Sinister: Bank Holiday

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Thanks to Kenneth Chu for reminding us that it was a birthday, and for noting the latest list revival.

I also remember the IYFS Barbican bash and associate it with Kenneth, and Carsmile. I didn't go to the gig! I just travelled to somewhere that I think was called Finsbury Circus, unless that was a different time. I remember turning up at the Circus picnic that didn't quite happen, and the rain, and then us going to a bar near the Barbican, which had tons of attractive chicks in it who I'm not sure had anything to do with the B&S event, unless they did.

I saw in the Guardian about the new record and I was quite impressed and encouraged, somehow! I think I liked the way they said to write the name of the record on walls, in Glasgow or was it just anywhere? BTW the sinistrine who created a new board about B&S - wasn't it impressive? - included a thread for photos about that. Maybe we should all look at that board again.

I saw a film recently called THE ILLUSIONIST which was like old-time Sinister List Content, ie something people would talk about, praise, perhaps even hotly debate, because it had beautiful drawings of Edinburgh (no, not Glasgow) c.1950 or so, and it had a wee lassie who was just a wean really who cleaned a wee inn on a wee Scottish island, but when she went to the city she blossomed into such a bonnie lassie in wee white shoes and a lovely blue dress. It all reminded me also of Alasdair Gray who wrote about Edinburgh in the 1950s, and many years later did whatever he did with B&S.

Now I am reading James Kelman's KIERON SMITH, BOY which is a long buik all about growing up in Glasgow in, some time, in the past, long ago, years ago it was. How sometimes you would be in the close and you could see a dog. If it was your friend's dog. Maybe it was. Then you could clap it. The fur on the dog was hard but you could clap it still. How it would be to have a dog. If you said, stay, stay, the dog would. Just stay.





      
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