Tag wrote:

I really don't want Belle and Sebastian being put into any cosy indie category, because >they're better than that. Aren't they?

Much better. They do relate to indie-pop for me because they reminded me, just when I needed it, that this pop songs thing could lift and shape me, cross my heart...All this talk of McCarthy and the Jasmine Minks and The Claim has reminded me too. ...and then Tag and The Duke and David and others went and made me all excited and excitable because they've been saying what I've been thinking about, about how all this feeling, all this meaning has to be put to some sort of good use because it _can be_. Invent things, reinvent yourself, participate, get angry, get happy, whatever. Duke:

how many do you think would share some kind of wish and desire and have the energy to >actually DO something with the love they profess?

Oh, god, the five percent, the poor righteous teachers? Evangelism scares me but I can't believe that anyone could feel what us lot seem to feel about B&S and not want to use that feeling somehow. Even if that means using it as an opportunity to change yourself, rather than to produce some kind of tangible...something... to show for it. There's so much more to hope for than for your favourite band to become the biggest thing in the world, even though that might be nice. Small things...Frans Hals painting that corrupt town council as drunks...McCarthy singing about it...Belle and Sebastian seeming to re-find that spirit from somewhere, 'cos it's been lost or been buried for a long time. Or maybe I just went deaf, for a bit. 'It's not much to do, it's all I can do...' Whoever it is, whatever, count me in. Oh, and Sarah, Star, :

Yeah, I write a fanzine, wackily enough because I CARE? So I don't know every perfect fact about every band about, sue me. I love what I find worthy to be loved

And even if we love different bands, which I reckon we do, I'm sure wht's in your fanzine has more truth in it than a hundred NME's. And that's not just because I git stitched up by Q :-). Enough. Tim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------