Mother ? Can y‘ear me, mother ? Another richly textured weekend of Sinister and Sinister-inspired shenanigans... **Friday** El Deano swilled, gargled and spat before oozing the following minty-fresh words:

this all happened on the way back from the gig last night. pam, bowlie bus pam and friends in some church hall in greenwich. you should've been there, it was largely empty. and pam got to sing one with the jasmine minx which i doubt she'd've thought possible all those years ago when they had those classic creation singles out (they did 'cold hands, warm heart' which pretty much made the evening).

S’right - a handful of intrepid souls donned breathing apparatus and ventured into the Tubeless hinterland of south-east London to patronise our little pop show at St Alfege’s Church Hall. These ecclesiastical types are clearly rolling in it - the kitchen was fitted out with the shiniest Smeg cooker you’ve ever seen. Collection to mend the church roof ? Pah. Highlight for me was inevitably the entire Pines set, especially the spine-tingling Julie London number. Dr Joe B, who didn’t stick around long enough to graduate from the Sinister nursery but got justly rewarded for his time at Birkbeck, picking out delicious jazz chords and the spectral presence to his right all velvety and cucumber-cool. But I might be biased. A bit. **Saturday** An afternoon of cheese-related japery dissolved into an evening sojourn to Basingstoke through the fiercest electrical storm this side of Okie. Mr FatSlug of this parish plied us with dipping substances and beer as we soaked up the pizazz of Eurovision on *two* televisions. Oh, the howls of derision as it became clear that the Swedish "silicon mermaid" (Giita’s perfect description, if memory - and the message box open in the other window - serves) had outscored Iceland’s perky effort. Abba revival fever and nothing more. More disturbing was the decision of the entire French nation to award the hideous spectacle of Portugal’s entry a full 12 points. Which, I think, was all they got from 23 rounds of voting. Bizarre. Lots of monkey business on the last train back to Waterloo, but you wouldn’t want to know about that. **Sunday** The weather Gods did not smile on SE10 for the Sinister picnic. The Young Gods did, but we told them to piss off. The previous day’s flag-cracking currantbunny scorcher had given way to a grey pall and a distinct nippyness. A view of Canary Wharf and a sparkly Trousers-helmed popquiz was not enough to persuade the multitude to further dampen their behinds, so, through Observatory and Market, we frolicked to Chez Steady-Pam and did the indoor thang. Everyone was luvverly - you can all come again. Particularly that saucy gal who treated us to the definitive version of "Baker Street" between bouts of narcolepsy. Meanwhile, so-called Mike so-called Jones boomed like a big ol’ bear:

i soak up the splendidly warped sounds of os mutantes as i get sinister fr the first time.

Oh, *terrific*. At every stage of my life, in every place I live, there’s another bugger with my bleedin’ monicker. When I worked at a certain sprawling chemical complex in West Cumbria, there were no few than *three* Michael Joneses in my _department_. Now, even in cyberspace, I’m hounded by the snarling labradors of namesakery. The lad’s got taste, though, hasn’t he ? Welcome aboard, MJ. Michael W Jones (DoB 7/8/68; NI number... oh, never mind). _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+