Warrander John's presence in Madrid certainly seems to have brought about a turnaround in their flailing football fortunes of late. In the 86th minute, a huge Aberdonian streaker did a fifty metre dash across the pitch, before being roughly manhandled to the ground by his wife. All of which inspired the Madrid boys to a last gasp winner. Scenes of jubilation ensued. Recently, we've all seen what sinister people power can do, and I think we were all suitably astonished. Some might say that it would be better to leave well alone, but a life without risks is like a meal without cheese. Before the last B&S album was released, I led a solitary campaign to get them to leave out all the gaps between songs. The outcome of this was a rather neat segue between dreams Space Boy and Dirty. If one man can achieve such a result, imagine what would happen if we all bombarded the B&S nerve centre with a special request for the next album! What I want to hear is a really horrible guitar solo overdubbed in the middle of each track, so horrible that no one can bloody stand it. I suggest "Coronarias Redig" by Deep Purple as a suitable model. This will be especially good because the new album will probably have a sticker on it saying "Brits Winners" on the front, the effects of which will be cancelled out by word of mouth about the horrible guitar solos. It's a winner. Send your request on the back of a sealed down envelope to: Neil the Manager, Belle and Sebastian, Glasgow, Scotland, England. According to disc jockey Andy Kershaw, indie pop is a forerunner of bhangra beat. Finally, today is International Working Women's Day, so a big shout to all the working birds on the list. Sister Disco PS: Which reminds me, it's sixties WHO, Fluffy. But very good nevertheless. It's on The WHO Sell Out, which is quite a tasteful album all round, and the CD version has about 186 bonus tracks on it, all of them well up to scratch. Isn't that France Gall on the back cover? +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+