Sinister: Gay Mark, we don't want to know...

[Heather Marie Propes]

On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Stuart Gardiner wrote:

> The music press are always going to stereotype B&S fans as being all the
> same, even though it's blatantly not true. It's the same as the way they
> make up genres and subgenres to describe what a band sound like, and lump
> in with them other bands who sound completely different. It's just lazy
> journalism. Get used to it...

How are they supposed to be?
> 
> For those of you who weren't on the list last summer, picnics were held
> every few weeks in London and elsewhere around the world. Everyone is
> invited (40+ people is not unheard of...), all you have to do is bring a
> bit of food. We then spend the afternoon meeting new people, chatting,
> drinking (normally well into the evening), playing football / twister /
> frisbee / whatever else anyone brings along, and rescuing kites from
> lampposts. And then progress to the pub later on. And there's always the
> possibility that you could end up lying on the ground in a park somewhere
> in South East London at 4am singing B&S songs... (for further tales,
> search for picnics in the archives for May / June / July / August last
> year)
> 
)
Oh, that sounds like fun. Wish I could go. But I did get to go to my first
listserv fete, a small Roxy Music gathering in Ann Arbor. It was wild.

Ciao!

Heatherita
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