More of the band's online diary below, this time from Chris. UK residents don't forget the band's appearance on TOTP tomorrow night at 7:30. They're probably recording it... right now. Honey x *** Diary of a Band 26/05/00 This is a strange time for the group. Obviously there's a lot going on with the single coming out, and the possibility of our biggest hit, and maybe being on TV and stuff. But we've not all been together for weeks. I'm sure the last time we were all in the same room was at the press conference down in London, and before that for the video, but as to when we last were doing any music I honestly can't remember. It's frustrating especially because last week myself and Andrew Divine were working on Landslide, a song of Isobel's that Evie Sands sang when she was here last year. Listening to the track which was recorded quite a while ago really made it apparent how much we'd improved over the course of working on the record. It's a shame not to be able to carry straight on. No doubt a few of you will have seen the NME feature last week. It is a strange situation where a music journalist who doesn't like our music attacks us, and Stuart in particular for not being vocal enough about our politics, which he seems to sympathise with. Anyway I thought Stuart came out of it okay. Anyone who pays any attention to what is happening in the world is bound to come to the conclusion that things need to change in some fundamental way if life for the majority of people is ever going to be better, but do people really need an indie band to tell them this? If you feel like a dose of reality read the book No Logo, an indictment of todays global lifestyle brands. I'd hoped to be able to tie things up in some neat way since this is the last one, but since most of you are probably away for the summer anyway it doesn't really matter. I guess the album will sum up the last year for us better than anything I could say here. So I'll just give a quick plug for my clubs - Tuesdays at Yang and Fridays at the Brewery Tap - and wish everyone a good summer. Chris Geddes +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+