Sinsietre, I went to see Belle and Sebastian in Sheffield not so long ago. They were entertaining, particularly when they got some of the locals to come on and sing "Don't you want me baby". They had a boy and a girl up, the latter looked terrified that the former was trying to "get it on" with her, and hid with Sarah Martin. The boy did seem to enjoy himself and happy monday danced as he belted out the lyrics, but the girl didn't know her words and couldn't sing anyway. The whole thing was giggles all round. Not nearly as fun as the ginormous train we saw on the way back of course. Or the reaction of a certain individual to that, "the longest train in the world". It went as far as you could see in both directions. It was night time and foggy but honestly, it was still a big train. To answer a question, there is a Christmas compilation album called "Its a Cool Cool Christmas", which has Belle and Sebastian on it among many others. Its on the Jeepster label. I was playing songs from this album in a bar when a sizeable man fell through the window and onto a member of this establishment. The man seemed slightly contemptuous of the fact that he had just destroyed a window and only by a miracle failed to injure himself or the person he fell onto. Shortly afterwards he came up to me and requested that I play Frosty the Snowman. "Ok," said I, "I'll play it after the next one since I've already got it cued up." "Yeah, sure," said he, "Only can you play it quick because I can't stay for long - I fell through a window you see." As Laura Llew would say: Have a merry Christmas y'all, James +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+