toodle pip, squeaks not wanting to pre-empt david white (that is his name, isn't it?)(the guy who runs belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk) and i'm sure he will, and indeed should, post to give us the whole story, but basically it seems he's had to take down the entire downloads section because of threats from some nonsense british antipiracy watchdog.... now this makes me cross because a) my friends were just getting used to be bopping manically around the room to "poupee de circe" just before we head out for the night, that song never once failed to make me smile b) if i remember this right, the band were well aware of the site and its downloads, cos i remember at one stage they asked him to take down some stuff that they were planning on releasing, or something like that. surely that means they didn't object to the rest of the stuff being on there? how sucky is that? the site had all the latest peel session as well, and it was my only way of hearing it because for some reason, we poor irish kids are also deprived of any decent radio stations....our "youth" station, 2fm, is the best we have, and the highlight of its day is a guy called larry gogan who's long turned 60, playing his "golden hour" of songs from the 60's, 70's and 80's between noon and one on weekdays. and by "golden" i can only guess that they are severely vocabularily challenged....golden it ain't. david white suggests people who are (rightly) teed off about the BB strong-arming suggest we bang off an email to the organisation concerned. being as i am in a foul mood anyway today, i would just like to say that they have just been on the receiving end of a rather cross email, but i do think we shouldn't leave it there. is there anything neil or anyone can do? i might be forced to stamp my feet, and believe me, it's not a pretty sight well, i have absolutely nothing to say other than that, except also to say to david that i really enjoyed the site for the last year or so since i discovered it, and a big thanks are owed to him indeed. let's get cross! trish delish ps the email address to give off to is antipiracy@bpi.co.uk we all know what sinister can do in terms of email campaigns, so let's get flexing those giving-out-muscles (to start, try gently shaking extended forefinger with furrowed brow...repeat x10 - it's harder than it looks!) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+