lawrence from denim sent me a copy of their "summer smash" single... not only did it not come out in the end but the other week Denim were dropped altogether by EMI... the same happened to Stephen Duffy and RCA this year... lawrence's letter mentions how he thinks the Belle and Sebastian/Jeepster way is the only way what with all this "radio playlist or death" madness that the majors are obsessed with. I can speak for painful experience myself of course. Suffice it to say that I'm a lot wiser now, and I refuse to fuck things up with my own new band, Fosca: it's a decent, passionate indie label for me or nothing. looking forward to seeing B&S on TOTP. They will do it, won't they? bought the new (excellent) pastels album. nice to see the illustrious list of additional musicians includes Dean Wareham, Norman and Gerry out of Teenage Fanclub, and a certain Isobel Campbell on cello... i once got stephen and aggi to autograph my copy of "The Bell Jar" at a pastels gig in bristol years ago... still got it. well i'm off to flirt with librarians. dickon x ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------------