Hello! We need your help! Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie played "Carve A Pattern" by Butcher Boy on Thursday night's show on Radio 2, and now the band are one of four bands in contention for next week's Record Of The Week. If they win, Radcliffe and Maconie will play the single every night next week, which would be amazing! If you have a moment, could you please vote for them? Just email "Carve A Pattern" to radcliffe.maconie@bbc.co.uk There is a B&S connection with Butcher Boy. Stuart¹s been very kind about the band in his diary, and his wife Marisa took the cover photo for the band¹s new album. Here¹s what Stuart had to say about them: ³Butcher Boy are playing in Offshore Café. I feel a little bit emotional tonight, so I go for the racing certainty that is soft chords, poetry and gentle souls. The ambience in the café is literarily unmatched by anything I¹ve experienced all summer; seeing Ciara, the transformation of the café into a listening place, the man behind the counter tiptoeing with our refreshments, the music and the 44 bus illuminating the ceiling every time it passes. It is darker inside than out. Time has slowed. Because our hearts have slowed. Because we are listening.² Please vote if you can! Voting closes on Monday 16 February 2009 at 12 noon. There¹s a free download of ³Carve A Pattern² here - http://www.box.net/shared/f5qavojved Ian x +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+