Hello again you lot, sorry to post twice in a day but I thought I'd mention that band Belle and Sebastian (who?) are in this month's select - there's the best picture I've ever seen of Stuart Murdoch on the poster page and a lovely one of him and isobel playing/laughing with/at a puppy in the review. Here follows the snippet of interview they put in from Stuart - I can't be bothered to type out the review (of the EP box set - 4 stars). Sorry if someone has beat me to the post. The April issue of Select also features a two page spread about Hefner, so hurrah for them. *** "I PUT ON MY SHORTS AND RUN OFF MY FRUSTRATIONS" Just before Stuart Murdoch abandoned God's gift of speech (at least to the press) he spoke to Select. Here are some previously unpublished excerpts Whose is the canine cuddly toy on the sleeve of the 'Dog on Wheels' EP? "Oh, that's patch. I found him in 1994, short of a wheel in the entrance to a resturant. I stuffed him in a plastic bag and took him home. He's gone now, because I have him to Joanne [cover star of both 'Dog on Wheels' and the 'Tigermilk' album], who I shared a flat with at the time. She's kept hold of him and she's moved down to Lonon. So, Patch is probably living down in the smoke, probably wearing a little beret and getting into the bohemian lifestyle." You've had some pretty disticntive press shots - Joanne with the dog on wheels, cellist Isobel in a dusk mask. What's the thinking behind these? "I think that, over time, these pictures will come to have a certain relevance. At the start it was good to use Joanne, because that was the outset of the band and they weren't comfortable having their pictures taken. I think it's difficult to be intuitive at the same time as being guarded and to anticipate things and worry about things, which I suppose has happened a wee bit." The girl who's "into S&M and Bible studies" in 'If You're Feeling Sinister'. the devious priest in 'The State I am In' - would it be fait to say you have an ambivalent attitude to Christianity? "Yes, quite possibly, but I've never discussed it with a church person. There are quite a lot of nun where I live and I'm always thinking maybe I should talk to them about certain aspects of Christianity." Do you still go running these days? (a subject that's addressed in the song 'The Loneliness of The Middle Distance Runner' as broadcast on the Millennium Eve Tube special.) "I still do it now and then and I still enjoy it, but I'm not going at it very seriously these days. It used to be that if I hadn't run a few miles every day I'd feel really guilty. I don't feel like that anymore. I still find it really enjoyable though - to put on a pair of running shoes and run off. That's probably a mystery to people who've never done it before...I just put on my shorts and run off my frustrations." *** Erica x P.s Oh, and when I said:

and bumped out heads. Which was nice. Earlier, I actually meant bumped *our* heads. Sorry, I had to correct it, I'll only do a Dastoor and lay up all night thinking about it.

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