Hello You Lot. This top ten series on Channel 4 is great. Tonight it was disco, presented by Huggy Bear (the Starsky and Hutch one, not the band). Nice to see Kraftwerk smiling and finding out that Roger Daltrey hated disco. Was it him who was heard to mutter "watch your backs" as the Village People were announced? Mayve Keith knows. Mick wrote of the St Winifred's school choir:

but neither of us wanted to cough up $5.50 for a song with lyrics sung in French when the English version was on the album.

I remember an interview with Lisa-Marie Presley and Michael Jackson where they were asked if they'd like to live abroad. Lisa-Marie said, "Abroad? We went there once, and it was nice, but it was nice to come home". For some reason Mick's mail made me think of this. Chris Tunnock wrote:

A memo to Slobodan Milosevic and NATO, play a litle IYFS, instead of wreaking havoc on innocent souls.

It takes a great deal to offend me, but Chris, you managed it. I tried to convince myself that this was a misguided joke, but it isn't, is it? Yugoslavia has a tradition of beautiful, haunting folk music, which cannot fail to stir the soul, yet hasn't patched up 600 years of mistrust between races, so your suggestion that somehow a bunch of Westerners singing of the lives and loves of the relatively priviliged is naive at best, and phenomenally patronising, at worst. We had our own Manchester picnic last night. Well, JJ, Risso, Warrander John and Emma came round and we drank and talked and listened to records so it was a kind of picnic. It was also a kind of musical truth or dare as JJ admitted to owning a Stars on 45 LP, John confessed to wearing Bay City Rollers tartan trousers as a youth, and everyone laughed at my Britney Spears record. Risso and Emma unsportingly confessed nothing, I'm worried that they're going to be using what they heard as evidence against us, the slippery tricksters. Got to go, Wumpkinny on Line 2. Love tag xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+