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this is where we bring you all the latest fan gossip, straight out of
the official James chat room. It seems that it’s been a troublesome
week for some fans as the rash of new websites has caused the available
amount of MP3 space to plummet to the dismay of the proprietors of the We
Are Sound website who spent four evenings complaining to
each other online. At one point we heard Johnny
Yen proclaim "Oh the humanity!" when his internet
provider told him he was out of space with which to upload a 17th
alternate version of "Sit Down." Not perplexed by this
particular quandry, but in a related crisis, Dave
of TFMUH fame and Mortuus47
both had a difficult evening of trying to register a domain name. They
were spotted monopolizing chat room bandwith over an intellectual debate
about whether Homepad or Geocities would allow them the higher number of
separate email addresses. We can only assume that they needed them to
rave anonymously about their websites on the message board as five-a-day
advertisements are soon to be banned.
In less technical goss, Hayley, proprietor of This Is Not A Song was seen using pheromones to completely destroy the will of Sam at State of Bliss to not join her webring. "All will be under my power." She was caught muttering, "I am the spider and they are the flies." It is thought that heads of both Fiji Bob and Rizzo both simultaneously exploded over their excitement at the idea. And worried that she might achieve her goal, Dave Brown from One of the Three had to rush out and purchase an entire ISP and offer it up to the gods of James (or is that dogs?) in order to remain the webmaster figurehead. In the meantime, it was also reported last week that two people who don’t actually own James websites logged into the chat room as Guest, confusing the regulars and causing such a competitive spate of site advertising that the entire Xoom network shut down for 2 days. The rumours that one of these outsiders may have been Saul Davies looking for groupies have been confirmed as false as Mr. Davies was on a photo shoot in Portugal at the time. The song of the week in the chat room was "Five-0", with Ray Gillespie of Sit Down website fame reportedly chanting "Are you open for a trade?" to every person who entered, in hopes of acquiring the one show from 1998 that he has not been able to download from One of the Three. And this week’s numbers game. 102 people asked where they could get a promo copy of the new album. 62 people asked if anyone liked the single. Sixteen people inquired how many James gigs people in the chat room had attended. Eighty-four asked chat room inhabitants to list their top three James songs. Twelve wanted to know if Tim Booth was gay, while only four asked if he was married. Six people inquired about whether Saul was an extra in the movie Labyrinth, and another three asked who thought he was the sexiest man alive, although it is rumoured that two of these three may actually have been Saul himself. Seven people wanted to know if anyone had a copy of Michael Kulas’ solo album, Mosquito, to trade and only one of those wanted to know if it was illegal to download it off Napster. Two people asked when James were touring, five asked about whether anyone had seen James on the last tour. And nine unlucky souls inquired "A/S/L" only to be cyber-stoned to death by One Fan Clapping proprietor Justhipper. But this week’s winner of QUESTION OF THE WEEK is the sad soul who wanted to know whether he could become Laurie Russinko’s love slave in return for backstage passes on the next tour. And this issue’s fan quiz:
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