David White said:
*some stuff about nutters*
Look, can we please be sensitive to who our immediate audience is (1300 people and their friends) and who our total audience is (everyone who reads or searches the archives on the WWW, forever)? Never mind being sensitive to passing potentially hurtful and unsubstantiated (and in this case, frankly, *wrong*) hearsay on to that audience without some thought. You have a certain amount of power posting your own thoughts on to such a large audience, and it just seems to me fairly obvious that it's different from a conversation in a pub. This isn't a tabloid newspaper. So can you please be careful over individuals? Else it's just not fair. Anyway look, here's something from someone at MTV, note the enthusiastic MTV !!!!s. He hasn't replied yet to a request for more info yet so I don't know where you can find more details about the chat, or whether it's on in Europe or whatever, and I'm not really up to searching at the moment. But some of you might be interested. Sorry for the lack of replies from me to list requests and private emails lately - I'm struggling with things, I'm going to be very slow for a bit, so I might enlist some help from others. So don't be surprised if you get delayed replies from other people to subscription requests etc. And thanks for rallying round and making the list yummy again. Honey x --- From: "McWhorter, Weston" <McWhortW@mtvigroup.com> To: "'honey@missprint.org'" <honey@missprint.org> Subject: Belle & Sebastian Promo from MTV.com Here's some news on a special promo MTV.com is doing to celebrate Belle & Sebastian's new release!!! Starting at 12:01AM on June 5th, MTV.com brings you the exclusive 24 hour preview of BELLE & SEBASTIAN's newest album Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant. This is the 4th album from the reclusive, Scottish indie-rockers and delivers some pleasing new twists to their addictive pop sound. The band is notorious for leaving a trail of obsessed fans in the wake of every album. Come back on the 5th to see if they can make a convert of you!!! That's not it!!! Members of Belle & Sebastian will join us for a chat at 7PM (ET) on Monday June 5th to spread the good word. Come by early, listen to the album, chat with the band, and then listen again. It's the next best thing to visiting them at home. See you there!!!! "Music is the lamb that made a lion out of me..." -Esthero wes mcwhorter MTVi Group manicgenius@mtvigroup.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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+