Inspired by Robert McTaggarts attempts with mocking up car crashes in the snow etc. I have decided to go the whole hog and spend an evening recreating

those

covers with a standard Boots camera.......

I can only applaud your efforts, susannah. There are several other covers I would like to see recreated in a similar way: 1) Roxy Music's Stranded (needed: 1 panther) 2) Prefab Sprout's Steve McQueen (motorbike and rubbish beard) and 3) the Pogues' Rum, Sodomy and the Lash (tricky)... This lemur business is getting a bit tired... And anyway, meerkats are much cooler! For a cornucopia of intruiging meerkat information try http://www.meerkats.org... Finally, getting back on topic... was there a thread a while ago about close encounters with our favourite oddball popsters? Well anyway, here's mine: I was working up in Edinburgh at the Book Festival this summer, and one afternoon I went walking down the Royal Mile to watch the street entertainers. And who should I see watching some fire-breathing dwarf juggling kitchen knives??? Stevie Jackson, that's who. I could barely contain my excitement and went over to express my enthusiasm for his bravura performance of 'Like a Rolling Stone' at the Islington Chapel. I was wearing my mad playgroup leader orange B&S t-shirt at the time, and I think he probably thought I was some kind of stalker... Incidentally, duke, I think Simon Reynolds would almost definitely see B&S as crypto-cutie C86 throwbacks. Although he surprised me with eulogy of the Slits in this month's Uncut, so anything's possible... Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------