Sinister: occasional post

[Kevan Cooke]

hello folks,

*** PROG ROCK BOLLOCKS ***

weird that you're all talking about pink floyd, weirder
still that you're talking about them just as i get some
bang up to date pink floyd related gossip.

the partner of one of my work colleagues is an artist,
quite a successful one too, and has just finished
touring the states with roger waters, doing all the
set design and giant inflatable pigs and stuff.

so anyway, on the last date of the tour the band
finished their set, and everyone leapt from the stage
and ran as fast as they could for the waiting limos,
so the artist guy has to leg it after them, and there's
this whole crowd of musos and their entourage running
like nobody's business, and jumping into a fleet of
cars and speeding off down the road.

the thing is there were no screaming crowds of fans
chasing them or anything, and he still has no idea why
they ran off like that.

shame perhaps?

i used to be a bit of a fan, but i haven't really
listened to any of my floyd albums for ten years or
so, and think it was probably just a phase i was going
through.

i suppose you could argue that "i fought in a war" is
a bit like pink floyd, if only because roger waters is
always going on about wars.  i don't think there's
anything wrong in liking pink floyd, but they are a
bit old and fat and irrelevant now, not unlike myself.

i really dislike records by yes though, because the
bass is always too loud and sounds terrible.  to make
matters worse, by the mid eighties the bass player was
the only original band member left, and then he even
went to court try and stop all the other original band
members from releasing a record together - because the
sleeve had lettering that looked similar to seventies
yes albums.  these wild rock stars, eh?

even so, rick wakeman does seem like a sound bloke.

*** FLOPPYWENCH ****

i disagree with the idea that the new album shows its
influences less than its predecessors, i think it just
shows different influences.  i mean, the band play
a left banke song live, and then nick the intro for
the model...  the gentle waves cover a nancy sinatra
song, and then isobel comes up with a nancy & lee
pastiche...  you could even argue that the keyboards
on leave the light on have a "theme from taxi" kind of
quality to them reminiscent of much of beck's stuff,
someone else that they have covered live...

i would say that TWATTYBUS displayed the band's
influences far less than FLOPPYWENCH.

i seem to remember someone, probably mark c complaining
that the band don't use flute as much as they did on
their early records - is there enough on the new album
for you?  i'd say there's more flute than there is
guitar... almost.

brian, i definitely remember you complaining that
stevie is always doing that choppy steve cropper
guitar thing.  it's good to hear "there's too much
love" proving that he's learnt to do seventies stax
guitar sounds as well as the sixties ones - and on
the same song too!  no wonder everyone loves it.

*** OTHER BANDS ***

brian again, the nixon ep that sandcastle released is
great, it kind of reminds me of a cross between the
acid house kings and another band, but i can't quite
place who...

has anyone else heard the single "robot trouble" by
barcelona?  i don't follow the charts, so for all i
know it got to number one and i look really stupid for
asking.  i thought it managed to be funny without
being shit, which is quite an achievement really.

does anyone know what the four extra tracks that
appear on the US release of baxendale's album are?
i've already bought the UK version, and am now left
pondering whether i should have bought the US one
instead.  mail ME if you can help, not sinister.

its a shame that the clientele felt the need to slag
off b&s.  i suppose after four years b&s have stopped
being a fashionable cause celebre, and are viewed as
part of an indie old guard.  i still love the
clientele though, grumpy old buggers that they are.

*** THE NME ***

they're a bit sad really aren't they?

bye,
kevan

ps apologies for not making it to the picnic


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