right, merry christmas. GHope it was nice for everyone, or not actually traumatic. For some reason I always feel a little depressed on Christmas day. It was quite a strange day ... I went to a midnight church service on Christmas eve (highly recommended, even if you're not "that way inclined", so to speak) and halfway through "O Come O Come Emmanuel" I realised I was singing in a very affected, Stuart Murdoch-esque voice. Which was quite funny ... esentially inging a B&S song in church. I woke up the next morning depressingly early (summer here, light at 5:30am etc) and watched "The Filth and the Fury" on video while my parents were at their scary, vaguely fundamental church service (as opposed to my vaguely limp wristed, bleeding heart church full of academics and artists). Then I went to Vanessa's (girlfriend) for Christmas lunch, and was a little embarassed by the fact that most of her family bought me presents, and I only bought her a present, and no one else. opps ..... I got a set of Indianna Jones videos (surely the best series ever) and some music/book vouchers. I managed to kinda out do her ... by buying her a boxed set of *TEN* Alfred Hitchcock videos. No self interest there of course ...... Apart from the fact I hadn't seen most of the videos in the set, and really wanted to .... hmmm. Yesterday I got *seven* CDs, which was prety cool. In the mail, from Amazon.co.uk came "Suburban Light" by The Clientele (more on that later), and the Peel Session albums by Joy Division and New Order. I then went out and bought "John Wesley Harding" and "Nashville Skyline" by Bob Dylan, along with "Mental Notes" by Split Enz, which was recently namedas "the best New Zealand album ever made". I kinda figure I needed to own it, being a huge local music fan, and hell, it was only $10 (about US$4.00) which is a riciculously cheap price to pay for a CD. And then I bought the Badly Drawn Boy album a few hours later because it was on special. Right ... back to ... *** THE CLIENTELE *** The album sounds great .... really lovely, and not nealry like B&S, apart from the fact they are quite mellow and laid back and summery etc. Anyway ... is it actually their debut album, or just all their singles etc? Anyone care to fill me in a bit more about them ... I didn't really know anything, and just bought the album because a few people on the list had mentioned them. And also .... *** AMELIA FLETCHER *** she who does the sublime backing vocals on "We Love The City" by Hefner. I seem to recall someone saying she is/was was in a band/bands called "Tallulah Gosh" and/or "Marine Research" .... or something. Can anyone *please* tell me more about her, what is available, what I need to own etc., because I am besotted ....... Anyway, I'd better go. Have a great new year everyone ...... Lawrence Mikkelsen +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+