I've went to Preston last night to the strange but attractive in a 1960s brick-built kind of way Guild Hall, complete with integral car park overhead walkway that miraculously contains no winos, piss or other such nastiness - an ocean of calm in a sea of chaos as far as car parks go methinks. But hey, I guess you don't want to know that do you? B&S were GRATE, but then you didn't expect me to say any different did you? I must admit I was a little apprehensive beforehand as walking around the spacious sixth form common room type bar (it took me back, but then that shows my age - but then I don't recall my sixth form common room serving appalling beer - mind you, I could never get a seat in the common room either...) I wondered if some of the crowd would treat it like a ROCK gig, but I have to say that the audience were lovely on the whole (apart from maybe you Mr hip flask spilling, arms flailing boy in a floppy white sun hat) Was stood quite near the front, to the side with the lovely Isobel (oh, I'm sure this will set some of you off - Oo thinks her bottom has expanded, which some of you have said before, but then she would say that...) The set was quite similar to Scarborough - I wouldn't even pretend to try to recall all the songs, but Gina's Scarborough post seems right. Tonight's lovely covers were the snooker theme tune - you would know it if you heard it - well maybe not if you lived across the ocean, and a Rolling Stones song on request - I don't know its name, but it gave Belfast Bob the chance to ROCK out in his fetching Mogwai Scottish Guitar Army T-shirt. (I tried to send this post last night, but did so in an unsinisterly html type thing, not a lovely plain text manner - anyhow, if I had done so, I'd have forgotten to mention to the weird and wonderful opening cover - I knew there was something before La Pastie, but was damned if I could know what it was - it was Arrested Development's Everyday People - I remembered today and it made me smile) A wonderful wonderful occasion - maybe not as grate as the last time I saw them in Leeds far too long ago - but marvellous all the same. By the way, I finally got Jonathan David - I love it all, I must say - then again I do have a penchant for B&S songs with Jonathan or Jo(h)nny in the lyrics, as I like Slow Graffiti particularly also... I guess my fifteen minutes of fame are up... Enjoy !R!A!H! and the other dates those who are going - wishing I could be there... The boy with the slightly too tight new B&S XL t-shirt who's going to have to do some exercise and not eat sweeties - how ungrate... Jonny +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+