It's gone a bit quiet round here. I hope it's not because everyone's too scared to say what they think sums up what's wrong with the new album, for fear of having a crate of empty milk bottles dropped on them from the eighteenth floor. For me, what sums up what's wrong with the new album is the photo inside. Chris Geddes looks like Hanson's ugly brother, the one they keep locked in a cupboard until they do their cover of the Young Frankenstein version of "Putting on the Ritz". My word, hasn't Isobel filled out? Stevie looks like a highly sexed dad from DH Lawrence. No wonder Sarah's keeping her distance. Mad Dog Murdoch's outfit makes him look a little like a military man, or a Gestapo officer infiltrating the Salvation Army. Why does Chris want us to read a book called "No Lego"? Is it some kind of childhood trauma? I think "The Chalet Lines" is great, and anyone who doesn't like it is a cloth-eared bogeynose. Titian, Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, Peter Wyngarde, Hubert Selby, Atom Egoyan, Muriel Spark.... none of these great male artists could/can go more than five minutes without creating something rape-related, yet I doubt they're worse people than you or me. Some of them got prosecuted, let's see if we can get Struan prosecuted. He's already in the bad books for telling Stagecoach to eff off, so it shouldn't be too difficult. Dirty filthy Pontins pig. The "don't swear" messages I get come from Cornwall, wherever that is. You will notice that I haven't sworn in this message. My spies tell me that John Smith's in Hillhead is closing down. Does anyone know what's going to happen to Stephen Pastel? I bet he's furious. Thanks in advance, Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+