Hullo, Jesus, selling out? Next you'll be telling me Stuart's on the front cover of the NME... oh bugger he is. And what the hell was that article about? I'm talking about the interview with Stuart here, by the way. It's obvious that the writer didn't like the music (he admitted this himself) and was just looking for an excuse to lay in to the band. And I think complaining that they don't do interviews is a stupid thing to do if you're then going to give them a right slagging. I mean, if I were Stuart I'd be well pissed off. So he phones up an NME journalist to discuss some things, one of these things being why they don't do much promo stuff, and the journalist goes away to write a bitchy article about them. It's hardly going to make the band think "oh goody, we really enjoy being called 'elitist without in anyway (sic) being special... perverse without being radical...self-conscious without being righteous', let's do more interviews. For the record, I never buy NME because it's crap. But I was fooled today by the big piccie of Stu on the front. I won't be fooled again, it's just confirmed my view that the NME has gotten lost somewhere around it's own small intestine. They seem obsessed with political stuff like Primal Scream (supposedly) and ADF... well fair enough, but bands that don't sing about their politics have a place too. God, I don't want to go shopping for a music paper and find out I've inadvertently bought a thinly disguised copy of Marxism Today. Oh yeah, and as for the supposed flood of sinister messages we're supposed to be getting... well I get about 1 digest a day, which is bang on fine as far as I'm concerned. And anyway, I don't think it's that unlikely that sinister will be a bit busy, what with the immanent release of a new EP and a new album (not to mention Geometrid). I'm sure once B&S disappear for another couple of years then the list will quieten down a bit anyway. I'm not being nasty, of course people should think before they write, it's just that I thought it was a bit obvious why lots of people were writing. Sorry Honey! [Checks watch] Hmmm. Not quite 15 minutes. [Goes off to make a cup of tea]...[returns] right that's about a quarter of an hour. Click! Platonic hugs, Mike ICQ: 73775341 Email - smiley@rebelmonkey.freeserve.co.uk The Black Den - http://www.rebelmonkey.freeserve.co.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+