Well hello my darlings... The following is in some sort of way in response to the thread on Conversions to the fine cause that is B&S. Not to put too fine point on it i need HELP, not medicaal or indeed much else that no doubt exercises your fevered imaginings [or an inability to recall Pj Harvey, Some of my friends would kill if they knew], however, a serious question presents itself, honest it does... hard as it may be for some of you [o.k not very many, but those much more twee than i], to imagine, B&S are not at all easy to explain to thase without an idea as to who Nick Drake, Donovan et al actually were and what they sound like. this occurs to me as i mentioned them to various people and when pressed could offer nothing better than the rather lame; "erm... a bit like early Smiths maybe?". even this is greeted with politely blank looks [ or sometimes after some thought "The Smiths, who?" i grin and change the subject. My question therefore dear friends is this: How the hell do you explain the band you love to someone who might cite Catatonia, or worse, Terrorvision [arrrrrrrggggghhhh!!!!!!] as the very peak of musical sophistication ? To be fair, this last is something of a worst case senario, but suggestiions welcome............................................. To all 1000+ of you XXXXXXXX AJc [on behalf of the Society for the propagation of Belle and Sebastian, membership open to all !] "Because I know that you know, that we know they don't know whats been going on.... " Gruff Rhys, SFA, 'Demons' ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+