for anyone that hasn't see it (oh yeah, and that gives a shit) - from NME dated 29/4/00: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ "BANGING ON ABOUT.... Not being a poor loser, no! The full truth about All Tomorrow's Parties has yet to be told. The real excitement wasn't focused on the stage but on the football pitch. OK, picture the scene: after destroying Radio 1 (EightFUCKINGnil!), NME FC proceeded to chew its way through various loser indie band teams like a drug-crazed combine harvester ploughing its merry fume-spewing way through a field of ripe corn. Yeah! Mashing up the bodies of the skulking little bunny rabbits and voles and shit BIG TIME! And then - FINALS! We had only one team to beat - the pasty-faced vegan geeks representing The Sinister List (a semi-official Belle & Sebastian web page). I mean, how hard could it be!? Pow! Smash! Krak! Wham! We peppered the B&S goal with shots aplenty but WE COULD NOT SCORE! And then the indie kids made a tactical substitution. They brought on Stuart Murdoch! From Belle & Sebastian! And he was BRILLIANT! And we LOST! But he wouldn't give us a post-match interview, of course, beacuse Belle & Sebastian don't talk to the evil, corporate cock-waggling capitalist music press. And apparently Stuart balked when he first realised that it was US he was playing against. Oh no, man! Like how does this effect my 'integrity', maaaaaan!? Which leaves one question unanswered: what make of boots was Stuart wearing? Were they NIKE - which probably means that they were put together by Third-World wage slaves? Or were they ADIDAS or REEBOK? Have you checked out THEIR working conditions, Staurt? Have you read Naomi Klein's 'No Logo' book? Have you, huh? Your press office was unable to either confirm or deny that you were wearing evil coporate cock-waggling capitalist boots, Stu, so we'll have to give you the benefit of the doubt. So long as your play barefoot next time, deal? Or, alternatively you could drop all the pathetic, ideologically bankrupt hippy posturing, get Belle & Sebastian involved in some REAL politics and then communicate your ideals to a mass audience via these pages. Like ADF or Rage Against The Machine or Chumbawumba or Primal Scream. If you felt like that, like, wouldn't damage your, uh, 'integrity' too much, maaaaan! Steven Wells" @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ well lots of things crossed my mind whilst i typed that. like i could be down the pub by now. i won't go on, though thought it worth pointing out how NME did recently report Murdoch/B&S taking a stance on Section 28, and speaking at a Scottish Socialist Party conference. just looked at http://www.missprint.org/sinister/picnics/FC-SlotJockey.html sorry 'bout that..... think maybe stevie T said there were other photos?? ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+