Sinister: Five Days

[Ian Hatcher]

bonjour chaps and chapesses,

wowie, at last i met some real live sinister types, and 
very nice they were too.  and i'm not talking about 
you're run-of-the-mill sinister types here, oh no.  for 
it was a gathering of legends unseen since the days of 
mount olympus . . . well, perhaps not, but nearly.  so 
hello again everyone who was there, and thank you for not 
being thirty stone moustachioed men with bad personal 
hygiene and funny teeth (not that there's anything wrong 
with being a thirty stone moustachioed man with bad 
personal hygiene and funny teeth. . .). 

ooh, and the aislers set were grate.  but they didn't have 
any badges, so boo.  but i did manage to record the gig 
with the help of a microphone borrowed off the band (i must 
be the worst bootlegger in the history of bootlegging.  i 
had to ask the band if i could borrow a mike :)), so if any 
of the kids who were so nice and didn't eat me would like a 
copy just e-mail me off list . . . 

it's the sunniest day ever today.  and i'm listening to the 
trembling blue stars thinking that i've soon got to get 
some books to write an essay (the last essay i'll ever have 
to write.  apart from exams but they don't count).  i'm 
also thinking that my field mice/sarah records obsession is 
getting all out of control and if i'm not careful i won't 
have any money left to go on holiday and my friends would 
kill me.  with spoons.

here comes the obligatory ian-asking-about-bands bit . . .

i'm thinking i might purchase a serge gainsbourg album or 
two cos some were rereleased a while back on 10" vinyl, 
which is surely the best size any record can be (those who 
understand my love of the number ten and my belief that all 
things musical should involve 10 will appreciate this.  
look at it this way:  the (every-so-slightly obvious) 10 
felt albums and 10 felt eps in 10 years.  every go-betweens 
album with 10 tracks.  the best two b&s album having 10 
tracks.  the fact that most good albums which have more 
than 10 tracks would be classics if the band had actually 
only put 10 on in the first place, eg ooberman and hefner.) 
enough about the number 10, though, and back to my orginal 
point.  could anyone recommend the poppiest serge album 
please?  

i've just realised that in one paragraph i whinged about 
spending too much and now i'm asking about spending more.  
ah, the life of a student. . .

okey dokey, i'd better go and write (THE LAST BLUDDY EVER) 
essay,
ian.





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