Sinister: waiting for the moon to RI:SE

[kenneth.chu at xxx.org]

Hello kiddies.. and adults alike.

RI:SE
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Hmm.. B&S WENT ON TV the other day, and nobody has mentioned it yet.
Strange.  It's enough to make you wonder if maybe people only review
interviews because they want to show off about the fact that they were doing
the interviews!!!  :-)


Well I watched it anyway, on RI:SE, I actually ro:se for it (with help from
a txt msg reminder), and wow wasn't it great.

I turned on the TV, and saw a row of celebrities: MC Harvey, some girl i
don't know, some dude I don't know.  Star studded line-up, but WHERE WERE
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN!!!  Or have various B&S members undergone sex and race
change operations?!?

Later on it was revealed that Stevie and Richard were actually on the
show!!!  But either because there weren't enough seats in the studio, or
other reasons, the token Scots were relegated to sitting BEHIND THE BAR!!!
And every now and then (less often than not) the presenter would reach his
head back and say hi.

So it went on like this for ages, we found out that MC Harvey's favourite
album is a Michael Jacksons one.  Some girl I don't know's favourite album
"has got to be Abba", and Stevie likes Rubber Soul by the Fab Four.

And then later on there was a brief discussion on the Electric Honey label
of Stow College, where Tigermilk was made, before swiftly moving onto a
lengthy discussion of MC Harvey's love affair with Alesha Dixon, of Dixons
fame.

Another half an hour of gruelling RI:SE later we got to the good bit!!  FANS
CAN PHONE IN and ask the artists questions!!  First we had an old granny who
had once met MC Harvey in a holiday resort, and had since become a huge fan.
(He gave her a hug!!  Aw).  Pretty interesting.


THEN, it was a BELLE AND SEBASTIAN FAN!!! YAY!  Some guy whose name was
"Barington" I think.. and asked the killer question...

"You know you guys formed the band in an all night café... do you still go
back there for nostalgic reasons?"

At which point the presenter went - "How do you know this??  Are you some
kind of obsessive mentalist fan or somm'in??"  Well, seeing that almost
every piece of B&S review goes on about this fact, it can't be that
surprising that he knows.

A REAL obsessive would have called up and maybe said something like "I saw
you once on Sauciehall Street taking out just £10 from the cash machine,
were you quite skint or something??"

And none of us would have done that now would we?

Anyway yeah, apparently that cafe had since closed (it was called the
"Grovesjlkfsnlnor" or something). or something.

And then I went to work and i was 5 minutes late.

Ken
P.S.: Remember 27th Dec - INTERNATION SINISTER BOWLING DAY
sinisters in the world go bowling.


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