Sinister: Pastels....how odd

[Kimberly Rivas-Plata]

Michael Jones wrote:

a piece by David Keenan under the banner 'Epiphanies', about how seeing
the Pastels in 1987 changed his life.

I may get some flack for this, but....

I remember seeing the Pastels open for the Tindersticks back in 1995. At
the time I didn't really know who they were, 'cept that they had a bit
of a following and were from Scotland. They seemed OK, but nothing to
write home bout really. Guess it might have helped if I could actually
hear what they were singing - couldn't hear the vocals above the music.

Though the one thing that I did remember about them was that they had a
glow-in-the-dark fluroescent toy thing that looked like a floppy light
saber. They called it a 5-tone whirly doo, and one of the band members
was meant to be an expert at it. So throughout an entire song, this guy
twirled the whirly doo above his head like a lasso, and it produced a sort
of whoooo-ooo noise (which, of course, couldn't be heard at all once the
instruments started in). Sorry, but I couldn't help but laugh - till I saw
that the guy was serious.

Even so, the 5-tone whirly doo has remained a running joke between me and
my boyfriend ever since.

Me: "Think they'll go all out and hire a whirly-do musician?"
MB: "Naw, that would be too much trouble and expense."
Me: "'spose so, they're hard to come by these days, years of practice and
     all.."

And so on. Gives us something to do while we're waiting for bands to start.
Cheesy yeah, well whatever...

ttfn,
kim


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