Good afternoon poptarts I have been called and despite being rather late (I was in my homeland, a land where beer is only one pound for a pint and the air is clear enough to see shooting stars aaahhhhh) I shall respond, Sodastream, they were bloody lovely, I?d not seen them before and didn?t know what to expect to be honest, but I came away happy and gladdened (and just a little saddened, it?s ?done with everything? that gets me every time). They managed to fill the room with the deep deep bass and fragile singing and I was pretty darn impressed. Bad bits? The aforementioned chipmunk sisters behind the bar (an emergency tracheotomy would have been too nice for them) and that was about it, apart from my beloved Spireites being knocked out of the cup at the first hurdle ?.again (but that?s not exactly related). Anyway, five hgours sleep later and I?m braving the perils that is the rail infrastructure of our brave land, what a bunch of crap eh? Four and a half hours to do a journey that takes 2 and being cramped up in one of those horrible little sprinters, with no batteries for my walkman and the last few pages of my book and no paper to read cos they couldn?t be arsed to open the kiosk at St Pancras before nine in the morning aaaarrrrgggghhh sorry, rant over. Mind you once up there it was worth it, cheap beer and fresh air as opposed to overpriced fizz and smog was a very refreshing change, I got to see my Mum and sister, some of my old friends and generally chill out, it almost made me want to leave London. Someone mentioned Grandaddy, they?re ace, I?d say that they?re in the mercury rev, flaming lips (not that good but you know what I mean?.I hope), Scott 4 sort of mould, not only that, I?m going to see them on Wednesday and they?re on the Jeepster Christmas album with a lovely little ditty about Alan Parsons (who he? Producer type fellow?) Of course also on said Album is Belle & Seb?s version of O come O come Emmanuel, to me it sounded like a nice enough version of an old Carol, ,my Mum, however proclaimed it lovely and proceeded to sing along with gusto while we were driving round the Peak district on Tuesday. So there you go, it has Mummy Brown?s seal of approval so it must be good. That?s got to be about it for me, my posts are usually short grovelling letters for missed sessions, not this type of thing at all, must have been the fresh air Toodle pip my pretties Chrisx PS don?t forget to vote in Uncle Peelies festive 50, there?s a form on the radio 1 website *no innuendo intended, just too many games of crib in the pub +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+