so my computer was broke and when it got fixed and i read the big stack of sinister gubbins that had built up (i have no job, or life) you were all talking about all my favourite bands. curses! my plan to impress you all with my vastly superior knowledge foiled again. like hefner frexample. i know i misquoted them a while ago but what i like about them is the whole package, like B+S not just great songs but great artwork and sleevenotes too. part from the fact darren hayman couldnt write a bad song if he tried. have you heard the one with the boy murdoch on it? lovely...erm, whatever the organ equivlent of fretwork is. and if you like the delgados NBT cover you should try their cover of a very cellular song, cause i know you all like the ISB. by the way, bill bryson sucks satans big fat cock. and fierce panda releasing the first three colours red single is a misdemeanor compared with the heinous crime of releasing the first embrace single. for this they will burn. mogwai! i regularly hyperventilate along to this band. aidan moffat of the strap is on two songs, the one that was mentioned, plus now youre taken, off the 4 satin ep. this is real 3am stuff like most of their songs. the one to annoy your parents though is with portfolio, the brendan o'hare track, written in response to the nme describing him as the bands gibbon without portfolio. its the one on young team which starts off all tinkly but then goes VROOM! VROOM! from one speaker to another. more white noise vicar? did you know brendan o'hare was kicked out of mogwai for talking during an arab strap gig? quite right too, in my opinion. i noticed people have been talking about douglas coupland again. he takes turns with bill bryson if you ask me. you want to read a real book, try the shoe by gordon legge. this could be my autobiography, but 10/15 years earlier. sensitive, stuck in a small town, no job (too shy), no prospects, not much money for records, trying to do the right thing, life ends up revolving around john peel, thats me. most of the lead characters thoughts and feelings were stuff i had thought and felt myself. i suppose youd have to identify with it in this way to properly appreciate it, but i recommend it nonetheless. another thing id recommend is the lp weve got rhymes for times like these by khaya. they were the ones did that single a couple of years ago that went do you remember that leonard cohen song suzanne . the albums nothing like that but it contains the immortal couplet i ate too many cigarettes/ she smoked too much chocolate as the reason for a break up. B+S content? well when my sister had her walls stripped before she put the new paper up i wrote do something pretty while you can on the wall in gold pen, y'know for future generations etc but later i was in a bad mood after aberdeen and liverpool both crashed and burned in their respective cups so i scrubbed it out and wrote kill a nazi for jesus instead. well thats my story and im sticking to it. from tjohn "an opinion on everything, most of them wrong, all of them strong" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+