perhaps this problem would be solved if we had two mailing lists. One strictly for any Belle & Sebastian news, reviews, rumours etc and the other to be used for the other stuff we seem to chat about here.

Nah. That sounds like a good idea in theory, but think about it this way: EVERY ONE of the chats about non-B&S related stuff came (at one point or another) from a very B&S related conversation. You might be able to have a list dedicated to just news for a while, but it'd trail off eventually. The only good compromise to this I've seen is the "Radiohead announce" list, which is just a news flash about Radiohead every so often. But once you get people with free time and an email address and access to even the strictest "news" list, there's no taming it. In other news, I read a good article on B&S this weekend that may have been mentioned here before. It was in the magazine Puncture, and was written by Tsunami frontwoman Jenny Toomey. It was pretty wordy, but very praising of good ol' B&S. It brought up some interesting points about religion in Stuarts lyrics, and had this horribly written "review" of B&S's NYC show (not written by Jenny Toomey). Anyway, if anyone gets a chance to read it, do. BUT, I need an answer to something: at one point in the article, ol' Jenny claimed that Monica Queen is actually Isobel singing under an assumed name. But I thought I had read on this list that Monica Queen is an entirely different person from Isobel altogether, and that she's in other bands. So if anyone feels like responding to this oft-asked question, ooh, that'd be appreciated. Saw a man being arrested this morning, Reid ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------