Sinister: Aah! Protest cardies waster

[Heather Swinsco]

Dear Sinister,

Apologies for the dire anagram in the subject line. Not the best way to 
introduce ourselves to you in our first post, but there you go. Our second 
favourite was “What drastic arse operates?”, so it could have been worse!

Just to clarify here, we are two people writing one post, not one person 
with some sort of multiple personality disorder.

Amy has liked Belle & Sebastian for about 4 years now since she heard the 
Bowlie Weekender set on the radio and fell in love with Stuart’s voice. 
Since then, she’s been to see them twice, most interestingly last year when 
she met them at John Peel’s Christmas party. That’s another story really, 
but needless to say, her most treasured possession is a photograph of her 
being hugged by Stevie. She can never decide which of their songs she likes 
best, but she’s pleased to see that Lord Anthony is included on the new 
album. She likes the sound of a song called “Wrapped up in books” too, but 
she’s trying not to get her hopes up. After all, a song called “Beyond the 
sunrise” sounds fairly innocuous until you actually hear it. She’s lurked on 
and off this list for most of the past 4 years, but has never felt she 
really had anything to say to 1400 complete strangers that merited posting.  
In fact, she would have probably never posted at all if Heather hadn’t 
persuaded her to.

Heather was introduced to Belle & Sebastian about two years ago by Amy, 
while in quiet desperation in the back of a bus en route to a seminar on 
mechanical engineering that neither of them wanted to go to (just in case 
you were starting to worry, neither of us are mechanical engineers, we were 
just misguidedly doing A level physics). She loves them because she can 
relate to their songs (unlike so much music that’s about…). She loves the 
list because there are so many other people who obviously feel the same way.

We decided to introduce ourselves to you jointly because we found the 
prospect a little daunting. So here we are, shyly saying hello, holding 
hands in the corner (it’s not 1995, but rest assured we are just friends). 
Our motives for posting to the list are twofold.

Firstly, we currently abide in Sheffield, which is apparently seeing less 
picnicking activity than the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. We were wondering 
if there were any sinisterines or sinisterettes in the vicinity who would be 
interested in some sort of picnic-based meet up. We would happily provide 
buns (don’t smirk you besmutterers of the list) and other suitable 
refreshments, plus, of course, our own delightful company.

Secondly, at the end of this month we are both relocating to Edinburgh and 
were wondering if there was anyone who could advise us as to where a 
sinister person might go out of an evening to hear some B & S tracks being 
played. We did search the archives on this subject, but the most recent 
debate on the issue seemed to be about 5 years old and we feel that it might 
not be the most up to date information available to us.

If anyone can help with our query or wants to express their interest in a 
picnic, please contact us off list. This e-mail address that we are using is 
Heather’s and Amy’s is: daisychain.amz at tiscali.co.uk.

Sorry for the length; neither of us have ever been noted for our brevity. 
Thankyou for reading this far. We apologise for waffling and promise that we 
won’t post very often. We might just go back to lurking; sinister is a nice 
place to hide and eavesdrop on other people’s lives.

Waffly love,

Heather and Amy

xxx

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