Sinister: She only likes me when she gets drunk. And it would be just my lu ck; lately she's been thinking of giving up drinking.

[ianwatsonuk at xxx.com]

Stuart mentioning the West 54th sessions reminded me that I wanted to ask about them. Was that recording ever screened? Does anyone have a copy? I happened to be in town at the time and went along to see it recorded, so I'd like to get a copy, if only to see my own stupid face on American television.

I went to a recording of the Jools Hootanany (New Year's Eve celebrations, for those in Paraguay - and yes I'm sure I've spelt the H word incorrectly), and it was very bizarre to be at a party at a friend's house on New Year and to see myself "live" on telly at the same time. At least I had a beer in my hand in both realities. 

The new Low album is excellent by the way. 

Thank you.

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>  from:    "Gardiner, Stuart" <Stuart.Gardiner at ntu.ac.uk>
>  date:    Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:54:06
>  to:      sinister at missprint.org
>  subject: Re: Sinister: She only likes me when she gets drunk. And it would be just my lu ck; lately she's been thinking of giving up drinking. 
> 
> In the spirit of the old-timers crawling out of the woodwork, shaking their
> head, muttering "I remember when it was all trees round here" and crawling
> off back to their hovels, I reckon it's about time I got round to writing
> something.
> 
> Hey, I've been busy you know. Spending the last week coaching / looking
> after / getting annoyed with 40 kids at a korfball summer camp. So I'm now
> knackered, and still probably a bit hungover from Friday night's final
> party. There's nothing like setting kids a good example. And getting
> blottoed, singing Bohemian Rhapsody at full blast and dressing up in each
> other's clothes is nothing like setting kids a good example. After seeing me
> in a tight girl's top some of them will be scarred for life.
> 
> I'll leave you for a moment to savour that mental picture.
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> I think that's quite enough of that, don't you?
> 
> 
> As has been pointed out, we're now nearing five years old. That's mental
> age, obviously. A quick look back at the first page of the archives reveals
> that the old days were just as full of irrelevant five line posts, and just
> as lacking in content as now. It also leaves me wondering what happened to
> the two people on that page who I desperately wanted to meet, for not
> entirely un-carnal reasons. Oh well.
> 
> Other early highlights include a certain Mr Miller being smutty (so no
> surprises there then), whilst commenting that we would have to have more B&S
> content and less random stuff now that there were a massive 174 people on
> the list - http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/199708/msg00166.html
> 
> Most of the content consisted of whether Tigermilk would ever be re-released
> (Yes!), whether the Sessions at West 54th would ever be broadcast (No!),
> whether Loneliness of a Middle-Distance Runner would ever be released
> (Yes!), and whether B&S would ever get off their arses and do a few more
> gigs (Yes!). So you see, all the questions have now been answered. If only
> the band would stop doing so many interviews and let us get back to random
> gossiping about them instead, it would be much more fun.
> 
> I'm another one who thinks, great as the music is, B&S fans are more
> interesting. Let's face it, every time there's a gig, it's the audience that
> gets reviewed not the band (particularly in the NME). So many people here
> have spent the last five years getting new friends / new other halves /
> random snogs, which has got to be a good thing. Not me, obviously, I'm far
> too well behaved for that kind of thing.
> 
> Speaking of which, the list has been seriously lacking in smut recently.
> This may or may not be connected to the recent lack of Miller, Casarotto and
> Playforth. Of course, if anyone fancies creating some smut, I'm single yet
> again, after what promised to be requited love turned out not to be after
> all. All offers considered. Unless they come from Ken.
> 
> 
> Big Stu
> 
> 
> PS Due to a recent computer failure, if anyone has mp3s of either the Steve
> Lamacq session version of Sleep The Clock Around from '97, or the Legal Men
> / I Am The Resurrection finale from Manchester at Easter, I'd love to hear
> from you...
> 
> PPS If you still can't hear the words 'Broccoli' or 'Cannelloni' without
> thinking of the list and smiling, you've been here too long.
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