Good afternoon Sinister, Well Belle and Sebastian are absolutely EVERYWHERE now aren't they? After getting home from the recent Hammersmith Apollo gig in London we saw a TV advert for The Life Pursuit! Next, the BBC predictably used The Blues Are Still Blue for their post match montage after Chelsea knocked Newcastle out of the FA Cup. Then, this week I discovered the band appearing at my workplace: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brapps/125644327/ With all the truckloads of cash the band will be making as a result of the extra publicity Rough Trade are paying for this time around, it makes me wonder if the next album will be their post fame comedown album, full of tales of cocaine abuse and how everyone pretends to be your friend. Bought the new single on Monday. The Life Pursuit is pleasant enough without being memorable, which makes it a disappointment in my eyes, and Mr Richard (Presumably a Stevie song as he sings it) sounds like a sixties latineqsue ditty that borrows it's catchiest riff from Blister in the Sun. Still, the The Blues Are Still Blue is a worthy A side and at least the cover photos are monochrome. See yous later Ben www.brapps.net +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+