Sinister: she's one four foot (Monica) Queenie

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hiya popsters

First off, a quick question (and b&s content would you believe) which band did
Richard Colburn want to form a tribute bend to at college (according to sources
remaining anonymous as it'd give the answer away)?  I think you'll be surprised.
answer to be found at the bottom of this mail

Right, another question, where was everyone else when Monica Queen was playing
on Saturday afternoon?  I arrived with Juicy Lucy expecting to see a plethora of
sinister types and there were none of yous :-(

 She was grate too, you missed out.  Such a wee girl and such a huge voice, her
stuff kind of reminded me of (I could be wrong here) EmmyLou Harris back when
she was hanging around with Gram Parsons (Like I say I could have got the singer
wrong and I can't check up as my guru on all things of this sort is busy being
mugged and riding horses in Ecuador)  Anyway, I digress, her music was lovely,
very basic but heartfelt lyrics and a cool guitarist accompanying her to boot.
At one point she announced a song by saying "this one's called do something
pretty....while you can" [cue shocked looks between us and Ms Queen looking up
and grinning at those who recognised the reference]  'Twas no cover version but
was superb nonetheless.  She was not on for very long and was swiftly replaced
by the biggest pile of toss I've heard in a long time, they went by the name of
Vinyl exam (crap name - crap band)  make sure you avoid them kids, they'll
offend your musical sensibilities.

Next up, why cds are bad, the answer is.....they don't have cool little messages
scratched into the run-out groove bit like you get on vinyl.  I remember the
Smiths were always good at this sort of thing with little messages relating to
their songs (I'm sure that Mrs Welthorpe will be able to remind me which one had
"I dreamt about stew last night" on it).  Well, anyway, cds don't have that and
that's a bad thing indeed, it was always like finding a special little message
when you got your record home.  Now you just get horrible plastic cases that
break as soon as you look at them ho hum never mind yadda yadda yadda

On that moaning note I'm off for a few more minutes of boring work followed by
an evening of entertainment provided by the lovely trembling blue stars and some
ex-romos

toodle-oo

Chrisx
top songs for the day:  4 skinny indie kids by half man half biscuit and
heavenly pop hit by the chills ooh yeah and am180 by Grandaddy

The answer to the question at the start of the post is..........The mighty half
man half biscuit!!  This is according to someone on the hmhb mailing list who
was talking to Richard at a gig the other week.  Wonders will never cease



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