(hooray! whistler album out 29/3/99!) And by the way, did everyone know that Mogwai are one of the few bands with something left to say? eg "i think the fact we don't incorporate singing seperates us from all modern music...is as radical as bob dylan alerting the souther states of America to their racist ways in the 1950s." And there I was thinking they were just scared of good old mister tune.. anyhoo - the gentle cheese album review which i am going to post FIRST! cos I'm bored. for a band that has spent most of its year thus far shunning the limelight, 1999 is turning into a mightliy peculiar year for belle and sebastian. barely three months in, they've already won a brit, organised their own indie festival, and pissed off a nation of vinyl junkies by re-releasing Tigermilk. Now - gawd bless us - come the solo projects... stuart davids looper album recently sneaked out of the traps and now its the turn of isobel campbell to inflict her gently glum ponderings upon us. recorded in the space of a week, 'the green fields of foreverland' is fundamentally an half an hours worth of homespun cosiness. With galivanting Black beauty style frills, B&S chums tinkling on the xylophone and tunes like toasted muffins on a cold winters eve, this isn't so much a record as a glowing acoustic based advert for the scottish tourist board. true, weathershow charges about with a certain feistiness, and Evensong has a touch of Carry On sauce about it. Yet isobel and her seethingly cutie vocals are frequently to be found in more fragile quarters, fretting about lifes little mysteries and dabbling in sugary sweet sorroes like Enchanted Place, Dirty Snow for the Broken Ground, and of course Tree Lullaby. NICE. Next month: Stuart Murdoch releases his pipe-smoking solo opus :No Cigarette Packet required. We bet. 6/10 and that was written by Simon Williams. Britney Spears got 1/10. the gentle cheese are also the ON gig of the week: yet another belle and sebastian offshoot which, if they continue at this rate of proliferation should result in at least 67 unpresuming new indie bands come the millenuium. the gentle waves (cheese) are the softly sung brainstorm of B&S cellist Isobel Campbell who recorded her Green Fields of Foreverland LP (on jeepster) in only one week - with the help of a handful of her B&S bandmates. Its a dark, errily affecting record, stretched taut between warm, folk-influenced lullabies, and incy, minimal meandeings, somehow both comforting and strangely disquieting. liver performances should be suitably low key and thronged by whispering B&S devotees. blah blah ticket details etc london improv theatre 8 nicker a go.... I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!! Sarah +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+