Well, the tour's over (I do enjoy starting posts by stating the blindingly obvious, it saves me scaring people off reading them until at least the third line). Some thoughts. B&S are better than ever live. I realise not everyone agrees with me on the superb brilliance of the latest EP, but this is certainly no time to desert them for pastures new. The gigs were excellent, I met loads of lovely people, made new friends, and met up again with old ones. Despite being rat-arsed for most of the weekend in London. Hope to see you all again soon. Mr Moore, do we take it that the new Spanish-sounding song they played in Ipswich wasn't the same new song they played in Birmingham? The Birmingham one appears to have been the one with the 40-piece orchestra on the recorded version, possibly called I'm Waking Up To You, although Stuart did say they hadn't decided on the title yet. But it sounded potentially superb, whatever it's going to be called. On the Beat Patrol programme that B&S did for Radio Scotland back in '97, Sarah choose Queen's Don't Stop Me Now as her song, and then went on to say that she would love to see Stuart dancing around the stage with a mic stand in a Freddie Mercury style, complete with pyrotechnics; looks like she got her wish... The venues all seem to have been old-style theatres instead of more traditional gig venues. Quite why this should be I'm not sure; the problem with these venues has been the over-zealous security guards (with the honourable exception of Ipswich apparently), but there's not much the band can do about that. Likewise, there's not much they could do about the acoustics at the Albert Hall, but then I thought they sounded fantastic that night anyway from where I was standing (i.e. about 2 feet above everyone else in the crowd...), and it's still worth playing there for the special atmosphere of the place. I'd like to see them play outdoors on their next tour (maybe they could headline one day of Nottingham's City in The Park next year, and they could choose the other bands on the bill that day themselves?). Oh, and did noone go to Cardiff? We haven't heard anything about it yet! I'm far from convinced about having a comedian as their support act. Fair enough, the band members must like him, and he was quite good; but they must realise that many fans are going to go to several gigs on the tour, and seeing the same comedian do the same routine 4 times in a week just doesn't work as well as it would with a band. And Isobel, cheer up! You're sitting on stage in front of hundreds of adoring fans who've paid to see you play the beautiful instrument between your legs, you could at least smile while you sit there and stroke it. Maybe she should copy Richard's comedy facial expressions... Incidentally, since people keep going on about Isobel's arse, and whether it's too big, too small or just right, maybe a picture should be put onto the bodyparts page so everyone can decide for themselves? Brazil. There have been a few people talking and rumouring about B&S playing a gig in Brazil later this year / next year. Well, let's get this out into the open; according to the management on the beach at Scarborough, they will soon be playing in Rio De Janeiro. This is not confirmed, so don't get too excited just yet, and please DON'T EMAIL NEIL (OR ANYONE ELSE) ABOUT IT! It's probably no more likely to happen than when they were planning on doing a tour of Britain by hiring out a boat for a couple of weeks a few years ago, and that never happened, so don't get your hopes up too much just yet; but we were told it from the horses mouth. So watch this space. Dreams. I suppose it was inevitable that after all the gigs recently, B&S would intrude into my nighttimes as well. It was after a show in Manchester, I was hanging around after the gig, when the band came back on and played some more songs for the thirty-or-so of us still there. First they played New York, New York because they thought it was appropriate (obviously?), then Brown Sugar, Suspicious Minds, and a few others. Somehow I ended up standing next to Chris while he played his organ. The cello which I'd taken to the gig (as you do?) got smashed. And two girls who looked familiar (but I'm definitely not telling you who...) asked if I wanted to come back to their place after and said they liked me and we could "get quite close, if you know what I mean". Unfortunately I woke up a bit too soon... Looks like I'm going to have to stand up again for the rights of tall people. The way we are treated is shameful. We are fed up with having shortarses push past us to the front at gigs. As an economically-disadvantaged minority group (have you any idea how much it costs to get shoes in a size 13?), we feel our rights are being compromised. If this continues, there'll be riots. And the police will have to erect extra-high barricades to stop us. Thank you Llllllllaura Lllllllllllllew for the best subject line for ages, and a post to match. Remember, the Jonathan David single is available on mail order from listees in Britain, and the commission charged isn't financial... <Alix Campbell, if you're out there, are you still waiting for a tape from me? (Apologies for personalness)> Big Stu Wishing Scarborough could happen all over again... +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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