Sinister: Rodstalgia

[Peter Miller]

Yoko Ono had two groups; The Plastic Ono Band and The Elephant's Memory Big
Band. Rockin' Joe Booker has two groups; The PINEs and The FOXgloves. Hmmm.

I've got C188 and it's BLUDDY GRATE apart from Poxendale. I thought The
Clientele were going to be utter pish, but they're actually rather pleasant.
Spearmint appear to like Showaddywaddy. Have they got a Barry Sheene song?
Misstopher Chris has come on in leap and bound. And so on and so forth. In
all seriousness, I was kind of dreading it, but you're all very talented
indeed and I'm quite jealous. And that's before even opening the magazine,
which makes me look like a clodhopping duffer. C'mon kids, pop down to your
local newsagent's and ask him to reserve you a copy.
http://www.papercuts.co.uk

Liking 60% of an album is pretty good going, I'm happy if an album contains
60% material that I haven't got already - Stax this, Stax that, Stax the
other, they all merrily overlap. If I were to sell all the versions of
"Theme from Shaft" I own, I could afford a ticket to see the new film
remake, starring Samuel L. Clemens. As for the ups and downs and high points
and low points and jaunty angles of the new album, I came across a quote
from legendary skiffle boom promoter DH Lawrence in which he says, "Tell
Arnold Layne that all the rules of construction are only valid for novels
(or long-playing gramaphone records) that are copies of others. A book (or
long-playing gramophone record) that is not a copy of another has its own
construction; and what he, because he is an old imitator, calls faults and I
call characteristics". So stick that in your pipe and smoke it, anti-Beyond
the Sunrise brigade!

See if you can guess which football match I decided not to bother watching
yesterday.

Apologies to anyone I haven't answered lately.

Peter

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