Madame Cholet wrote:

Stuart Murdoch started chatting to me about my SFA patch on my jumper and I went "um...ergh....ak....sputter....och......" Then smoothly added, as i'm SO smooth...... "you're not a bloody HUN are you?" (NO OFFENSE TO YOU RANGERS ON THE LIST...I SUPPORT ABERDEEN SO I *HAVE* TO HATE THE HUNS.)" He started laughing and just looked at me like I was off my trolly....and said "no..not really....I tend to support Celtic..." At least I THINK that's what he said. My head was spinning and I was about to pass out.

Back in the days when he still did interviews, I'm sure I read somewhere that Stuart Murdoch was a keen Ayr United supporter. There was also some discussion about the origin of said football team's nickname, The Honest Men. It's not exactly The Red Devils, is it? Turns out that it comes from a poem by Robert Burns, "Nickety Nackety Noo Noo Noo" or something like that. Surprisingly, Murdoch went on to say that Burns was quite a big influence on the narrative structure of his song lyrics. At any rate it's nice to see that barriers are being broken down in the Glasgow pop/football/religion interface. Years ago there was quite a big fuss because Simple Minds raised the Irish flag over Ibrox, but now Wet Wet Wet (what an annoying name to type!) play Celtic's ground and nobody gives a fig. Here's some more selected gems from the big B&S double spread in Rock De Lux....Stevie and Richard get cornered by an interviewer, César Macondo. Why doesn't Stuart M give interviews, the miserable git?: "No reason in particular, but he does give them sometimes anyway. The thing is, the rest of the band can give the same opinions as Stuart; we have different points of view, but in the end the opinions that we can give add up to the same. He usually takes this decision because the majority of journalists go out of the way to tlk to Stuart, and he feels under pressure. But he's not really like that; when we're in a bar in Glasgow, he usually talks to everyone who comes up to him. Even the dirty old winos." "The romanticism that you're talking about has its origin in our vision of day to day life. We don't feel inspired by anyone's personality. We're much more motivated by snow, for example." (it was the perennial Smiths question) I can do some more if anyone's interested. There's nothing earth-shaking here, but it's not a bad read. The photo is better. Isobel is crouched over her cello like a member of the old group Venice in Peril, or whatever they were called. And Sarah's playing her violin, which is something I'd forgotten all about. Can't see her roller skates though. Petey Wetey ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------