The subject line was uttered by Barry Cryer on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue which is why it's the bestest show on the Radio 4 apart from maybe that one John Peel does about how families don't really get on and things. Lots of people have been talking about Johnathan David. What is this? Some kind of Belle & Sebastian list? OK here goes... Popped into my local "small" record shop last week and grabbed a picture of some people looking awkward at a toga party. Paid 4 quid, got a penny in change and skipped home all excited. Threw it into the CD player, cranked flatmate's new amp up to 11 and pressed PLAY... Mmmm... Nice piano intro, tune already rattling around my head. Voice comes in... oh dear Stevie - did you lose your headphones? Start to enjoy things more as they start layering on the layers. Suddenly much happier by the end. File under Growers. Inlay reads like secondary school RE essay. Concentrate on the music. Take Your Carriage Clock is better. They seem more comfortable with a string section than they did with anything on Flappyclap. Struan sounds angry. GRRR! Middle distance runner is ace. I can't comment on the guitar solo since I'm not familiar with the earth-shattering live version. I'm only here for the whistling and TLOTMDR has some of the best recorded whistling since The Scorpions' Wind of Change. Of course the other great Whistling record was I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman by 'Whistling' Jack Smith. A top ten hit I believe until the scandal broke - Milli Vanilli style - that not a note in the recording had actually issued from 'Whistling's lips. David Moore mentioned a curious feeling of growing excitement apparently focused on this coming Friday. I think it's contagious. Must do some work. Robster ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+