Secondly, there's been little discussion about "Late Night Tales" compilation and I was wondering what people thought? Personally, I think it's a bit disapppointing. It could (I think) have just as easily been called "Chris Geddes: Late Night Tales" rather than "Belle & Sebastian: Late Nigth Tales". OK, so making a mix like this is probably a consensus exercise between seven people with quite different musical tastes, but I can't help feeling like they tried a little _too_ hard to make it as un-indie as possible. I mean, really, Stuart has always been very vocal about the music he likes, but other than "French Disko" I'm wondering where all his favourites are? (And, again, I know there's more to making a mix than just sticking your 20 favourite songs on a CD) Surely Felt would have made the grade? Or Orange Juice, or some of the other 80s indie which was clearly quite an influence. Or something. It's a sad state of affairs when a Steve Miller band song is my favourite song on the album.
There is a lengthy interview with Young Murdoch in this month's Record Collector in which he reveals that he had nowt to do with Late Night Tales, it is all, or nearly all, the work of Chris and Mick. I only had a quick skim through the interview at the airport, but it looked quite good as far as these things go. Then again, I like Record Collector. They ask Stewpot about his collection, and indeed about *our* collection. Basically, if you found one of the clues on the treasure hunt, you are quids in. Probably. Unlike if you have an original Tigermilk, the last one went for a measly £136. I read about the new single in the NME. I have not seen or heard mention of it elsewhere. I am unexcited. I would like a "digital copy" of that Kebab Shop song, given that I paid for one and then the server was "too busy", and I don't even live in New Zealand. Peter +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+