OK, firstly, appologies if you've already read this. Secondly, appoligies if anyone has pipped me at the post and sent this to the list earlier today. I get the digest, so I'm perpetually a few hours behind the rest of sinist*r-land. OK, from the NME.com (ie. possible *completely wrong and/or innacurate) ***BELLE AND SEBASTIAN NEWSFLASH*** (formally bought to you by Jeepster News, which now seems to no longer exist. Remember how exciting getting those e-mails used to be? ... c'mon Jeepster ... don't let some fat kind in New Zealand do your job for you .....) here goes .... ******************************* BELLE AND SEBASTIAN have been working in the recording studio with the producer of PETULA CLARK's '60s smash hit 'DOWNTOWN', NME.COM can exclusively reveal. The Glasgow-based group - who scored a Number 15 hit with their last single, 'Legal Man' - recorded two new songs this week in the city's CaVa studios with Mike Hurst, who produced the Grammy-winning classic Clark single, which in 1964 topped the US charts and went to Number Two in Britain. A spokesperson for the band told NME.COM: "They recorded two new songs, which don't have names yet. We approached Mike Hurst, and he was up for it. Everyone's a fan of 'Downtown'." Hurst, who lives in London, was a member of Dusty Springfield's backing band The Springfields and also produced records by Manfred Mann. Describing the new songs as "pop songs," the spokesperson said that the intention had been to record a single, but the band were still undecided what to do with them. They have another new track which was recorded last year while they were doing their XFM charity Christmas compliation album track, 'O Come, O Come Emmanuel'.". ******************************* Cool, although I would really like a new album this year, *something* sure won't go amiss. In other Jeepster news, Ian Maculloch of Echo & The Bunnymen fame, has been signed to Jeepster and will release a solo album at the end of the year. This has nothing to do with the scheduled Bunnymen album also due later this year on Cooking Vinyl. That's it for me, and for Jeepster. Lawrence. PS - Laura Llew, I love you for reigniting my dormant love of The Pixies. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+