Good evening, Im listening to an album called The Hangmans Beautiful Daughter by weird sixties folk outfit The Incredible String Band. The best track comes in at a modest 13 mins 5 secs, but the sitar wig-outs and running water noises are starting to do my head in. Sample lyrics: Dont worry we wont send anyone After you they screamed But me and licorice saw the Last of them one Misty twisty day Across the mournful Morning moor motoring Away Singing ladybird ladybird What is your wish ? Your wish is not granted Unless its a fish Your wish is not granted Unless its a dish A fish on a dish is that What you wish ? I believe some people ingested copious quantities of naughty things called drugs in those days. The bands name that was bugging me at the Embra picnic whilst drunk was of course Thunderclap Newman if anyone cares. It seemed rather trivial the next day in the cold light of a hangover. Rafe Dewar: I do indeed know you, and you still have spookily good taste it would seem. Pint in the Tams sometime ? Id like to add my vote to the Electronic Renaissance: Good; Waiting for the Sunrise: Baaaaad camp. Ive been a bit wary of throwing in my tuppence on the new album, because I dont want to cause strife. But fuck it, heres my tuppence for what its worth -(2p). I think FISHYCLAP is WELL below par. And I wanted it to be ace as much as anyone, so its doubly disappointing. Tracks 1,2 and 5 are v. good but not excellent or B & S classics. I fear the rest ranges from pleasant to mediocre to cringeworthy. Sorry. For me, the new album shows just how good TWATTYBUS actually is. Some brilliant numbers, plenty of top notch solid tunes and the worst ones are still pretty good. I dont necessarily blame the co-operative songwriting policy. I think Stu M has certainly lost his magic touch at the moment and I hope its merely been misplaced. Heres to album 5 showing a return to Tigermilk/IYFS quality to break the downward spiral. I hope its not just the age-old pop story of artists losing their immediacy and the nebulous quality which makes them so initally compelling when they have too much time and cash and comfort pissing around in the studio. Bit much content methinks. Good to see my perennially favourite football teams Portugal and Romania doing so well. Congrats chaps and good luck. Amy J: Ill write soon promise. I remain forever your friendly neighbourhood Jarvis xxx Im as serious as cancer when I say Rhythm is a dancer. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+