Well, those two girls on the cover of the new album certainly look like nutters to me. They're from Iceland, aren't they? They're holding books called "I Fought in a War" which set me to thinking - has Iceland ever been involved in a war? I saw the album yesterday, but I didn't buy it. I chose to buy "Super Breaks Volume 2" instead, attracted by the prospect of listening to "Heaven and Hell is on Earth" by 20th Century Steel Band. Had I known that Mr Chris gets a credit, things would have been different. Perhaps Mr Chris is the mystery growler on "Beyond the Sunrise"? When bands cancel tours due to exhaustion, it usually means either TOO MUCH JUNKIE BUSINESS or POOR TICKET SALES. However, in this case, I think we should give Stu D the benefit of the doubt. Bear in mind that he has been touring America with his highly demanding wife. She's probably been nagging him non-stop, "Oh go on Stuart, write another song about ME! I know, you could write one about how it's really hot and I need some Robinson's Barley Water with icecubes in it but I'm too tired to get it for myself and so you go and get it for me because you love me so much, don't you... DON'T YOU? You could call it "Summer Sooskie" and we could release it as an A side instead of a B side like those ungrateful bastards in B&S and maybe we could do one for Spring where I'm covered in frogspawn and one for Autumn where I'm buried in scrunchy leaves and it would be like the Four Seasons by Nigel Kennedy only about me, me, ME!" Who wouldn't be exhausted after that? Mind you, he's not going to get much of a rest by not touring, is he? Poor bloke. But seriously, I don't think he hates the fans. I once wrote to him about how to buy Looper t-shirts (obvioulsy this was before I'd heard the music) and he wrote back calling me an "old menace". I don't know what brought that on, I'm sure, but I thought it was quite nice anyway. Carsmile Steve released the bats by asking about bands who steadfastly refuse to release singles off albums. Well Steve, the Buzzcocks steadfastly refused to release singles off their albums, but their record company steadfastly did it anyway. Led Zep also refused to release singles off their albums until quite recently, despite an offer from Simon Bates to personally make them the Christmas number one circa 1991. I think they released singles in America though. I'm sure there are thousands of others. Over to Big Dave, the list's only known UK skiffle boom survivor... 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+