so, a little bird's been whistling sweet nothin's in my ear, about stuart m and isobel being in san francisco this week. hmmmm, i wonder if it's true...are they checking out places to play when they come here? let's hope they can see their way clear to playing Noe Valley ministry, or maybe that wonderful, tiny building at 50 Oak street instead of multiple nights at Great American or the abysmal Fillmore. here's hoping (he said, again, wistfully.) & here's hoping i'll run into them at the Aislers Set record release party tonight. i know it'd be terrible if all 1,500 of us posted simultaneous reviews of the new record, so i'll only say a bit about it. when i first heard 'sinister' out of my housemate's bedroom back in the halcyon days of '97, i hated it. 'who's the morrissey imitator?' i'd chide him, silently, loading up my cd changer with codeine, clikitat ikatowi, and the vss. but after a week i was smitten, and i'd creep up into the living room and sing along with the chorus of 'sinister'...even as he did the same thing... and i think this is the way i feel about fishyclap; at first i was a bit bewildered, and now it's grown on me - an achey itch that'd take nasty antibiotics to cure. and i don't want that cure. you can't go back, y'know, to the first time you'd ever met someone you loved, and feel the same first warm blush of longing - you'll always love them remembering everything that's led up to Right Now... it's not possible to hear this record w/o comparing it to everything else that came before..and i think it's an amazing bunch of songs on its own or otherwise. if FYHC.. was their first record we'd be falling all over ourselves, with just cause. so i'll go, now, feeling pretty sure i've said worse than messrs cassarotto & co. anyone up for a san francisco picnic? it's positively not quite summer yet, but if you're outside at noon you can really feel it trying. ian c +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+