Greetings Happy Citizens of Sinisterland, It's Sunday night (in the UK @ least) and I've figured it's probably about time for me to try sending message to you all. Yep I'm another newbie breaking the ice so sorry if this isn't the most exciting mail ever composed - broadcasting to 1100 people is kinda nerve-wracking. Anyway I guess I should quickly explain how I happened to end up here. To be honest it's all down to Select magazine, I used to be a regular reader but got a little disenchanted when the mag seemed to become the unofficial fanzine for the Oasis & Verve fanclubs, both of which never really did anything for me so I stopped buying it. Then one day I was in my friendly neighbourhood Virgin Megastore and noticed "Belle and Sebastian" scrawled over the cover... and the rest just happened. I've been into B&S ever since I heard a few songs played on Marks & Lard's now sadly defunct evening show and they were a revelation compared to most over musicI was listening to at that time. Judging from a few mails that I've seen the Mark & Lard link is a common one, I think they should both be made honoury Sinisterites in recognition of their services to B&S-ness. So here I am on Sunday night........ there's always been something slightly strange about the weekend ending. I can always remember that as a child the game playing/bike riding etc always took on an extra sense of urgency just before tea time on a Sunday, possibly because we knew that once we went inside and had tea the weekend was officially over and all we had to look forward to is school the following day. I don't think it's quite as obvious now that I'm working as the demarcation between weekday=work and weekend=play isn't quite so strong. Hmmmmm I hope people know what I'm talking about, I sometimes don't words things very elegantly. Ok time to go, thanks for reading and apologies is any of the above has left you scratching your heads and wondering "what in the name of Jimminy Cricket is he on about". Cheers for letting me join the family and congratulations on being clever, funny, serious and interesting all at the same time.I've only been here a month or so but have loved every minute. I can't promise and startling B&S news or opinions as much of what I'd want to say has probably already been talked about squillions of times but if I ever see Stuart M & Isobel C changing a flat tire on a large truck marked "Advance copies of Tigermilk and other everso secret B&S stuff" on a sliproad off the M40 you all will be the first to hear about it !. Take care everyone and have a groovy week. Craig xo +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+