I wouldn't call The Springfields Dusty Springfield's backing band either. I'd call them nigger, whitey. My spies tell me that Mike Hurst has been involved with both Shakin' Stevens (a big influence on Stevie Reverb's ever-expanding twang) and yes, you guessed it, Showaddywaddy. Strange that the band spokesperson didn't mention that. They have been airbrushed out of history. I wouldn't call "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" a perfect pop moment either, in the same way that I wouldn't call JESUS getting crucified a perfect pop moment. Nothing that heavy can be a perfect pop moment. I suppose it depends on our definition of pop. Which brings us right back to the very beginning of The Story of Sinister. I would call it perfect though. Perhaps Big Stu was referring to a jolly remix. I think it's unfair to compare Peacock with Begbie because Begbie lived in Edinburgh and Stuart David's Begbie lives in Glasgow. Yesterday was a big day for me. I heard a bit of "69 Love Songs" on a listening post. It was absolutely fucking awful, every bit as bad as I expected. I don't half fancy Jeff Buckley's mum. Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+