bit of context ;) You'll notice that this date is a fair distance in the future, but I'm giving you plenty of warning so you can fit it into your busy schedule, and also buy tickets for the gig itself if you fancy going. Yes yes, I'm so organised. Also, I fear I'll forget if I don't post whilst I'm thinking about it. Ok I'm going to cut this post short now, because I'm not sure if this will get through. I'm posting from a computer room at uni and I had the fiddle a bit with the email programme to get the right email address and everything. I'm aware that that information is hugely irrelevant. Tum te tum, See you kids JP x +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+