-----Original Message----- From: Ruth McCurry <100670.3522@compuserve.com> To: Sinister <sinister@majordomo.net> Date: 25 March 1998 14:21 Subject: Sinister: Ramble with 22 percent B and S content

Which leads me to B and S. I must have seen five or six hundred bands over the last fifteen years, but nothing remotely comparable to our hero/ines. How can this be explained? Are there any other people on the list around the age of 30 who feel the same? Jon.g and bethey are only fifteen: do you understand quite how unique this band are? Even though they shamble around on stage like a bunch of fools, the end result astonishes me every time.

Well, when I we (me and bethey) saw them in Manchester in December, it was my first ever gig! Therefore, nothing will compare to them, if what you say is true. I do sort of understand how wonderful B&S now, I think. Nothing comes close to the (god I hate this word too) spiritual feeling that Belle & Sebastian put inside me (apart from Arab Strap, but that's I different feeling - B&S are about love and Arab Strap are about hate). I see people at school listening to things like Robbie Williams' Angels and saying it's a really spiritual song and they can cry at it and I know that they are too naive to understand that there is so much better out there, than some fat melodramatic warbler who needs a bit of cash. Anyway, if I don't realise how good they are, I will do when they're gone. Keith said:

Lots of stuff about it is different, it's more like going to actually listen to some music rather than be thrown around in a massive mob and "hear" music being played at 150 dBs which it's basically impossible to hear.

Here here. jon g. jon.g@btinternet.com - http://www.btinternet.com/~jon.g/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------