Klas asked for a review of the new EP, so here's a fully clickable one. I don't know if anyone will find it useful or not. It was meant to be even more fully clickable but I got fed up with the damn computer getting disconnected or whatever it is that happens every five minutes or so on the information superhighway. A Century of Fakers: Elegy in a vintage keyboard shop. Tales of impossible love and falling off one's bike on the way to see one's bird. Quite sad, quite pretty. Vaguely reminiscent of O Caroline by Robert Wyatt or Soft Machine or Matching Mole, not sure which. http://www.furious.com/perfect/wyatt.html is a nice interview with the aforementioned hairy old hippy. Nothing to do with B&S, at least not directly. A good read, nevertheless. Le Pastie de la Bourgoisie Up tempo number. Mentions Judy Blume. Who? http://www.judyblume.com/home.html Contains some good advice for writers. There are a lot of them on this list, whether they know it or not, judging by the compo entries. And I mean that most shincerely, folks... Beautiful Starts off quiet. Later on all the instruments come in. It's very effective. The lyrics intersect the universal. Some striking images of suffering and solidarity. Am I getting carried away? Probably, but I think this is one of B&S's best songs. Shows great restraint and control. A bit like Wonderful by the Beach Boys. But not much. Put the Book Back on the Shelf The return of Sebastian. Wrote a book about himself, but everyone left it on the shelf. Should take it to the library in Richard Brautigan's book The Abortion, which is quite a nice book, although not as good as So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away, which is about a boy who buys bullets instead of a hamburger. The song mentions comic genius Sid James, and seems to give him supernatural powers. Not as strange as it may sound. He breathed life into characters such as Henry VIII and the Rumpo Kid. Here is a nice tribute to the great man, well worth reading in my opinion. http://www.adavids.demon.co.uk/carry/sidtribute.html This one will probably have lots of books on shelves: http://www.bne.es/ It's the Spanish National Library, whatever that is. Songs for Children (?) "Hidden" bonus track, quite an effective ending to the EP. Sounds distant and lost. There, I didn't use the word "fantastic" once. Isn't it a boring Sunday? I almost wish I could watch Songs of Praise and Antiques Roadshow. Instead I'm listening to that Mick Harvey album of Gainsbourg songs, waiting impatiently for the next one. A question: Is "Popcorn" by Hot Butter the music that they used to use for trampolining programmes on the telly? I trust that one of our older viewers will know what the bloody hell I'm on about. No answer to that Paris question yet? I'm seriously considering slinging a string of onions around my neck and pedalling up to gay Paree for that one. Those new t-shirt designs are really nice. Who did the picture? It's the World Cycling Championships this week. I'm hoping to infiltrate the pits area and sellotape a few lolly sticks to the competitors' spokes, so that they sound like motorbikes. Look out for me on the telly. I'm going to wear my lunatic playgroup leader B&S t-shirt. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------------