hello sinister types (and advanced apologies for some/all of this being of limited interest to....well lots of bods.....anyway away with such deprecating and on with my 2nd post this year.....) big stylee shouts out to all london picniccers i met / didn't really meet / accidentally kicked whilst playing footie.....and no it wasn't me (or anyone?) that got miss vicky, but i can most certainly vouch for worthiness of F'd up ankle to merit a day off work, and cunningness of said ankle in its attempt to camouflage itself by turning the same blue colour as v's toenail varnish. err yeah. anyway. as mentioned to various piccerniccers, a band i like / now know & do mailing list for - Slot Jockey - play at Water Rats, Greys Inn Road, Kings X (London) on Wednesday (7/7/99). I introduced Gareth of SJ to a few Sinister people at Bowlie who also seemed vaguely interested (not B&S related musically they're i guess not light years from pavement-y kind of stuff....strong songs i think etc etc & some of band *are* B&S fans...) Gareth is also a lovely bod and a studio engineer/producer who apparently is very good to work with - he redid the Beta Band Total Eclipse of the heart track with them in the studio, but then they got permission so guess that was a bit of a waste of time. but i don't suppose he needs me harping on about him. and er yeah neither do you. sorry. [so hopefully not really a random plug] they're the middle band (9.30pm) with Miss Mend headlining, Gertrude on before. Slot Jockey also headlined a trip to / event in Prague i organised in March, along with DJ Downfall and assorted others (the latter is currently touring as his alter ego drumming for Marine Research in the US until 21st July as no doubt you've probably been informed) errr which kind of brings me to apologize for the truth of my mantra at pic-nics that i never get time to read the list much (and so rarely know what is going on properly in sinister land....) i'm doing better but limited net access after/at work does make things tricky.... The Prague thing was amazing fun and may or may not happen again depending on my stamina/stupidity at taking on things like that, and amount of help i get doing it. I stupidly didn't mention it on the list for fear of abusing the medium, (or more reasonably inviting any of you lot along for what was in the event, fantastic fun) , but if it did happen again i'd love to rope in the sinister community into getting involved.......more on that to follow hopefully. Looks like the almost tournament winning sinister 5-a-side team may be reuniting in a pretty full way for All Tomorrow's Parties.......thanks to Martin & Vince, Damon & i are now definitely coming assuming we can get time off work, so now we just have to weedle our way in again. i maintain i'm better out of goal than in, but i suppose somebodys got to do it so i'll buy some gloves that fit anyway. and if anybody ever hears of the bowlie goalie who lost/lent me his knackered pair (clue, big smelly hands) i still have them. erk well i think thats quite enough. So see y'all soon / @ ATPs / in the next life. jim P.S, That Tim Hopkins lookalike i saw at Bowlie was spotted in the Pub after the Al Green gig last week - even has the same encyclopaedic knowledge of Dub which proved a bonding tool after said being almost offended a friend of mine (another prague performer (Dub DJ)) by announcing there were a hundred southern?/soul singers better than Otis Redding....all turned out well in the end. Perhaps if this lookylikey is spotted by anyone else he could be courted for another footie supersub appearance at ATPs??? jim@city.ac.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+