Hello Sinister, So this is how it happens - tired alone and drunk with nothing much to say but somehow craving an audience. Hey look at me boys and girls I'm great really, honest. There are some things, and they follow -- BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - released a new album and the first song makes me cry. It's probably just because it uses the same keyboard type thingy (and I'm a bit shallow), but "Don't Leave the Light on Baby" sounds an awful lot like the Joni Mitchell song Woodstock. It's my favourite song on the album, even if just for the sentiment and delivery of "It's been a bloody stupid day", which I just wish I'd thought of saying because it applies to 95% of mine. STUART DAVID IS A SLACKER - well maybe, but y'know, it's not his job to please you. If seeing a concert is so important to someone then I can only assume that a re-evaluation of priorities is in order. People are what matters, an hour of live music, while heartlifting, beautiful and all the rest is wonderful, it's just not as important. But maybe that's just me. Anyone? BOY WITH A BASS GUITAR - somebody help me. I would have replied to Sophie privately(as I'm sure many did) only I was scared that she'd reply I'd fall helplessly in love. Mails like that (and others too numerous to mention) are the reason that this list is so important. SINGLES NOT ON ALBUMS - Loooove it. Although the only band that comes to mind is New Order, who did a lot of that sort of thing (and of course Joy Division before them) if not exclusively. I always think that singles kind of punch nesses holes in albums - Oh yeh the next one is the single - and it kind of devalues the songs that weren't singles, if you see what I mean. Probably that's rambling enough. The shadows of obscurity (and possibly even a red wine and cider sick bowl - well maybe) are calling. Love in great big vases Kev (in a bliss of ignorant haze) x ===== http://www.lost-cat.org.uk/regularchickens/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+