Tonight the pop group BELLE & SEBASTIAN are playing songs on the radio. They are playing in John Peel's 2nd bathroom. (I've played in one or two of those meself, albeit not Peel's.) I heard a bit of a song earlier. It started off a lot like 'The Boy With The Arab Strap ' - suspiciously like it. Then it developed a different aspect, more like 70S WHO. No, not really. It was like 70S NEIL YOUNG. The harmonies were utterly Canadian in that limited sense. I believe that a correspondent on this list will be able to confirm this. The song was not that bad, really. Even I was a tad taken by it, and that's unusual. Stuart Murdoch said it was called 'Roy Walker'. That's fair enough, but rather 2nd-hand. A long time ago, around 1991, I used to watch Roy Walker meself. I wonder whether he has become less, how you say, happening, since then. More importantly, I once saw Roy on the television programme CATCHPHRASE talking to a lady who guessed that the clue meant 'no sugar in my tea'. I decided to write a song called that myself. But somewhere along the line, the title changed. The question is, to what did it change? If anyone can remember, perhaps they could let me know. The COMMONWEALTH GAMES have been opening, in surprisingly exciting, at times spectacular, and occasionally glamorous fashion. Barry Davies has done his homework. If only he'd done mine, I might have achieved more than a B in GCSE Mathematics, those many years ago. The other day I saw someone a bit more interesting than le Murdoch, namely LLOYD COLE. He was playing on his own: 20 of his own songs and the usual unnecessary addition from Leonard Cohen, which Lloyd inevitably announced as the best of the night. I guess you need a high estimate of your own work to stand up - or even, like Lloyd, sit down - and play 20 of your own songs. Maybe Lloyd likes his songs almost as much as I like them. At one point he said they were all the same. He was half-right at worst. Earlier on, he'd said the event was mistakenly called MUSIC MAKERS 2002, as he was actually a MUSIC MAKER 1986. That's my kind of talk. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+