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RELEASE INFORMATION
UK release date: February 6th, 2006
Highest UK Chart Position: 8
Highest US Chart Position: 65
Catalogue numbers: CD - RTRADCD280 LP - RTRADLP280 CD with bonus DVD - RTRADCDX280
CREDITS
Produced and Mixed by Tony Hoffer
Engineered by Todd Burke and Tony Hoffer
Assistant Engineers: Jason Mott (Sound Factory) and Chris Reynolds (Sunset Sound)
Recorded at the Sound Factory, Los Angeles
Mixed at Sunset Sound, Los Angeles
Mastered by Frank Awkright at Metropolis, London
"The Blues Are Still Blue" and "For The Price Of A Cup Of Tea" mixed by Tony Doogan at The Castle of Doom, Glasgow
Additional Musicians:
James Swinburne - Sax on "Funny Little Frong"
Alistair Collins - Bassoon on "Dress Up In You"
Tom Smith - Trombone on "Sukie..." and "Dress Up In You"
Jennifer Stephenson - Clarinet on "Dress Up In You"
Chris Reynolds - Percussion on "For The Price Of A Cup Of Tea"
On The Cover: Alex Klobouk, Natasha Noramly, Marisa Privitera
Additional Posing: Dave Anderson, Patrick Doyle, Katrina House
Pictures by Stuart
Assisted by: Patrick Doyle and Marisa Privitera
Band photos by Marisa Privitera
Tony Hoffer photographed by Alex Prager
Sleeve Design and Layout by Keith Dodds at D8 and Belle and Sebastian
Costumes by Geoffrey (Tailor), Kiltmakers, Glasgow
Thanks to:
Neil Robertson, Katrina House, Mark Trayner, Iain Waddell, Geoff Travis, Jeannette Lee, Clare Britt, Pru Harris, Colin Wallace, Joe Smith, Jeff Teader and all at Rough Trade, Phil MacConnell, Wren Rider, Sean Moriarty and all at Sunset Sound/The Sound Factory, Gerard Cosloy, Chris Lombardi, Nils Bernstein, Miwa Okumura, Patrick Amory and the Matador crew, Ichi Yamanaka, John Best, Ruth Clarke, Dylan White, Brad Hunner, Yvonne Kincaid, Sean Hamilton, Fiona Morrison, James Young, Adam Saunders, Allen Johnston, Rebecca Ashton, Jack Tailor and all at Geoffrey (Tailor), The Saratoga Trunk, Ann and Darren Rademaker, The Scottish Railway Preservation Society, The Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway.
SLEEVE NOTES
From: Kelly
Q.Well, you guys have really done it this time. DCW was a fabulous album. I can?t listen to it now, however. It appears my partner of 9 years saw fit to have an affair last year and as we listened to that album over and over, it really tells her story--not mine. I?m disappointed, I mean, I really loved that album. Does the heartache ever go away?
A. The heartache goes away to be replaced by a romantic malaise. Our subsequent long player will explain to you what to try next.
Stuart
From: Juan Pablo
Q.hi,I am from Mexico, the fist thing I want is congratulate you:congratulations. the second is this i am 16 years old, I really dont like buissnes work and adults but I would like to work or do some thing for the summer, I would like to go to the forest with my frinds and buy a beautiful painting in the internet. but I like baking cakes but I am not sure to sell them, and I like to make t-shirts of my favorite bands and stuff but i dont like to make money from the music i really enjoy. so what could i do? I could just Relax in my house all summer but I really love the forest. thanks, Bella y la Bestia bye(i dont chew English)
A. This is one of the greats really. 16, you?re beautiful, and you?re slightly lost in translation. But we?ll forgive you.
It is of vital importance at this age to learn how to have fun and to learn what it takes to truly enjoy yourself. Do this before settling down to any adult type responsibilities. Go to the forest, certainly. But also make band tshirts. If you can make any dough off it, and feel guilty, then send a shirt to the bands involved. Out of egotistical fervour, they will readily forgive you.
Stuart
From: Katie
Q. A teacher of mine once told me that the three main questions in life are: Where did you come from?, Why are you here?, and Where are you going? I am curious (with much respect) on how you all would respond to these vital questions.
A. Who cares! That?s not important, not to me anyway..what?s more important is a code by which to live. Here?s mine...drummed into me at an early age
1 Never hit a woman
2 Never cross a picket line
3 Always get your round in at the bar
Simple.
Stevie
From: Laura
Q.I want to move to Glasgow for university, but my mum thinks it?s a bad idea. She says that I don?t know anyone there, and I?ll have no friends. What do you think I should do? Cheers, everyone. I love you guys!
A. Well that?s kind of the whole point. You?ll still have the friends you?ve aleady got, but you?ll meet new people too. And you can visit your older friends wherever they go away to and see a bit of the world as you go. Good luck though, wherever you end up.
Sarah
From: Jenny
Q.I?m screwed! you see, i kinda sorta got tried out for this elite jazz band at my high school as a freshman, not thinking i could make it... but you see, i did! and i know i should be flattered, but i?ve only been nervous... :( i?m on the trumpet, adn there are only 3 trumpets in this band, and they?re all juniors! i?m afraid i?ve gotten myself into something, and i?m just going to embarrass myself... Do you have any suggestions for me? I mean, other than practicing? I figured it?d be a great chance to hear from you, being a true musician... thank you, in advance, stuart.
A. Jenny, you?re going to have work through the nervous threshhold sometime in your life, so why not now? If you like playing, play! Best to get it over with...
I used to be in a band when I was 12 or so. I liked it, but I was slightly in awe of the string players, who all seemed so wise and sexually sophisticated. Don?t be put off by the string players and their ways! And don?t eat stuff prior to blowing; the crumbs get stuck in the tubes!
Stuart
From: Jenny
Q.damn...string players do seem quite ?sexually sophisticated don?t they...why is that?
A. They know how to fiddle from an early age.
Stuart
From: alexis
Q.What did you do today?
A. We dribbled into the office, where we sat about talking no end of crap for a good hour and a half, before being banished by Neil to the studio. Played through a couple of songs. Someone declared: ?Luncheon!? and we shot upstairs to break Stuart?s bread. More witticisms. Back down to the studio, played through another tune. Scattered - me and Beans to the little control room next door where we made some funny noises sound even funnier and listened to Stevie and Bob playing ?Wild Honey? through the glass. I fell asleep briefly on the sofa while trying to warm up a little. A tough old day.?
Sarah
From: Liz
Q.Morning Stevie,I have recently realised - better later than never- that you wrote ?Seymour Stein? and I think it is a wonderful song, certainly one of my fave.What?s the story behind that song?
A.? Oh you know it?s the same old story..?Is it better for a Man to gain the world but lose his Soul?? or in my case ?Is it better to gain a record contract but lose his girlfriend?
Stevie
From: Marc
Q.How do you write your songs? does someone come up with a rough idea that is polished, or are most songs finished before showing them to the rest of the band?
A. We used to always bring finished songs, and then the band would collaborate with the writer on arrangement, but happily, anything seems to go now. Ideas come in various stages from various people, and are fleshed out, torn apart, juxstaposed, sampled or even nicked (!) by other members. we are just about to enter an interesting stage in this process so I?ll keep you posted.
Stuart.
From: Tristram Shandy- gentleman
Q.I think you guys should leave the well produced phase now. Hey why don?t you record a party album like the one beach boys did.i?d be easy You know just gather in the bacement with a bunch of freinds and a lot of wine. Or do something really spontanous but still great, like Jonathan Richman. You do like Jonathan richman don?t you. I?m sure you do. Or if you don?t wanna do any of these just record a really great scottich natinal epic album , the songs of ossian like.All romantic like. Will you do that?
A. No.
From: Katrina
Q.I?m excited to hear your new album that you are now recording, however, I have fears like a previous writer, Tristam, had about your new album being overly produced. It seems that when bands make it big-they record in LA; work with some big name famous producer; and decide to move their music in another direction to either make it more mainstream to acquire that ?one hit? or attempt to make it artistically experimental. The outcome is usually dismal and the purity of the music is lost. Please alleviate my fears. Best Regards, Katrina-Seattle
A. Do you think and do the exact same things you did nine years ago?
Richard
From: Your close freind, though not relative
Q.I was wondering just how the chemestry between the members of the band has worked troughout the years, and whether you have managed to stay in line with eachother artistically . A band, after all, is a group of indiviuals and as the members get older there should, i geuss be some split of ideas involvded. This, i reckon, is bound to threaten the balance. Would you coomment on this.Also, how mush is your band under the dictatorship of Murdoch, and do you think that a band ( given that they?re not The Beatles) works best under the dictarship of one person bearing a great vision?
A. Well, you see, this band is like a cake recipe. Sometimes it works brilliantly, but other times, the butter?s just not soft enough. And other times, you just want to mess up the recipe to see what happens. And you?re right, different people have a different idea of what the perfect cake is. Luckily though, at the moment, we?re working from the same cookery book. Does that make sense?
Mick
From: Paul
Q.Who is the smartest member of belle & sebastian?
A. Beans.
Q.you must help me in this debate that i am immersed in. Who would win in a fight, an elephant or rhino?
A. You are sick, that?s the kind of shit they used to do in ancient Rome, when they weren?t eating so much they puked. Or making a horse a minister.
My money would be on the elephant.
Beans
From: Richard
Q. Stuart - Who would win in a fight, Batman or a lion?
A. It would be a close one. If the Lion got him before he got to some serious hardware, then you?d have to say the Lion.
Stuart
From: Timothy
Q.Im off to a wedding soon and need to choose between a brown cordoroy suit, blue pin striped suit, and an off white suit... seeing that you cats are all pretty happening when it comes to music and style I figured you could give me some advise. cheers. ps. Sarah, you rock my world.
A. Brown would be my advice - more forgiving than white when you dribble gravy down it, and brown goes with anything. And corduroy undermines the formal, uniform-ness of the notion of a suit. I have a serious aversion to double-breasted suits, for some reason, so if any of the options falls into that category, they should probably be eliminated from your list of options.
Sarah
From: andrea
Q.do you love me? (do ya love me) do you love me? (do ya love me) naaaa... naaaa...... naaaaaa!!!
A. Only if you can dance.
Stevie
From: Ned Glasier
Q.Hello. I went to the hairdressers today and was discussing with the hairdresser (who shall remain nameless) the future style of my hair. It turns out we were both fans of Belle and Sebastian so I asked for my hairstyle to reflect this. I imagined I would be getting the best Scottish haircut ever. However, I have just been informed that I look like a peanut. Are you in anyway legally responsible for this?
Ned.
A. Ah, shit Ned. You were never meant to find out about this. I dated your mother when she was a young macadamia, but we both agreed it would be better if you were fostered.
Stuart?
From: Dina
Q.Why is Chris so cute?
A. You should see him first thing in the morning, after a night out...
Mick?
From: Fiona
Q.Who is the biggest crybaby in the band. We have our suspicions that it may be Chris!
A. It?s not me. I?m probably second.
Chris?
From: Alberto Govela-Martinez
Q.To Stuart Murdoch. I want to know if you always knew you were going to be in a band or you were going to make something so special for a lot of people. Did you feel desperate while you did not have the band and you wanted to do something ?
A. No, I never thought I would be in a band. I was an admiring onlooker of the talents of others. When I did start writing songs, I WAS a little desperate to get a group together. Everybody seemed so blais?! Alberto, if you ever find yourself in that situation, never give up. I see people now who have a desperate desire to do something, and I see other people laughing at them. Even if they never make it, they are still going to have a much better time than the other people who sit on their lazy arses laughing their heads off!
Stuart.
From: Troy from San Francisco
Q. Hello, I?ve consumed nothing but bananas and tea since Jan. 17th; I feel great & nothing has really changed (except a bit smaller waist size). Should I keep going? I don?t really crave any other type of food yet. yellowingly yours Troy
A. That can?t be good for you, surely? you should probably eat
some greens.
Sarah
From: Marybeth
Q.Richard, You?re cranky, drunk, sarcastic, possibly constipated, and just a touch mean-spirited...in other words, will you be my sex-slave? I?m a rich American and will keep you floating in French Martinis, if that helps.
A. I?d love to.
Richard
From: Sebastian
Q.Is anyone in the band superstitious? if so in what ways
A. yes,me.I have to have 15 pints after every show or the next show will go badly.
Richard
From: Paul
Q.How do you pronounce Chris?s last name? It?s probably simple, but I?ve always wondered. :-)
A. Geddes.
Richard
From: Jess Moncrieff
Q.Can we go back to when Richard answered only ?yes? or ?no? to questions, please?
A. No.
Richard
From: Lilia
Q.Why dost thou detest me so?
A. One dost detest thou noteth.
Richard
From:
Q.Is stuart really colorblind? Just wondering... thanks a lot.
A. Apparantly so. He?s in charge of our album covers by the way which is interesting.
Stevie
From: travis
Q.Does anyone in the band know any good recipes for a boneless/skinless chicken breast?
A. No, but it?s a good question. Actually, have you considered thinly slicing it and cooking it fast in a pan with Cajun spices? I do that with fish sometimes.
Stuart
Q.Sarah, would you assign animal likenesses to every member of the band? I?d like to see how you would.
A. I was going to leave this question but I thought you might like to know that Beans very closely resembles a prairie dog. Stuart once remarked upon this similarity too, so I?m not totally crazy. But that?s all I?ve got for you, I?m afraid. If any of the others start behaving like a chihuahua, I?ll be sure to let you know.
Sarah?
From: Stella
Q.Hi B&S, who plays the acoustic guitar on waiting for the moon to rise and do anyone of you have a pair of walsh running shoes?
A. Me and Mick, he strums a 6 string, I?m plucking a 12 string and no I can?t say as I do.
Stevie
From: Dewey Meadows
Q.Would it have been so damn hard to include just one bonus track on your upcoming singles compilation? I finally tracked them all down, only to learn that in a month?s time they?ll all be in one spot at a fraction of the price. I feel so used...For shame B&S! All this after not being able to afford your shows the last two times you?ve come to my town on top of it. The next time you release some obscure,hard-to-find,Indie-Boutique-Only vanity release, you can just save it. I?m not falling for it. This is lousy customer service. Raspberries, B&S!
A. Sorry, but what?s your problem exactly?? You?ve got the singles already so don?t buy it.? Surely the fair gripe would be if we?d put some shitty out take that wasn?t good enough to be released in the first place on it, thus encouraging folk to part with their hard earned for a load of stuff they?ve already got. As for ?hard-to-find? it took me about 15 seconds there to find all the singles for sale for an average price of about $5. Do you want me to tell you how?
Good Lord, you?d better have been typing that shit just to have have a laugh by winding me up.
Chris
From: Skippy
Q.I think that ?Your Cover?s Blown? is one of the best tracks you?ve done in years. I was just wondering how you all feel about this song and whether it?s a harbinger of what direction your music will be headed in the future. P.S. - I love the word harbinger and am very pleased to have had the opportunity to use it.
A. Well done skippy for putting a favourite word in the public domain. My word for the day is ?tubolardish?. It would be tubolardish of us not to carry on in the same vain. But don?t try and draw any graphs because we plan to be unplottable. Another good word.
Stuart
From: liam
Q.so who is the best cook in the group? and the cleanest? who is the most slobby? thanks.
A. Quite a few of us are handy in the kitchen. I love cooking - Indian food especially- and Sarah does a mean pea and mint soup, and mushroom, spinach and chick pea curry. Beans is a very good cook too. As for the cleanest, the three I?ve already mentioned are always tidying up after the others in the rehearsal studio- they just leave their shit lying everywhere; cups full of tea, half eaten sandwiches...
Mick
From: Martin S
Q.Hello there. I?m in a band. I?m thinking of smashing a fender telecaster over the drummers head tommorrow afternoon. It seems like a good idea. How do B&S learn to control their anger and stay friends when times get tough?
A. I like your precision planning. Do you know what you?ll be wearing when you do it? At what angle you want the body of the guitar to smash down on his skull? Think these things through, especially the matter of clothes.
I think the band must go home and beat up their spouses, because they don?t vent very often when we?re all there. I don?t have a spouse so I pour it all out to my Spider Plant.
I think we are the lucky ones. Heaven knows how they?ve managed to put up with my growing arrogance and reliance on Chinese drugs.
Stuart
From: Anon
Q.Given the band?s recent failure to clinch an Ivor Novello award, and also lack of progress artistically and commercially over the past season, especially in Europe, do the band feel that a change of management would be beneficial? There has been speculation recently that Martin O?Neil is considering taking a ?break? from football. Can the band confirm that an approach has been made for his services?
A. The Banchory Board would like to stress that we and the band have every confidence in our management team. Neil has the full support of the board, with all that entails, and we are all delighted with the progress we?ve made this season, especially our improved away form. He will be given funds to strengthen the group before the next record and we remain confident that Neil is the man to take the band on to the next level. Anything you may have heard linking the band with the likes of Houllier, Ranieri or O?Neil is pure speculation.
Chris
From: Oliver Dunn - Auckland, New Zealand
Q.Are you worried about what you might do for a living when B&S come to an end? Or are you the Rolling Stones?
A. we are the rolling stones.
Stevie.
A. we?ll have to agree to differ on that one, Stevie..
Stuart
From: Barry
Q.I have heard this a lot and I was wondering if it was true... Is ?I?m Waking Up To Us? about the relationship between Stewart and Isobel? If it?s true (which I hope it isn?t) that is such a spitefull and childish way to deal with something.
A. And do you have a better way of dealing with falling out of love and driving each other berserk mister oh-so mature-Barry-I?ve probably-never-even-been-in-love? I didn?t plan to get into this business, but now that I am I deserve an angry song every 9 years. Even if it was about Bel. Which it wasn?t.
Stuart
From: lola
Q.how come i never see you anymore?
A. lola, darling! I?ve been working.
Stuart
From: Natalia Marx
Q. Hi,Stuart.Yesterday, I was watching ?Fans Only? for my first time and as appeared your scenes, I realised that you ARE MY TYPE of man!!!I?m not kidding, it?s serious.The way your eyes seemed mysterious and at the same time, too beautiful...and I also instantly fell in love with your eyebrows (I think they remind me that Japanese Cartoon-Dragon Ball Z, when Goku reaches Sayajin?s third form;Have you ever watched it?).Unfortunately,I?m seventeen and by now, I have no hope.Well, these are my questions: How old are you? Are you committed or single? That?s all.Kiss on your cheek ^^x
A. Yes, Natalia, as you are seventeen, you fall into the same age category as some of my charges in the Youth Club at my church. Therefore, from me you can expect some hastily improvised Christian guidance and a bit of a sing-song.
I am more than twice your age! You would learn to make fun of my eyebrows like the rest of the kids, and soon be bored by my over serious nature and obsessions with antiquated modes of urban transport!
Your letter is appreciated though; I do wish you all the best.
Ps. In answer to your other queries (a) I didn?t realise I had a facial similarity to Mr Ballz. (b) I was nearly commited once
Stuart
Q.Regarding your merchandise. 42? chest is extra large!!!! You lot might all be waif-like but I?m a fat bastard and 42? chest is no good to me. Any chance of an out size department or are you just pandering to the fashionista and demanding all your fans be anorexic fish supper dodgers.
A. We?ll pass this to Katrina, skinny t-shirt lay-dee.
From: Jana
Q. I killed three squirrels in two days. Unintentionally.
A. Tell it to the judge, small nut-collecting mammal killer.
Richard
From: elizabeth rougetete
Q.dear catastrophy waitress? what about receptionist? there?s something wonderful about a redhead with bardot hair and an earpiece spending hours in a law office with your music, paisley wall paper, and overbearing oak furniture. what do you say?
A. and you are that redhead I suppose, Ms Rouge? Yes, there?s something magnificent about that.
Stuart
From: Kate
Q.HI RICHARD, You?re fantastic. However, I am in love with Stuart. Any advice as to how I can win him over.....???
A. I thank you.Buy him a double decker bus and drive him to San Francisco in it.
Richard
From: Richie
Q.Dear Stevie, I just plucked up the courage to ask this ultra-cool girl out to the pics; her response was that I have to compile a CD with only 10 songs on it, that?ll help pass away a rainy Tuesday afternoon in Feb!!! If she likes it she?ll come along. I?m stuck. I?ve got about 3 songs down ( Johnny Cash Hurt, VU What Goes On Live ?69 and your very own F**K this S**t) I?really like the bands you?ve mentioned here before and would love it if you could suggest a song for a wet Tues in Feb esp a really cool one or seven!! ( she is a bit wierd hey??!!!). Ichyd Da! Rich Wales. PS. Please play Cardiff on your next tour ;-)
A. Hi there, keep this to yourself but I think things are looking pretty good for you unless she?s so super cool that she?s toying with you. I think not however. It?s important that you don?t lose control in this situation, have confidence in your own tastes, in your own cool, in your own feelings, don?t, I repeat, don?t try and second guess her, putting on stuff that you think would engraciate you into her favour, let your own personality come to the fore, teach her what you know, have faith in what you have to give but of course you gotta have a couple of messages in there that let her know the extent of your feeling, flatter her a little, let her know that you dig her, keep it subtle though, musn?t give her a stalker vibe. So anyway, I don?t really have any advise about songs, I have think you should look within and you?ll be alright..Good Luck
Stevie
From: Sparky
Q.If Bono owns any of your albums which do you think it would be?
A. the next one. like us, he still hasn?t found what he?s looking for
From: volapyk
Q.hi stuart.*smack!* upside the head. what the hell are you thinking? i was browsing your diary hoping for some inspiration or amusement a new perspective or a little soul. but i am sad and angry. the champion of public transport driving drunk in la. driving drunk is NOT COOL. i don?t care that you?re so hip that yu?re above all those despised ?beautiful people? in hollywood, that you had to blow that joint. or that you were just rolling with the scene, you don?t advertise yourself as a role model or everyone?s human, etc... you know that people read your diary, you choose what to include, things happen, but at least in retrospect reflect on your actions and maybe take some responsibility?!?
A. it?s true kids. it?s not big and it?s not clever. don?t do as I do, do as I say.
take care on the road!
s? x
Stuart
From: becky
Q.are you lot in bad moods? whats the reason for not answering the questions around here? or maybe no-one?s asking you anything? do you feel like a snob when you read some of the questions but don?t reply?
A. yes I?m in a bad mood, why don?t you ask some decent questions and I might look down my snobbish nose and grant you a reply?
Stevie
From: becky
Q.no need to get so offensive. you had a tone of mockery in your reply, which sorta made me sad. good grief! i thought there was no such thing as a bad question. at least i?m not breaking the rules and asking when Belle & Sebastian are coming to play in my hometown or country! a decent question then: what colour are your underpants (or boxers)???
A. Ahhh shucks Becky I was only kidding, couldn?t you tell?, anyway I?m sorry I made you sad, I wish I could say something to make you happy. I apologise...keep smiling sister. In answer to your question, I don?t know as I?ve been up for 18 hours and I can?t remember and I?m in no mood to investigate.
Stevie
From: Kate
Q.Stevie, I find you very attractive. How about after Across The Narrows, you come home with me to Washington, DC where we can drink strawberry lemonade and talk about the music of the 60?s. We?ll see where things go from there... what do you say?
A. Wow, sounds great, Unfortunately I?ll have to be flying down the road to the next gig babe, like an Eagle in flight and this bird you cannot tame.
Stevie
From: Anon
Q.This how I imagine you as Peanuts characters judging from your Q&A answers: Stuart- Schroeder (plays piano/ inspires ardent affection/fairhaired) Stevie- Linus (endearing) Chris- Re-run (youngest) Sarah- Marcie (smartest) Mick-Sherman (appears inconsistently) Bob- Woodstock (doesn?t say much) Richard- Snoopy (seriously nutty) This excerise is so stupid, I?m not going to sign it...
A. Schroeder?s a real tease, isn?t he? Poor ol? Lucy...Leave the boy to his Beethoven.
Stuart
From: Barry the man
Q.Why are you all so fucking gay? I fancy the opposite sex (without quoting a weekend kids programme) Why don?t u? P.S men and men is sore surely
A. Is it just me, or does Barry?s random riposte smack of bicuriosity?
Stuart
From: dom in manchester
Q.hi, i dont know if this question has been asked before but here goes anyway. stuart,i was just wondering if you were aware of all the references to school in your songs when you were writing them or is it just a subconcious thing? you seem obsessed ;)
A. school?s a good word to rhyme with. also, I do use it a lot but mostly in the U.S. sense meaning college, further education. Just as ?kid? I use in a seventies New York punky sense of anyone who is ?from around? and who does anything that could be considered bold and beautiful.
I guess I?ve been surrounded by people flirting with higher education (mostly as a means to non-commitment to a life path) for the past 20 years, so it?s what I know.
Stuart
From: Sebastian
Q.If I play music and you play music and into the equation we add the so called ?luck of circumstance? factor does it justify bitterness or just because they would have said ?it?s crap? at the sight of Warhol?s art back in the 16thm century it means that I have a bad voice? if so then why does every ?scene? seem like a bunch of elitist bitches who seem to be purposely shy for the sake of it when just like van gogh hitler never made as an artist, but no everyone had to wait so he(van gogh) was dead and say his(hitler?s)art was mediocre and bad, but as soon as he became a hate promoter everyone fucking loved him. Well live the dream I guess, after all you can, and the other day as a smile was put in my face as i listened to my discman?s tune i turned and outside the bus i saw some homeless kids in the streets of san jose. Right?
A. You seem to have covered every catagory in the book there Sebastian, but I?m not really sure I know what your point is or how to address it.
Stuart
From: Yolanda Sears
Q.Whaddya call nuts on the wall? Walnuts. Nuts on the chest? Chestnuts. Nuts on the chin? Chinnuts? Nope, I call it my veiny hog right down your throat mate. I love you though so its ok, right? Cheers.
A. Cheers.
Richard
From: sam
Q.hello chris. how are you? have you laughed so hard lately that you peed your pants?
A. No, but I?ve peed so hard my feet left the ground.
Chris
From: siobhan
Q.hey its me again (we met outside millers art store and i told you i always mail you!sorry!) thanks for replying before. i want to know if there is anyway i could help out when you guys come play the abc in glasgow? please please it would be such an fun, id make tea and coffee or do anything at all!!! *(or are you guys popular enough to have professional roadies these days ?) cheers?
A. professional roadies!? we have a truck full of them! who do think plays the instruments when we?re miming on stage?
any good at accounts?
Stuart
From: James
Q.Do you ever worry about being turned in to celebraties? given the distorting effect that this can have on the mental health of both fans and artists(musical or otherwise) can you be sure that your always dedicated to art and not the personal corruption that destroys art? This is a genuine question not an accusation of an sort with love james?
A. Hi this is Prudence, Mr Jackson?s PA. Unfortunately Mr Jackson is unavailable for comment at the present time due to business commitments concerning up and coming fiscal artistic opportunities. As you know he has a great love and respect for his fans as they are the people who put him where he is today and their mental health is a constant source of concern to him for all sorts of reasons, still he appreciates your writing and wants you to know that his next artistic statement is soon to be made available on Rough Trade records in several juicy formats, competitively priced at a retail outlet near you.
Stevie
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