ps115 wrote:
As nice as the idea is of sending Belle and Sebastian on a tour of primary and secondary schools is, I feel that maybe this is the wrong direction for them to take. Before we know it there will be Belle and Sebastian dolls, maybe a saturday morning cartoon show (New Kids On The Block anyone?) their latest single will only be available to those people who collect 50 gin bottle labels and they will be doing the advert for UK Gold, dressed in short skirts and wearing too much make-up. This is not the future I envisage for B&S,
with respect, i think you miss the appeal of Pop. i used to feel the same, and maybe it's age and mellowing that makes me feel different, i dunno, but i really don't see why belle & sebastian shouldn't go ahead and play the Pop Game (by their own rules as much as possible) and win. At least win to some extent, i mean, they ain't gonna bring down the walls of established music biz, but hey... I HATE the idea that b&s will be some wanky safe little cosy 'respected' group, talked about in hushed reverence. I get a shiver if i think about them being given big features in 'Q' saying how worthy and artful they are... Sure, discuss the social and political implications of Pop (and that's important i feel, because, um, i like the idea that people investigate and think about what they consume, but that's another matter..), but don't forget that important point you seem to be maybe missing, and which i try to point out in my recent review of 3,6,9 : 'They sound fucking great!' See, don't talk about b&s in hushed tones in your little cliques, go shout it on the high street, go write their name in the sand, paint it on walls, grafitti your school, your bus shelters. B&S rule the school. Make posters yourselves and flypost your town (we used to do this in troon with Sarah records...), make some homemade badges and give them to strangers. I don't care, but just DON'T make them a group that you keep locked away in your closet. keep the faith, the duke of harringay, Pop Evangelist. -- Tangents On-Line http://www.virtual-pc.com/tangent/ Tangents On-Paper: PO Box 102, Exeter, EX2 4YL, UK tangent@mail.zynet.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------------