Hello everybody peeps, Cor blimey, you leave your puta alone for a few days and whatta lotta mail builds up. I was chuffed to see that there have been some good posts recently, even some with B&S content! Twas good to hear that B&S may be being used for footie music on the radio. Twould be grate if legal man was used on match of the day for euro 2000! (sorry non-britsh residents, this won't mean anything tyu) B&S selling out? Who cares?! They've been selling out since they were born, they've always been trying, waiting for the 'right time' (e.g. the limited release of Tigermilk and the deliberately delayed re-release), building up a cult fan base, getting credible publicity/anti-publicity. It's what they studied at school. They have a masterplan. Good luck twum. Opened my window to the sun at the weekend to hear someone playing Sinister and it was good to hear other people appreciating what I appreciate - I felt a sense of community, like sinister, but wider and greater. I hope they make it big, it's what they want. And I'd like a revival of the late eighties/early nineties, when indie was popular and you could hear the music you like without going out of your way. B&S have always been on the cusp of breaking into the big time, and one day one of their publicity-with-credibility plans might work. The dancy & familiar Legal Man might be the one, with it getting airplay, being eligible for the singles chart, and with cult followers like us buying two copies. Could it make no.1 in its first week in the UK? Maybe, but it will probably drop to no.36 in its second week. Let's just hope that when it happens, fame and achievement doesn't break B&S up any further. Steps - grate. In two senses of the word. They may be freaks but that's just marketing. Whoever writes their songs comes up with choons, even if they are over-played. And that's just fine. I think B&S & Steps should release a single in the same week, there could be another Blur/Oasis-type battle! Just want to point out that Marx was not responsible for Ceaucescu. Or Stalin for that matter. Doesn't matter what the system is, these are just examples of power abuse - could have happend in any system, Marxist or not. It's just western propaganda that links the names without explaining the differences. And the 'real world' is not all about people getting burnt alive. It's not all about pain and misery. This is *part* of the real world, but the real world also contains good fings. The real world, objectively speaking, is as much about getting mugged as watching a beautiful sunset. Spending part or all of your time looking on the bright side is a good thing. Vive la sinister list and its twee subscribers! (at this point I wrote reams philosophising and justifying this view in terms of sociology, anthropology, morals and government, but deleted it as it was boring! If anyone wants to debate this point, I'll let loose) Twee - 'excessively sentimental' - isn't this a definition of romantic? I see twee as a compliment. I can tolerate the bunny-lovin faction of the twee movement, but I think it's a misconception that all twees are like that. Good to hear that Billy Bragg & Wilco have reconciled for another album of Guthrie. Billy can be excellent live, except at Glasto last year, when he played lots of Guthrie stuff and nobody seemed to know or care about it. But when everyone sings along to his songs and laughs at his between-song quips, it's a magical experience. Girls & boys - some girls are from venus, some from mars, some boys are from venus, and some from mars. We've all heard the 'I don't understand men/women' thang, and no matter what the gender, the arguments against the offending party are always the same. It's always a case of individuals having different beliefs and attitudes. I think bad experiences can lead us to generalise. But there are lots of well-matched people out there for everyone (said the single person!) With all this talk of Sebastian Bach, let's not forget Johann Sebastian Bach - if he hadn't well-tempered his clavier, there would be no B&S melodies. I hated those pieces of his before I found out that he was the first keyboard tuna. Now I think they're beautiful. And nuff Isobel jealousy already. Anyway, that's my opinions. Laters innit. Mikey.x +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+