Julia Mary Brown wrote:

And my claim to fame is I've done my laundry standing next to Stuart Murdoch. But I didn't dare speak to him - I know, I'm a wimp. A 3000 word essay for Monday becons,

About Stuart Murdoch's laundry? One can only hope so. You should have talked to him. I bet he doesn't bite. Laundry is a great leveller. Just how unpleasant can you be when you know that your underpants are circling around in front of everyone's eyes? What colour were they? While we wait for the essay, here's a bit more insubstantial fluff from that interview: "I'll tell you that we like the Smiths, but we don't want to be like them. There are seven of us in the group and we have very diverse tastes that might surprise you. Three of us love The Clash, and others like World Music. Chris even hates The Smiths. We might be similar to them in that we use concepts that are there, in the street, within anybody's reach. We take them and then we bring them out from deep down inside us. Lots of the stories on the record come from before the group was formed, short stories that Stuart wrote, and that he liked to call "Belle and Sebastian". Dylan in the Movies.... "The story is about a boy who goes for a walk in the park at night and is scared in case anybody comes up from behind and grabs him. That's why it says "don't look back", which is also a film about Bob Dylan." "As far as we're concerned there's no war with Melody Maker, although we don't know if they're at war with us. We can't take the music press business in Britain seriously, or the critics. Or believe them, seeing as one of concerts was called "horrific" by the Melody Maker and "brilliant" by the NME. And it was the same concert." There, that's about it. Can't vouch for its authenticity, but that's a quick summary of what's in the article. Badly translated, but I don't suppose anyone's unduly worried. It's not as if it's one of the novels of Laurent Jalabert, is it? Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------