From last week's Melody Maker, Bell and Sebastian got 9,300 votes and Steps got 9,000. Saying that 1000 ish came from this list it's not really that dramatic. It's also strange for all these celebrity fans to suddenly come out of the closet like Boy George and Charleen Spiteri. So will the award make the band better? I don't think so because the songs are about real

No, no, no. Hamish the frog is in fact an alien from outer space who came down and hypnotised us all with his magnificent jumping. The Kingfisher is one of those really gullible people who really believes they've been abducted by aliens ho now live with them and that Goldfish is simply another competitor who thought he'd build a hurdle so high that the frog would just give up and go back to his own planet to play music. But it didn't work and the goldfish gradually realised the music was better because of the list. But the Kingfisher is Pete Waterman. life and when bands become more and more famous their life is not real any more and their songs are not so touching (now there's a point for debate) but then again, will B&S ever attain the renown they should get with people like us wanting to keep them for our own and being afraid of a new list (does the word luddite mean anything to you?) Finally who's heard/listens to Ben Harper. He's as touching as B&S and at his best as good a guitarist as I've heard. Bye Oliver +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+