Sinister: Sunday grrr

[Honey]

Well - when Stuart David was in the chatroom last week he told us the
Manchester gigs were going to be "crap" - to which we agreed in the
anti-sychophantic way you do - but - well was he half right?

Susannah's dead right - Saturday was a bit of a shambles, but with
sparkles of transfixing beauty that didn't for this sour old trout quite
make up for it.  Right now I'm kicking myself everytime I read a Sunday
review.  Any more glowing reports and you all get removed from the list
and me and Splat use it to talk catfood.  Except I want to hear.

For those who weren't there all I can say is from outside the vicinity of
the two stages the sound was just very confused and I suspect the band got
screwed up by reflections off the huge (and frighteningly beautiful)
ceiling.  I'm wondering how they got it together for Sunday. The band's
pesky antics were as charming as ever but didn't mix so well when the
frustration got too high; but the new songs shone and sparkled.  Isobel's
song was gorgeous (and yes, we were transfixed).  But I did leave with a
slightly empty feeling as if I hadn't quite been to a B&S gig.  I suspect
it might have been very different between the two stages, but I was too
tired to fight my way in.

The meeting before in the Square Albert was the highlight for me - I
discovered I *do* want to have all your babies!  You're all such a nice
bunch I suspect you're employed by the National Health to keep me happy.
It was such an amazing experience to meet so many people I'd met here:
Keith, Susannah, Pam, David, Katrina, Soozy, Sarah, Tag, Dave, Stuart,
John (thanks for the choccie santa), Risso and all the rest of you - well
*I* wasn't disappointed!  It was a very incomplete experience actually as
I wanted to drag you all off and talk about life - maybe we'll do it
properly sometime.

Three of us made Tag's aftershow for about 30 mins but my pacemaker was
running out (joke) so we left and met everyone I wanted to meet on the
stairs.  I gather we missed half the band a little later and my chance to
become a groupie - oh well.

Poor D&K though - can I beg anyone in Manchester to do some undercover
detective work to find some of this merchandise - D&K - if there's
anything 400 people can do here just ask.  Oh yes, and it *is* 400 - we
just passed the mark yesterday!  Welcome to everyone new and erm... pull
up a chair and put your feet up with a nice cuppa.

Finally - well I'm doing a lot of sitting around just now but I'll reply
to emails, requests for tapes etc. SOOOOOON.  Hey and did I miss anyone I
promised a tape to at the gig - if so mail me.  And could someone beam me
back to Sunday please?

Honey

xxx

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