Hi All, I've been thinking of writing to you for quite a while, but I didn't have much to say. I still don't know whether that's changed - I'll let you decide. I don't think it's been mentioned here, or in that other place that the Dirty Vicar finds more exciting, but there has been a little Belle And Sebastian activity apart from them recording a new album, getting the Horn, etc. A bloke called Ben Vaughn released an album called Glasgow Time on Francis Macdonald's Shoeshine records www.shoeshine.co.uk and a bloke called Stevie Jackson contributed backing vocals & played bass & harmonica on it. It's OK. Francis M has put out his own album (as Nice Man) called Sauchiehall And Hope and a nice girl called Sarah Martin took the photographs on the cover. Its pretty nice. The Shoeshine empire's best recent release by far is of course Laura Cantrell's When the Roses Bloom Again (I think you have to look at http://www.shoeshine.co.uk/Roses%20page.htm for that one). WOW!. That was a bit on topic really, wasn't it? Ok then, lets get off: One of my favourite musicians is playing two shows in London soon (& now that he lives in Sweden that doesn't happen very often). Ant, formerly drummer with the former Hefner, will be at the Betsy Trotwood on the 19th of December. Jack Hayter will support, Darren Hayman will play records. I suspect John will lurk about too. Then on the afternoon of the 21st Ant plays RoTa, in the Notting Hill Arts Club, with some other dudes. You could listen to some of his stuff at www.antpop.com , but I recommend going in any case. There's a Ant song on a Swedish compilation called Hit Music Only, which also contains a Sodastream song that you can't get anywhere else. If that's of interest try http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-67927/index.html for more info. I hope I'll see some of you lovely people this evening, & more of you next weekend. Take care of yourselves, Love, David Moore Chelmsford, UK +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+