I was going to say that the male vocals on "Beyond the Sunrise" are by the now-legendary gorilla, but then I thought that I might have already said that about the male vocals on "Legal Man" so I went back and read all the guff I've been spouting lately to make sure, and by the time I'd done that it didn't seem very funny anymore. But I'll say it anyway - it's the gorilla. Personally, I love the song. It doesn't make me dance like a spazz, but it does remind me of when I was a teenager. It reminds me of those early Jesus and Mary Chain B-sides that droned on and on for about ten minutes, with only a trickle of feedback, the odd tambourine jangle and the occasional grunted word like "suck", "fuck", or "Cooke" for company. I haven't listened to the album much, and I haven't taken a blind bit of notice of most of the lyrics (rape, you say?) but I think it's easily the best B&S album so far. I seem to remember once making a serious point about how "Slow Grafitti" was BLUDDY GRATE because it had had the guts to poke its nose out of the cosy confines of Murdochland. That's why I like this new album so much. The only people in Murdochland now are the non-Murdoch members of the band, and as far as I'm concerned they can all piss off anyway. In a nice way, of course. Many thanks to Giita for answering my Icelandic questions. When I saw a message from Giita entitled "The twin answers" I thought it meant like "the twin is answering" so I was a bit frightened after having called them nutters. In fact I'd already made up a story about how it was the other twin who looked like a nutter, not Giita. Frankly, I thought my goose had been cooked. The touch of evil in th photograph is actually quite appropriate for the darker than usual contents. I'm beginning to think I was lying about not having listened to the lyrics. I'm glad Stuart has been a brave little soldier and has tackled the subject of rape to the best of his abilities, despite knowing that loads of people would slag him off, and probably fist him in the bogs. In fact, the lyrics make me wonder if Stuart was forcibly bummed during his time as a Butlins chaletmaid. Bear in mind I've been hitting the nail on the head quite a lot lately. Or with my head. Some people have been referring to positive things in a negative light : "progfest", "Bon Jovi" and "John Shuttleworth on his Bontempi organ" to name but three. I just mention this while we're in a "ticking off" phase. And as for Mark C's heavenly vision of a session orchestra, I'm speechless and unable to stand up in public. I'm really looking forward to England's game against Germany. Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat! Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat! Meeeeeeeooooowwww! Boom! Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+