***************** 1st time boast ***************** hello everyone i'm a newbie...let me be honest...i have no idea who belle & sebastian are...i have been directed here by a friend who said that this is a good place to come if you are travelling abroad & looking for gullible folk willing to let a stranger stay with them...ok ok ok ... i'm kidding...he also said it was a good place to pick up girls as well... ********************************** that joke isn't funny anymore ********************************** no..no..really i have no idea who belle & sebastian are...are they a folk band...? ... i am intrigued...i quite like listening to cat stevens...and the new seekers...i'm sure i could get into them... ************************************ ok..ok...ok...in all seriousness ************************************ ok...i'll put my sensible head on now...i have heard of belle & sebastian...i'm just messing...i read with great admiration "the dukes" post...he more or less said everything that had to be said...i liked seeing the reference points..."love" ... oh yes...and "felt" ... most definitely...if i may humbly add the "mbv" thumbs up from b&s on "le pastie de la bourgeoisie"...but let me add as McCarthy once said" its a dirty world out there" ... anybody who has signed a record deal will know that the moment you sign...you have technically sold out...the moment the ink is dry you become a commodity...its a credit to jeepster that they have respected b&s principles for so long...because at the end of the day the job of any record company worth their salt is to make sure that their artists sell records and are heard by as many people as possible... the days when a band used to put out 4 & 5 track 12 "s & cds are long gone...b&s were perhaps one of the last...but i'm sort of glad...because i would be interested to see where they chart...with nothing but snide comments from the press and minimal play on the radio...i would be interested...i fully expect them to go crashing into the top 20 ( i would say top 10 but its a fact that if woolworths don't stock your record you have no chance of hitting the top 10! ) ...and the following week to go crashing out... because thats the sign of a band with a huge and loyal following...everyone who's going to buy it will buy it the day that it comes out... ****************************************************************************** ****************** i thought that if you had an acoustic guitar it meant that you were a protest singer! ****************************************************************************** ****************** i just had a funny thought...whenever i think about acoustic guitars...i think of that scene from "animal house"...with this hippy looking guy playing guitar surrounded by loads of doe eyed girls...john belushi (bluto) stops...looks at him with disgust...grabs his guitar and proceeds to smash it to pieces...then hands him back what's left of it ... and says with all sincerity....sorry...then he walks off...its a random moment of film genius...i love it... ****************** say goodbye... ****************** well kids its time to go...i'm off to look at the world through my strawberry tinted window...you could do much worse you know...i'm also attempting to soundtrack my life up until now...in just 90mins...its not easy i can tell you...+ i have this feeling that once i finish it all of a sudden i will drop dead!...which is an odd thought 'cos i've got space for one more song...i have decided its a straight choice between "raindrops keep falling on my head" & "south american getaway" both bacharach compositions both from the film "butch cassidy & the sundance kid"...i guess i shall spin a coin...i don't like to pick favourites... love and peace ... reynard the fox... x ****************************************************************************** *************** +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+