Hi All, FAQin Ell, she's back! Nice to see Honey out & about again, & looking so lovely as well, decked out like a Christmas tree. Perhaps this might be an opportune moment to mention that the 5th to the 11th of February is National Honey Week, organised by the Honey Association. There will be lots of activities to promote honey & highlight its versatility. It has antiseptic properties, historically was used as a wound dressing & to heal burns & cuts & is even good for face packs: that's right, get some Honey on your face right now! Belle and Sebastian bass player for gigs now Stuart David's gone? We've done this before, haven't we? (Deep breath) Stuart/Isobel/Chris/Neil have all been seen playing bass on stage before now. I've been listening to that Michael Shelley 7" & like it. He has an attractively croaky voice & the songs are OK, with a slightly Fannies feel. "Baby's In A Bad Mood" is the better side: reminds me of Brinsley Schwarz/Nick Lowe with Wee Chris' warm swelling organ well to the fore. "Don't" sees Stevie Reverb living up to his name with loads of big Duane Eddy geetar, & with Chris on echo-ey electric piano. I know that Edna W., Mrs mentioned that Future Pilot aka single ages ago but I've only just got around to listening to it. Restful, tinkly sound, angelic vocals (of course) but this time with ethnically authentic slurring. Are any other band members playing on this track? Sounds like Sarah on violin to me, but maybe that's just fanciful. Good to see The Pinefox safe on the right side of the Atlantic again. Are you going to write a song about entertaining the NYC gliterati to dinner at the Gotham Grill? You said you had a Nigerian Math(s) teacher who was in love with his work. My German teacher didn't stay so true & is now one of the 28 cross bench hereditary peers who were elected to stay in the House of Lords Peter "Quotation Marks" Miller: I didn't know you loved blonde singers with beauty spots having a penchant for 60's tunes. Nick, try tapping the ice gently with a wooden steak (or vegeburger) mallet. Re the Lowfly spam: it was really pissing me off too. I sent a few polite messages asking for no more to be sent, but to no effect. Then I sent messages of increasing rudeness (& with more & more exclamation marks) & haven't had any for a while. Sinister Tolerates Old People Love & regards, David Moore Chelmsford, UK +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+