Two Belle moments on local radio in London last weekend. First Mark Eitzel was on Sean Hughes' GLR show picking his favourite records of the moment. I somehow half-knew he was going to pick Belle & Sebastian and sure enough it wasn't too long before "The Fox In The Snow" piped its pretty way through my little clock radio speaker. Songs are often best heard that way. Mr Eitzel said someone handed him IYFS at a concert in the US and told him he had to listen to it. So he did, and he didn't like it, but then he listened again and now he loves it. So: Mark Eitzel, Ian Broudie, some bloke from Travis, and ermm...Ben Folds. They're taking rock aristocracy by storm. Then yesterday, on XFM's weekly singles review show attention somehow drifted to Belle And Sebastian. One of the reviewers, NME's Steve Sutherland said he liked some of their records but "Didn't really understand them". He challenged the other two to tell him "What they were about" or something, which they couldn't. And I wondered what he was on about. Actually, I'm very pleased to hear that boring old Steve Sutherland is so bemused by them. I mean I don't know what it was that he was expecting to understand about them, and I don't think I'd have much success 'explaining' them (or any band I like for that matter). Would anyone else on the list be able to tell someone like him what Belle and Sebastian 'are about'? Nick nick_dastoor.bsho@notes.compuserve.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------