Well done to Big Dave for spotting the link between Kate Bush and the Floyd. It's true, Dave Gilmour did indeed "subsidize a demo tape" for fifteen year-old Kate. But that's not the connection I was thinking of. Mine's this: Both Syd Barret and Kate Bush made records based on texts by James Joyce - "Golden Hair" for romantic Syd and "Sensual World" by ever-expanding Kate. I've never heard the former. At the time, Kate's interpretation of the Molly Bloom monologue seemd a bit superfluous because a) it's already full of music, and b) Molly leapt off the page and into "the sensual world" as soon as she was committed to paper. This is why I was so impressed with its use in "Felicia's Journey", it was given a new (terrible) significance, thus rescuing a nice but unnecessary song from oblivion. I also like "The Man with the Child in his Eyes" and "Underneath the Ivy" or whatever it's called. This morning I listened to "Lo Boob Oscillator*" It's over six and a half minutes long! We had a very nice picnic yesterday, thank you. For me personally, the highlight was in the post-picnic record shop, when Jordi came over with a huge grin and an even bigger Pink Floyd limited edition box set. Everyone was very well behaved and we talked about YOU. And Pink Floyd concerts. I'd been up to the Olympic Stadium earlier and commented that it had struck me as a bit small. "That's where Pink Floyd played!" said Jordi. We really kept the Floyd flag flying. Thank you Lucy, I am rather a fox. Sly old stoaty old fox. Grrr! Peter * I said this in my "a Mister Winston Ko-do-go" voice. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+