Hola Sinistras S'it hot where you are? Coz it's uncommonly warm here in Arbroath (the armpit of North East Scotland), where I'm spending a week with my folks. It's the usual Summer visit. We all have to do it. We all get to whinge about it. Anyway, the great thing is that only the way up from London to here, I stopped in on Glasgow for the 'Belle & Sebastian and friends' FREE concert at the Botanic Gardens. Did anyone else go? The night before, I went to Sufjan Stevens at 'Stereo', which was a fine warm-up, and we even [are pretty sure we] saw Isobel (Campbell, that is), looking very happy with a young man, and with her lovely pony-tail swinging off into the uncommonly mild Glasgow night. So, Saturday, and by way of some kinda miracle, the city took on tropical traits and it was a scorcher! Straight down the Brel (smashing pub with great grassy slope out the back) we went for a few pre-gig pints, then off to the park. Got to the park - great! Realise there's nowhere to buy booze - bad! Back outta the park (sneaking past security men eating ice lollies, God love 'em), and managed to sweet-talk our way into an Off Licence that was threating to close coz of demand... So then we're back in the park again, and settling in for the show, and WHAT A SHOW! The band played favourites from all eras - from Dylan in the Movie right through to Stay Loose, and it sounded amazing! Monica Queen made a guest appearance for LLPJ, and there was a REAL LIFE piper for Sleep The Clock Around (which I heard from the portaloo queue, but never mind). All in all, it was an immense evening, and a roaring success by all accounts. We didn't make it to the after party, although we DID try our best to go see Uncle John & Whitelock, but too many Tennent's we stacked against us, I'm afraid. Thanks to the band - Saturday was what it's all about: a really good way to say 'cheers' to the folk of Glasgow for being totally and utterly fucking marvellous. I'm sure the sun shone stronger just for y'all. Love, like it sprays from a dropped can, Miss Ho PS - Hear! hear! to Neil for scuppering that shocking attempt to sell tickets won in a competition. Christ, what's next - Grannies going for £50 a-piece? BAH! See yaz all at Somerset Sunday. _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+