ANSWERS Stout, Robin, recently wrote:
Has anyone bought the new single yet? Reviews please!!
Not to be outdone, Grivi, Anders, went on with:
because B&S has released a new EP and nobody's mentioned it! (I think..?)
Being a BIG GEEK, I hotfooted it down to my local megacorporate, soul- sucking dehydrated recordchainstore on Monday to get a copy. Not only did I buy the record, I bought it on two formats. It wasn't planned, though. Fossicking around the pitifully-small singles section, I discovered the 7" vinyl version first. Woo, thought I, 99 pence. Has to be a bargain. May as well get it if I can't find the CD. And then, I *did* find the CD, so (after many minutes of... THE PLAIN PEOPLE OF THE INTERNET WRITE: Get on with it! I will, I will, I promise. You get a jam doughnut if you Spotted The Reference, incidentally. I'm sure lots of you will have, because you're intellectuals like that. As I was saying, I ended up buying both Just Because. Partly, I was quite impressed that my local hyperdehydrated sterilised multinational THE PLAIN PEOPLE OF THE INTERNET WRITE: You did that bit! Oh yes. I did. I was quite impressed that they still sell vinyl 7" records, is what I was saying. I'm sure they didn't use to. I'm so old I remember when Woolworths stopped stocking 7" singles - in their big final sale I bought one by Ace Of Base and another by Four Non Blondes. Plain People of the Internet: was there supposed to be a point to this post? Because, you know, we could be downloading porn or something instead of reading this drivel. Yes. The new single. B&S go disco funk, apparently. I never like labelling things, because I always end up getting it wrong. Back when I worked in a library, I had a long argument with a cataloguer as to whether a particular book should be filed under PS ("American literature") or H-something ("Business administration"). It was a business administration textbook written in the form of a novel, you see. Not a very good novel. Worse than Mills and Boon, even. If you drive down the M6 (Toll)... Plain People Of The Internet: our hands are hovering over the delete button, you know... YOUR COVER ARTWORK'S BLOWN I don't care really about B&S trying to "broaden their musical style" ((C) Alexis Petridis, probably), because personally I like an entire 387 genres of music. Nothing more, and nothing less. What I do care about, though, is their cover art. Stu M's holiday snaps, mmm. Beanz wearing an arab strap - mmmmmm. Isobel's red leather jacket - actually, is it leather or PVC? I really don't know. We should be told, you know. Anyway, the point I'm slowly getting to is: what are all those books on the record sleeve? What does it tell us about the band? Here, push this button. Plain People Of The Internet: What, this button. Yes, that button. Let's take a closer look! STRANGE VIDEO ZOOMY EFFECT Now, who would live in a record sleeve like this? Let's look at the evidence. There's lots of books on the back, here; what do they tell us? "We Learned To Ski". We did, did we? "The Bedside Guardian 35" - clearly some leftwing socialist subversion going on. "War And Peace In The Sudan" - are there some interesting colonial exploits somewhere in the band's history? "Bound And Gagged" - clearly, the whole band are perverted kinky fetish perverts. Plain People Of The Internet: Like you, you mean? I'll have you know that that investigation was dropped, and I proved to the officers' satisfaction that those chains and padlocks in my bedside drawer were for entirely legitimate activities. So there. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise. KEATS AND CHAPMAN Watching Glastonbury on the telly fills me with longing. Not to go to a festival, god no, it would be an awful place filled with smelly hippies and annoying people. No, I want to be in a band. I want to play something wonderful in time with the rest of the band, turn round and smile at my bandmates because we're creating something great. I want to be on stage, and inspiring people to write shite like this on the interweb. I want to be in a band. I'm not planning to go down to my record shop for a few months now. The Aberfeldy album doesn't come out until September, sadly. If you're never heard of Aberfeldy, go and find something out about them. Although there is a new Hidden Cameras album due out before then. That could be tempting. Nobody has read this far, have they? I should have mentioned Aberfeldy at the start. xx Caitlin -- http://www.joannou.net/topofthestairs/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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