dear sinister i was going to send you an email about the haldern festival last week, but then i read dimitra's brilliant post and that said it all, really. and then anakin pointed out some things that made sense too, though i did enjoy b&s. the setlist was better than rotterdam, the sound was not as good as rotterdam, and the rotterdam gig was somehow more relaxed. meeting people that love b&s is a strange thing: for a long time they were my personal musical secret. and then you go to a festival and meet people that love them too, or more, and know much more and have seen them a thousand times. and your little secret is no more. it's good that all the people i met were extremely nice and sweet, and the feeling that people that love b&s share something, no matter where they are, became very real. seeing oliviers t-shirt in haldern made me remember something, and yesterday at my partents i checked it out and i was right: when my mother was young she got the single of the belle and sebastian tv-show. she still had it, and apparantly (i only remember very vaguely) i loved the first song on it, it's called belle. very sweet, probably a child's voice, and some guitar strumming. the sound was horrible, all cracks and hiss. next time i'll bring a guitar to my parents and learn to play the song. there was also a song called belle and sebastian on the record, but that wasn't as good, and didn't have any singing in it. big hello to everyone i met in haldern, especially the girlies. and dimitra, i would sing a song with you any day. love, marcbots SEND! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+