>First off, has anyone mentioned Tuesday night's frolics in Edinburgh? >There was another "Je T'aime Gainsbourg" evening at the Jaffa Cake in >Edinburgh (like the one at the Renfrew Ferry in Glasgow a while back, >and one in 1862 or thereabouts I didnt go to), and the whole of B&S >minus Chris and Loopy Stuart came along and entertained us with "Poupee >de Son", sung by Isobel. It was a jolly old thing, and Stevie did >"Lolita Go Home" on acoustic too, and some great Stevie (yikes) Wonder >harmonica licks on a couple of other songs. Moi non plus. My god that sounds wonderful. I had heard that this was going on and was very excited that the Edinburgh Nights thing on BBC2 were having a feature on it. Needless to say there was no mention of B&S but Norman Blake performed a very sweet rendition of L'anamour. The bits about Gainsbourg himself were a bit weird though - very flippant! They also showed a clip from his infamous TV encounter with Whitney Houston which was a bit sad really. The worlds greatest flirt reduced to the level of a crude, old uncle. Then of course they managed to drag up some song that consisted of Serge breaking wind. Our very own list expert on the great man (I'm sure there's lots around but I'm talking about Tag here), a man who's spent his life trying to emulate Gainsbourg, even made a rash 'what a horrible man' comment at this. The wee ginger one did manage to compose himself though and at this very moment is off in Iceland, consulting his flatulence svengali on the tricky art of sphincter control. He's promised a faithful rendition at one of the September concerts, which I'm actually looking forward to quite a lot. I don't think anyone's mentioned the History of Scottish Rock and Pop thing in the on-going rock biogs dinosaur. Pretty dull book really, but it does mention Orange Juice, The Pastels, Vaselines and Shop Assistants amongst others (it even mentions The Fizzbombs I think) and if it were written a few years later it would have undoubtedly raved on for several paragraphs at least about B&S which kind of makes it almost on topic. It's possibly quite interesting in bits if you weren't into wearing an anorak in the mid-80s but kind of wish you had been. And it had it's own companion radio show which really should be encouraged. Stephen Pastel on the radio. Oh yes! Love...John +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+