hey kids i know this is a bit late now, but there was a GRATE column in the scotsman last friday about the links between bernard maclaverty, travis and struan. apparently they used to go round to his house and play chess with alasdair gray, or something. and it called b+s 'the oddest band in britain', which i guess makes a change from the 't***-est band in britain'... and talking of alasdair gray there were a few articles about him in the papers over the weekend, one of which mentioned the b+s book he's gonna be working on. apparently it'll be out by christmas, but seeing as his new book was supposed to have been published in 1989 i wouldn't hold yer breath! i was under the impression that it was going to be a music book, but from what i could make out it'll be a book of struan's lyrics illustrated by gray (i *might* be wrong about this...). i've never been too sure about this kinda thing. i've seen similar books by nick cave and lou reed, who both write wonderful lyrics, but when printed in book form they just don't have the same power as when combined with music. and much as i luv struan's words i'm worried that the same might happen with this book. lyrics are written to be sang with music and when they're printed it's not really the same...hopefully i'll be proved wrong and i am looking forward to seeing it, as any collaboration like this has got to be exciting. this is my first evah post to the list, by the way, after a long time lurking (like, since last october, or something). i've even been involved in the wonderful tape tree odyssey and everyting (mines the one with all the ivor cutler bits), but i just never got around to writing before. i guess i've always been a bit of a late developer...but i've loved reading yer posts all this time and i'm sure you'll make me welcome. my name's ian and i come from embra. in about three weeks i finish college forever, so like a lot of you i have bludy *loads* of work to do just now, but instead of doing it i'm sitting at this computer getting lost in a sinister world...i guess this *might* not be a good strategy...and 'legal man' comes out two days before my dissertation has to be in, so every time i think of how close it is to being released my heart drops cos it reminds me i've got so much to do. but when the album comes out i'll have finished college and i'll be able to lie back and listen to it in the sun (or the pissing rain - i'm in edinburgh after all...) thanks for reading - sorry if it was a bit spazzy, i was nervous...i'm sure i'll get better in time... see yah ian n ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+