Sinister: I was so embarrassed that I missed Chapati

[craigrm]

Legal Naan, Century of Fakirs... maybe ?

While I'm on the subject of Indian influences in popular culture, the much 
feared sitar onslaught on FYHCYWLAP never quite materialised now did it ?. 
Maybe the band took the Tim Hopkins threat not to purchase new album if it 
involved sitars seriously and hurriedly re-wrote it all ?. That would 
certainly explain the recording delays and may even be the *real* reason 
Stuart D left. You see I always pictured him as the George Harrison of the 
band so it makes sense that he'd be the biggest proponent of the sitar, 
perhaps he found himself in the unenviable position of having to deliver an 
ultimatum along the lines of "if the sitars go then so do I".

And we all know what happened ....Murdoch called his bluff & the rest is 
history.

How did FISHYCAP go in the charts when it was released, I forgot to check at 
the time. The more cynical amongst us know that sales charts are nothing but a 
corrupt capitalist tool of oppression and subliminal mind control, but I still 
can't help but wonder how the al-bum went. The Canadian chart though is 
obviously based on musical quality (Legal Man at number 4) so is justifiably 
exempt from my previous rant

I've heard that last week several members of the Eastenders cast, high on a 
potentially lethal combination of meths and airfix glue accidentally tunneled 
in the Jeepster Office's from the basement of a nearby 24 hour Photocopying 
Shop. Naturally Jeepster HQ is as secure as Fort Knox and  a silent alarm was 
triggered well before the rampaging thespians managed to get their hands on 
any rare Gentle Waves demos so the damage was minimal, which is a massive 
relief for all concerned.

So St Etienne didn't deliver the goods at Glastonbury, I can imagine they'd 
struggle a bit in that kinda setup. They're normally quite excellent live so 
lets all blame the poor acoustic qualities of canvas and continue to think 
Sarah and co are the Bees Knees, cos they are.

That's about it I think, as uaual there's very little of substance - sorry.


Craig x


ps: apologies is the formatting goes a bit weird on this message. I'm using a 
suspect webmail program that has mangled posts in the past, I'll never learn.

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