Darling sinister, Here's a tuppence-coloured postlet from the wastes of post-picnic banality (am I sounding like Steady Mike yet?). Legal Man is a wee gem, isn't it? I think its tops, and will be number ELEVEN in the UK charts come Sunday. I personally guarantee it. EGADS is a trickier bunch of grapes. I had to give it the "would I buy this if it was on the radio by some band I'd never heard of?" treatment, and thanks to my love for early Stereolab (Lo Boob Oscillator anyone?), yes I would. I would even buy it if it were by Muse, who Steven Wells thinks are the future of music. So no complaints there. Winter Whoopsie, however - well, it's nice, but... Stevie is turning into a grown-up songwriter, but StuD, bless him, can't really manage it. Snippets, yes, concept albums, better than most, but I'm coming round to Miss Vicky's argument that anyone who's allowed a solo career shouldn't get mediocre songs on records by BELLE AND SEBASTIAN. I'm not crying over the demise of Paper Boat - perhaps that'll be on Anthology II... /me tussles with ree. ree wins with a technical knockout. /me needs someone to dab his wounds. For what it's worth, I bought Legal Man in HMV yesterday and both the new release shelves and the regular B&S section were almost out of the CD. This is a good thing. I hope. Can people stop mentioning the 15 minute thing? It was an arbitrary choice - just think about what you're writing and it'll be fine. Va ben'? I also have a sinister t-shirt suggestion. If you want one, why not make one yourself? I have an awful feeling that sinister's detractors would have a field day with us all lumbering round in identikit shirts. When I were a lad, etc., my fellow faith healers fans and I used to make our own ridiculous amateur shirts with that sort of gluey fabric pen stuff - anyone with a modicum of imagination would come up with something special. Nowadays we've all got computers anyway, so it's hardly difficult, but it's such a good opportunity to expel your creative juices. Hmmm. Anyone sinistah going to the Magnetic Fields on the 25th July in London? Tickets still available (as of yesterday, anyway) - come and meet list doyenne Starry Sarah, willowy and sylph-like ladylike Lucy, the divine miss V and big gay me. I want to go to the Edinburgh picnic <pout> Laura Llew, why are you harassing me? What is it about my arse? Is it too big? I knew it was too big! Rachel W. said: "Waldo Jeffers had reached his limit" And thereby became my nomination for listee of the year. God, I'd forgotten how good that song is! "it was now late August, and all he had to show for it were three dog-eared letters and two very expensive long distance phone calls". Is that right? Ooh! Yes it's self-indulgent, but hell, if the unashamed love of great music is self-indulgent, then I'm going to indulge. Myself. Um. Rachel also said that Stuart sounds like Nico. Well, on <insert name here because I'm crap and have forgotten>'s tape tree tape there's a Nico song with, spookily, the chorus from "If you're feeling sinister". Can anyone tell me what this song is? My favourite thing about Nico is the way she says clown as claun (imagine German accent). London picnic was fun. Liz Daplyn was there, how could it have been anything else. No courgettes though. Christ, I'm shit at football. Not bad at pole dancing, though. Mark xxx ******************************************************************* The contents of this e mail from HIT Entertainment PLC are confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy or further distribute this e mail; please notify us by telephone on 020 7224 1717, and delete the e mail from your computer. This e mail has been checked by our anti-virus system before leaving us; we accept no responsibility for the e mail and any attachments once they leave us. www.hitentertainment.com www.bobthebuilder.org ******************************************************************** +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+