Sinister: A Summer Wasting

[Ailsa Watson]

Blimey.  What's brought you lot out then?  Pasty-faced indie geeks sitting 
in front of the computers avoiding the sunshine? Surely not.  Get out of the 
city and into the sunshine, kids!  That's what I've been doing.  Except it's 
not sunny any more.  And I'm in my office.  Still, I tried.

Picnicking sounds fun.  I haven't been to a Sinister picnic since the heady 
days of the R!A!H! gig in 2001.  That's, like, FIVE YEARS AGO.  And that was 
in London, too.  Glasgow should picnic once more.  There's still enough of 
us here.  Even if none of them post any more. <---- hypocrisy alert!

Archel is right about Mornington Crescent, as she is about so many things.  
It wouldn't be a B&S album without a clunker though, would it?  On the other 
hand, I think Dress Up In You may be my favouritest B&S song of, ooh, a long 
time.  Possibly ever.  I have seen them twice live already this year, and 
shall complete the hat-trick at Princes Street Gardens in August.   Princes 
Street Gardens!  That's, like, massive!  I remember when they were playing 
wee places, to small huddles of adoring Sinisterines.  Actually, they never 
really did that, did they?  It was all reasonably-sized venues, jammed to 
the rafters.  Still, I like to think I was there when it was small and 
intimate, rather than the monstrous rock behemoth that is stadium-friendly 
B&S.  They've got awfully good live these days.  Seems so long since the 
shambling giggling messes of (gulp) 10 years ago.

Anyway, yeah, picnic.  We should do that.

Ailsa xx


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