.....said stuart murdoch to the crowd after they had performed two songs in benicassim festival. hello sinister, i've not been very good at what i should be doing. or more like what i've promised to do. that is being a good sillustrator. i really haven't been recently and i'm sad about it. i could give you at least ten good reasons why i haven't but i won't. it would only make you yawn. instead i'll write a bit about travelling and some sinister-type persons we met, to fit my post under at least one category vanilla david talked about. we went inter railing through half of europe with my boyfriend and ended up going to benicassim (more about it later) but before that we spent some wonderful days in brussels where a local sinistereene, annie, took so good care of us it was equal to at least 10 stars hotel. all the other places we left our luggage somewhere near to railway station under the vigilant eyes of a turkish type man who chew a dirty toothpick and had nothing but sweaty towel around his waist and went strolling around. well not really, but that would of been sinister. i'm sorry now if any of you is from bordeaux, but that really was one of the most boring cities i have ever been. probably because when we arrived there it was already late at night and we left quite early next morning to catch our train to spain and had no where to left our bags(we decided not to rent a room), but really- waitresses looking at you with empty eyes and not understanding the word you are saying even if you surprise yoursel! f with the ways your body actually bends. luckily in the table next to ours in a local open air cafe an old man played some french pop on his broken violin and challenged a black man some tables away to duel with him. thankfully only musically. black man drew a reggae tape from his pocket and placed it into a silvery music machine with a smooth move. it was a long and sweaty competition but long story fast: old man wearing a black barrette just had more experience. he was wheezing though when the black man finally walked away, dragging his legs . and then finally in benicassim among other very good bands we saw belle and sebastian. i'm not sure what good the reporting back from the concert would be though because i guess most of you have seen the 30 minute clip that paul linked to. only thing i can assure you, the real thing was great deal better. but the clip was ace too. next day in the festival paper there were words written by one mr. murdoch :" i promise that the next time we play benicassim i will be talking spanish like a native. could be a few years..thanks for being the best crowd (again!). one of our violinists, emma, was crying. she said it was like "radio ga-ga" by queen" . plus! we met jordi- a spanish sinister hero, who was so kind to get us tickets and directed us to the camping place and all. he's great i tell you. we wished we'd be able to go to haldern festival as well but simply run out of time and finances. thank you to all of you who did some reporting back from there, sounded like you all great time. um. i should go. my boss is giving me THE eye. one last thing: Sean, your post was really really beautiful and touching. i so hope you'll find that someone you're looking for. soon. happy birthday to us. honey is the best. as are you. all. ulla +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+