Re: Sinister: about NME and journalists in general
Ladies and gentlemen, follow this advice, Mr Wells has a big enough ego as it is and that article really does seem to have been calculated to annoy, and do we care that B+S aren't Primal Scream? Its not as if we didn't already know... And in any case isn't it a bit odd that something as inherently capitalistic as P!O!P! [it is, be fair], that relies to a greater or lesser extent on the continued existence of the consumer society, suddenly wants to develop a strand commited to destroying its lifeblood i.e. the wonders of 'revolutionary' anarchism, please, please leave that to the Sociaist workers party.
So Steven Wells slagged off B&S and their fans (us, that is)? A word of advice and knowledge to you all, who think of writing an angry letter to NME: Don't do it, kids.
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Hello all, I see most people have read the NME interview. Well, let's face it, we all knew it was going to be cack. It was with Steven Wells, and since his interviews are inevitably excrutiatingly embarrassing, and reviews frankly poor, it's no surprise that he chose to do an interview and miss the point, just to wind a few people up. Primal Scream (or is it Prml Scrm these days) were never bothered about politics in their music until ADF came along and showed them up - 'Rocks' anyone? 'Higher Than The Sun'? 'Kowalski'? I think they've got a serious case of bandwagon-hopping. And let's face it, they've been on the slide since 'Screamadelica' which is a lovely album. I saw the vid for 'Legal Man' on the predictably poor Jo Whiley show. Shame they only showed about half a minute of it, as I've not got a radio, and so never heard it before. And my oh my how right everyone was - it sounds extraordinarily like the Eurotrash music. Still great though, a lovely surprise. It's nice to have B&S you can actually dance to without looking like a complete loon (actually, that's probably just me...). Album reviews before it comes out - all well and good. If someone doesn't like it, they've got every right to say so. But people always rate TBWTAS as disappointing, and that's how I got into the wonderful world of B&S in the first place. I guess I'm alone in rating IYFS as my least favourite of the three (my own favourite is 'Tigermilk', so I'm glad that was rereleased). On a different note, the idea of a world picnic day is fantastic, so let's hope there are picnics going on everywhere (one day there'll be an Internet link-up - does anyone have laptops? just a thought...). I just hope the weather holds up for them all - it's gone all crappy here in London, so I hope we don't get rained out. Mainly because I've had to work stupidly long hours and weekends with no overtime (sympathy please), and I need a nice day off. I hope there'll be lots of people there, although I don't know how many sarnies to make. I'm sure someone'll let me know. Anyone like Philadelphia and jam? I love it, but it seems a bit of a waste of time if no one else wants it... Question: should I feel like a fraud going to 2000TT when I'm 23? Well, I suppose that's enough from me. I hope there's enough stuff here to please everyone, rather than bore them to tears (I tried, oh how I tried). My lunchbreak's nearly over, then back to panicking again. Bye all, Marc. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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