Sinister: Docklands Blues from a Docklands blue

[Martin Horsfield]

Me again,

Carrick: congratulations on giving the definitive CS Lewis answer. The 
bus reference was particularly well spotted. I think our list will go 
down in the annals (hur hur, eh Duke) of music crit history for being 
the first set of people not to resort to the 'They sound a bit like 
Love, Nick Drake and The Smiths, you know?' stock answer when 
discussing B&S. Now we can all chuck CS Lewis into the mix with 
confidence. Hurrah.

Hats off also for the v. funny 'She and Me' punchline in the same 
digest. Even more arch than Amelia's original connundrum.

Now then, it's just occured to me that in having a player called 
Morrissey and in being central to the very existence of Half Man Half 
Biscuit, Gary's beloved Tranmere Rovers are THE indie football team. 
Unless you know better, of course... For all of Richard Ashcroft's 
efforts, my team Wigan Athletic has never had such cachet, except for 
having a couple of supporters who still rock top, baggy haircuts.

These Floyd bootlegs I'm listening to today are great. I'm onto the 
post 'Wish You Were Here' years now and have a very fine recording of 
Roger Waters camply complaining to the set designers on the The Wall 
tour that they're 'cheating'. (Imagine him, hands on hips, chest 
puffed out, going 'Wall builders, wall builders. Stop buliding The 
Wall. You're cheating now...')

But there remain two problems with working in Docklands (beside the 
obvious ones): indie T-shirt types are rarer than rocking horse 
droppings around these parts and there are about four steros and three 
computer games playing at the same time in this office I'm in. This 
might explain my 'interrupt mode' style postings.

One good thing, though: you can look across the wharf and watch the 
odd cormorant perching outside the buliding. Who knows, maybe I'll get 
a shag by the end of the day.

Martin Horsfield, tw

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