Sinister: And I used to be a citizen

[Ian Nicolson]

Oh, goodness gracious. The computers at work (yeh, WORK. Or should that be 
W!O!R!K!? No. It shouldn't. But it's not a proper job - it's just a wee 
pretendy one that'll keep me going for a bit, before I leave in the summer 
and go back to sleep) aren't working very well just now, so I've strolled 
along to the big, evil corporate internet place during lunchtime so as not 
to let the Sinister posts pile up to 70-odd as I did recently. During the 
pre-job lost months I'd quite often while away a couple of hours here of an 
afternoon, before perhaps taking a wander up to the cinema to pretend to be 
dead clever and cultured and watch some arty movies (one of the highlights 
of the past six months was seeing 'Through a Glass Darkly' in the pictures 
Maybe not Bergman's best, but still...). Or meet friends in the pub. Or 
maybe even just wander the streets and parks of Edinburgh. And I would 
really, really love to do something like that right now. Working is pish. 
How could I have forgotten?

So anyways, Mike Hurst's producing the new single(s). This could be a good 
thing, I think. Some of the more upbeat songs on the last album  could 
really have done with a big 60s type production, but ended up sounding 
somewhat weedy. I first thought this while listening to 'Saturday's Child' 
by the Walker Brothers which, while it perhaps doesn't sound like a song off 
that album as such, sounds like they should maybe have sounded - the big 
Phil Spector type thing. The only problem is that I'm not sure that anyone 
in Belle and Sebastian has the right type of voice to carry that kind of 
thing off. But it seems as if maybe that's the sound they're going for, what 
with hundreds of people in the studio and all. But maybe this is just a lot 
of nonsense - the producer's style might have changed entirely. The new 
single might be a techno number (is techno still a form of music? I get 
confused.). And this entire paragraph probably all a big load of muso wank 
anyway.

Disco-Go-Round Jen from Seattle drooled:
>I have concluded that Edinburgh has
>the most hunky boys per square mile than anywhere else
>I've been
Well, one can hardly disagree with that! Except perhaps the 'hunky' part. 
Does looking a bit like Nick Cave count?

Ian N.
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