Hello Playmates! After a weekend of frantic trout tickling, I feel sufficiently refreshed to attempt a message contaning 100% Belle and Sebastain content. If you should spot any poor quality references to ironic song combinations or cod-reggae, just shout "IT'S BEHIND YOU!" and I'll turn round really slowly and pretend not to see it. Last Friday, for the second week running, I tuned into John Peel's BBC World Service programme in the hope of hearing something from the new B&S album. I decided to do the washing up at the same time. So there I was, scrubbing away and digging some rather nice go-go music from 1982 when Mister Peel said, "Hey! Let's bossa nova!" and this record jingled and jangled into life. Between the washing up bubbles (which by this time had filled half the kitchen) I thought to myself, "Jesus, I hate these shitty indie groups that do bossa nova when the real thing was so good..." Slowly, very very slowly, it dawned on me that the singer's rather effeminate voice was vaguely familiar, and I stopped washing up and fought my way through the bubbles to the kitchen table where the radio was. I sat down and looked at it. Yes, the voice definitely rang a bell, but I still wasn't sure. Then a big squawky violin solo piled in and everything fell into place. I managed to catch one word, "acknowledge" and it was all over. "Yet another great record straight outta Scotland, that's "Ease Your Feet Into The Sea" by Belle and Sebastian from the new LP.....etc." said John Peel enthusiastically. Naturally, I immediately revised my opinion of indie bossa nova and took the day off work to celebrate. A "Dreadlock Holiday", so to speak. Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+