i have been conducting a one-woman crusade to get to the bottom of the 'westlife steal b&s lyrics' scandal, but without mp3 evidence it's difficult to ascertain whether westlife ACTUALLY sing a cover of 'the model', or whether some jester posted those lyrics once and they've been assumed to be correct by the other sites (for there are many!) the first answer is obviously the most appealing... watch this space i guess. nice to see SGS grabbing her 15 seconds of fame in classic vox pop style... i always hope to be interviewed at a b&s event so i can say 'only belle and sebastian understand the torment of my uniquely sensitive soul' and the like, while biting my lip and fiddling with my retard fringe and plastic hairclips. funnily enough, you are more likely to see plastic hairclips on britney spears clones at skool disko these days... (and what exactly is a retard fringe?) i watched 'welcome to the dollhouse' last night. at one point a character shouts 'fuck this shit', nicely prefiguring the belles' contribution to 'storytelling'. i'd like to see dawn wiener as a b&s fan in waiting, but these days i fear she'd end up listening to staind. the whole film is painful to watch, in a kind of 'there but for the grace of god' way - my early teens were a british, and slightly less extreme, version of dawn's. how could i NOT be a belle and sebastian fan? luv archel xxx ps. apologies to james thorniley, rob brennan, marianna, jeremy and anyone else i neglected to namecheck after the picnic. i know you were there, honest :) pps. not that i'm conceited enough to think that being namechecked by me is on anyone's 'dreams come true' list. ****************** Visit www.buzzwords.ndo.co.uk for the best new writing on the web. Email submissions to buzzwords@bigfoot.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 +-+ +-+ "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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+