Sinister: Mick Cooke's zoo album - guest starring Ken Chu-bador

[Nik Ovenden]

Hello Sinistrans,

How quite the listy ether is nowadays, with limited B&S news and such and such.  Well, content content, for music and music fans alike!  YAY!

Opening this week's Big Issue on the way down to a friend's wedding this weekend I was delighted to see Mick Cooke's release.  I love concept albums.  Love them.  I'm a sucker for a story with my music.  A long story, spanning a bunch of tracks.  Lawrence Mikkelsen recommended Spearmint's Oklahoma! to me, thanks Lawrence, a top tip; I came to Jeff Wayne late in my life (I was graduating in 2006, how did I live so long?) and this year my dad carted me along to Roger Waters doing The Wall.  That was pretty good, although I despair that a work 30 years old can be re-performed with humanity making all the same mistakes, I really do despair.

Anyway, I digress.  Jazz loving penguins?  Lion dentists??  A crocodile synchronised swimming team??? What's not to like?!  And it's for kids, so I can buy some copies (once it's not just on iTunes) for relatives with sprogs - the appearance of altruism when in fact it's an insidious plot to gateway drug them to B&S.  Mwahahahaaha.  My excitement is uncontained.  And thanks to the new interwebs i present you the Facebook page to like [https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=219245474776145&ref=notif&notif_t=event_invite#!/downatthezoo].  I guess we're all on there now, in a smaller, separate circle of friends(?), rather than this rather more antiquated email list.  Poor Honey.  Poor us.  Well, it'd be nice to be friends with sinistrans, look me up :)

Well, if that wasn't enough to motivate me to send my first email to Sinister in about a decade...?, I picked up an Observer on my way back from said earlier wedding and flicking through I looked at an article on pensions, saw a face in the paper (sadly not also on their website [http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/jun/19/pensions-public-sector?INTCMP=SRCH]), and did a doubletake at the caption and the article.  Ken Chu?  KEN CHU?  The same one?  Looks at job title...yup!  zommmmmg.  I can hardly believe it. We're all growed up and talking about pensions!  Is that so when we retire we can afford to go to more gigs?  and buy more concept albums?  And all those funny Radiohead releases with little bits of paper?  I do hope so.

So, Yeeeeah, wowzer to a double dose of Sinister related content in a weekend.  I'm off to buy copies of DATZ (it's not TWATTYBUS or FISHYCLAP, but it'll have to do) for all and sundry, maybe with a note saying "if you like that, you'll love this" and point them to B&S's blistering trumpet solos.  Maybe I'll even honour Ken Chu and think about pensions.  Maybe.  Hmm...hm.


Lots of love, Sinister, and maybe an email from me next decade...if we're still around.  I hope you're all well and happy, and thinking of Ken's pension provision too.
Niko
xxx

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