Today, whilst wandering with few aims and less intentions, around Borders bookshop I picked up a copy of Record Collector magazine. Not sure why I did, but opening it up I saw they had their poll of readers' favourite bands. all 500 of them. Scanning down the list which started predictably with the Beatles, I noticed Belle and Sebastian in like a bullet at number... 367. Shockingly, 117 places worse off than they had been in 1999. Bands more popular than B&S included Van der Graaf Generator and Asia.(I bet that's the first time those 3 have been mentioned in the same sentence) I'm excited to be going off to glasgow for a day of Belle, Sebastian, and Buckfast for the 16th though less enamoured with the prospect of hours at the mercy of the train network. and i am even more excited at going to the Albert Hall cos it is a bit posh. I'm enjoying work despite the air conditioning going a bit wrong and making the office 38c at 10am on tuesday. On the plus side we had to be let home becasue the computer server network was not enjoying the greenhouse effect. It was like working in sauna minus all the advantages of working in a sauna. hope to see some of you at a picnic sometime P a u l _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+