hi: Vicki questioned Nick's hope that B&S becomes the new teen dream: Are you kidding? Don't you remember those teenyboppers (the girls that end their name in "i" because ys are ugly) in high school? Once they get wise of the Sinister list they'll clog up our inbox with messages like "Oh, Stuart looks SOOOO cute with that earring on the NME cover." and "Who are The Smiths?" Well, I'm not sure that they will clog the Sinister List, but if they listen to Belle and Sebastian and turn around and then wonder "Who are the Smiths?" (or Orange Juice, Felt, the Clientele, the Velvet Underground and so on) that's good -- and I reckon that's exactly Nick's point. Way back when there was a bit of scuttlebutt and/or hullabaloo about the etchings on B&S's and others vinyl records. I can't remember if the mystery of who exactly is Tim D. was ever solved, because I may not have been paying as close attention as I should have, but examination of the Legal Man 7´´ and 12´´ reveals that "Tim D." is present, but the word "masterpiece" which had been scrawled on the rest of the band's work is absent. A sly editorial comment then? Our server has been a bit disagreeable today, so I apologize if this has been covered, but as a boorish American I must wonder if bands typically play live on TOTP. I have seen a few and some reputable types seemed to lip synch (e.g. Pulp). Is it de rigueur to pantomime and the NME is just taking a childish swipe without cause? That said, the lip synching still is a bit disappointing. Oh, I saw Primal, er, PRML SCRM last night and they played "Velocity Girl" and dedicated it to Struan. No, of course they didn't, but they did a lot of shouty sloganeering and I witnessed a girl in a spaghetti-strap summer dress and her investment bankeresque boyfriend snog and dance unironically and unaware to a man shouting "Ooh Aah Hezbollah" at them. Don't Primal Scream have members in their group that won't bother with the press as well? Seems to me that's just like the current state of B&S then except that with our gang the anti-press rhetoric is magnified because its the frontman that doesn't do the interviews. It was noted previously that the beginning on June sees an unnatural convergence of tasty summer sounds hitting the virtual shelves. If the Tugboat release schedule is to be believed, in addition to the out-now Clientele EP, Our Belles, Baxendale, and the UK release of the sumptuous 69 Love Songs, June 12th brings the second single from the outstanding, original Life Without Buildings and the debut full-length from Katrina-endorsed Australian lovelies Sodastream. Yum. sorry to bore, I needed an out-of-work experience. Eight hours til margaritas. Enjoy the weekend, scott. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+