hiya, It's the year 2001, so it must be time for another post... I saw Belle and Sebastian! Twice! and I don't care if lots of other people did too, I was/still am very excited. And on saturday I climbed a mountain in the hot wastelands in the back of beyond (or souff london) to find lots of sinister people having a picnic, so I popped my cherry. A cherry lollypop that is, and anyone thinking I was referring to anything else can go and wash their corrupted mind out with soap. The picnic was great - it was very nice to be able to put faces to all the famous names at last, even if I was humilialted in the football match by losing a fight with a particularly violent tree. Big Stu said of Birmingham: "Let's face it, there aren't many places in the world that make Preston look glamourous." and with Struans hell/birmingham mix up (he must have forgotten the lines again) I am going to stick up for Brum. Yes it has got lots of concrete, but it is concrete with style (ahem). Just step backwards from the Alex, and towering majestically behind it is the marvel that is the rotunda. Now, where else has got one of those I ask you - I am sure Brian Appleton would agree with me. And the Belle and Sebastian T-Shirts were 2 pounds cheaper in Birmingham. However, I did prefer the Albert Hall gig. Yes, the sound was much better in Birmingham and "You made me forget my dreams" was brill'yant, but where were "We rule the School" and "Lazy Line painter jane"? Stuck somewhere near Willesden Junction no doubt. Ben Apps said in a kind and caring way "I hope you got home OK Tim." which is the cue for a big rant about the state of public transport in this country, the stability of double decker buses going round roundabouts at speeds that I didn't think double decker buses were capable of while fully loaded on the top deck, long walks in ill fitting doc martins and the CID stopping a suspicous looking character for sitting down at the side of the road at 4am, coincidentally opposite a house that had been broken into a couple of hours beforehand. Apparently I might have been "coming back for more". But yes, I did get home okay, thankyou for asking. Enough of this jibberish already, Sweet dreams, tim.x +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+