hello folks, *** PROG ROCK BOLLOCKS *** weird that you're all talking about pink floyd, weirder still that you're talking about them just as i get some bang up to date pink floyd related gossip. the partner of one of my work colleagues is an artist, quite a successful one too, and has just finished touring the states with roger waters, doing all the set design and giant inflatable pigs and stuff. so anyway, on the last date of the tour the band finished their set, and everyone leapt from the stage and ran as fast as they could for the waiting limos, so the artist guy has to leg it after them, and there's this whole crowd of musos and their entourage running like nobody's business, and jumping into a fleet of cars and speeding off down the road. the thing is there were no screaming crowds of fans chasing them or anything, and he still has no idea why they ran off like that. shame perhaps? i used to be a bit of a fan, but i haven't really listened to any of my floyd albums for ten years or so, and think it was probably just a phase i was going through. i suppose you could argue that "i fought in a war" is a bit like pink floyd, if only because roger waters is always going on about wars. i don't think there's anything wrong in liking pink floyd, but they are a bit old and fat and irrelevant now, not unlike myself. i really dislike records by yes though, because the bass is always too loud and sounds terrible. to make matters worse, by the mid eighties the bass player was the only original band member left, and then he even went to court try and stop all the other original band members from releasing a record together - because the sleeve had lettering that looked similar to seventies yes albums. these wild rock stars, eh? even so, rick wakeman does seem like a sound bloke. *** FLOPPYWENCH **** i disagree with the idea that the new album shows its influences less than its predecessors, i think it just shows different influences. i mean, the band play a left banke song live, and then nick the intro for the model... the gentle waves cover a nancy sinatra song, and then isobel comes up with a nancy & lee pastiche... you could even argue that the keyboards on leave the light on have a "theme from taxi" kind of quality to them reminiscent of much of beck's stuff, someone else that they have covered live... i would say that TWATTYBUS displayed the band's influences far less than FLOPPYWENCH. i seem to remember someone, probably mark c complaining that the band don't use flute as much as they did on their early records - is there enough on the new album for you? i'd say there's more flute than there is guitar... almost. brian, i definitely remember you complaining that stevie is always doing that choppy steve cropper guitar thing. it's good to hear "there's too much love" proving that he's learnt to do seventies stax guitar sounds as well as the sixties ones - and on the same song too! no wonder everyone loves it. *** OTHER BANDS *** brian again, the nixon ep that sandcastle released is great, it kind of reminds me of a cross between the acid house kings and another band, but i can't quite place who... has anyone else heard the single "robot trouble" by barcelona? i don't follow the charts, so for all i know it got to number one and i look really stupid for asking. i thought it managed to be funny without being shit, which is quite an achievement really. does anyone know what the four extra tracks that appear on the US release of baxendale's album are? i've already bought the UK version, and am now left pondering whether i should have bought the US one instead. mail ME if you can help, not sinister. its a shame that the clientele felt the need to slag off b&s. i suppose after four years b&s have stopped being a fashionable cause celebre, and are viewed as part of an indie old guard. i still love the clientele though, grumpy old buggers that they are. *** THE NME *** they're a bit sad really aren't they? bye, kevan ps apologies for not making it to the picnic *********************************** chickclick.com http://www.chickclick.com girl sites that don't fake it. http://www.chickmail.com sign up for your free email. http://www.chickshops.com boutique shopping from chickclick.com *********************************** +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. 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