I reckon Idleberry just wants Dear Catastrophe Waitress to be Tigermilk 5. I do agree that Underachievers Please Try Harder is probably the better album - it's one of the best albums I've heard for ages - but I like the feeling of recklessness that DICKYWUSS has about it. It manages to be diverse but still fit together somehow, like the old EPs used to do. And certain songs are absolutely gorgeous. I think Idleberry just wants Belle and Sebastian to be more twee. It's funny, I've heard a few people dissing the whole "I'd rather be in Tokyo, I'd rather listen to Thin Lizzy-oh" line, because it doesn't rhyme properly. I find this very odd. Stuart's lyrics have never really rhymed properly. In Lord Anthony he rhymes "toff" with "maths". I don't think rhyming has ever had anything to do with why i like Stuart's lyrics. Anyone can use a rhyming dictionary if they want to. I expect he doesn't want to. Well.. what i actually posted to say was that the B+S website has a link to the brand new Dear Catastrophe Waitress website at www.dearcatastrophewaitress.com, where you can hear snippets of the album tracks, read the song lyrics, look at photos and play a somewhat baffling game. The lyrics are great, and it's good to see them all laid out. Some of the lyrics here are different to those in the recording, another lovely habit of Stuart's - there are lines about CS Lewis and a whole extra verse to Stay Loose. There's also a lovely piece of writing by Stuart about eggs and how his favourite word is "creepeth", which I read last night when I was staggeringly drunk and don't remember all that well. This might be the sleevenotes, although i'm not too sure about that. Also, more exciting news, to accompany the single Step Into My Office b+s have released a documentary about a typical day in the life of Richard Colburn, during which he nobs some foxy secretaries and runs about in his pants. You can have a look at it here: http://www.lesinrocks.com/DetailArt...m?iditem=162182 . BYE!! robin xxx _________________________________________________________________ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+