Hi hi: it's more than 5 years now since I first joined sinister. Needless to say that I wrote a lot of crap lines, written on my crappy english. That last feature still remains in some on my recent posts, you may even find some terrible writing mistakes. "Dear Catastrophe Rijkaard" "only" peaked at 21 on it's 1st week at the UK. So, that's a bit of a contradiction, even tough I heard that the sales at the Rough Trade shops don't count on the album charts for some reason that I don't remember quite well, and that i'd like to have someone to explain me. However, With all this talk of the band leaving the "indie" behaviour, now it looks like the comercial success is not as important as it was expected. So, ¿ what's the bad point ? I personally think the album reaches the levels of quality that I expected after "FYH", even with some bits of change that are still a bit hard for me to get used to them. However, we have songs and sense of humour. What else can we ask ? "Rhoda", maybe, but nothing more. Oh, and a EUROPEAN TOUR IN "CLOSED" VENUES ! There was a band called Camera Obscura that did that a while ago, and it was real fun. Someone claimed to have fallen in love with the catastrophic waitress. I have heard that the vinyl version of the album has some exclusive coloured pics of that same photo session. I have seen those pics and I can say that those spaghetti look quite yummy ;) A few public mentions to some sinisterites: to miss Nal Townley (who never writes here), mr. Matthew Henderson (he does write) and mademoiselle Karo Tremblay, who visited Spain and came to the Benicassim festival. Also to miss Annie Tremp, Rocio "la estrellita temblorosa y azul" Aton and that tall guy who owns JULE THE DOG (and is named Olivier), who I met in Belgium, witnessing yet another fascinating Tindersticks gig. My best wishes for you all ! Jordi (formerly known as Jordiet Sinistre) ______________________________________________________________ For up-to-the-minute music news, reviews and specials visit http://www.nme.com Get free e-mail (anyname@nme.com) now at http://www.nmemail.com The sender of this e-mail is NOT an employee or associate of NME, nme.com or any other IPC magazine. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+