OK I'll admit it's not "actual" as in band gossip or anything exciting like that, but it still makes a nice change from the usual random thoughts I insist on inflicting upon you all. Firstly in order for this to all make sense I'll have to make a wee confession. I have purchased this weeks NME. I can't fully explain it as it's all a bit of a blur.... I can vaguely remember being in Sainsbury's and the next thing I knew I was back home with a weeks supply of groceries, and a brand spanking new copy of the NME. I figured I might as well read it. Lo & behold I came upon an article concerning "100 Ways That Rock Shook Up The World". 01. Kurt Cobain's death - yawn 02. Dylan going electric 03. Belle & Sebastian winning a Brit award - accompanied by a lovely piccy of Mick & Richard looking rather bemused by it all. 04. Neil Young and Lynyrd Skynyrd's Infamous spat 05. Lennon claiming the Beatles are bigger than Jesus and so on ..... Still nice to see that the monumentous Brit's win was such an earth shattering event, no doubt it had the 'Hot Line' between Downing St. and the Whitehouse running red hot all night. Here's what the NME had to say about it. "A fabulous bit of barricade-charging here, as Stuart Murdoch's reclusive gang stormed the world of Dave Stuart and Jonathan King. As surprise nomination for 1998's Best Newcomer Brit Award, Belle & Sebastian were up against Steps and Another Level - particularly tough competition given the result was decided by a Radio 1 listeners poll. Yet not only did they win gloriously, sending - in quiet mockery - drummer Richard Colburn and trumpeter Mick Cook to collect their award, they also outraged pop pope Pete Waterman, who claimed vote-rigging by e-mail. Untrue: Belle & Sebastian fans were merely techno-literate, and the forces of Scottish indie and computer science prevailed. A result in every way." Ohhhh does that mean the NME likes us now ?. Anyway that's enough for now, I'll let you get on with your lives until my next thrilling post. Don't let Jack Frost bite !!! (unless he's paying £175 an hour for the privilege, and even then there's no tongues allowed) Craig xoxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+