katrina talking about salako:

There is also a chance to catch James from the band live on the air tomorrow (Thursday, June 11th) at the end of BBC Radio One's Evening Session during the Live Music Update (8.30pm), so all of you who met James at the London Belle and Sebastian picnics can hear his first bit of promo ... and giggle!

well, yes, giggle i did. and then worry about whether that was the wisest thing for him to do. for those of you that didn't hear it (and even if you were listening to the radio at the time you'd've had trouble cos it was only a few seconds long) he started going on about how they are influenced not only by the music that they hear but by everything around them, the crickets, the foxes, the little birdy wirdies, it quite reminded me of keith. the first two words that came to my mind, well, one of them was 'hippy'. the phrase 'career suicide' sprang to mind too having lived through the music press' savaging of the whole sarah records catalogue as fey and, therefore, worthless. their loss. (um, the title 're-inventing punctuation' also sounds a lot like 're-inventing penicillin', a track from sarah 83 by the sugargliders. what me, anal?) musically though, if that was salako they were playing in the background during the piece (which, like i say, was criminally short), then they sounded great. andy btw, that lamppost that james climbed up so valiantly on the top of primrose hill at the picnic (photo in the archive, the one that looks a lot like that famous one of american soldiers raising the flag on iwa jima (spelling?)), i'm pretty sure the very same post is the one in the advert for sky movies that's airing currently, the one with odd people reciting lines from films, specifically the bit with the old woman saying 'show me the money'. re: scotland. it's del amitri i feel sorry for. whereas all the songs recorded by the other countries in the world cup (apart from usa and iran who don't apparently have world cup singles available) tend towards the victorious, scotland seems to have adopted the cautious approach with 'don't come home too soon'. and after the other day that doesn't look like happening. i wonder if they'll shoot boyd when he returns to scotland like they did to that colombian? or will he get to star in a pizza ad? i'm joking, of course. don't hate me. some of my best friends are scottish. um, that's a lie actually - i don't have any friends. football highlight so far has been the way that itv abbreviates the team names to 3 letters for its on-screen captions so morocco vs norway the other day became MOR vs NOR. looking forward to seeing MOR vs ROM. and SCO vs CRO. i have austria in the office sweepstake. 8( got 7 copies of the friday review section with my guardian this morning. how queer... will see some of you at the social tonight. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------