I think Boy With the Arab Strap would be a good album to buy for a cool mum, since she likes the eponymously named single and will therefore have a starting point, a point of reference. The first B&S songs I knowingly heard (because I must have heard others before, but hadn't known who they were by, or really listened very hard) were probably Women's Realm and The Model, which I fell in love with and I've rated Fold Your Hands Child above all the others, and above every cd I own, ever since. I expect very few of you agree. I feel very comfortable with that album, its like comfort food, cept its a comfort cd, put it on when feeling lonely and be able to snuggle up with the songs, you feel at home and relaxed. Something that feels very familiar. Fold Your Hands Child is my comfort cd. I probably have others too but can't think of any. My boyfriend has just said his comfort cds are anything by Lambchop and 'Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme', Simon and Garfunkel. I don't agree with him. They would be my torture cds, anti-comfort. The main reason for my post is - I'm traveling up to Montreal in a few weeks for about 5 days and I wondered if any helpful people could give me advice on where to go. Cool bars and stuff like that. Thank you! Joanne xx _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+