Sinister: Gentle Waves (my God! he used the actual proper name!) review

[Honey]

Alasdair Cook, codename MS1996, said that the Glasgow Herald said:

> <Gentle-wavey stuff>... A girl in
> the audience, announces Stuart Murdoch, has followed the Gentle Waves to
> Leeds, London, and Cardiff, apparently finding the latter gig cancelled
> ("Say you're sorry!" calls a voice).

The disembodied voice was Neil, Mr B&S Management, mixing desk
slummer and sometime bassiste for B&S.  The "girl" was our very own
Kara, a loyal Sinistereen of this parish who told us about her
abortive Cardiff trip a week or so ago:

http://www.majordomo.net/sinister/cgi-local/archive.cgi?month=199904&msg=00048

and who had come along to "the picnic" (bit like a picnic in a
nuclear bunker, but the thought was there), and told me the Cardiff
story again with astounding good-nature.  And you can crucify me now
Kara for your embarrassment, because I told our mauve-headed popster
about your Cardiff fiasco between the films and the songs, expecting
something a little twee-er (say a consolation gift of a furry
pencil-case with a butterfly on it) than his robust "oh poor kid,
I'll say sorry from the stage haha".  Still at least Neil got Isobel
to say sorry :)

Oh and yes, the barman at the pub really DID leave a phone number on
our table for a vinyl copy of Tigermilk he has for sale, so if
anyone's interested I have his number (he gave me the eye), so just
mail me privately.  I think he's cottoned on to it being worth a bob
or two though, I offered 2 quid and handful of Pringle crisps and he
wasn't having any of it.

Yes, we're on 995 listees as we speak, and excitedly leaning forward
from the back seat over daddy's shoulder to see all the 9's on the
milometer clock round to nice sensible 1000s when we turn the next
corner.  Is this how a load of monks in a field felt in 999 AD?  In a
minute daddy will turn round and slap our thighs and tell us to stop
getting so excited and making so much noise and play with our Travel
Scrabble.  Yes we could have a big party and pronounce the 1000th
listee king or queen for the day I suppose, but the rate at which you
lot subscribe and unsubscribe I think they'll probably be about 12
"1000th" listees.  Besides you'll all go and cheat :)

The spontaneously combustible Mr Miller said:
> Mitchell, I saw an album by Kate Jugsy yesterday, and it was really
> cheap, but I couldn't buy it because I was affronted by her Brian May
> bubble perm. Has it gone yet?

Peter, I think there's something amiss with your keyboard you keep
spelling things wrongly recently - oddly it's only proper names...
anyway Peter is referring to the wondrous Miss Kate Rusby a fabulous
Yorkshire folk-singing lass, fabulous because she's a folk singer and
still fabulous (eh?).  I'm totally transfixed by her, in spite of
her hair, and Peter should have bought that LP, so let him ever be
ashamed.  She's only done one so far and that's it.  I even sneaked a
song of hers onto my tape-tree-tape-tree-tape to see if anyone
noticed or was too discreet to say "it's folk, fucking RUN!".

Mind you, folk music is a very scary thing, as attendance at a
concert of Kate's a week or so ago in Edinburgh demonstrated.  It's
like descending into the Wheeltappers and Shunters social club circa
1973 and if you go to a bona-fide folk gig in the UK, make sure
you're near the fire exit.  There's an awful sense of "that man
sitting next to me is about to sing along, or pray out loud, or
something".  The "support act" featured a Belgian accordionist who
had bright blue curly hair and leather pants and grinned like a loon,
hopping from foot to foot.  I tell you, very very frightening.

Thank you Ciara for those Cambers films - but why on earth not
"Carry On - Follow That Camel"??  It's a literary classic and you
think the management at Camber Sands would tart their heritage to high
heavens if it was really filmed there.  Sinister knows how to tart
its heritage.

Someone gave us a fabulous summary of Dr Who episodes, what I'm
wondering is, was this an ironic impersonation of Vince from "Queer
As Folk"?  The UK documentary that's taking the #Sinister chatroom by
storm, and from which Starry seems to be selling video stills of the
rude three-in-a-bed bits.  While stocks last, folks.

Honey xxx

NP: JAMC: "Honey's Dead", Honeybunch: "Mine Your Own Business",
    The Pastels: "Baby Honey", Mariah Carey: "Honey"
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