Bonjour, I feel all French listening to Yann Tiersen's masterpiece, the Amelie soundtrack - it just urges a cycle ride into the sunset, baguette over shoulder, beret perched jauntily atop la tete, to go on strike for ever. Vive la revolution! Ken tried to chivy the list into action in a bid to reclaim the once cherished fraternite of this fine parish by way of glorious satire. After such a fine display, I felt utterly compelled to post. BELLE AND SEBASTIAN Don't they seem to be playing a lot. Constantly hopping over land and water. If any of you want to hear them playing live somewhere in America, I think Washington, go here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5235927 The lovely Iain Baker of XFM told us all. I bought the single last week and, though not surprised, was a bit bemused at the quality of the b-sides. Combined with Stevie's effort on the Funny Little Frog single, they have to be amongst the weakest songs the band have ever put out. I still can't get into the last couple of tracks on the album either - ...Cup Of Tea just makes me hum Big John Shaft and ever since Archel mentioned that Mornington Crescent was an Oasis b-side, I haven't been able to disagree. On the plus side, all the records still make me tingle. I should stick on TWATTYBUS and remember what glorious times they were. CAMERA OBSCURA I went to see them in Leeds for the first time last month and what a lovely affair it was. Despite coming on stage half an hour late, they charmed the pants off everyone. Traceyanne did look like a rabbit in headlights though - I wonder why after 10 years she still seems so very uncomfortable with the idea of performing in such a well loved band. Indie boys were going weak at the knees LILY ALLEN Apparantly she is the new "MySpace sensation", elected straight from the streets in the greatest music democracy. But as Stuart (Tales of Jenny guitarist and former sinisterine) pointed out to me, she is not exactly from the streets, she's Keith Allen's daughter. I can't help but be suspicious. PICNIC What's this about a picnic? Was I not paying attention to that bit. It's been years since I trundled down to the smoke for pringles and red knickers - what a lovely idea. I go down quite a lot for band practices these days (shameless plug - www.myspace.com/talesofjenny - straight from the streets and no relation to Keith Allen) so I might be able to make it along. Please repost details if there are any - merci! BAPPS TRAINS Woah! I saw the link at the bottom of Rachels message and decided to investigate - Bapps makes models of the Metropolitan Line in Lego! If a cooler thing has been done, I've yet to see it. There're even little videos - you should really take a ganders BIKE I think it's time to go and have a bike ride along the river and out into the countryside of North Yorkshire. I like the way the sky is smiling today chris x ___________________________________________________________ Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail. "The New Version is radically easier to use" The Wall Street Journal http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+