Robin said:

Hello, my name's Robin Stout

So that's that one cleared up then. But then continued:

There should be an option on the website for "Not behind Big Stu", so if you end up watching the concert around Stu's ears you get a reduction.

Especially for you, Robin, I'll cut my ears off before I go to the concerts, so you won't have to look round them. I wouldn't want to be selfish. Meanwhile, elsewhere in this fine city, Arantxa opined:

About 1.30 pm, after enduring JLo, the unbearable vintage jokes of that subhuman species hired as DJ's in Radio1-daytime slots... [Johnathan David] will be single of the week next week or something, because Nick Cave is now, that is what the Radio 1 apemen said (?).

Now, this is approaching sacrilige (you see, I'm so shocked I can't even spell any more). Mark and Lard are gods; because as well as being the only show on any radio station at the moment who play decent music amongst all the crap, they are solely responsible for Belle and Sebastian; if they hadn't played Tigermilk on their old late-night show, no-one would ever have heard of the band, and chances are they wouldn't even exist any more. Their taste in music generally makes John Peel sound distinctly second rate. However, against my better instincts, I found myself listening to Peel's show last night, to be presented with "something new by Belle and Sebastian"; and it turned out to be Carriage Clock. And it sounded rather wonderful actually. It's barely recognisable from the instrumental version they played at their gig a bit back; and is in no way harmed by its complete lack of a chorus. And having heard the second half of Jonathan David (I switched on the radio halfway through...), I am now of the opinion that every single song on the new EP is better than anything at all on the Fold Your Hands album. Or the Legal Man EP. A real return to form, and very welcome it is too. Sorry if anyone else has mentioned this already, but John Peel went on to say that B&S had already recorded a session, to be broadcast sometime in the first 2 weeks of June, consisting of 4 brand new songs, none of which appear on either of the 2 new EPs. So that'll be the sound of several hundred listees going shopping for blank tapes then... And before any non-UK listees complain that they just don't care, I'd remind you that you'll be able to listen to it over the internet; it'll be on in late afternoon in the States, so there's no excuses. I've just had a very frightening thought; this is my second post this week which actually contains some content. This is of course totally against my character, and will be rectified shortly. There's an election coming up in the UK. The main difference between our elections and those in the United States is that we know how to count. Big Stu +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+