George Harrison, RIP. Not as much of a tragedy as Douglas Adams' death earlier this year (because, let's face it, the Beatles were shit ;-) ) but still a shock. In other news, there's an ad for Storytelling doing the rounds on TV at the moment. The first half of the ad has an instrumental backing that sound suspiciously B&S. Keep an ear out for it... Also on a B&S theme, as of Monday, you will be able to go to www.bbc.co.uk/radio1 and vote for your favourite Record-of-the-Week from Mark and Lard's show; Jonathan David will be there amongst the options. Of course, I would never suggest that everyone votes for it as many times as they can to make it Number 1, because that would be cheating, wouldn't it? Disappointingly, for the first time ever, Selectadisc (aka the best record store in the Midlands) have let me down. They haven't got the Camera Obscura album in stock. Any suggestions where I might be able to get a copy? Meanwhile, the Tompaulin album is starting to grow on me, even though it's clearly not as good as their early stuff... I guess I'll have to go back to listening to David Bridie or The Whitlams... The problem with goths is that they take themselves waaaay too seriously. And that's definitely not a good thing. Personally I would be deeply offended if I was ever accused of taking myself seriously. Life's too short for that kind of thing. Oh, and apparently accoring to our Athenian correspondent, I now exude coolness like cheap cologne. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not. But I like it, because it's the first time my name and 'coolness' have been used in the same sentence since, well, ever. Well, we're all getting excited about B&S's TV appearance tonight. A fine way to start the Christmas season; seeing in December in the company of B&S. But how will it go? The current betting odds are as follows: 1-5: B&S play "I'm Waking Up To Us" Evens: B&S play "I Love My Car" Evens: B&S play "Marx and Engels" Evens: B&S play "Jonathan David" 5-1: B&S play "The State I Am In" 500-1: B&S play "Electronic Renaissance" 3-1: Isobel doesn't appear because she's 'afraid of flying' 3-1: We spot a member of Sinister in the audience 2-1: We spot Neil or Katrina in the audience 10-1: Jools Holland accompanies the band on the piano 1-10: Jools Holland introduces the band by saying something in an annoying whiny voice Evens: Everyone goes to get another beer from the fridge as soon as The Lighthouse Family start playing 5000-1: Tom Jones appears onstage dressed as a gorilla 10 hours to go... Big Stu +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+