***anal, trainspottery question which took far less than 15 minutes to compose.*** My copy of "Legal Man" is an American one, and in the inner sleeve, amongst all the stuff on the desk, is a calander with "16" on it. Now ... Legal Man came out on the 16th in the US. What I want to know, fellow listees, is whether the UK one as "22" in the picture, after its release date. Oh I am sooooooooo sad. ***NME*** Finally got last weeks NME. Very dull article, but nice picture of Stuart on the cover. Actually - I can hardly see how they can justify calling it an interview at all. It was just Stuart calling Mr Wells to clarify his points from the press conference. Anyway ... at least Mr Wells referred to himself as a hack. That's one less thing I have to say. I guess what I found insulting was the implication that bands HAVE to make a political statement. He mentioned the Mekons, and how a concert from them was a lesson in feminisation. semiotics or something or other. Now, I've never seen B&S live, but listening their music gives me a lesson in love, and beauty etc. etc. Politics isn't the only important thing in life. Sure ... if Stuart Murdoch was a Nazi I wouldn't listen to B&S, but Mr Gillespie (the apparent peak of all things great about rock'n'roll according to the NME) has dodgy politics at best. "I take drugs as a political statement" for example. errrrrrrrr .... what? I don't think that speed you take is made on a nice collective farm run by vegetarian feminists, Bobby. The way things stand at the moment (and I'm not going to debate drug law here) is that drugs are the product of crime, and people who deal in that sort of thing stand a good chance of being hurt. For every speed taking pop star there is some solo-mum junkie prostitute degrading herself trying to make a living and feed her habit. You're talking shit pal. And didn't you like how they called us an "inarticulate and self-satisfied fan base". Some of the best prose I have evr read has been found in these wonderful digests. ***Thanks for the plug, Laura - love you too*** Take care kids ..... Lawrence Mikkelsen http://www.akn.quik.co.nz/mikelsen/aboutme THIS MANCHINE KILLS THE NME +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+