dear all, my tape of john peel's fairly festive 31 (the end-of-year listener's favourite songs for those of you outside the great man's reach) starts at number 24 and cuts the number two song in half. within this colourful patchwork rug of music nestle two pieces of velvet, by belle and sebastian. the songs make me feel wistful and as though I were on stage in the play of my life, in a claustrophobic box-life room, only for the scene to change and I am transported into a green summer field. nearby is the 'nick drake meadow' where ghosts of butterflies open their wings to the sun. what are numbers two and one in johnpeel's countdown? what are belle and sebastian like live (the adjective 'amazing' which you will probably use may show that they arouse strong feelings but is not very descriptive) i hope that they'll still be playing in small venues when i get back to the uk in the autumn. forgive my ignorance in all matters belle and sebastian hugh **************************************************************************** ********* Hugh Tuffen Departement des Sciences de la Terre, Universite Blaise Pascal, 5 Rue Kessler, 63038 Clermont-Ferrand, France **************************************************************************** ********* Home address: Chambre 311 Residence d'Amboise 11, Rue d'Amboise 63000 Clermont-Ferrand France telephone: +33 473 437253 (ask for chambre 311) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------