Dear all, Blimey, is it only five days? I'm dead excited, me. And it all starts at the Betsy. All hail Pam and Trousers for starting it with a bang not a whimper. All hail Wumpkinny too for flying in overnight ready to start a life of sin in Manchester and starting off her stay by playing a "gig" (as I believe you young people call it) at the Betsy, with our very own Chris Lynyrd, . I will be DJing, so if you can any requests you can shove them right up your arses, cos you'll get what your damn well given, and be grateful. I have bought a couple of fab waxings especially for the occasion, though. I want to play something suitable before the arch Duke comes on stage. It was going to be "Bela Lugosi's dead" in honour of his vampiric past, but I couldn't bring myself to pay good money for it. I fear the Roolz appearance at Bowlie will not materialise. It would be easy to cite musical differences, but the truth is that Keith's rampant ego is ruining everything, he now insists that we call him El Guapo, and spends his time composing free jazz instrumentals. They're shit, frankly, and we can do without him, he thinks he's the Robbie of the band, but he's really the Howard. I met Warrander John in town today, he was very excited cos he'd been out buying "some fucking shit-hot festival gear", a full set of juggling equipment and some t-shirts with aliens on them. He's also dead chuffed with the one he bought in "the Dam" with a very clever spoof of the Mona Lisa smoking "a big fuck off j-bone". "Man, it's well wicked", he says, snickering. He's also bringing his guitar and the Levellers songbook, and hopes you'll join him for an impromptu jam session. Can you feel the love? Tag xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+