Sinister: friday night record shopping

[Mike Newman]

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 08:01, David Hewitt wrote:

> The cover image is the one that they're showing at Amazon. It's nice enough. 
> It looks like a Belle & Sebastian record, only orange. There's a similar 
> picture on the back, and a back and white picture of the waitress inside. 
> She's apparently someone called "Shantha Roberts". I don't know who she is 
> or who she plays for, though. I guess there's no reason why I should.

Since I'm nursing a developing obsession with said miserable-looking
waitress, I went a-googling. The only Shantha Roberts I can find appears
to play for the Aberdeen City Youth Wind Quintet. Possible I guess.
There is a lot of wind on the new record (and I mean that in a nice way,
of course).

> STAY LOOSE
> This one's certainly a bit Bowie, as has been said already, but I reckon 
> it's at least as much Split Enz. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing - just 
> a bit out of character, somehow.

Not sure - I get 'Joe Jackson' when I hear it, for some inexplicable
reason.

Mike
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