IMHO, Coldplay is NOT as good as having your teeth removed, one by one, by a blind traffic warden, using a pneumatic drill. Or having your testicles waxed by Anne Widdecombe. Why are the British music press so obsessed with Coldplay / JJ72 / Starsailor style suicide music at the moment? Of course, you'd be much better off listening to The Whitlams instead. Think great lyrics, great arrangements, and tunes to die for. Imagine Ben Folds Five if they weren't slightly annoying. Imagine Mercury Rev without the willful weirdness. Imagine The Divine Comedy at their smoothest moments if they weren't so over-the-top. Oh, just buy it will you? OK, time to discuss the serious B&S issue of the day. No, we don't care where the tour's going to go, or what the new songs are going to be like. The question on everyone's lips is: what colours are the covers going to be? They must be starting to run out of ideas by now. My money's on puce. Does anyone out there know of anywhere decent to live? I've been back in Britain for 5 months now (since http://science.ntu.ac.uk/msor/skg/travels.htm...), and I'm getting desperate to leave again. Too many people, too little space, too unfriendly, no decent scenery, and godawful weather. Time to emigrate. OK, so I'm going to be living in Nottingham for the next 3 years, but there's no harm in planning ahead is there? Apparently, the average person in Britain has sex 110 times a year. Someone's getting more than their fair share. Big Stu +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+