David Moore said:

My first B&S dream!

Last night I dreamt that after nearly 12 months of nothing happening from Belle & Sebastian (at least that was available in public) one of the members left the band, & that despite this momentous news Sinister was so far up its collective bottom that the event passed without comment

David dreaming about bottoms again I see. Next he'll be sending people sheep as a "gift"! Anyway, yes point taken, so you're all hereby invited in an exception to usual list behaviour to actually discuss Belle and Sebastian. Here's something on it from nme.com to get your motor running. See it at: http://www.nme.com/newsdesk/20000210200050.html --- BELLE AND SEBASTIAN LOSE BASSIST BELLE AND SEBASTIAN bassist STUART DAVID has left the band to focus more on his own band LOOPER and to write more novels. Stuart, one of the founding members of the group, rang nme.com today to confirm the news, despite that fact that only last month, the band's management strenuosly denied the story when we asked them if it was true. He told nme.com: "It was a rumour officially up until about a week ago. About two weeks ago, I finally had a meeting with everyone, what, with the album being finished, to see what everyone wanted to do." I decided then that I was spending too much time with Looper and with my novel to be able to keep contributing enough Belle & Sebastian, or to tour again with them. It was all very amicable and we'll stay friends." Stuart, who recently released his debut novel 'Nalda Said' continued that he would not be replaced in the band, as most of the rest of the band could play bass and would take it in turns to fill his old position. However, Stuart said he would still join the band when they recorded their session for John Peel's Radio One show on March 1 - but it would be the last time he played with them. Looper will then join The Flaming Lips on their forthcoming US tour as support. For the rest of this exclusive interview, see next week's issue of NME. --- And what's all this about the new EP collection being called "Error Bookmark Not Defined"? I've often pondered if there could be anything more awful than naming a band "co.uk". I mean blimey! Surely it's not even a possible error? "Error 404" would be much more appropriate. Or "Error Miss Crush Says: You Can't Vote For Yourself!". Is it really true Radio One genuinely thought it was called this as the result of a cockup? Tell me it isn't so. Oh and: not only did Esosoft, the previous list providers so mess us up that they took away our list with 2 days notice before Miss Print at missprint.org plucked it out the flames, but they've now resurrected an old version of it through fabulous incompetence! Meaning that a few people who mistakenly sent to the old address actually got posts through to a subscriber list from two months ago, like a ghostly echo of times from longe agoe. I've tried to kill it dead now but please all remember to post to the new list address: sinister@missprint.org That applies to unsubscriptions too: some people are still sending to the old address. Pleeeease remember to send to: majordomo@missprint.org Honey x +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+