On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Essexdog5 wrote:

(including "What's your favourite Spice Girl?" - and before anyone gets sarky on my 'ass', Smash Hits turned me down for a job, OK?).

I never heard back from them :( I fancied myself as a bit of a music hack, so I wrote some singles reviews that I though were pretty good. Stuff like "Caramba! The Spiceys are back, and this time they've been shopping in the latino-beats aisle of the great pop supermarket". I've just checked and I still have them... see http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~ceerab/about/music/smashhits.html (I'm particularly proud of that Portishead review "If you took the James Bond theme tune and bunged it through a washing machine at a high temperature, it would probably come out like this" indeed!) On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Johnston, John CT wrote: [Mark'n'Lard]

And for lovers of their comedy items there are some great websites.

Tim Stainthorpe's site is a chapel to their brilliance. http://www.maingate.demon.co.uk Oh, and yer Yatsura chaps were dead good last night. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dance To The Cheesecake! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------