Hello playmates, Once again I've elected to compensate for the lack of imagination and wit in my posts by making extensive reference to Another End Of Year Pollzzzzzz... This time from that bastion of all things cutting-edge and avant-bonkers, the Bible of Pan-Global Shrieking Cacophony, 'The Wire'. Of course, being 'The Wire', this is no Mercuryrevcatatoniashovethemanicsintherenoonewilltwig affair - it's all comically obscure esoterica - Min-Xiao Fen, anyone ? Arnold Dreyblatt's 'Nodal Excitation' ? 'Little Birds Have Fast Hearts' by the Die Like A Dog Quartet ? Never off the Dansette, that last one. Anyways, buried amongst all these unfathomable lists the mag gives space to individual writers to rave and rant about '98's highs and lows. Douglas Wolk, in his 'Pros' column, mentions 'new Belle and Sebastian on Virgin Airlines' (we know all about that), but also 'Kiki & Herb butchering "Fox In The Snow"'. Now what's that all about ? Is it this mythical remix we've heard so much about ? Some kind of BounceCore jack-hammer atrocity that's providing a soundtrack to Vicks-abuse in Ghent and Liege ? I can almost hear 'read it in a book tonight' being time-stretched into gaseous oblivion as I type. ::shudder:: [If you're at all interested in this issue of 'The Wire', it's the Jan 99 one - probably only available off-the-shelf in Rough Trade now - and features a cover photo of David Sylvian, cleverly distorted so that you don't notice that The Most Beautiful Man In Pop 1982 now has a *beard*. I nearly cried. ] I did do a quick archive-search re: the above; 'Kiki', disappointingly, turned up no references to Pebble Mill's finest chanteuse, while 'Herb' produced a cautionary tale involving Tag, Susannah, drugs and Flowered Up. I bloody love reading the archives, me. Beats working. Toodle-pip, SteadyMike. _________________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+