Walter wrote:

I've just read this in a french fanzine (Crême Anglaise, there's also an interview of Stuart David and Chris Geddes in it...) Stephen, of The Pastels, is answering a question about his hobbies :

" I'm working in a library. I'm doing some writing also. I'm actually qoing to do a book with Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian. We're going to tell the story of Glasgow music from Orange Juice. It may be a book, but it will probably end up as a pamphlet! To both of us Orange Juice was a really important thing.

i find this quite amusing, since in the first Juniper Beri Beri's (Stephens fanzine of early 80s) he was a bit disparaging of the whole Postcard thing. Quite satirical if i remember correctly (and i could tell you for sure if i could get my coies of 1 & 2 back from the 'friend' who borrowed them seven or so years ago... by the way thanks at Andreas for the copy of #3). Also, stephen said in an letter back in around '88 in response to some research i was doing about fanzines for my dissertation, that although they rated Postcard way above the other Glasgow stuff like Simple Minds etc they were always a bit earnest for their (stephen and co) tastes. Maybe this confuses the Postcard thing with just Orange Juice, but then to so many people in so many respects, the OJs WERE Postcard. Would make an interesting book though... wonder if they'll mention The Dolphins? Oh yeah, and actually Kevin Pearce was in the process of writing the definitive book about Postcard and associated bands but he shelved it after writing many chapters of insightful and cutting prose. It would have been a brilliant book... i wonder if we can tempt him into finishing it? I doubt it somehow... ah well. i'm off to start writing my own book of pop music insights. ha ha. the duke -- Tangents On-Line http://www.virtual-pc.com/tangent/ Tangents On-Paper: PO Box 102, Exeter, EX2 4YL, UK tangent@mail.zynet.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Walter wrote:

I've just read this in a french fanzine (Crême Anglaise, there's also an interview of Stuart David and Chris Geddes in it...) Stephen, of The Pastels, is answering a question about his hobbies :

" I'm working in a library. I'm doing some writing also. I'm actually qoing to do a book with Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian. We're going to tell the story of Glasgow music from Orange Juice. It may be a book, but it will probably end up as a pamphlet! To both of us Orange Juice was a really important thing. We are very close to each other in Glasgow, we have so many things in common..."

Well, I guess you already knew everything... It's just my modest contribution to the mailing-list...

Well this is one of the many things I didn't already know, so thanks to Walter. I await the book with baited breath. Which of our two heroes is going to tackle the prickly subject of the rise and rise of Del Amitri? Will Hue and Cry get a look in? I hope there's a section on pop star eating habits. You can tell when someone's going to make it big when you see peeled prawns in their Safeway trolley and they start to cover their faces on the underground. 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------