Desmod bravely spoke of his childhood Ribena trauma...

i ended up with a sticky shirt, a red face and the taste of vomit/blackcurrant in my throat for the rest of the day...

When I was at school I used to make up Ribena at home and put it in a flask, then forget to drink it altogether and pretend to my mum that I had. Once I kept some in my satchel for so long that it fermented, and after I finally drank it I was rolling about in the school greenhouse, wearing my new plant pot hat. Ribena was very popular after that. I'm very excited about Belle and Sebastian's new songs. I even went so far as to grapple with Captain Technology and downloaded those mp3s. Live recordings are a funny thing. Just as "Lord Anthony" is obscured by the jingling of milk bottles and tea cups, for "Big John Shaft" Richard is apparently so happy that he's found himself the Biggest Drum in the Whole Bloody World that he bangs it like a bandsman through the whole song. Milk bottles I can cope with but those drums nearly had the neighbours banging their shoes against the wall. It sounds like a sweet sad song though, and I like it. Props to Mr Sleeka and big props to Captain Technology. David sounded glum

I want to hear Big John Shaft & Take Your Carriage Clock and Shove It. <sigh> Come to that I want to hear Marx & Engels & all those other unreleased songs, too.

Now, under the guise of a public service, but really because I suppose I'm slightly obsessed with these things, here's my update on the list of unreleased B + S songs. Apart from Rhoda, Pocketbook Angel, London Has Let Me Down and Hurley's Having Dreams, that they say they're not going to release, there is also... Marx and Engels, Once Upon A Weekend, Wake Her Up and Landslide, all recorded for FYHCYWLAP and mentioned ages ago in a Teletext interview, Loneliness Of The Middle-Distance Runner, Paper Boat and Lord Anthony which they played live a few times a couple of years back, and now Big John Shaft and Take Your Carriage Clock And Shove It. Of course half of these probably won't ever be released because they're not very good (Landslide anybody?), but a lot of the rest are just lovely. Just knowing these songs exist somewhere is enough to keep me in a permanent state of excitement all day long. A bit embarrassing when you're in the queue at Tesco's. I met a girl called Sarah Martin on Friday. Like I kept telling her, she wasn't the REAL Sarah Martin, because the real Sarah Martin is a tiny little thing. She kept telling me to go away. Being little apparently has its benefits, though. On the radio this morning Willie Carson, a tiny little man, was saying that economy class seats in aeroplanes are like beds to him. The lucky man. I'd just cut my nose shaving when the doorbell rang. It didn't stop ringing however much I ignored it so I opened the door. There were two ladies there. "Hello Sir, would you like a copy of the Watchtower? It's oh... I think we'll have to come back when you've stopped bleeding." I almost lost half my nose. Honest. Robin x +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+