Dotmusic exclusive did I say? Which looks like it might mean "we exclusively nicked it from the band's WWW site". You'll spot a remarkable similarity between Dotmusic's "exclusive" I passed on and the second B&S band entry below from Stuart. Anyway, the band office passed on these two new entries which should be the Mick's own WWW site now at: http://www.belleandsebastian.co.uk/home/ Listening to Lambchop's new LP and eating chocolate raisins. The perfect combination mmm. Exclusively yours, Miss Honey x -- Sin"is*ter (?), a. [Accented on the middle syllable by the older poets, as Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden.] [L. sinister: cf. F. sinistre.] 1. On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right. Here on his sinister cheek." Shak. "My mother's blood Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister Bounds in my father's Shak." ---------- Forwarded message ---------- DIARY OF A BAND 26th January 2000 Part 7 of Guardian's exclusive Belle & Sebastian's diary Well, aren't you glad that's all over and we can get back to normal? Yes, the winter shutdown has finished and after Saturday the sports pages will have something real to write about instead of 'Roy Keane to join Celtic in three years' or 'Old Firm to play in League of Wales'. Meanwhile, work continues apace on the album. Every morning we turn up at the studio, plug in and jam solidly for eight hours. Stuart freeforms vocally over the top. Meaningless syllables or the perfect language of Adam- who knows. I shout out a clue from the Herald crossword. Stevie solos on a stringed instrument made from a live turtle acquired on a recent promotional trip to Madagascar. "This is great," says Tony. He downs a bottle of Jack Daniels, and turns every knob on the desk up full. A mobile phone rings. Tony puts a microphone on it. "More phone in my headphones," says Richard. We hit a groove. Tony hits record. It needs strings. The manuscript paper goes round like a peace pipe. Everyone writes two bars then passes it on. A phone call is made and within minutes the London Symphony Orchestra arrives, bringing with them an immense Chinese take-away. They settle down in the lounge to watch a Fast Show video. "Where's Richard?" someone asks. Turns out he is downstairs recording an EP of Australian-Croat drinking songs with Mark Viduka. By now we are drunk. We row furiously over whose turn it is to read Mojo, and the band breaks up. Stuart gives everyone a lift home. Tomorrow it will all start again, but now there are only six days left until the bailiffs come for our instruments. Chris Geddes ******************** DIARY OF A BAND 9th February 2000 Band member quits! Gay buses! It must be the latest Belle & Sebastian diary I heard that a spokeswoman for the band was fervently denying that Stuart David had left the band. Well, I'm fervently admitting that he is leaving the band. He's got his hands full with Looper, so he's quite happy to get on with that. We wish him all the best. Since I last wrote, the Nation has stood up proudly to declare its prejudice. "Yes we admit gay people exist, but as long as nobody talks about it we should be alright." In a class of 30 or so kids, two or three of them will grow up knowing they are gay. Section 28 denies they exist. It's prejudice pure and simple. You might as well legislate against left-handedness. "Class, we know there are left-handed people in the class. We tried in the past to make them write with their other hand, but we were wrong to do that. But if we ignore them maybe they will die out." I actually think that people are pretty tolerant. I think if you got rid of the clause nobody would give a shit. Old gits like Winning must just be scared of a Gay Tide coming to sweep the land. Why can't he just respect people's preferences. We respect his. We respect his right not to have sex. He should just admit that some girls fancy girls and some boys fancy boys. And that guy from Stagecoach can fuck off as well. His buses are shite anyway. Firstbus is a much better company. Firstbus is the funky gay bus company. I was suspicious when they took over Glasgow's buses but you should never be afraid of change. Like when Jack MacPhee 'Fresh from the Sea' took over from Lorettas- we tried it once and we never looked back. Stuart Murdoch +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+