Sinister: Where does this plug go?

[Ian Anscombe]

Hello co-sinisters,

You wouldn't think it, but I usually start these messages with some 
idea of what I'm going to say.  On this occasion, that is not the 
case.  I would say I'm a big believer in spontaneity, but that demands 
a punchline and I can't think of a spontaneous one.

So - Birmingham.  Well, it is rumoured that the world actually started 
in Birmingham.
Then it stopped again, and started somewhere else.
Eventually, however, one by one, everyone is drawn back, like Elves to 
a mouldy sandwich.

And so, on.... whenever it was... 5th of May, I think... a few of us 
sought solace and sandwiches in the throbbing heart of our glowing 
island (err...).  Sadly, we couldn't get the train to Grimsby in time, 
so we met in Birmingham instead.

God, I miss sinister.  Arguably, it never went away, but still, I miss 
something that I'm still clinging to, ten years later.  How can you 
miss something and cling to it?  That makes fuck all sense... but did 
you expect it to?  Its so nice to see not one but SIX posts.

In answer to our list mummy:

>  So take your
> coat off and go and lay the table.  I have a few things to say.
>
> Firstly, I hope the Brummy sinister picnic was fun, whoever went.
> Was it you?  If so, we need to know:
>
> (a) Who was drunk

Rachel

> (b) Who kissed who

Rachel

> (c) Who disapproved

Rachel.

The rest of us didn't do much, really.  Just stood and watched as she 
weaved her spell of wickedness over the normally zen-like oasis of 
peace that is Cannon Hill Park.
She used to be such a good girl.  I blame that Grainne.

> Any other details also very welcome, such as unusual footwear.  The
> baying crowds with pitchforks demand answers!

Okay, it wasn't quite like that..  It was just...nice...and 
multinational.  (i.e., we had someone from Ireland, someone sort of 
from Wales and someone who would live in Scotland if she just moved a 
few miles further North.  And me, and my friend Peter.  No, that isn't 
a euphemism).
On one level, a bunch of people sitting in a park - not even a very 
big bunch.  Londonistas would perhaps sneer into their perfectly-mixed 
cocktails.  But, there was something warm, and comforting about it... 
maybe I'm insecure about my identity, but I often find these events, 
when they go well, affirm something I didn't realise I needed 
affirmed.


> Has anyone (not) heard the two God Help The Girl songs/demos 
> floating
> around by now?  The single is very pretty, and swooshes my head back 
> to
> 1997.  I'm not sure if that's a bad thing to say, but I quite liked
> 1997.  Stuart always sounds like Stuart, even when he's not singing. 
> I
> do wish he'd sing though.  Anyway there are some publicity pics 
> kicking
> around now with Stuart looking quite Michael Caine with girls draped
> around him.  See some recent interviews linked at
> http://www.godhelpthegirl.com/ and some really dramatic journal 
> entries
> about Stuart rearranging his sock drawer.
>
> Now, I keep hearing rumours that mails are bouncing to Sinister.  If 
> you
> send a mail and it doesn't get through, please mail me!  I am Honey, 
> I
> can fix it (maybe) but I need to know.  Poor old Miss Print gets so 
> much
> spam now about extending her unmentionables that she can't check 
> through
> every error message, but if you tell her she will take a look! 
> Sinister
> is a cosy sleepy seaside town now, but I'd just like to make sure 
> it's
> not sleepier than it should be because I'm an idiot and broke 
> something.
>
> I still miss Mrs Murdoch.
>
> Honey xxx
>
>
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 +-+       "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper           +-+
 +-+  "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+
 +-+    "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000     +-+
 +-+  "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000  +-+
 +-+  "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001   +-+
 +-+               Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa                 +-+
 +-+               Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut!                +-+
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