Sinister: Into the Land of the Infidel (Dunfermline)

[Ian Nicolson]

Not many people have been posting gig reviews so far (obviously far too cool 
to do geeky stuff like that) so in an attempt to rectify this, and to make 
everyone else jealous, and because I'm at work and therefore have nothing 
better to do with the wonderous IT equipment here, I thought I'd try to 
write something about Dunfermline last night. Although I am useless at these 
things ('how was the gig, Ian?' 'Yeh, erm, good'), so you'll have to bear 
with me and my failing memory.

It was with a spring in our step and a song in out hearts that we boarded 
the train for Dunfermline, for not only did we have the excitement of seeing 
Belle and Sebastian, but we also had to cross the Forth Bridge first. One of 
our number thought that it would be fun to dive off it, until it was pointed 
out that it was a notorious suicide spot. I think that put her off the idea.

The Carnegie Hall is a typical small-town theatre type place, with a balcony 
and, er, a stage. And seats, of course. All of which seemed to be taken. I'd 
imagine they have a pantomime there every year. We managed to set up a 
little Sinister enclave before choosing to sample the glittering delights of 
Tiffany's Cafe Bar (candles! drink! hurrah!) and I managed to miss the 
Uptown Shufflers, which was a shame. I think. From what I could tell (which 
admittedly isn't much, as I didn't see them at all) they'd probably make 
more sense in smaller places like Dunfermline, than they will at the 
Barrowlands, say. But what do I know?  Lollipops were kindly supplied by two 
lovely young Sinister girls.

When our heroes came on Stuart claimed that they were all a bit tired. Three 
nights in a row is maybe a bit too much for the poor little petals, but I 
can't say that it really showed, apart from maybe a couple of missed lines, 
and a bit of an arsed up segue from 'The Boy...' into 'The Fox In the Snow', 
which he had to start again. The set was pretty much the same as Dunoon, 
except they missed Like Dylan in the Movies. The bastards. At their little 
break bit they seemed a bit confused as to what to do. I was half hoping, 
given the venue and everything, that the Great Suprendo (pif paf poof!!) 
might come on, but they ended up playing Time of the Season, complete with 
lovely tongue clicks and aahs from Sarah and Isobel.

Again they seemed fairly relaxed on stage, making jokes and stuff, none of 
which I can really remember, cause I'm hopeless. They said something about 
the Two Ronnies at one point, and Chris showed off his local knowledge by 
mentioning Barbara Dickson. Stuart made some reference to drinking blood red 
wine in Dunfermline, which went over my head. Not the wine, the reference. 
Of the new songs I think I liked the one about the car bestest, as it 
mentions pussycats. One of them seemed to have a bit of an electronic beat 
thing going on, but I can't remember which.

Stuart Gardiner asked about the hugeness of Isobel's arse, but she had a big 
fancy skirt on last night, so you couldn't really tell. And no one had 
brought a measuring tape anyway.

Going home I noticed a couple of local neds who were confused by the number 
of biscuit nibbling, cardigan wearing freaks waiting for the Edinburgh 
train, which was nice. It's always fun to confuse neds.

Lawrence from NZ asked about the soundtrack album. There were a couple of 
interviews in the papers last weekend with various members of the band and 
from what I can remember there'll be three real songs, some music and a few 
little jingles or something. They'd apparently written music for the whole 
film, but the director only wanted them to do half in the end.

Sorry if this has been a load of garbled nonsense - I'm very tired today. I 
had to get up far too early this morning - all this working stuff is no fun. 
I'm sure someone else can write a far better review than this one.

Ian N.
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