Like Jay, I was intrigued by the I'm A Cuckoo single. Just what are Henderson and Doyle up to nowadays? By their names, you'd expect them to have founded a TV detective agency on the west side of Glasgow; but presumably Taggart has that market all buttoned up. Even though he's dead. I was also puzzled by the photos of Stevie and Mick. "At the Usher Hall" it says, but *which* gig? 2002 or 2003? Enquiring minds want to know. You know. I have to say, though, I do like Stop, Look and Listen, even if is a bit of a musical cut-and-shut: the front half of a Simon & Garkfunkel song welded onto the back-end of something by the Shadows. When the second half kicked in, I thought: "Ah! I know this!" Later, I realised it had been the opening track at the Usher Hall gig. 2003, before you ask. Having said that, I also like The Avalanches; so what do I know? Walking around Edinburgh the other day, I spotted someone wearing the same badge as me. The Glasgow Underground one. If I'd realised sooner I'd have waggled my eyebrows in a "look, we're wearing the same badge" type of way. Sadly, I didn't. There was a rumour (I think I read it on Sinister, so it's PROBABLY TRUE) that the girl who gets up on stage to TBWTAS on Fans Only is also wandering around in Edinburgh at the moment. My friend Brian (who is a goth) occasionally does favours for the local Indie Society, and says they have a member who might be her. Wow, I'm connected to celebrity. I fainted when he told me. Honest. Talking of goths, at my local pub quiz I asked if we could have a B&S question, please sir, only this once. The next week, it got to the final round. We were behind, but might just win. The air was tense. The quizmaster said... "Looper..." "Belle and Sebastian!" I whispered to my team-mates. And I was right, of course. And we won. Free beer. Hurrah! To be fair, the quiz bloke had told everybody beforehand that there would be a B&S question somewhere in the quiz's murky depths. I am a tad suspicious of my pub quiz quizmaster. He said something on his Livejournal, which makes me think he is into BDSM. I want to join in, but I don't know how to broach the subject. My local pub is a goth pub, which makes it rather harder, because it means that all the regulars look like they enjoy dark, perverted pleasures when in reality they'd run and hide at just the sight of a whip. (all the cool kids have Livejournals now, you know. Trouble is, so do the uncool ones. The cool kids are greatly outnumbered, but I hear they're planning to fight back.) An awful lot of people out there want to question The Boy Murdoch's sexuality. And they all seem to come to my website to do it. Literally ... um ... *fives* of people reach my website by searching for stuff like "Stuart Murdoch gay", "is Stuart Murdoch gay", "who is stuart murdoch's girlfriend" and so on. There's even the occasional "mick cooke gay", too. I'm sure he isn't. Or they're not. Or something. The last time I saw Doyle, he was wandering a nightclub clutching something that looked rather like an insertable sex toy. But he isn't into BDSM either, dammit! See how confusing the whole thing is. I have to go now. I can hear people having a conversation, and there hasn't been any innuendo in it for *minutes* taraa lovelies, caitlin (with a small c. aheheh.) -- http://www.joannou.net/topofthestairs/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+