>But you must have read at least one fiction book, Keith. Surely? My aim in
>life is to write the kind of book that people who never read books read,
and
>then they go on and on about it for the rest of their lives, because it was
>really good, but they never seem to feel the urge to read another.
I am exagerrating the issue just for the sake of a laugh. I know what you
mean about the book thing Peter, I always get dead excited when you get a
record like say "The Stone Roses" which goes and makes a load of people who
didn't really listen to music get into it big style - that happened to quite
a lot of people when I was in 6th year with that record.
I have read some books... I read a lot of biographies - read the Nick
Drake one, and just read a Buzzcocks one and am going to get Johnny Rogan's
remixed Byrds book too soon - hell I'm going to get the Stranglers one too.
Fiction however's a different story. I've read "Star Wars" and read all of
Hargreaves' books (Roger). I've read lots of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks too.
I've read all the ones I was forced to read at school, but that's about it.
It's no great loss to me, it's always been music and paintings for me
really, that's all. If I feel the need, I will read some books, but I'll
have to have a reason really - as Bobby Gillespie once mused about Acid
House and Rock, "It's all the fuckin' same thing anyway" which I tend to
agree with.
Oh incidentally - I certainly don't read books about computers - I think
someone read that into what I said.
Cheers,
Keith.
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Katrina wrote:-
> the cd features the video on it, one of those enhanced cd thingies ....
What a great idea!! I've never heard of bands doing that before. Am I
correct in thinking it's just a quicktime file on the cd, not any outdated
video-cd format or anything like that?
Any chance that Belle & Sebby will do something along the same lines on
their next release? I'm surprised it's not a more popular idea.
I'll have to but the Snow Patrol single, just to check it out! The songs
not bad too, and I'll probably go to see the band play on tomorrow night.
Cheers,
JohnS.
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Apologies to those who are sick of this topic, but I think I just came up with the
PERFECT B&S cover:
'70's-era, secular, pre-grits-in-the-lap Al Green doing "Get Me Away From Here I'm
Dying". Maybe slow it down a bit...mmmm, just thinking of him belting out, "Ohhhh,
that wasn't what I meant to say at all." Oh, yeah.
Oh, and I'd also love to hear Ben Folds Five doing their "Stars of Track and Field".
That song was made for them. I've GOT to hear them rocking out the end bit, with
Darren riding his crash and Ben pounding the piano like it wronged him. The next
time I go to see them, I'm gonna yell that out and try to get them to play it.
~Reid
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Marylka - I KNOW where those lyrics come from, but I can't remember!!
Now it's going to bug me too until I find out!!! I can even "hear"
them being sung in my head - but I can't place the band or song. It's
a guy singing - kind of low and moody.
Sorry I can't help!!!
Love, Lisa XXX
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Like the BBC I'm sending on this note Tim sent me to redress the
right-left bias. Tim worried that it would spark more debate and he was
right too, but frankly, people shouldn't express socio-political opinions
and expect others to not want to reply to the same forum of people.
And frankly, sod it, I agree with Tim who put more eloquently what I would
have said. But please, having made this 1-1, LET IT END. This really is
not what I set this mailing list up for and my server can't take the
strain of a heated political debate which has *nothing* to do with the
band or our direct personal experiences. And don't go saying "everything
is politics" because I reckon I can equally well say "everything is love"
and spend two hours of your time telling you about my first sexual
experiences with a camel.
Oh and don't suspect too quick a reply rate to other stuff today - at
home. Actually it'll probably be quicker.
Loving you all dearly still, even those who hang to the right. But I mean
it, don't rage about this one or I'll ask Tony Benn to stamp on you all.
"Mixing pop and politics, they ask me what the use is. I offer them
embarrassment and my usual excuses."
Honey xxx
--
Thank you for not discussing the outside world.
(Exactly)
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Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 11:23:49 -0000
From: Hopkins T <t.hopkins(a)lancaster.ac.uk>
To: Honey <honey(a)Majordomo.net>
Subject: brief help, please, Paul...
Northy wrote:
>Sorry but this is a load of horseshit.
And went on to prove himself right.
>I am fed up with people having a go at people just because they are
>affluent.
Oh yeah? You know what I'm fed up with? Let me give you a few examples...
> People are selfish and do not love each and every man on
>the street. It is human fucking nature.
I'm fed up with fuckers trying to tell me that human nature is fixed and
absolute and -oh!- just happens to coincide with the way that those who hold
ALL the cards in the developed world
(and hence the world) want it.
>Rich people are not inherently evil. I hate the way people say
this.
I'm fed up with people rallying to the defence of the rich when the rich can
look after themselves very well, thank you very much. This isn't just you,
Northy, it's all over the place.
>The way I see it is that in life you have to ignore all the shit
and
>just find love and then find yourself a cosy corner to enjoy it.
I'm fed up with people who don't understand that not everyone has access to
a 'cosy corner' to enjoy the love that they've found. I'm fed up with
tossers getting sanctimonious (again, not necessarily you, Northy) when
ordinary people haven't managed to pull themselves 'up' by their bootstraps
and find their way into the middle class. I'm fed up with people who have
tried to find a cosy corner still getting shat on from a great height 'cos
they picked the wrong firm to work for, got too old, got sick, got tired,
whatever.
I'm not saying I'm homeless, that I'm unemployed, on the breadline or
whatever (tho' I'm not rich either...) but that doesn't stop me from being
sickened by the way our society is organised.
>Sure, lets get communist and get Belle and Sebastian censored.
Northy, you what? What the hell are you talking about? Like capital doesn't
censor through control of the means of communication? Pop music, folks, pop
music is the easiest and loudest way to regain (at least briefly) some
access to mass communication...but of course it gets eaten up and mediated
soon enough. It's one of the reasons why pop is inherently political, why
participating in pop is different, and remains different to, say, watching
the telly or going to see a film. And participating in pop is probably more
effective than getting involved with any of those dull no life no joy
bunches of patronising ultra-leftist prats, too.
>Please do not reply to the list to this.
Couldn't stop myself, sorry. Anyway, if you didn't want a reply, you
shouldn't have written in the first place.
>Peace list
In the words of the once very great Cathal Coughlen, 'Send me love and
peace, two more things I can't afford...'
>Oh....and no offence about the comment Sarah!
Oh, and no offence about the e-mail, Northy.
Tim
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Something's just entered my head which has been dormant for about 6 months -
but Paul or someone mentioned that "Slow Grafitti" was going to be on the
soundtrack to the Acid House film. It's just come back to me that I seem to
remember they had a track called "Soft Touch" or something like that for the
Acid House film... Can't for the life of me remember who told me this or
where I found out.
Cheers,
Keith.
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Now I am all self-conscious from the weekend and wondering whether this is
really B&S content. I would not be writing it if it were not for the band's
existance, so is not that justification enough?
Yesterday I drove home from work through the town, instead of the back roads
I prefer to travel about on; I had errands to do. I noticed that one young
man directing traffic bore a certain resemblance to Stuart M., or at least
what I suppose he looks like (he looked frightened). I think he was
attempting to disguise himself because he was sporting a slight beard. Now
since I live in the United States, I thought this would be news; it is like
seeing Elvis, only this supposed Stuart was alive, and Scottish. Has the
pressure of stardom already had its toll on Stuart that he has to moonlight in
manual labor and contruction? Now that I think back upon it, I should have
stopped the car and asked him to have tea with me. We could have brought a
table out into the street, sipped our tea and nibbled politely on scones. We
could have read each other our favourite passages from _The Lion, the Witch,
and the Wardrobe_. And all around us would be traffic, honking horns, yelling
curses at us to move the tea table from the street; we would not though
because we would have been discussing delicate matters.
(If Genevieve has her own Stuart David, why can't I have my own pretend
Stuart M.?)
Why doesn't everyone on the list meet at Primrose Hill on the longest day of
the year, officially change their names to Belle and/or Sebastian there, and
have a group marriage ceremony there. That would certainly be newsworthy, at
least to some put off Druids who wanted the hill to themselves for the summer
solstice. If we didn't make the national press, we could always make "Druid
Weekly". Of course, no one has proposed to me, so last night I resigned
myself to the life of a spinster--I found fifty cats to live with me, I took
up knitting, and I am currently attempting to frighten the children on my
street.
Living and loving
Matthew
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>What a great idea!! I've never heard of bands doing that before. Am I
>correct in thinking it's just a quicktime file on the cd, not any outdated
>video-cd format or anything like that?
The last Black Grape single had one on it too, which was quite funny - dunno
what format it was in, but my machine had no trouble reading it.
Keith.
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I remember a few weeks back somebody mentioning Bert Jansch and recording his stuff, which all turned into a bootlegging debate regarding CDs and Tigermilk (tenuous B&S content). Well I read in the South China Morning Post this morning that he will be performing live at the Hong Kong Arts Centre on Wednesday 11th February. Well the question is can somebody tell me about him and should I go and see him.
Thanks
Richard
http://wwp.mirabilis.com/4039573 rclander(a)netfront.net
Well, if this isn't the scariest thing to find 75 messages in your in box
in one sitting.
I almost unsubscribed...and I did for 30 minutes, before I began to realize
that this looks like an intelligent and verbal group. I'm guessing we all
look the same....aspiring writers, poets who aren't afraid to sit at a
coffee shop for a few hours (long after they finished their tea....yes, I'm
an American and love my hot tea) and ponder over a long verse that they've
been scribling on for the past hour. My friends don't really know about my
near beatnik qualities because they really don't understand, but to find a
nest that even resembles it is too irresistable.
The State I am in is the 1st song of theirs I ever heard. I was lucky to
work at a college radio station that had tigermilk in its library and since
I consider myself a conossieur of brit rock, I had to hear it. In my 2
years of working at that station, that was the only time I truly ran out
and bought the album afterwards (I was disapointed that it wasn't
tigermilk, but I later found out why I would probably never own my own
copy). sinister, of course is one of the few albums I can say that I pick
it up and listen to it over and over again. The last time that happened
was when I heard a Morrissey album for the first time.....back in 1994!!!
Yeah, I lived under a rock all that time, but if you live in the right part
of the country, you can go your whole life without even hearing anything
less than Kenny G. Since I heard that album, i was convinced there was a
CIA plot to hide all the albums I would like on the back of the shelf while
they spun 7 Mary 3 into oblivion.
There was also discussion over whether or not there are fans in the South.
Yes, I'm in austin Texas, and I think, believe it or not, that people in
this city are more open to this stuff.
I'm fascinated that the band doesn't even sit in their own photoshoots.
Are they that interested in holding onto their private lives, or do they
not want to have it all happen at once? I could see where instant fame
would be a scary thing. All of the sudden you are expected to do a
juggling act while standing on a stack of fine china while composing a
shakespeare sonnet.
Anyway, hope to get to know the lot of you.
Suzanne
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