Sometimes when listees leave it feels like the end of an era. Sad, but we can get over it. Trousers' departure, however, feels like the end of two eras, a kind of cruel double whammy. Not only will the list have to survive without one of the keenest upholders of the Jasper Buckaroo aesthetic, the Poetry Society is to lose him too. After perking up a bit with Ted Hughes' "The Birthday Letters" and Seamus Heaney's recent translation of "Noggin the Nog", both ghostwritten by Trousers, I feel sure than British poetry is heading for a long spell in the doledrums, apart from Buzzwords. My fondest memory of Trousers comes from the excellent book "The Message". It's the bit where Trousers is reading Boyzone lyrics to a load of schoolchildren. We shall never see his like again, and neither will the schoolchildren. I read Staurt's letter to the NME yesterday. My mouth is opening and closing but no sound is coming out. In his mardy-arsed reply, Steven Wells claims that B&S fans wouldn't know a good rock'n'roll tune if it bit them. That's not true is it, Fuzzbox fans? Thank you to Jason Connery for sending in that article about Stuart's new gas-guzzling motor. Most enjoyable. Peter "It's not a woman. because it carries you about and does things and it's black, you look at it more as your butler." - Stuart Murdoch +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+