On Mon, 11 May 1998, Amy Golden wrote:
So get this: I'm planning a trip over the water, & lo and behold, right there on page 449 of "Let's Go Britain & Ireland '98" is the following passage:
In the 1970's and 80's, Scotland has played a significant role in the development of popular music, launching THE REZILLOS (c. 1978), the Skids, Average White Band, Glasgow's Orange Juice, Edinburgh's Josef K, and the record label Postcard which favored Byrdsy guitar chimes and winsome, coy-boy singers... ...while the quiet folk-rock of BELLE & SEBASTIAN wail throughout Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Sorry for SHOUTING, but my program can't do bold (I'm not sure how they decided which people rated bold & which didn't). So what do you make of this? I thought it kind of funny to find that there amongst descriptions of Glasgow Cathedral and haggis. Could the author be on the list?
_______ The "Let's Go" series of travel guides is researched and edited by Harvard University students under the auspices of Harvard Student Agencies, and a good number of the writer/researchers DJ at WHRB, the very good university-affiliated radio station, so it's unsurprising that some anorak's music tastes filtered through. To be honest, this sort of thing is the reason I can't stand "Let's Go"-- it's padded out with this sort of copy, and loads of it isn't substantially rewritten from year to year. A researcher told me a story of looking through a local telephone directory to ensure that the restaurants and hostels in various European towns hadn't fallen out of business, hardly setting out from the much nicer hotel that was out of the budget range of the book. And I'm just getting started. Buy yourself one of the stodgy guides, in any case. Okay, I've got to stop with the carping and go to the office. /bp ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------