well there i was just drivin home close to midnight on a thursday and i had channel flicked thru every station on the radio before i heard this voice. a scottish voice, on australian radio, not entirely unusual, yet... i listened to a bit more and realised when the (tosser) announcer said 'we're talking to Richard Colburn' that it was indeed Richard Colburn. well blow me down. he was talking to someone on triple j, odd as i don't think i've ever heard them played on that station. but i listened with bated breath to what he had to say. he talked about the band and the brits and lots more stuff that i can't be bothered writing at the mo ( etc etc) and said in very very vague terms that (paraphrased here okay, don't go lynching me if this doesn't happen) 'we'd really like to come and do a tour of Australia and Japan, maybe some time next year.' now this could be plain and simple 'keep the fan base happy' talk but hey, i just assumed that i'd have to move before i saw them live. anything's a bonus. actually i had never heard an interview, funnily enough these guys don't seem to do much press :) so therefore it was kind of novel anyway. like a book. but spoken. Richard also got to program five songs or so and gave us some Stevie Wonder, The Who, Adam Ant, and John Coltrane. and one other that slips my mind. i'll remember after i press send. To add my five cents ( worth around 0.0005 pence) to the debate on promo's, personally for me its kind of inevitable to have this album talked about before I get it, (unless of course you are all willing to wait about 10 years or so when the band suddenly gets a big revival after the breakup/tragic circumstances and their albums are repackaged in a nice big 'Belle & Sebastian, The Cardy years' box set and hence gets a release here when it rollick's up the charts in the UK ) OK thats a kind of exaggeration but hey, it will take a month or two. Never mind. however the other night when they were interviewing Richard Colburn my mumbling of 'play a new track, play a new track,.... go on,..... fuck, not going to play it.' nearly caused me to slam my car into a nearby pole. so there is a danger in pre listens. right well i'll be off now. helen ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+