Hi guys, its been a long time since my last post... since Jason left us infact, and now he's back... welcome young man... so... I happened along to the old fruitmarket on Saturday night, y'know, as you do... well, it was quite crafty y'see, I decided that I'd go to see the delgados, and then had to decide who I should go with... The girfriend, y'might think... yep... that was a good idea... I managed to keep it from her right up until we got inside the venue... boy, did she get a surprise... Superb... lots of brownie points scored! anyway, the gig was superb. Arab Strap played in support, and damn they were good... Aidan's first words of the night were 'this was a mistake.' Thankfully, it was not. The delgados came on to a loud cheer, and proceeded to prove why they are so special to me and so many others. alun dropped his guitar during 'make your move' and Paul fucked up the beat for 'The past that suits you best' but you still looked upon the band as if they were the most important thing that your eyes will ever come across. Funniest bit of the night, has to have been the football chat... Stewart - "Le Tissier for the 'well" Emma - "Queens Park. You have to come... theres only six hundred of us there every saturday" Alun - "Football is pish. All footballers are dicks!" Anyway, tonight, is my own band's gig. At the 13th Note cafe (8:30PM admission free if anyone is interested) and its our first... a wee bit anxious but I wouldn't say nervous... yet! You may or may not have heard of us... we are called Troika, and we are rather influenced by Idlewild, the Gang of Four, and (ever so slightly) by Mogwai and slint. We are also playing in Strawberry fields on the 9th February, then On Air East in dundee on the 23rd Feb. then again on the 15th March at the 13th note cafe (as part of Single Point of Light's residency) anyway, apart from all that... I'm looking forward to Wednesday night at Sleazy's... Dave Pajo from Slint, and Stuart Mogwai playing acoustic... POST ROCK HEAVEN! I'll be there, are any of you guys going? S.D.'s new book... can some one give me some info on it, as I don't have it yet and feel I'm missing out on something... Anyway, I gotta go just now but... Jason... c you tonight amy... ditto jenOwl... if you could come along it'd be nice to c you. cyall soon, neil troika ===== "he has no idea where he's at or where he's been." Queen of the Troubled Teens - iDLEWiLD ---------------------------------------------------------- Neil Milton; neil_milton@yahoo.com; ICQ:77866398 Troika - http://www.troikaonline.co.uk __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+