Sinister: B&S Apparel in the US?/Paraphenalia in general

[david kitchen]

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Mick McMick wrote:

> Hullo,
>         Just inquiring as to whether or not we Americans are going to be privy
> to the same sort of wondrous items (i.e. shirts, posters, badges,
> B&S-brand arab straps) as the kind that are being sold at the UK gigs? I
> so want to parade around town with "Belle & Sebastian" emblazoned upon
> my chest. See Mr. Milkman? How about them apples, store clerk. You wish
> you had a shirt like this too, fellow student? Well, it's a shame you
> didn't see them... Well, that's *if* we can get them...

we will be trying to sort out getting t-shirts to the states, it is
unlikely that we'll be supplying mugs or badges though. also, katrina
and i won't be selling merchandise in the states or europe as, quite
simply, the merchandise would never be able to pay for the cost of our
time off, travel and accomodation!

>         I do wonder, though, what other B&S-related paraphenalia might we
> purchase? An alarm with a "Sleep Around the Clock" button? "Ease Your
> Feet into the Epsom Salt"? "Lazy Back Massager Jane"? "Photo
> Jenny"-brand cameras? "Le Pastie de la Bourgeosie"-creampuffs? A
> "Pocketbook Angel" notebook? Or Perhaps a notebook with "We Rule the
> School" emblazoned upon it. Hm, I'd best quit before I get *REALLY*
> bad...  But until B&S write a song called "I Can't Believe It's Not
> Butter," we'll be stuck guessing at the potential commercial
> possibilities.

one of the things we've been thinking of making is one of those little
snow-storms things that you shake to make the snow fall. then we can
have a little title emblazoned round the side "the fox in the
snow-storm"

:)

david kitchen

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