By the way, and I hope nobody minds me mentioning this, but the >programme I was working on was called The Adam and Joe Show and the second >series returns on November 22nd 11.00pm on Channel 4. Its really funny and >Adam likes Belle and Sebastian, especially 'Expectations' and puts it on all his compilation tapes.

ooh, cool. I loved that programme. I found an episode on tape the other week (the one with Neil Hannon in the Vinyl Justice bit) and it was even better than i remembered.

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the internet movie database will let you search for birthdates. 16th january is given by:

http://us.imdb.com/M/on-this-day?day=16&month=January

and turns up kate moss, john carpenter (and about 50 or so others). it'll also show you deaths and marriages and films that opened: the apartment (one of my favourite films) opened (albeit in sweden) on your birthday in 1961.

andy sat here, bored, waiting for email...

I've just done that for my birthday 24/ 5 / 77 and it turns up libby kennedy from neighbours and eric cantona

Least it was people you'd heard off...the 2 andy mentioned were the only 2 on my list i'd ever heard of, just about. Although ginger rogers did get married.

I've just done 3/1/79 and got nothing. Luckily,I know who I share a >birthday with. Unfortunately,it's Michael Schumacher.

Do not slag. The bloke is the best driver F1's seen in a long time.

They had a song called Whistling in the Dark, about the miners' strike, so did They Might be giants, but thats entirely beside the point.

In fact my whole message is alarmingly off topic. Must fix this. In a minute...i've got a review from a magazine called Magnet but i refuse to post it until i've read all the digests i've got, in case someone else has. So. Just be patient.

3) i'm lovely friends with a)Chris Nettleton in the Nubiles. and b) ~>with David Ryder Prangly from Rachel Stamp (anyone ever heard of either?)

Christ, my flatmate's a MAD Rachel Stamp fan ever since she saw them at T in the Park in the summer... don't like them too much myself. But his hair is cool...

WOW!!!!!! What a fantastic idea. Belle & Sebstain in a cathedral!!!!!!! >It would sound amazing. just acquired a playstation and thanks to the funky audio CD options i can now find out what B&S sounded like in a church. And the answer is...shit. But that might just be the playstation.

Right. Have now trawled through all the digests for the past week (see what happens when you get ill?) and haven't seen the review. So i might as well post it :) from Magnet magazine sept/oct 97 Belle And Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister those in the know swear by Belle And Sebastian, a soft-spoken seven-piece combo from Glasgow. Given the band's favorable notices in the U.K and U.S. press and its ascent on the college music charts, cynics might expect the worst. Well, just forget all that - If You're Feeling Sinister is a clever, timeless record to get enthusiastic over. Starting with any number of reference points (Bob Geldof, Lou Reed and Ray Davies), Belle And Sebastian constructs meditative yet frisky soft-pop numbers punctuated by swells of cello, violin, sax and piano. "Seeing Other People," which features snappy piano overtones that ofcould have been played by Schroeder in Peanuts, demonstrates singer/ songwriter Stuart Murdoch's wit and nostalgia: "We lay on the bed there/ Kissing just for practice/ Could we please be objective/ Case the other boys are queuing up behind us." There's too much Morrissey for comfort in the not-as-melancholy-as-it-sounds "Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying" which finds Murdoch claiming "Nobody writes them like they used to/ So it may as well be me." Expect many more conversations throughout 1997, particulrly when music types compose their year-end top-10 lists. John Elasser So there you go. it sounds very familiar...never mind. love and stuff caz ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------