Hello, Hello hello, It's been almost a squillion years since I last posted, but I still lurk and still love. I have been tempted to post for a while but the sight of some old style reporting back on the wedding of former York Sinister Massive member Archel prompted me to get out my pencil and scribble to you all. CONGRATULATIONS Well done Archel - it's lovely lovely news. All a bit scary you know. I'm at the age now where people are starting to get married and have babies, but i just want to listen to the Field Mice and bury my head. STRUAN & THE CLOTHES The last time I nearly posted was after the wonderful wonderful mails by David and Honey about ME and the snazzy auction that Ciara was holding on ebay. I bid over £100 for Struans TOTP clothes (as imortalised by a number of sinisterines in a painting competition many years ago. Which Ken Chu won by cheating if my memory serves me right!) but didn't win. I won't be all maudling and wallow in pathos, but I was quite poorly a few years ago and have been for a long while since and it was so lovely to hear from others, and about the wonderful research that's going on into ME. It's a very worthwhile caus to support. It causes so much anguish for so many people - not just through the illness itself, but the constant difficulty of actually explaining it to people and getting that 'you're making it up' response. I hope they do find a cure. REPORTING BACK!!! There was a request for some more reporting back and I was in Edinburgh on Saturday to protest, so can report back from that. It was a fun day - I think it broke the world record for most Guardian reading Lib Dem voters in one place. The press would describe the whole affair as having 'a family atmosphere' - a synonym for quiet and unassuming. It was a great thing to be involved in and fantastic to see such a diverse range of people (apart from those silly anarchists who just ruin everything) but now and again I was disappointed with the lack of passion, and the march did occassionally turn into a stroll round Edinburgh. Having said that, Geldof is great and anything he is involved with gets the thumbs up from me. I'm thinking about going up to Gleneagles tomorrow as I have the day off work, but maybe not the money. I've just read back and that was some proper rubbish reporting back. I'm out of practice. I'll take some lessons before the Barbican gig! NOSTALGIA I was feeling whimsical about sinister the other day. I thought about all the lovely people I had met and beautiful things I had seen and done. I can pinpoint the day my life began - it was the summer of 1997 and I was watering my neighbours garden at the rate of £1 a day, which I thought was GRATE. The chore was eased by the tones of Whiley and Lamacq on the evening session. They introduced a song by boy/girl (as I then thought) duo Belle And Sebastian called Lazy Line Painter Jane which stopped me in my tracks. The most amazing thing I had ever heard. The next day it was off to Rex Records in Ipswich to pick up the 7" and I've never looked back. As I was musing in bashful whimsy, I really felt I could trace back every facet of my modern life, everything I've done and become, to this day as a hapless 15 year old in a Suffolk village. It was quite a daunting thought but so very very lovely. SHAMELESS POP POP POP It's not shameless at all, it's with much shame. Sinister helped me into a band - May 5th 2001, my 19th birthday, the first York Sinister picnic and the day I joined Ladybird Ladybird. Well, four years on I have a job, but yearn for fey pop superstardom. My current band (including two ex sinisterines) has just got a web site up with some tunes to look at. I would be most enamoured if any of you felt the urge to have a stop, look and listen. And if Geoff Travis is on this list too... http://www.talesofjenny.co.uk is the place to look RIBENA There is no mention of it any more. I will now return to lurkerdom after my very uninspiring attempt at re-emerging. I hope all of you are very well. Keep posting and being nice people. See you all in London in September. Chris Jones x ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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