Hello, I Just had to drop a line about Oliver (hello Oliver) and his dilemma about whether the Godspeed You Black Emperor! album is putting £15 to good use. In a vastly inadequate word: yes. I bought F#A#(no infinity sign on my keyboard- help) about a month ago and it hasn't been out of my Walkman since; the previous champion B&S compilation is now de-throned. I hate to do one of those lazy pop journalism imagine-the-Cramps-in-a-room-with-the-Stooges-playing-the-Pastels-on-acid similies but I just can't help thinking of The Tindersticks as well as the more obvious Post-Rock connections, but that's probably just the strings innit? Mind you, paying ten quid for the new ep is a bit much. Sad muso fact: My local Our Price files Godspeed You Black Emperor! under K for Kranky (their record lable) 'because it says that on the side of the CD case {grins with smug self satisfaction endearing himself to no-one} Going off at a tangent a bit, you can call me paranoid if you like but I stood next to a bloke who looked just like Mick Derrick from Prolapse at the Fall's gig in Birmingham last week. He lives in Leicester doesn't he? Just a hop, skip and two jumps from England's most drab town. My brother said it was someone else, but I think he saw my brother's Prolapse T-shirt and decided to get some much deserved adulation. Alternative theory- Stars in their Eyes contestant (doing Pull Thru' Barker next week) tries to take credit for other people's work. Just a thought. Before I go, does anyone know where exactly in Birmingham Lawrence from Felt is from? I was thinking, if I could get an open-top bus I'd do guided tours like they did with Manchester and The Smiths. But seriously, it would be cool to see where he was brought up... in a non-stalker kind of a way. See you, David J. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+