So Belle & Sebastian are going to shed their indie image and go "pop" huh? Ummm ... Belle & Sebastian have ALWAYS been a pop band. But does this mean they're going to start doing .... (gasp) Interviews? Photo shoots? I don't buy it. As far as I'm concerned (and I'm really not trying to sound snobbish here) B&S are just to clever for the pop charts. Note the current crop of chart heroes ... Britney, NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, Bille etc. I just can't see songs featuring Mark Twain, Dogs on Wheels, Thrush and Catholicism really making much of a dent. To quote Robert Forster "... too good for the bloody charts". Look at all the great, intelligent pop bands who only skimmed the nether regions of the charts .... The Smiths and The Go-Betweens in particular. There's no deny that they were both great pop .... but fat lot of good it did them. Much as I'd like to see B&S as world straddling chart-busters (that way they might tour down in the arse-end of the South pacific and I'll be able to see them) I just can't see it happening. Best of luck all the same ..... (and look out Steps ....) Lawrence Mikkelsen http://www.akn.quik.co.nz/mikelsen/aboutme +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+