I agreed with you about John Peel. When you listen to his show he does still play some fantastic records. Salako recently for starters. For the last 6 months I have had, frankly, a huge honour being able to work with John Peel on a new C4 show called Sounds of the Suburbs. When you meet him he is all you imagined he would ever be. Anyway one day he asked me who was my favourite band and I nervously said 'Belle and Sebastian' I don't know why but I thought he would hate them (I remember a few months a go someone writing to his show saying that they were revising at the moment and could he play something 'mellow', and John practically shouted "WE DON'T DO MELLOW" and preceded to play Extreme Noise Terrror or the like. But he said he loved them and was really looking forward to their next album. Anyway all I was going to say it still is really worth listening to his show still. In between the hardcore techno and the experimental industrial abstraction are some vinyl gems. And here is a tip if you are in a band and want to get a track on to his show. His tape machine has broken in his car so he doesn't listen to many tapes anymore (he gets sent 20 - 30 a day. And if you call your band after a member of his family Floss, Pig, Thomas etc you will get a fast track delivery onto his playlist, I promise. But don't tell anybody I've said that. love Rob _______________________________________________________________________________ Well, in the cold light of day, my overly personal and nasty posting about Keith's letter seems stupid and shameful, so I'd like to apologise to Keith for being an arsehole. I'm still gutted about what's happened to my favourite radio station - this morning there was some geezer who quite obviously didn't want to be there, and to be honest I really didn't have the desire to listen. Still, Bob Geldof might prove to have the best taste in history, so there's still hope... I think Dirty Dream #2 should be released as a single - I've decided that B&S so deserve to be mega that I don't mind if success takes them further away from us - you always want what's best for those you love. I'm feeling very sheepish now. Love Mark +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------ RFC822 Header Follows ------------------ Received: by mail.uden.com with ADMIN;24 Aug 1998 12:45:35 +0100 Received: from envy.ph.ED.AC.UK [129.215.72.168] by intranet.uden.com with SMTPBeamer v3.04 (WinNT 4.x) ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 12:39:41 +0100 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by envy.ph.ed.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA19051; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 12:43:20 +0100 Received: by envy.ph.ed.ac.uk (bulk_mailer v1.9); Mon, 24 Aug 1998 12:43:05 +0100 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by envy.ph.ed.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA19012 for sinister-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 12:42:58 +0100 Received: from firewall-hit.HITEntertainment.com (firewall-hit.hitentertainment.com [194.42.249.129]) by envy.ph.ed.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA19008 for <sinister@majordomo.net>; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 12:42:50 +0100 Received: from Firewall-HIT.HITEntertainment.com [194.42.249.129] (HELO localhost) by firewall-hit.HITEntertainment.com (AltaVista Mail V1.0/1.0 BL18 listener) id 0000_0049_35e1_5299_55d7; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 12:46:33 +0100 Message-ID: <710AD5AF4EE3D111945C00805F0D0E221BB450@server1.HITEntertainment.com> From: Mark Casarotto <Mark@HITEntertainment.com> To: "'sinister@majordomo.net'" <sinister@majordomo.net> Subject: Sinister: stupid stupid stupid Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 12:36:43 +0100 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1457.3) Content-Type: text/plain Reply-To: Mark Casarotto <Mark@HITEntertainment.com> X-List: Sinister +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+