Hi All, Did I hear some gorgeous gal ask for a setlist? QMU, Glasgow 27.06.02 Fuck This Shit Sleep The Clock Around Woman’s Realm Waking Up To Us Jonathan David Stars Of Track And Field Dog On Wheels Wandering Alone Don’t Leave The Light On Seeing Other People Wichita Lineman Simple Things The Boy With The Arab Strap Slow Graffiti Lazy Line Painter Jane The State I Am In Scooby Driver The Wrong Girl I Don’t Love Anyone Dirty Dream #2 String Bean Jean Legal Man Poor Richard John Gillanders disappears to the Czech Republic for a while & Lucy forgets all about him to the extent of omitting him from her roll-call! Someone else present who I guess Lucy didn't see was Rachel Sunnyset. And the appropriately named Num Num from that other lot over there, who aren't all bad, you know. Nice for me to see Neil, Katrina and Gemma again and to finally meet Katrina's other half. (And she means it) This is probably echoing other people's comments, but here goes anyway. I was concerned to see what a B&S gig without Isobel would be like but as soon as I had heard Sarah singing the bits on Sleep The Clock Around & Woman's Realm & Rosie covering the cello parts I knew that all would be fine. In fact everyone on stage seemed to be very relaxed, having a lot of fun & conducting a discussion on semantics. I hope it augurs well for knocking the 10's of 1,000's at Glasto dead on Saturday. I am sure they will go down a storm, even when the audience doubles at about "Jonathan David" when everyone mooches over from having tasted Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls. For me the gig was one of the best I have seen them play, ranking with The Bowlie & the Saturday at The Barras: maybe because of the songs chosen being pretty much out and out crowd pleasers, maybe er, I don't know why. They faced a pretty boisterous audience, who even made Struan lose his temper during the intro to Slow Graffiti. I wonder who auditions the lady string players? Just Stuart, or a committee of all the lads? They all seem pretty foxy in any case. The additional musicians contributed more than I recall them having done before: played percussion, keyboards & recorder & supplied backing vocals. I think one of the crew played organ & electric piano on a couple of songs. Lucy mentioned The State Pookie Was In after the gig: you should have been standing next to her when Stuart started unbuttoning & she thought he was going to take his top off! I wish I had a tape of all that nervous mmmmmmm-ing & giggling :) Stuart is tough on the rest of the band: as soon as they get set up for Dirty Dream #2 he slots in I Don't Love Anyone* & they have to run around all over the stage & change instruments. The setlist indicated that song & String Bean Jean (Yes!) as "maybes": I wonder what dictates whether they appear or not? Time, or how the feeling & passion is running at the time? Whatever, it was the two optional songs that gave me two of my three massive all over sustained goosebump attacks, with every strand of hair on my body erect - the third was when opener Eugene Kelly broke into my consciousness (I had been a bad boy talking at the bar before & then wasn't gripped by his "smash Starbucks " song) with a beautiful & painful rendition of Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam that sparked off a long reflection on self-esteem, feeling unloved, Kurt & that whole slice of rock history. (* Too rarely played - only about the second time in the last 3 and a quarter years (??) ) Stevie Reverb gets an award for bravery for tackling The Peacock's Big Man's Wichita Lineman completely unrehearsed**, & then maybe another gong for shutting up the heckler who had been bellowing for it all through the gig. **Although apparently this is something any musician should be able to do :) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RIP The Ox ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (Probably even more upsetting for Keith than Peter) What a tribute if B&S could get a version of My Wife together before Saturday night? Thanks to Carey for being kind as well as lovely & for putting up with me again. Love to all Belle And Sebastian fans, David Moore Chelmsford, UK +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+