you may have heard that the groop we all like to call pretty much anything BUT belle & sebastian were holed up someplace 'preparing' for the bowlie weekendah, ... well i am here to tell you that the place they are doing the holing is in fact Dawlish in sunny Devon. So it's a longish way from Camber Sands, but it IS by the seaside and they do have lots of black swans. You might think at this point that the duke has really lost his marbles, but NO! i have the proof. admitedlly this proof is called my eye-sight, but i insist that it never lies, and that this morning, that's THIS morning (friday), who should i spy on Dawlish sea front but a rather bleary eyed Struan Murdoch. I mean it kids, it really was him, he was sitting there wearing a grubby anorak, red mane blowing in the light sea breeze, sharing a can of superlager with his old mate, who, if you looked at him from the right angle could easily have been Vic Godard. i knew it wasn't Vic though cos he didn't have his mail sack with him. i didn't speak to Struan because he had the Mad Dog Murdoch look in his eye, and i didn't want him to know i knew his real identity, but it was him, i swear. i saw the gentle waves record in HMV the other day. there were loads of them, all lined up next to some mercury rev import records. i picked one up, looked at it and put it back again. i don't expect it to be very good really... i listened to the 7" twice and on both times it sounded less than perfect. actually it sounded less that crap, but that's just me and my dreary opinions. didn't someone say somewhere it sounded like the rosehips? well it does. and that's not a good thing. so when i was in hmv i bought Pole 2 and the Black Star record instead. both are fine recordings. Honey wrote:

<old joke warning> I'll be humming "My Boy LolliP!O!P!" quietly from the back row as an ambient Eno-esque backing to Duke's reading. But shh! don't tell him.

i'll be listening out for that one boy... don't test my classroom management skills. you have been warned. actually i think that honey must have had a sneak preview of the ballad of the duke of harringay... either that or i am horribly one-dimensional, transparent and unimaginative. scary either way.... i shall bugger off and leave you all now. keep the faith, the duke ------------------------------------------ 'what's the name they call ones like us?' ------------------------------------------ Tangents On-Line http://www.tangents.co.uk PO Box 102, Exeter, EX2 4YL, UK editor@tangents.co.uk ------------------------------------------ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+