Amy Golden wrote ...

So get this: I'm planning a trip over the water, & lo and behold, right there on page 449 of "Let's Go Britain & Ireland '98" is the following passage:

In the 1970's and 80's, Scotland has played a significant role in the development of popular music, launching THE REZILLOS (c. 1978), the Skids, Average White Band, Glasgow's Orange Juice, Edinburgh's Josef K, and the record label Postcard which favored Byrdsy guitar chimes and winsome, coy-boy singers. Although mainstream rock claimed popularity during the early 90's, producing groups like the Wake and Aberdeen's Kitchen Cynics, Scottish punk rages once again. Slampt and Vesuvius record labels promote Scottish punk bands, including the suggestively named YUMMY FUR and LUNG LEG, while the quiet folk-rock of BELLE & SEBASTIAN wail throughout Edinburgh and Glasgow.

So what do you make of this?

I'd suggest this is a fairly brief and very biased summary ... a considerable number of early Creation Records bands and almost the complete 53rd & 3rd Records rooster stemmed from Glasgow and Edinburgh, let alone numerous excellent bands on other labels ... furthermore, the passage seems to have been written by someone involved with Slampt Records (Newcastle Upon Tyne) or Vesuvius Records (Glasgow) who's not very fond of more successful labels like Chemikal Underground Records. However, the most interesting issue about the passage is the mention of The Kitchen Cynics who, to the best of my knowledge, never gained any success ... their first two albums were released in an edition of fifty copies on a foreign label after years of cassette only releases. Anyway, do I read the relevant passage correctly in that The Kitchen Cynics are lumped in with "mainstream rock" ??? That would be one of the most inaccurate statements ever made ... "Part Time Punks" (Television Personalities) Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------