Colaboyobit: Andrew Midgley

Sorry to hear of the death of Andrew Midgley, long-time collaborator with Bob Stanley and the boy who was Cola Boy.



Bob Stanley's appreciation of a friend is worth a few minutes of your time.

Get set for Saint Etienne

Good news from Saint Etienne's MySpace:

new single is Method Of Modern Love, expertly sculpted by Richard X, and it's out on February 9th. It'll be super-limited, and the initial copies will be signed. By us. Or maybe by Mal Evans.

What's more, there's a Cola Boy remix. Honestly.

Then on Feb 16th, not before time, London Conversations will finally be on sale.

Bloody hell... a Cola Boy remix after all this time? Whoever would have thought?

(Although given that Cola Boy stuff was thought to cheesy to be a proper St Et release, wouldn't that create some sort of conundrum that threatens the space-time whatnot if a Saint Etienne release featured them?)

Saint Etienne weekend: Seven Ways To Love

This, Cola Boy, was a Saint Etienne side project which released songs Stanley and Wiggs judged to be "too cheesy" to put out under their usual name.

They might just have been right:



[Part of Saint Etienne weekend]