Hello. I spent a good portion of tonight exercising my CD burner by copying all the Nick Drake albums for a lovely girl I know. And not only because I want her to succumb to my (dubious) charms, but because she's also grate, loves B&S and more people should hear the wondrous Monsieur D. I had the Session In Scotland on at the same time, and everyone was being oh so cool as usual. I read FB's post about the Manics just as their new song came on. I thought it rather pish on first listen I must say. Thought they were meant to be returning to their ace punky B-side sound of yore, but it sounded like a bad Xmas record (TOO MUCH REVERB). Well that's got feck all to do with B&S, but then what does at the mo? (If anyone has a spare Manics ticket for the Barras, tuesday, then I'd be delighted. They were sold out when I rang. boo hoo hoo.) And then I'd made it to arch(ang)el's post about that Indian/Scottish song by thingymigig. And that came on the radio! It's quite nice and you can hear Struan's vulnerable choirboy tones floating above the hypnotic backing! Ooer. JenOwl was on about Gregory's Girl, which is tops. It was on that 1981 programme at the weekend. I like the chef guy in it, and Claire Grogan is infitely preferable to the rather aloof Dee Hepburn. And Happy Birthday is a bluddy grate P!O!P! moment. As is Kids in America (Woah Oh!) Dangermouse was a tremendous nostalgia moment as well. I looked at said Ms Owl's website and it's dead funny. I was merrily quaffing Ribena and wearing my duffel coat this week when I went to my first council meeting. Most of the councillors are old and mokeish and one 40 something woman started flirting with me saying "Oh what a handsome young man." Filthy old slattern. So I gave her my card. Did anyone else notice under Heather's Weather on Reporting Scotland, it said Burn's night. What a glaring error! Robert Burn! I don't think. (Get a life, Iain) See yis later, aye. fuckin' eccies 'n' that (A Gadjee) Iain xxx _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+