Sinister: B&S: the Bathers connection

[Charlotte Hall]

     I agree about the tenuousness, I've been guilty of it myself, so back 
     *on message* from now on:
     
     what about the occasional appearance of men of the cloth in B&S songs? 
     viz.
     
     "the vicar or whatever took her to one side..."
     
     "go off and see a minister..."
     
     "the priest in the booth had a photographic memory..."


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Subject: RE: Sinister: B&S: the Bathers connection
Author:  Nigel Turner <nigelt at uk.uu.net> at ~ITPS-INTERNET
Date:    28/08/97 11:14


Charlotte Hall wrote:
     
     >A while ago someone asked about The Bathers who played with B&S at 
     Kelvingrove Park. They are worth checking out although they're not 
     really like B&S at all. They've also been around a lot longer. Their 
     best album is called "Sweet Deceit" which is, without hyperbole, a 
     masterpiece. Chris Thomson, the lead singer, started out some time ago 
     in a band called Friends Again who I think were on the renowned 
     Postcard label (circa 1982??). 
     
Mmm.....I saw the Bathers at Kelvingrove Park, and thought they were attrocious 
- very much in that OTHER Scottish tradition of fake white soul - you know the 
offenders..... Deacon Blue, Wet Wet Wet, etc.  I also thought their stage act 
was not a little pompous and arrogant (just my luck if they're reading this!). 
I have vague recollections of Friends Again (wasn't "Honey at the Core" one of 
their singles, or am I confusing them with someone else?), but they definitely 
weren't on Postcard.
     
By the way, am I the only person on this list who thinks that there has been 
rather too many postings of a....mmm......tenuous nature appearing on this list 
in the past day or so?  Wouldn't be anything to do with the tape competition, 
would it?  Might I suggest that any future such competitions should reward 
QUALITY of posting, rather than quantity?  I say give the tape to the duke.
     
Nigel
     
     
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