To the French gentleman and the other people who've said/asked things about The Reindeer Section, I have this to say - yay! The album is exceedingly good indeed, although it's sadly not out til August. If I was clever and knew of such technology, I'd be naughty and put the whole gosh-darned thing online. But I'm not. So I won't. (I will, however, point portentiously to my e-mail address above, for totally unrelated reasons of course.) The full line-up is this: Gary Lightbody & Jonny Quinn - Snow Patrol Aidan Moffat – Arab Strap Willie Campbell, Charlie Clarke, Gareth Russell & Michael Bannister – Astrid John Cummings – Mogwai Colin Macintyre – Mull Historical Society Bob Kildea – V-Twin Jenny Reave – Eva Richard Colburn & Mick Cooke – Belle & Sebastian Gill Mills & Andrew Meehan – Hercules So...two B&Sers and a V-Twin...lovely. The bulk of the album sounds more like Snow Patrol than anyone else, but they've gone lovely and psychedelic all of a sudden so that's definitely a good thing. Basically, the principle is a Scottish/Irish version of "You Have Been Poisoned By The Serpents" which came out a couple of years ago and assembled a similarly motley crew of (predominantly Welsh) people from the Super Furries and Gorkys and suchlike, to make strange noodly music. In other news, B&S at the RAH were lovely, as has noe been said a thousand millino times on this list so I won't bang on. A fair few peeps I went with left vee disappointed (bad sound, bit of a shambles, pricey drinks,whatever) but I thought the whole thang held together fabbily well. Was gutted they didn't play GMAFHID tho, but I retaliated by singing it ALL THE WAY back to Tottenham Court Road on foot (buses are rubbish). And even the oddly disjointed "Jonathan David" was kinda endearing. Extremely jealous congrats to The Hodd for being asked to sing onstage. Would've shat meself personally but somehow you didn't! I think *you* should now form a band (if you haven't already...) just so you can then invite Stuart onstage to sing one of *your* songs as a mark of respect. Or something. Forgot about the picnic on Saturday. Feel very silly. Boo. *And* I didn't get any badges due to not even noticing the merchandise thing even though it was apparently really enormous and obvious...so if anybody got a spare set I wouldn't mind arranging some arrangement... Oh, and a couple of peeps asked about the Jonathan David video again, so here's the link: http://www.now.com/mp3tv/feature.now?fid=1891152&cid=1688986 There. Bye! ttfn xox Charlie ps. very late indeed I know, but isn't "Nalda Said" just *enchanting*? pps. any Leicester Sinisterines going to the Summer Sundae this, er, Sunday? If not why not? Laaaaambchoooop...Tuuuriiiin Braaaakes...ummm, and a nice park and a pretty memorial thingy with flags made of stone! Best go now. "Love is like jazz You make it up as you go along And you act as if you really know the song But you don't And you never will" _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.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. 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+