Hello all, First up - Merchie news. The long-awaited set of Playing Cards have finally turned up! They're printed front and back in full colour and feature exclusive images from photo shoots, band members family albums and on-the-road snaps, as well as old press photos and album sleeves. There is also a card detailing all the images and the origins of each. These cards are STRICTLY LIMITED EDITION so if you're looking for interesting new Xmas pressies for a B&S fan, we recommend you get in quick as we won't be remaking them once they're sold out. You can view a few of the cards by clicking "click for bigger picture" at http://www.banchory.net/viewitem.asp?id=973 You can also view all the Last Posting Dates for arrival of presents in time for Xmas Day 2002 in the wee pop-up window when you head to the online shop at http://www.banchoryshop.net The band are currently recording some songs and during the quiet times - especially when the power was cut due to stormy weather - have been pressing on with all your Questions which you can see the Answers of in the "Q&A" section of the site at http://www.belleandsebastian.co.uk/home Some fairly heated debates going on as you can see. Stuart is still continuing with his Diary and a bit of a tribute to Max who was auctioned off raising £3600 for Friends of the Earth Scotland. Congrats & thanks to Lisa from DC. That's it for now. cheers, B&S and Banchory folk. http://www.banchoryshop.net http://www.belleandsebastian.co.uk/home +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+