Oops nothing original to say and no B&S content either. Gee what a rotter! Oh well, I'm just going to hang off some of the comments made earlier. Genevieve wrote:

Oh..... Lets get married and have rose petals thrown at us!

Genevieve have you any idea how happy Tag will be when he reads this? I know he wanted a bit more excitement but the poor lad may just go weak at the knees and fall over and hurt himself. Actually, I'm already married to him so you can just leave off lady. "Jealous MUCH?" she also added later:

it sounds like we put bombs (forour causes) in all these evil places

And hey these bombs won't go BANG they'll go P!O!P! An angry Sarah wrote (Am I talking liberties describing you as angry?):

I'll have you know that after we had the little talk about names I ALSO got really upset and pissed of, realising that everything I care about, could just be all an invented lie, untruth, and that again its something that as much as I like, i'd never be a part off. Perhaps

Does it really matter what the TRUTH is anyway? It suits me to believe that Lee Hazlewood lives in a remote log cabin somewhere in Northern Sweden, waited on hand and foot by a bevvy of Scandinavian beauties. Every time I put on a Lee record and listen to that voice, this is the absolute truth of the matter and no intrusion of pedantic fact will sway me from that opinion. As far as pop music is concerned, it's YOUR world and the truth can be whatever YOU want it to be. The Duke had this to say:

there will come a day when people will go into chat rooms and tell someone like me that belle and sebastian were named after a kids tv cartoon, and i don't know what i'm talking about because this person will have all the LPs filed neatly in order, will have all the imports and his treasured copy of Tigermilk (£1000 quid in the auction, what's it to you, mate?) safely on display. He'll think he knows it all because he read it in the music press and a nice journalist told him so.

I'm afraid the newer members on this list (myself included) might not get the significance of that "someone like me" bit. It kind of scares me though. Is it relevant that you talk about a "he" here? I used to go into chat rooms and claim I lived in Morrissey's childhood dwelling on the King's Road in Manchester. I was a liar but the kids I talked to thought it was exciting so maybe I was performing a service. I did meet his English teacher Mr Pink once though. He took us into his house and gave us cake. He stood up against the Tories and spoke out against their health cuts. I think it got into The Sun and he was duly sacked from the hospital he worked in. Such a nice man too. I have no idea who wrote this:

My vote goes to "Tippy Toes" and "Bonnie and Clyde" respectively.

Gosh the overall taste and decorum on this list is exemplary. Out of all those wonderful bands that were listed in a mail the other day how did the conversation manage to end up on "Even As We Speak"??? I don't care who wrote anything anymore:

Early examples of speak-a-pop

"Speak-a-pop". How cool is that? Not cool enough I'm afraid. These chatty little numbers just don't turn me on. I hate "The Gift" (and the whole of "White Light White Heat" for that matter) and I claim my right as a pop kid to slag it to death if the notion takes me. Speaking of pop kids. Now we're all versed with the ins and outs of Northern Soul - thanks B&S list info service - I think we should be told. Just what is a "cutie"? McTaggart the mouth had this to say:

...

Has a Northern Soul night started at the Star & Garter ? Is it still on and is it any good ? Just noticed it on a poster somewhere the other day and it got me thinking.....

I don't know - tell me if you find out.

That wasn't a question that was inspirational, mate. After all your bleating if you haven't started a Northern Soul club by July there'll be trouble to pay! And on a Nancy & Lee note: Has anybody got or heard the "Jacques and his Jacquettes" record by Jacques Dutronc and Francoise Hardy? I'm convinced it MUST be the Nancy and Lee of the French speaking world. Anyway...

Big favourites are 'Some velvet morning' and 'Je t'aime'.

The Primitives did a cracking version of "Some Velvet Morning" live in a cave somewhere in South London once (well a few times I suspect) and it made it even more criminal when they split and I never got to see them do it again. Well it makes me sad. This is Australia and the next B&S video spotted on Rage will be duly noted and reported here. You can rely on that. Love To You All...John ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------