Sinister: a section about Reindeer an' ting

[Charlie Farley]

To the French gentleman and the other people who've said/asked things about 
The Reindeer Section, I have this to say - yay!

The album is exceedingly good indeed, although it's sadly not out til 
August. If I was clever and knew of such technology, I'd be naughty and put 
the whole gosh-darned thing online. But I'm not. So I won't.

(I will, however, point portentiously to my e-mail address above, for 
totally unrelated reasons of course.)

The full line-up is this:

Gary Lightbody & Jonny Quinn - Snow Patrol
Aidan Moffat – Arab Strap
Willie Campbell, Charlie Clarke, Gareth Russell & Michael Bannister – Astrid
John Cummings – Mogwai
Colin Macintyre – Mull Historical Society
Bob Kildea – V-Twin
Jenny Reave – Eva
Richard Colburn & Mick Cooke  – Belle & Sebastian
Gill Mills & Andrew Meehan – Hercules

So...two B&Sers and a V-Twin...lovely. The bulk of the album sounds more 
like Snow Patrol than anyone else, but they've gone lovely and psychedelic 
all of a sudden so that's definitely a good thing. Basically, the principle 
is a Scottish/Irish version of "You Have Been Poisoned By The Serpents" 
which came out a couple of years ago and assembled a similarly motley crew 
of (predominantly Welsh) people from the Super Furries and Gorkys and 
suchlike, to make strange noodly music.

In other news, B&S at the RAH were lovely, as has noe been said a thousand 
millino times on this list so I won't bang on. A fair few peeps I went with 
left vee disappointed (bad sound, bit of a shambles, pricey drinks,whatever) 
but I thought the whole thang held together fabbily well.

Was gutted they didn't play GMAFHID tho, but I retaliated by singing it ALL 
THE WAY back to Tottenham Court Road on foot (buses are rubbish). And even 
the oddly disjointed "Jonathan David" was kinda endearing.

Extremely jealous congrats to The Hodd for being asked to sing onstage. 
Would've shat meself personally but somehow you didn't! I think *you* should 
now form a band (if you haven't already...) just so you can then invite 
Stuart onstage to sing one of *your* songs as a mark of respect. Or 
something.

Forgot about the picnic on Saturday. Feel very silly. Boo.

*And* I didn't get any badges due to not even noticing the merchandise thing 
even though it was apparently really enormous and obvious...so if anybody 
got a spare set I wouldn't mind arranging some arrangement...

Oh, and a couple of peeps asked about the Jonathan David video again, so 
here's the link:

http://www.now.com/mp3tv/feature.now?fid=1891152&cid=1688986

There.

Bye!

ttfn xox Charlie

ps. very late indeed I know, but isn't "Nalda Said" just *enchanting*?

pps. any Leicester Sinisterines going to the Summer Sundae this, er, Sunday? 
If not why not? Laaaaambchoooop...Tuuuriiiin Braaaakes...ummm, and a nice 
park and a pretty memorial thingy with flags made of stone! Best go now.

"Love is like jazz
You make it up as you go along
And you act as if you really know the song
But you don't
And you never will"
_________________________________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
        +---+  Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list  +---+
     To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe
     send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to
     majordomo at missprint.org.  WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister
 +-+       "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper           +-+
 +-+  "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+
 +-+    "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000     +-+
 +-+  "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000  +-+
 +-+  "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001   +-+
 +-+               Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa                 +-+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+