Just thought I'd share a story. I went to see Martin Phillipps (ex- The Chills, now solo-artist) at the Kings Arms tavern in Auckland on Wednesday night. At the end of the concert I spotted TV3 news anchorman John Campbell, a 36 year old who has recently taken over the anchor position on one of New Zealand's major TV network. Anyway, I knew from a radio interview he did last year that he was a really big Edwyn Collins fan, so I went up to him and introduced myself by saying 'Hi - I just had to tell you that you and I share the same favourite album'. He looked at me aghast and said 'what?' and I simply said 'You Can't Hide your Love Forever'. Anyway, he went beszerk, and there was much back slapping, hand shaking and 'wow, I can't believe someone else in New Zealand even knows who Orange juice are ... etc. etc. from him'. He then recanted how the happiest two hours of his life was seeing Edwyn play in 1987, about how the album changed his life etc. I'm 24, and he was pretty stunned that someone of 'my generation' (he's 36) knew anything about them. He's into pretty good music generally (Go-Betweens, Chills etc.) so i asked him if he'd heard of Belle and Sebastian. He said no, but then proceeded to tell me that he'd buy one of their albums the next day, and that I should call him in a week at the TV station and hassle if he hadn't. Thought that was pretty cool. Anyone else converted any famous people to 'our cause'? +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+