And Baltimore just oozes with character, unless you wander into the baseball stadium which I felt looked rather contrived. There's the whole Edgar Allen Poe connection as well. And then there's Tim Hardin's Lady Came From Baltimore. A nice tune for B&S to cover.

Yes, or there's Nina Simone's incomparable 'Baltimore' , which with its dreamy reggae beat would prove an ideal cover to further Belle and Sebastian's fan-baiting eclecticism. Despite living 5000 miles away, I like this campaign to make them play in Baltimore. Bewilder them with its sheer arbitrariness. But we need some kind of focus for our protest. Perhaps we should boycott the new album until they cave in? Anyway, Tag was being unfair with all that line-them-up-against-the-wall stuff. I think there's a certain amount of insecurity doing the rounds about only liking guitar-based indie music. Whereas to be exclusively into, for example, straight down the line reggae, is seen as fine and cool. It's like in 'The Jerk' when Steve Martin turns the cliche on its head by experiencing a spiritual awakening on hearing some naff easy listening played on the radio after growing up only hearing soul. Sorry, I seem to have turned this into some kind of racial issue, which I'm sure is not what Tag meant. I'll shut up. I had a B&S nightmare last night. I dreamed I joined in a thread about favourite books by opting for 'The Black Prince' bt Iris Murdoch, and was flamed by a Cambridge student for making such an appalling choice. It was quite distressing. Umm.. does anyone know where Chris Geddes grew up? I was listening to a tape of him on 'Beat Patrol' interview last night and realised that he has a really odd accent - a sort of mix of Glasgow and London. Is there a region of Scotland that was invaded by Walthamstow in the the 18th Century or something and still bears the scars? Or am I just a clueless fuckwit? nick xx _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Coinini athasach ata muid - ag canuint amhrain na . coinini - nach bhfuilimid? -----------------------------------------------------------------------