From the sleeve, it looks like The Loneliness Of A Middle Distance Runner will be the next single, and I love this song to bits, so I hope it's a good recording.
Check the date on the letter, Robin. October 1998. But yes, I really hope it's going to come out anyway. It's having songs like this on tape that makes being a B&S track-grubber worthwhile. TWO AND A HALF YEARS I'VE HAD THAT SONG and it still sounds as fresh as ever. My sister heard it and made me insist I made a tape of it for her. The thing is, they haven't had a chart-eligible single since Autumn 1997. They are now popular enough for any single of theirs to make a BIG CHART IMPACT, so for me it's a real shame that it's happening with 'Legal Man'. If a whole bunch of people got their first taste of the band through a song as strong as 'Loneliness of the Middle Distance Runner' I'd be over the moon. Call me naive, but I daydream about people hearing that song on the radio or seeing it on TOTP and them falling in love with it. People who have never heard of Belle & Sebastian before. People who 'never normally listen to that sort of thing'. It really mattering. I think it could have happened. Now they'll be forever thought of as 'the band that did that Sixties style song'. Nick xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+