You know "Storytelling" the album? someone told me they'd downloaded it from one of those interweb sites and listened to it and it wasn't that good. In fact he bandied round phrases like "The Least Good B&S Album". But you know what, I went and bought it the other day, and I love it. I love "Storytelling" the album too. It has nice soundtracky piano/harmonica driven bits, and some songs that are very nice to listen to. What is odd about it, and maybe the cause of its not being liked that much in certain quarters, is that a lot if it doesn't really sound that much like B&S. I mean, it isn't full of Stuart Murdoch sung tracks about unpleasant things that happened to him at school, say. And the whole world of instrumentals is a bit of a leap for our favourite band. No, I like this record. Soundtracky records are often seen as being a bit wallpapery, but this has nice music to lose yourself in. I wonder why Todd Solonz used so little of it in his film, which I've never seen. Incidentally, the downloader decided on subsequent listens that actually "Storytelling" is a good record. Probably because he is a complete and utter dirtwad. In other news, The Pinefox is still coming to Dublin. I reckon we'll be going to The Palace on Camden Street on Sunday, although if you are planning on coming along I recommend mailing me off-list so I'll let you know what's happening. Apparently the Pinefox fancies himself as a bit of a scrapper, so if you fancy a fight the Palace is the place to go. praise Tobit. the Dirty Vicar +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+