Hey chaps and chapesses I do hope that none of you are currently under the dark cloud that is representing the Lurgy that seems to be going around at the mooment. Loads of people have had it and it?s not nice, it makes people miss gigs and club nights :-( I?ve been doing stuff and it?s been quite fun too, the winter sprinter gigs were cool, apart from one thing, they were held in a tiny wee wendy house of a venue, on the first one we didn?t even get in, it was so crowded, well, I did but I managed about 4 baby steps into the crowd before I reached an impasse so I went and had a beer in the pub up the road instead (apologies now if anyone?s posted about this already but I?ve tried searching and it didn?t seem so) with many various sini-types. The next night was better, Tompaulin played their Belle and the velvet underground (tm NME) type thing but did it nicely and I enjoyed it, great heckling though from drunken punters who?ll remain nameless (eh Geoff?) They didn?t let as many people in either so it was less horribly crowded. It were much the same for the next night too when Airport girl played and were fun, whilst new Alan McGee signings January played and were shite, as Ms Juicy remarked: it?s always a shame when you can tell that a band?s gonna be bad just by their hair cuts. As a note you can also tell this when one of their dad?s is sat at the back of the stage looking grumpy behind a pedal steel. The next two days are a blur of ill girlfriend and playstation playing Until.......strange fruit. Once again the curse of the tiny venue hit, and I didn?t get in until about half past eleven but I still managed to get drunk and dance stupidly, just like always. 5 hours sleep later and I?m setting off for Biarritz, Dahling ;-) What a pretty place, all faded 19th century glamour and white walls with Terracotta roofs. And even better, loads of surf shops!! Unfortunately it also had lots of dog poo and very inconvenient opening hours but I didn?t let that detract from me and my long distance lover?s mini-holiday in the winter sun, god bless you Ryanair. Unfortunately, the lovely Katie is still over there (having moved on to the tapas wonderland of San Sebastian) while I?m back here suffering work badly, anyone know of any jobs going for lazy gets who?d rather read books than do spreadsheets and update databases?? Hmmmm bra undoing, a favourite hobby of mine, I?m an ambidextrous uni-hander, but hey, I?m just blowing my own trumpet, a not inconsiderable task let me tells ya (is that enough smut content? It?s seeming more and more compulsory) That?s me done, stick a fork in me Love to you all you lovely people Chrisx PS everyone wave and say hi to my Sister, Filly who?s stalking us all +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+