Well, Brad's left (boo!), Rachel's DJing (hooray!), and Peter Miller wrote:

Eartha Kitt Does Jobbies in Taxis

Peter, I'm sorry that I cruelly raised your hopes, I should have made it clear, it was only a number one. It was Tony Adams that did the other sort.

Tribute album - I seem to remember a bunch of freaks doing something similar for/at Elvis Costello via our beloved internet. Perhaps someone would like to get in touch with said freaks to find out how they did it. I think it's a terrible idea, but I hope you all prove me wrong.

Thank God for that, I thought it was just me. Even though Miller obviously got out of bed the wrong side today, I'm forced to agree. I don't want to sound like a cynical old bastard (although that's never stopped me in the past), and I'm sure the idea was made with the best intentions, but wouldn't it be better if B&S, and all they represent, inspired people who could play an instrument to write their own songs, with oooh...just a little bit of originality, rather than rehash something someone else did a lot better first time around. The only good reasons for doing cover versions are to do something completely different (some of us are already working on our Gabba version of "Fox in the Snow"), to cover something Godlike, but relatively unknown and bringing it to a wider public (like Mick Harvey's Gainsbourg tributes), or to "take a shite song and make it better", like Saint Etienne did with "Kiss and ma..."....why are you all looking at me funny? Love Tag xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+