A big round of applause for Papercuts fanzine editor Stephen Trouss6 for sending in that marvellous article. I think we all came out of it very well, especially JJ and Rachel, who got married because of Belle and Sebastian. I bet Linda was laughing at the same thing that made me guffaw in a very un-ladylike manner. Paul, I think it's high time you updated our footers. Tag said he didn't recognise himself in the article, but I bloody well did. Something about staff rooms, I think. Tag also wrote: Three weeks till St Moumoune's Day Is this one of those coded lovey-dovey messages? Any road, you'll be thrilled to learn that our special tidy little community has hit the newstands in sunny Spain as well, in Fluffy's favourite paper El País, in the special section for groovy young people with tattoos. I t has a picture of a Scotch sex kitten surrounded by three ugly ugly ugly boys, all looking at some poxy book. GUERILLA IN THE PRIZES How to stop the most horrible artists always winning prizes? Belle and Sebastian were competing in the revelation group category of the Brit Awards against prfabricated products more popular than them, like 5ive or Another Level. As this prize is decided by the votes of Radio One listeners, the Scots made a call to their fans via Internet for them to lend their support, putting forward the argument that it was a unique opportunity to "give an enormous rude gesture involving putting your fist over your elbow and raisng your arm as if it was an erect penis (you know what I mean) to the music industry". More than 9000 responded, and the group took the prize home to the amazement of everybody - this would never happen in Spain: thanks to the democratic election systems of our awards, The Ear of Van Gogh and Malú can be sure of their deserved statuettes-. --------------------- Well, they seem to have got half the story right. I wonder how much dosh they're offering for the other half? By the way, the dictionary said "V-sign" but I thought that was a bit too rough and unsophisticated for our lot, and I don't know the word for the "charmante" continental equivalent, and besides, why should Trouss6's scanner get all the attention? Right, I'm off to watch Real Madrid youth team against Moscow Dynamo or Dynamo Moscow's youth team on our local footy field. I'm rooting for the Ruskies. Sister Disco +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+