Legal Naan, Century of Fakirs... maybe ? While I'm on the subject of Indian influences in popular culture, the much feared sitar onslaught on FYHCYWLAP never quite materialised now did it ?. Maybe the band took the Tim Hopkins threat not to purchase new album if it involved sitars seriously and hurriedly re-wrote it all ?. That would certainly explain the recording delays and may even be the *real* reason Stuart D left. You see I always pictured him as the George Harrison of the band so it makes sense that he'd be the biggest proponent of the sitar, perhaps he found himself in the unenviable position of having to deliver an ultimatum along the lines of "if the sitars go then so do I". And we all know what happened ....Murdoch called his bluff & the rest is history. How did FISHYCAP go in the charts when it was released, I forgot to check at the time. The more cynical amongst us know that sales charts are nothing but a corrupt capitalist tool of oppression and subliminal mind control, but I still can't help but wonder how the al-bum went. The Canadian chart though is obviously based on musical quality (Legal Man at number 4) so is justifiably exempt from my previous rant I've heard that last week several members of the Eastenders cast, high on a potentially lethal combination of meths and airfix glue accidentally tunneled in the Jeepster Office's from the basement of a nearby 24 hour Photocopying Shop. Naturally Jeepster HQ is as secure as Fort Knox and a silent alarm was triggered well before the rampaging thespians managed to get their hands on any rare Gentle Waves demos so the damage was minimal, which is a massive relief for all concerned. So St Etienne didn't deliver the goods at Glastonbury, I can imagine they'd struggle a bit in that kinda setup. They're normally quite excellent live so lets all blame the poor acoustic qualities of canvas and continue to think Sarah and co are the Bees Knees, cos they are. That's about it I think, as uaual there's very little of substance - sorry. Craig x ps: apologies is the formatting goes a bit weird on this message. I'm using a suspect webmail program that has mangled posts in the past, I'll never learn. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+