Ooh, everyone seems to be looking forward to the new album. I'm not too excited about Lord Anthony, but I do rather like Step Into My Office Baby. I hope it's got lots of flute. All the fans who found the band early-on, of course, now have to ponder and get all introspective, and go on about whether they still love the band or not. For some reason I never feel like I was an 'early- adopter' kind of B&S fan - there are so many people who heard about them before me. I didn't even join Sinister until over a month after it had started. They were a bit different in those days - those newcomers who never heard B&S's death metal phase have Never Lived. We've all changed a lot too, and found lots more new, exciting music to gush over. B&S, though, are still lovely and melodic and swoonworthy even if they now have a string section and Trevor Horn. I jumped awake, startled, at five to seven this morning. I had the radio on, and 'Expectations' was playing, the introduction bit with the cardigan zip. The radio was tuned to Radio 4, and they were trailing a documentary. "If they'd used 'Beautiful' instead," I thought to myself, "the world would IMPLODE in a whirlpool of self- referentiality!" It's a good thing they didn't, then. (And "Teachers" is back on telly again, and still has TBWTAS as its closing theme. Plus, they still have a donkey hidden somewhere in every episode. And children randomly beating each other up, and falling out of trees. GRATE!) love xx caitlin -- http://www.joannou.net/topofthestairs/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+