Think that's the right number of eeeeeeeees. Might not beeeeeeee. I'm going to see them, all being well, on Thursday. I remember the first time I heard them, on Peel, and I just thought "what's that" and even sent my friend Katie a series of txt msgs about them, such was my excitement. This has gotta be significant. I'm not normally in the habit of sending txt msgs whilst listening to the radio. There might be something special afterwards with a lot of Djs with names beginning with C, or not, we shall have to seeee. Then the Lollies come to Oxford as part of ladyfest. I have a soft spot for the lollies, since I met them at RoTa last year. There's a sneaking suspicion in my mind that they might bite this time, as I saw them at Strangefruit last time round and bands tend to be less than good when I see them after I've seen them at the Highbury Garage. That's what happened with the trembling blue stars at the Point, but they were supported on that occasion by the rather wonderful Tompaulin, so that was okay. Saw Ballboy a couple of weeks ago and was quite charmed by them. Anyone like Ballboy? I've been in germaneee. Hamburg first, then Munich. Lots of pretzels, wurst, bier and sauerkraut. What is this obseesion German radio stations have with 80s music? Steve Winwood and Icehouse abounded. I listened in vain for a Flock of Seagulls, but only saw some Alpine storks, instead. Well, I go away for a week and lots of people blow their stacks. Look at him implying cause and effect. Such hubris! Well, yeah, okay, I suppose it is. I'm going to give in to that itching temptation to ask people to be patient, yea, and soothingly, for I queued outside the Zodiac here in Oxford in 1997 to see b&s having found out about the gig THE DAY IT HAPPENED and DIDN'T GET IN (Ben Ferneyhough did), but I waited four years and got to see them at the rather more wonderful Royal Albert Hall. I have to be a traitor to my adoptive town and say that RAH beats Cowley Road hands down. Shall be at the Zodiac on Friday for Grandaddy tho, deee veee. Steve Kado, I want to see New Order too....not sure about the new single tho. mArk _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+