Sinister: Work, work, and more DC

[Simon Fallaha]

Hello once again all.

I haven't been posting much recently, largely cos of my workload at uni, and
it's going to be even worse this month.

Good news anyway - the concert I sang in last week went really well.
Unfortunately, I've got three more to do this month as well as all my uni
work. Still, I think I should enjoy them while I can.

And, if I'm lucky I could be seeing the Super Furry Animals with my mates
next Friday. At long last a decent band comes to Derry. That was odd, last
year we had JJ72, Ash and (sigh) The Divine Comedy all playing in the space
of a month. In fact, nothing seems to come to our supposedly wonderful city.
We get a lot of visitors, but no decent films or bands. They've yet to
release Amelie here and every critic's going on about what a lovely film it
is. Shame. On top of that, I've been trying to get the Perfect Lovesong
single the last two days -  it was released on Monday, and yet (surprise,
surprise) there's no sign of it here.

Funny really, a lot of you seem to have had brilliant Hallowe'en's, and mine
was average at best. What else can I say apart from the fact that I saw the
fireworks and went out for a drink?

Anyway, all your messages (including the ones I've had time to read all of)
have cheered me up a lot. And here are my notes to all:

Ian Rivamonte - Your DC messages were great. I don't know if Parlophone
intentionally caused the break-up mind you. I still believe the whole thing
had something to do with the poor sales of Regeneration. Great story about
the postcard from Neil as well.
Paul Arathoon - Funny that you hate National Express, it's excellent.
Lawrence - Europop is far better than Electronic Renaissance. But then, am I
saying that cos ER hasn't grown on me, or is it just cos I'm a massive DC
fan? It seems you like High Fidelity as well. It is a really good film,
although they did mention B & S in a bad note at one point.
Stuart - the live TV message was excellent.
Andrew - you stated the TDC split-up was 'A very sad business. My view is
that they went from being a big small band
to being a small big band and it didn't quite work out. The world is a
poorer place without them, and I for one do not believe that Divine
Comedy=Neil Hannon.' How right you are. Joby Talbot has played a massive
part in their albums since Casanova, at least. And I wouldn't say they were
that small before Regeneration - the orchestra was massive for Fin de
Siecle.
Rachel Fruitloop - Surely the release of "Something For The Weekend" doesn't
have anything to do with the SFA song? I haven't actually heard the SFA song
yet, but the words have got to be different.
Rachel Sunset - I'm sorry to hear you've a lot to worry about. But if you
had my workload, it'd be a lot worse.
Christina - I haven't enjoyed Trick or Treating since I did it in the States
when I was 7 (seriously...)!

Take care,

Psi


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