So I was on the phone an hour ago, discussing last night's Palace concert with a friend (another who was enamoured with Brian Wilson's set -- I really must be the only one who was utterly embarrassed for him (and 6music, right this minute are playing the original God Only Knows, and I *like* it, dammit (nested parentheses rawk))) when I got Katrina's mail. "Oh God," I say, "Isobel is leaving Belle and Sebastian!" A heated debate follows, in which my friend casually accepts the news with comments like "well, yeah, bands evolve, you know, it's good for them," and I respond with crap like "no, NO, you don't understand, this is AWFUL, it's a complete DISASTER, you FOOL!" And after I calmed down I apologised for being such an ass. She's right, of course. It'll probably be good for them. It's interesting how, after six years of mature fandom and only slight obsession, I still have absolutely no perspective on this band. I still furrow my brow when people ask what their worst song is. "Huh? What do you mean? They did a bad song?" And this is me talking. You should hear how critical I am of every other band in existance. Anyway. If they ever do decide to replace Bel, be it known that my falsetto is pitch-perfect, and I can chat to Bobby about Belfast (like the mess I drove through this morning to get here, which looks like something from Kabul). - Michael (Rioting since 1976) * See how caring I am to all you people with the overbearingly puritan system administrators? Love me, please. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+