Sinister: Mike [Cooke, trumpet]

[MWaggner at xxx.com]

Gosh, my clipping service is busy these days....  
Do you think there's a worldwide journalistic plot against poor Mick, err,
Nick... whoever that boy with the horn is?  

> This is from "Rolling Stone" on line:
>  
>  << However, if some of the nominees were a little on the conservative side,
> it was nice to witness one genuinely surprising award to a decidedly un-
slick 
> outfit. The Best Newcomer title went to spotlight-shy Scottish octet Belle &
> Sebastian. "Our table went mad and Mike [Cooke, trumpet] and I just sat
there 
> going, 'Oh no,'" said weary drummer Richard Colburn this morning. "About 
> three tables cheered and everyone else went 'Eh?' Then, as we wandered up to
> the stage, Boy George grabbed me and said, 'Well done!' It was strange."
>  
>  Colburn says that even a heavy tip-off the night before didn't diminish his
> surprise and he attributes the win partly to the band's vast underground 
> following which voted in the poll conducted by BBC Radio 1. "We've got a 
> really good fanbase on the Internet," he said. "Word went round the chat 
> rooms when we were nominated and people must have put in a concerted
effort."
>  
>  Colburn and Cooke received their award (a statuette of Britannia fashioned 
> from some space-age alloy) from Huey of Fun Lovin' Criminals. They hadn't 
> prepared a speech. Colburn simply pointed at Cooke and mumbled "I'm Belle,
he'
> s Sebastian." Meanwhile, the bands' linchpin and singer Stuart Murdoch was 
> with the others in a Glasgow studio working on their fourth album (due on 
> Matador in the U.S. in August). "We rang them afterwards," said Colburn. "
> They were delighted."  >>
>  
>  L.
>  

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