Sinister: for mike W and tweebunny (and everybody else)

[chris perriman]

for mike (and anybody who wants to read this i suppose)

the gig was in the church of john the baptist on the corner of grainger 
street and westgate road, next door(ish) to yates's wine lodge and the pub 
was the head of steam, over the road from the station.
the gig on the 28th is at the cluny (opened last year, under the byker 
bridge and right on the ouseburn,  it's a renovated warehouse which is now a 
venue/bar/cafe/gallery/studio complex and is quite cool)  they hold a night 
called cluny tunes and mos eisley are playing along with sonus and comatose, 
they are quite a cool band who sound like a cross between supergrass and ash 
and the rhythm section, jack and jed, are the sons of lindisfarne drummer 
ray laidlaw. i met them by interviewing them for my short lived internet 
fanzine venture thing called the hieroglyphic, the interview and a live 
review are on the internet still i think but i haven't got them anymore coz 
a virus wiped my hard drive a few months back.  i think mos eisley played 
upstairs at the highbury garage a couple of months back but i'm not that 
sure, might have been another mos eilsey as the ad in the nme said you 
should come along, i'll be handing out flyers for my own gig at the tut n' 
shive on the 4th of january if you're still home but since it's a 
whistlestop tour you probably won't, oh well.
anyone's welcome to come (he said blatantly mis-using the list to advertise 
his own band)
my band's called lola my aura and i'll be dj'ing between bands (also playing 
are toaster)


for tweebunny

as newcastle has been voted the 8th best night out in the world you've come 
to the right place but as glasgow was 6th i think , then maybe you'r taking 
a step down.

for gigs:   since the closure of the riverside and the mayfair in the last 
couple of years, the only place left in town (or toon) for touring bands is 
the arena (for robbie williams and dteps and their ilk) or the uni for more 
'our' sort of band, the uni is the hottest, sweatiest basement in the world 
but it's worth it to see bands the size of primal scream on a tiny stage  
and within spitting distance. for local bands there are multifarious (what a 
nice word) pubs around and especially the aforementioned cluny

for clubs:   the two best indie nights around are stone love @ foundation on 
thursdays and bulletproof @ rockshots on fridays.  both have local superstar 
dj big niall (think 250 pounds, bald, zztop beard and crutches) but both 
have regular 'names' like mani, clint boon, gilles peterson, brendan lynch 
et al playing. and durham has a pretty cool mod night that happens once a 
month i think.

for pubs:   basically walk down any street and you'll find one worth 
mentioning so i won't mention any.  except bar oz coz it's got a circular 
pool table


sorry if anybody has read this and thinks they could have spent the time 
better by excavating their nostrils but i think everybody should visit 
newcastle at least once in their lives coz it's just so fab and groovy


so i'll end on a song

in the deep mid winter
frosty winds made moan
earth stood hard as iron
water like a stone
snow had fallen
snow on snow
sno-ow o-on snow
in the deep mid winter
lo-o-ong ago

i love that song but frozen water and snow, in israel? even at this time of 
year i expect it's moderatly mild.

see y'all soon
pez*

ps      why won't it snow? it's fricking freezing but no damn snow, it's not 
fair.

pps     i've looked for my website but it seems to have disapeared into thin 
air, maybe i didn't feed it or something, maybe i should start it up again, 
i still have a paper copy of it so it's just a case of retyping it.
oh mike, if you want a copy of the review and interview with mos eisley send 
me an email and i'll get them to you somehow, ok?
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