OK, A few boring bits of info: The cover of the new B&S single is on the Jeepster site at http://www.jeepster.co.uk/discography/images/JPRS022.jpg, and appears to feature Ruth Madoc from Hi-de-Hi wearing a toga. Which is only slightly less disturbing than the fact that out of the three people on the cover, they only possess 2 eyes between them. Maybe they take it in turns to use them? For those who haven't got an advance copy (that'll be most of us, so stop being smug about it please), there's a 30 second clip of Jonathan David at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/record_box.shtml. You can get tickets for the Preston gig online, but only if you don't mind paying £4.25 for postage. For a single piece of paper. So if anyone in the North West can get a ticket from their local record shop for me, I'll repay you with money and sexual favours (optional). The Scarborough tickets are STILL not on sale, but you can get tickets for Bee Gees Gold at the same venue 3 days earlier, which sounds like a much better night out. I think it's great to see that B&S are sticking to their policy of playing unusual venues, harking back to the Gothic splendour of the Manchester Town Hall gigs a few years back. Although I still wish they'd done their planned tour of Britain on a boat. And a part of me would love to see them playing at Nottingham's Rock City, just for the comedy value. The thing is, whenever they've done concerts in the past, the music press seem determined to review the crowd instead of reviewing the gig (see the archives if you don't believe me), so I think we should start a mosh pit at the Royal Albert Hall, just to give the journalists something to talk about. Any suggestions on which song should be moshed to are welcome. And anyone who suggests "Beyond the Sunrise" will be ignored, because that would just be silly. No Thai news I'm afraid, but this comes from our Brunei correspondent: A Bruneian wife can now be charged with neglect if she refuses to have sex with her husband, under new 'Brunei Muslim Family Laws' adopted by the sultanate last month. Fines of up to US$250 or three days in jail can be meted out to a wife who refuses, without good cause, to have sex with her husband, particularly if he has given her advance notice to be available. I would just like to mention Chris Waddle's goal at Wembley. No reason. Big Stu +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+