and i like a girl who...* and, of course, the moment i complain about the archives they start working again. sorry paul for casting aspersions. two brief mentions of b&s in today's music papers, both in the letters pages. someone asks which one's belle and which one's sebastian and someone else has them down as band of the year. Easterhouse: always reminds me of the fatima mansions - both were named after housing estates. alan rankine: ran the aforementioned music course at stow college. there's an ink polaroid that covers this with b&s playing a slow piano version of party fears two (or was it the other one?) at a gig in france. andy *the floaters, 'float on'. god, you people are so young. but i've noticed that it's the older ones amongst us who have the more outlandish musical tastes (outside of b&s). odd that. oh, i share a birthday with bruce grobelar(sp?), gerry addams and melvyn bragg. (everything below here is way off topic, read at your own risk) mr taggart:

Sarah started off with admirable intentions: passion, idealism and love. But it was soon hijacked by people with no imagination, playing at ickle 4 year olds (people who called themselves 'Neily Weely' for fuck's sake)

i doubt mr shumsky had very little to do with what was and wasn't released on sarah (else bouquet would be on there, surely). sarah, in my eyes, was good to the last drop and those people who gave up at 40 or 50 or whatever missed out on some great tunes. and, from an earlier post:

...while fellow fanzinists and guitar pop stalwarts of the late 80s (the likes of Stereolab and Saint Etienne) were trying new and exciting things

which i find an odd thing to say given that the second(?) st. etienne single was a rather straight cover of a field mice tune... someone then went on to slag them for releasing stuff on cd. so they're meant to try new and exciting things but not embrace new technology (especially when the choice was issue things on cd and vinyl or not sell enough to re-coup your costs, adapt or die). curious. sorry paul, i know you wanted an end to this but there were things i couldn't let go. still, more relevant than talking about football, eh? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------