Hello moi luvvers, Barney someone wrote: <<Subject: Sinister: Judy and her gang of homies>> Oh yuk. I'm not going to quote any more of this, or comment either. Curry and Chips, anyone? Then the normally quite sane Mick Mcmick wrote: <<There just aren't many people in bands from the UK who are of African descent.>> No, but there's loads of people in UK bands of West Indian descent, (which, Mick, is not in India, before you ask.) Or do they not count? <urrgh> sorry kids. I'm just in a bit of a huff. I've had it up to *here* with patronising casting directors today, then I come home to find you all talking complete (no offence) rubbishy ignorant bollocks. Anymore of this and I'll start saying 'this never happened in the old days'. And I'd be right. Heed the words of H!O!P!K!I!N!S!! (Not the ones about Pinteresque pauses, mind) This list is like a fairy bower weaved from finest gossemer, lovely and cosy to sit inside. And if you all start wiggling about in it you'll break it and fall right on your arses. Why has no-one else pointed out the fact that this lovely sweaty beast we call Rrrock n' Rrroll was not: 1) Handed down by God fully formed, 2) nor was it created by Sir Clifford of Richard on a slack Saturday afternoon, after Airwolf while waiting for the pools results to come in (same as 1. really I suppose) It is in fact a development of blues an' stuff, which some of you would call 'black music'. And Belle and Sebby, like it or not, would not exist without good old kick ass rock + soul. Well, maybe they would, but Stevie would be playing a Lute, or something. And Chris would legally be required to change his name to Gawain, whilst the girls would play crumhorns, and the Stuarts would take turns to Morris dance. Richard, in case you're wondering, would be replaced by a dribbling, one eyed dwarf called Snuffhammer, who drinks real ale, and re-enacts the black death every saturday afternoon, on wimbledon common. On his own. Observant readers among you will notice my self aggrandising subject line. Well, it's not, actually I was going to give you all a red hot tip (ouch!). 'It's Getting Funky Round Here' is an knee tremblingly great track that I've had boogying through my head for a couple of weeks now, and I thought I'd tell you all to go and find it. Except I can't remember who performed it. So I can't. It's on a rather tasty compilation called Stax o' soul (classy title), and the whole thing's pretty fantastic, so if that kind of thing floats your boat (or as the cool set are saying, 'butters your muffin'-thanks whoever that was:-) ) go seek and find. Actually, I think it should be compulsory listening for hipsters- anyone who can deny the presence of any element of S!O!U!L! in B&S should have their head examined. Or possibly kicked in. byebye seb 'It's getting funky round here! It's getting funky round here! It's getting funky....funky round here!' 'It's getting funky round here', by someone or other +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+