i came home one night last week in a somewhat less than sober state and considered posting to the list, but thankfully i thought better of it. i've seen drunken postings before and god, can they be painful. it would have been fun to see what nonsense i would have written, mind. couldn't be much worse than this. there's been something of a dribble of picnic reports, rather than the usual tidal wave one might expect. but don't think you're making the rest of us jealous - i had my lunch out on the balcony of my house on saturday afternoon (which counts as a picnic in my book) and i bet i had just as much fun as anyone in sheffield or london... some people were talking about 1950's P!O!P! last week, i noticed. my favourites are the 'golden age of american rock 'n' roll' cds on ace records. i think there's about seven volumes now of u.s. chart hits and more obscure stuff from 1957-62. great for dancing around your room, singing very badly, if you enjoy that kinda thing. personally i prefer to listen to them down the park while re-enacting my favoutire scenes from 'american graffiti'. on my own. the luverly mr. neil said:

I just thought I'd drop you a line to explain the whole "band taking a break" thing. Firstly, I'm really surprised that this has caused anything like a fuss.

i think maybe the reason that a fuss has been caused is more to do with things being promised via the jeepster site or whatever and then being put off again and again, on more than one occasion, which is maybe beginning to piss people off a bit. personally i feel that if that's what they feel is best for them, then they should take a break. hopefully it'll do them some good. i'd be the last person to try to impose any kind of protestant work ethic thing on anyone. Magda Boom wrote>

Ian Nicolson, I think you are ace.

Brian Phillips wrote>

we use "ace" as a slightly more polite "ass".

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