It's been a while. Well, just under a month actually; but by my normal standards that's a while. I'm very sorry, I've been unfaithful. A mutual friend caught me emailing someone who wasn't on Sinister. So I thought I'd better come clean - it's better if you hear it from me, I think. Don't worry, it was nothing serious, you're still my one and only, and anyway, we were on a break. So what have I been doing, apart from prostituting myself with other friends (not half as much fun as it sounds, believe me...). Well, mostly getting drunk, to be honest. So, no surprises there, then. Highlights included one friend walking round the house during the mourning after the night before in Leeds saying "You, have a headache NOW!"; and the girl I was staying with in Edinburgh spending about a minute trying to get the key into the front door before turning round and saying "This isn't my house!" and moving a few doors down the road... But I won't be getting drunk this weekend. Well, unless you count Friday and Saturday nights, which I don't. Because at those times of the week I usually can't. Unfortunately I'll be in Sheffield on Saturday night, so I won't be able to report back on the Brighton pissup. So I thought I'd report forwards instead. The day will go something like this: people turn up in Brighton, at least one person turns up over an hour late, people get drunk, people gossip about other people, people get more drunk, Archel starts getting smutty, people get even more drunk, people go into the sea, people wish they hadn't got quite so drunk. All you need to take is a sleeping bag, some Alka-Seltzer, and a ruler for good measure (bad joke copyright Rory Bremner last week). Joy! A post from the lovely Genevieve. More joy! Another post from the lovely Genevieve. OK, so it was the same one twice, but you can't have too much of a good thing (unless it's vodka and red bull of course - have too much of that and you're walking on the ceiling for the rest of the evening) I believe this may have been mentioned before, but "Wandering Alone" from the Belfast gig really does sound suspiciously similar to "I Just Want To Dance The Night Away"... And every time I hear the opening of "Wrong Girl", I still wonder why Stevie is so obsessed about looking for Madonna... Has anyone thought about sorting out a meetup (or should that be a pissup?) before / after any of the UK gigs? Maybe Smile could be persuaded to open its doors again, as it did after the last Manchester gigs a few years ago? Come to that, at the moment I'm going to have to drive back from Manchester to Nottingham straight after the gig, unless someone kind offers me a floor in Manchester for the night (not that I'd drop hints or anything... Subtle as a hippopotamous on heat, me...) 8 paragraphs, and 4 of them are about alcohol. That figures. Big Stu +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+