Sinister: Have you booked a table, sir?

[Andrew Tracey]

So , no B+S tour then? I wouldn't moan if I were you. By the next time they
feel the need to do some concerts they won't have to tour the country.
They'll just set up the gear in Isobel's front room and beam the concert
direct to our retinas and eardrums via the Internet. It'll be dead clever.

Moving on to acts who *do* occasionally venture, blinking fervently, into
the big bad world, I went to see the Magnetic Fields at Ronnie Scott's in
Birmingham last night. (That's industrial wasteland Birmingham in England,
not the American one in, er, America).

Ronnie Scott's is an odd place for a gig. People who have paid their tenner
to watch the gig huddle around the back of the room straining to hear whilst
corporate people sit at tables in front of the stage chatting whilst pretty
waitresses bring them plates of food. Wasn't the French Revolution supposed
to put a stop to all this?

Anyway, Stephin was on fine form, starting with quite a few new songs before
hitting the 69 Love Songs motorway, which left me with a nice warm glow,
which I then greatly enhanced by leaving my departure for the last train out
of Brum until what I calculated to be the last minute (start of third song
in encore) and then running like a mad thing to the station. I worked up
quite a sweat, I can tell you.

A round up of other things:

'Pink' Floyd Patterson was good in his prime and if Syd hadn't left, he'd
have beaten Sonny Liston in 1962.

All religions are crap, apart from the ones that use chocolate in their
initiation ceremonies.

I saw the two girls from the cover of FISHYCLAP in Kwik Save, looking lost.
I asked them if they were OK and they said they wanted to get back to
Iceland.

Delicate Irony - A Stagecoach executive has resigned after being arrested by
vice squad cops posing as male prostitutes. Search the archives to see what
we think of Stagecoach.

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