Hello there Nicky Dastoor, who was shakin' his booty with gay abandon on Friday night, asked about mums in pop. And what a rich vein it is! Ladies and gentlemen, I give you:

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The Judds: Mother and daughter country duo with remarkable hair. If you ever come round our way, Tim H will gladly show you his lovely collection of Judds records.

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Iris Dement: On her first record, my favourite post-Nanci Griffith country-folk siren dragged her momma on to sing some ancient Appalachian dirge. The results were mixed.

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The fruit of the loins of Loudon Wainwright and Kate McGarrigle (sp?) is handsome young Rufus, and I'm sure both of them have performed with their son at various times.

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Yoko Ono: Surely the Queen of Screech has appeared with one of the Lennon brats at some time or other?

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Patti Smith: has brought back the fine tradition of child labour by enlisting the help of her son to play guitar on her last few records.

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Norma Waterson: the Brit-nominated folkie is the raggle-taggle matriarch to a whole clan of kids who sing with one finger in their ear.

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The Carter Family: Hmmm.... not sure about this one. Was there a mother among the Carter family members?

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Lieutenant Pigeon: featured a band member's mother playing the immortal piano line (on TOTP appearances anyway) on "Mouldy Old Dough".

Joe Cairns mentioned something about National Poetry Day. You will be amused to know that at a meeting several months ago I did in fact advise the BBC against using a web-based voting mechanism "Cos you'll get all the nutters voting". They have only themselves to blame. Went out to see Election on Saturday with the SE London Sinister masseeeev, and it was terrific. Lovely music too... Umm... some of you might be interested to know that trousercuts, the magazine for girls and boys who want to be girls, is finally complete. I'll send out copies to contributors in the next day or so. I'm still trying to figure out a way of doing online ordering, and I'll try to do something about it this week, but I'm a bit crap about things like that. Ta ta for now Stevie Troussé +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+