Yoko Ono had two groups; The Plastic Ono Band and The Elephant's Memory Big Band. Rockin' Joe Booker has two groups; The PINEs and The FOXgloves. Hmmm. I've got C188 and it's BLUDDY GRATE apart from Poxendale. I thought The Clientele were going to be utter pish, but they're actually rather pleasant. Spearmint appear to like Showaddywaddy. Have they got a Barry Sheene song? Misstopher Chris has come on in leap and bound. And so on and so forth. In all seriousness, I was kind of dreading it, but you're all very talented indeed and I'm quite jealous. And that's before even opening the magazine, which makes me look like a clodhopping duffer. C'mon kids, pop down to your local newsagent's and ask him to reserve you a copy. http://www.papercuts.co.uk Liking 60% of an album is pretty good going, I'm happy if an album contains 60% material that I haven't got already - Stax this, Stax that, Stax the other, they all merrily overlap. If I were to sell all the versions of "Theme from Shaft" I own, I could afford a ticket to see the new film remake, starring Samuel L. Clemens. As for the ups and downs and high points and low points and jaunty angles of the new album, I came across a quote from legendary skiffle boom promoter DH Lawrence in which he says, "Tell Arnold Layne that all the rules of construction are only valid for novels (or long-playing gramaphone records) that are copies of others. A book (or long-playing gramophone record) that is not a copy of another has its own construction; and what he, because he is an old imitator, calls faults and I call characteristics". So stick that in your pipe and smoke it, anti-Beyond the Sunrise brigade! See if you can guess which football match I decided not to bother watching yesterday. Apologies to anyone I haven't answered lately. Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+