Hello everyone. Sorry about this, but there's little or no B&S stuff this time, but I promise to keep it brief. I saw the Nick Drake documentary on Monday and thought it was fan-dabbie-dosie (spelling corrections welcomed). At last we might see him getting the recognition he truly deserves. He has clearly inspired so many of us all, especially one Mr Murdoch, that perhaps he is just about due a bit of fame, albeit about 25 years too late. So anyway, here's the groovy part: I was in Birmingham town centre on Wednesday (only 2 days after the documentary, remember) and every record shop was cleaned out of Nick Drake records. This is it, chaps. The revolution has started. I don't quite understand why people who don't know about Nick Drake watched a programme about Nick Drake, but they did and they liked it. Just think, if one late-night BBC2 programme can do this for Nick Drake imagine what a Brits nomination could do for our beloved B&S. Of course, with this resurgence will come the indie (folkie?) snob i've-got-the-ultra-rare-vinyl- bootleg-of-him-sneezing types ready to snatch his unbelievable loveliness from the likes of us who don't even know what his best friends labrador was called. Let us fight back against these people and spread the good word. ...and just because I don't identify with him as a public schoolboy (near) Oxbridge graduate doesn't mean there isn't beauty in the songs. So there. On to other matters. I thought Lo-fi had more to do with the production and instrumentation than the actual recording techniques. It is a mistake punishable by tweaking to fall into the NME style trap of calling it a style of music. The first Babybird albums are decidely Lo-fi but nothing like Guided by Voices or early Pastels. Neither is it anything to do with the quality of recording: Blur probably spent a king's ransom trying to get their last album sounding like a Slint b-side. As for Mid-fi, wait for the new Sebadoh record. Before I go, has anyone else been plagued with e-mails about a music survey? I got one blank survey sent to me and after that I got bucketloads of completed ones and it's driving me insane. If you get sent anything similar please don't send them abusive mail, I'll only get copies of that too. Please cry for my sorry plight. Okay that's enough, DavidJ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+