--- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 21:57:45 +0000 (GMT) From: G R Thomas <grthom@essex.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Sinister: Nostalgia ain't what it used to be Sender: G R Thomas <grthom@essex.ac.uk> To: Stuart Gardiner <skg21@hermes.cam.ac.uk> Cc: Belle and Sebastian Mailing List <sinister@majordomo.net> Reply-To: grthom@essex.ac.uk Message-ID: <SIMEON.9803192145.A@sf105.essex.ac.uk> On Wed, 18 Mar 1998 17:11:17 +0000 (GMT) Stuart Gardiner <skg21@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
I really got into indie music purely thanks to the Radcliffe graveyard shift show. I remember listening to the first ever show he did on Radio 1 (and even a few of the shows he did on Radio 5 on Wednesday evenings - Hit The North I think they were called) and thinking, yeah, it's really funny, shame about the music. This was in a period of my life when my taste wasn't very developed (Confession time: forget Menswear, anyone remember the London Boys?!?) and Radcliffe's music seemed too obscure. But as time went on, and I listened more and more, I came to love the music as much as the comedy, and I haven't looked back since. The man is indeed a genius. And that's where I first heard B&S...
And I'm exacyly the same. Not about the London Boys bit (yeah, I do remember them), but all the rest. I first started to listen to Mark and Lard in the summer of '96, mainly so it was so rib-ticklingly funny. But I started listening more to the music, and really started to get into it. All my 'indie' type taste spring from listening to Mark and Marc, as well as my love of poets like Ian Macmillan and the Bard of Marsden, Simon Armitage. I have M+M to thank for B+S ('Judy' was the first track I heard), Kenickie, MSP etc etc. I stil listen to the few shows I have taped, including the whole of the last week. Oh, how we cried on that last night.... Oh, well, they're still about, if only on t'afternons. See ya, GIDEONxxxxx "Oooh yeah, baby" FAT HARRY WHITE --- End Forwarded Message --- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------------