Hi all! I had read that B&S were going to be in Spin's top 40...and goodness it's true! I don't like Spin and various other magazines and usually whenever I see a band I like in them I always get a little angry cos..well various reasons that i won't get into.. BUT when I saw the little B&S...I felt actually happy..i think Stuart Murdoch looks beautiful in that picture,the teeny little smile..awww...i felt such an overwheming love for him and his voice when I saw that picture!! Anyways..I didn't really care about what they wrote but here it is anyways: Belle and Sebastian are indie rock's most notorious shrinking violets.They refuse to be photographed,shun reporters,and rarely perform in public.Even becoming a band at all was something of an accident for the Scottish collective.Each year,Alan Rankine,a onetime member of 80's popsters the Associates,shows his music buisness class at Glasgow's Stowe College how to produce and market a record.In 1996,the class picked a demo tape by shy singer/guitarist Stuart Murdoch,impressed both by his meticulously arranged,slyly funny pop tunes,and his ethereal,Nick Drake-like voice. "The strength of the songs just pissed on everything from a great height!" raves Rankine.A surprised Murdoch cobbled some musician friends together and recorded the acclaimed Tigermilk EP."We thought it was okay," says drummer Richard Colburn."Then record companies and fans started calling and we thought,My God,what have we done?" They signed with The Enclave label,which folded soon after the release of the excellent If You're Feeling Sinister.A new record will be released by Matador this summer,but the band is still devising ways to confound the public. "I'm going to suggest something daft like touring the world's Holiday Inns," says Rankine,still a band confidante. "That ought to keep them occupied." (radiohead pictures everywhere in this thing! Today,in a very trendy 'ohmigod' shoe store they were playing Paranoid Android.I wonder how Thom woulda felt about that...because he's always going on about how he turns on the tv and sees ads for toasters and feels disgust...) *sniff* My street poet friend didn't recognize me today..just cos i wasn't wearing my miniskirt...so i got no true love poems today.But he met the director of that famous opera which is performing at the nac now...limos everywhere..so i was happy for him...i would like to be able to play B&S songs very well on my guitar..i think it would be so nice to sit under the bridge and be a belle n sebby busker... kisses, Genevieve saw Nightwatch...that Nick Nolte is a creepy man!!!! And Ewan...sounded..American! I didn't think he could do it...i much prefer Scottish accent..mmm...redheads... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------