Sinister: reporting back pt1.

[Geoff Sheridan]

First, assemble a group of people. To be on the safe side they should 
probably be art students. Some of them will know how to play 
instruments; don't worry about this too much because the rest can 
just pick it up as they go along. Ask them each to pick a different 
freeform jazz song that they don't know very well, and to play it 
from memory. The result may sound a little cacophonous, so we'll need 
something to hold it all together. Do you remember that ugly kid with 
the really awful curly hair? Y'know, the one who used to write all 
that embarrassing poetry when he was 13?

He can be the front-man. If he can't sing, just get him to read out 
his toe-curling poems in an appalling mancunian monotone.

Then tell them that they are a brilliant fusion of seventies 
art-rock, tindersticks, pulp, calexico and the patty smith group - 
and they'll believe it too, the pretentious cunts. Anywhere but a 
Belle and Sebastian gig, "Scatter" would have been bottled off.

B&S on the other hand were ace.

ESd'O3
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