Hullo folks, I finally got a cine film back from the developers that I'd been meaning to get developed for ages, and half of it seems to be of Archel's brighton picnic earlier in the year, with Mark and Ken running towards the sea, trying not to get wet, then running away like a couple of nancy boys. Unfortunately, neither of them actually fell in this time, but if I splice the frames cleverly I can make them do a funny dance. On Radio 4 on Thursday morning there was a small feature about how there are so few British singers that sing with their own accents, preferring to put on a faux american one instead. Their example of a band that does this was the Rolling Stones, and their example of one that doesn't was the Proclaimers*, who they had on as special star guests. Now, just before this came on the radio I'd been listening to Camera Obscura's** amazing Underacheivers Please Try Harder and wondering whether "I should be suspended from class" really does rhyme with "I don't know my elbow from my arse". And then I began to wonder about Struan's voice on Stay Loose, with his "stalks of wilting grarse". I decided that he is an accent traitor. I think we should send Craig, Charlie and Cuthbert Proclaimer around to his house to stamp on his toy tractor. That'll teach him. A few random things that are in my head right now: 1. The Duke is spot on about In The Country and Wrapped Up In Books. 2. Does anyone know if Mick Cooke really wrote You Don't Send Me? 3. Why did John Sullivan never write a spin-off from Only Fools and Horses called "Denzil"? Such a wasted opportunity. 4. I wonder who gave me *another* list crush? 5. I wonder if it was Ian Anscombe.. 6. Where did I put my glasses? 7. Oh, there they are! Robin x * The Proclaimers' new album is OUT NOW!! They like their girls with glasses! http://www.proclaimers.co.uk/ ** Camera Obscura's new album is OUT NOW!! They like their girls with glasses! http://www.camera-obscura.net/ _________________________________________________________________ Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+