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I haven't heard anything of Sketch since he played on "Coup" by 23 Skidoo back in '84.

Sailor were a strange lot but possibly not interestingly so. "Girls Girls Girls" is sort of electrovaudeville. If the Scissor Sisters had brought it out now they'd be hailed etc. "Glass Of Champagne" was essentially a "Virginia Plain" ripoff but instead of Eno they had Phil "I'm mad me"...

Melodically "Showing Out" reminds me a lot of the early Linx stuff (especially the middle-eight). The great thing about "Roadblock" is that it originally had a lead vocal (by Jimmy Ruffin, no less) but SAW took it out 'cos they reckoned it would make it less "rare" sounding.

Don't forget that Waterman actually did invent Balearic beat with the 12-inch "Jazzy" Mandy Smith remix.

Specifically the album That Total Age ("Join In The Chant" etc.) - the regular PWL mix team (Phil Harding et al) are credited but apparently there was direct involvement from SAW themselves.

Mel & Kim were always the ace in the SAW pack; you always felt they really pushed the sonic boat out for them. "Showing Out" is the missing link between Linx and Nitzer Ebb (which latter PWL also produced on the quiet). "I'd Rather Jack" was also written for M&K but Mel was obviously too ill...

The early no-budget stuff like Stereopathetic Soul Manure was inventive and funny. Then he became Mr Corporate Alternative and I went off him completely.

Doubtless they edged away from calling themselves Sutcliffe or Hindley...

And their second album did so well.

My favourite writer at the moment in any discipline is Simon Barnes, Chief Sports Writer of the Times. He moves me in ways that current music writing doesn't.

Would someone be able to translate that review into English for me? Thanks.

I'm wondering whether the Beatles ever heard the Velvets, at the time they were current? Recorded evidence suggests not.

What, like David Bowie and Roxy Music, you mean?

Don't know about "getting the best out of people" - Mulvey just got me out of Uncut, full stop. He was thoroughly un-nice to me so I can't share your enthusiasm. About editing in general - well, the uncut (ahem) manuscript of the CoM book currently runs to 800+ pages and I think can be quite...

You might get me back on there if Sinker were reinstalled as editor, but not with Reynolds - alas, we fell out some while ago. I look at the Wire these days (and only in the newsagents) and find it hard to determine any demographic. What does it actually stand for? What's it supposed to...

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The Wire was so much better when it was a straightforward jazz magazine. When Richard Cook edited it you could expect good, substantial articles on everyone from Sidney Bechet to Serge Chaloff. Reading the Wire these days you'd be forgiven for thinking...

Slowdive.

Sister Ray took over the Selectadisc shop up the road. Several people have commented on the increasing preponderance of DVDs near the front of the shop.

£9 for a 12"??????????!!!!!!!????????????!!!! Thank God I don't buy vinyl any more! Are they really that afraid of Starbucks gazumping them? As for the problem of surly record shop assistants, surely two birds could be killed with the one stone of installing self-checkouts as per Sainsbury's?

Smallfish wasn't a bad shop but unless you lived locally it was extremely awkward to get to. The same with These Records (RIP) round the back of Elephant and Castle and Sound 323 up at the rear end of Archway. "Destination shops" are all very well and good but they need to be reasonably...