Sinister: Belle and Seb-as-ti-an, at the Black Cat club

[Mark Kolmar]

On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Reid Dossinger wrote:

> it was mid-tempo, kind of dark and very Smiths-y.  Is this "Rhoda"?  Or
> "Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner"?  The only info we got from the
> band was that it had never been released.

If you can remember lines like "run through the fields" repeated a few
times, then it was "Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner".  If it
started very quietly with solo piano and lyrics like "let me please
interpret history in every line and scar of some imaginary friend..." then
it was "Slow Graffiti".  Otherwise I don't know.

> By the way,
> maybe it was just the two shows I went to, but by the end of each,
> almost every song title had been yelled out.  Christian and I were
> waiting for someone to be snobby enough to yell out "Hurley's Having
> Dreams" or "London Has Let Me Down Again."

In Chicago, someone yelled for "Pocketbook Angel".  Stuart said something
like "oh, we have a real obscurist -- scary".

"Dog on Wheels" came off far better live than on the EP I think.  A
drummer who can keep time makes all the difference I guess.

--Mark



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