Jon G., there is absolutely nothing wrong with gaps between songs in live shows. Far better than the alternative, anyway. Everything merging seamlessly into one in a shambolic fashion, confusing the uninitiated and denying an appreciative audience the opportunity to punctuate the set with rounds of applause, loud whoops etc. I have read reviews describing gigs where the singer tells long stories between songs and they are usually derogative about that. I think I'd be pretty miffed by this - unless they were incredibly witty of course. Sorry, did I miss something? There was a power cut here, the room was plunged into darkness and the computers fell silent (I work in a big open plan offic). Everyone was commenting about how quiet it was. But maybe we need the constant hum of IT equipment to keep us all awake. Chris Leonard, I love your play! Wish I had an imagination like that. Wow! I have no idea how many copies IYFS has sold but HMV in Oxford had marked it under BEST SELLERS. Does anyone know how it is decided which new releases are displayed in the windows of record stores? Is it done at a branch or national level in the case of the larger chain stores? After all, there must be hundreds of new releases each week and is it purely a matter of corporate clout? you may say 'it's not important' but I would beg to differ- whether or not a new band gets its single/album in the window of a high street store must make a substantial differnce to how well their work sells. and why do lyrics of songs on albums differ so much from those in the sleevenotes/inlay card/ um, er bookletnotes (?) . I daresay this has got something to do with issues of copyright etc that I don't pretend to understand (re Radiohead's 'lyrics by permission even though we wrote them' on 'OK Computer') . IYFS has examples of this e.g. in Get Me Away from Here I'm Dying 'washing against the lonely tenement' is printed 'falling' is sung. I do appreciate that it can be the band being deliberately perverse in some cases eg 'Baby I am no futurist etc' for Pavement's 'Type Slowly' on Brighten the Corners. And I'm sure we can all think of examples of fragments of lyrics appearing rather than the whole song (eg every song on Belly's 'Star' album). Mark (who has no desire to flame anyone and presumably is consigned to walk the streets eternally with 'boring' tatooed on his forehead as a result!). -------------------------------------------------------- Mark Hester Engineering & Technology Elsevier Science Ltd The Boulevard Kidlington Oxon OX5 1GB UK Tel. +44 1865 843296 Fax +44 1865 853319 E-mail m.hester@elsevier.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------------