October 1997 - Sinister - missprint.org

RE: Sinister: Gainsbourg concerts/Kelvingrove Park
by Keith Watson 08 Oct '97

08 Oct '97

This was the week before the big free B&S gig in Kelvingrove park which was moved to the QM (hip kids union at Glasgow Uni) because it was very rainy indeed. Were the Bathers the band on immediately before B&S? No hold on that was the Pastels. Were the Bathers the band on immediately before the Pastels? If it was I remember a lady drummer. I'm probably thinking of the wrong band. They were very polished and reminded me of the Incredible String Band (joking). [Keith Watson] What I really want to know here is... (David/Katrina anyone who knows) Did I go through to Glasgow on the SUNDAY after the Kelvingrove park longest day of my life concert in vain... Mick had told us that they were playing in Ashton lane on Sunday as part of the yearly street festival thingy, Hardbody were supposed to be playing but I didn't even see them, only saw the bathers, went home miserable and with only Dexy's "Dont't stand me down" in consolation (it's a great consolation, but I could have got it in Edinburgh). So does anyone know... did they actually play or not? Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)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(a)majordomo.net -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: Sinister: A Travellers Tale
by Keith Watson 08 Oct '97

08 Oct '97

No sign of the aliens so far, though... -- Nicola M Stip / Blue Music www.stip.demon.co.uk [Keith Watson] That was a great story, cool... I've just made it into work and I can hardly type because I'm still pissed! This'll make a great ink polaroid - virtually everything's still blurred! Stumbled my way up Morningside road in Edinburgh and finally made it to work at 10 to 10 with a massive 5 o'clock shadow and my head still spiinning! Sorry about the irrelevance of this message chaps - just thought i'd let you share in my rather comical situation this morning. Incidentally Paul - I'm surprised people are leaving, it seems like we're all becoming pals now which is cool... Hik bleurgghgh your all me fekkin best mates! Cheers, Keith. ps: haven't attracted any strange aliens yet ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)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(a)majordomo.net -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: B'n'S Multi-Media Extravaganza
by oc245d8aff＠colon.net 07 Oct '97

07 Oct '97

Klas asked for a review of the new EP, so here's a fully clickable one. I don't know if anyone will find it useful or not. It was meant to be even more fully clickable but I got fed up with the damn computer getting disconnected or whatever it is that happens every five minutes or so on the information superhighway. A Century of Fakers: Elegy in a vintage keyboard shop. Tales of impossible love and falling off one's bike on the way to see one's bird. Quite sad, quite pretty. Vaguely reminiscent of O Caroline by Robert Wyatt or Soft Machine or Matching Mole, not sure which. http://www.furious.com/perfect/wyatt.html is a nice interview with the aforementioned hairy old hippy. Nothing to do with B&S, at least not directly. A good read, nevertheless. Le Pastie de la Bourgoisie Up tempo number. Mentions Judy Blume. Who? http://www.judyblume.com/home.html Contains some good advice for writers. There are a lot of them on this list, whether they know it or not, judging by the compo entries. And I mean that most shincerely, folks... Beautiful Starts off quiet. Later on all the instruments come in. It's very effective. The lyrics intersect the universal. Some striking images of suffering and solidarity. Am I getting carried away? Probably, but I think this is one of B&S's best songs. Shows great restraint and control. A bit like Wonderful by the Beach Boys. But not much. Put the Book Back on the Shelf The return of Sebastian. Wrote a book about himself, but everyone left it on the shelf. Should take it to the library in Richard Brautigan's book The Abortion, which is quite a nice book, although not as good as So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away, which is about a boy who buys bullets instead of a hamburger. The song mentions comic genius Sid James, and seems to give him supernatural powers. Not as strange as it may sound. He breathed life into characters such as Henry VIII and the Rumpo Kid. Here is a nice tribute to the great man, well worth reading in my opinion. http://www.adavids.demon.co.uk/carry/sidtribute.html This one will probably have lots of books on shelves: http://www.bne.es/ It's the Spanish National Library, whatever that is. Songs for Children (?) "Hidden" bonus track, quite an effective ending to the EP. Sounds distant and lost. There, I didn't use the word "fantastic" once. Isn't it a boring Sunday? I almost wish I could watch Songs of Praise and Antiques Roadshow. Instead I'm listening to that Mick Harvey album of Gainsbourg songs, waiting impatiently for the next one. A question: Is "Popcorn" by Hot Butter the music that they used to use for trampolining programmes on the telly? I trust that one of our older viewers will know what the bloody hell I'm on about. No answer to that Paris question yet? I'm seriously considering slinging a string of onions around my neck and pedalling up to gay Paree for that one. Those new t-shirt designs are really nice. Who did the picture? It's the World Cycling Championships this week. I'm hoping to infiltrate the pits area and sellotape a few lolly sticks to the competitors' spokes, so that they sound like motorbikes. Look out for me on the telly. I'm going to wear my lunatic playgroup leader B&S t-shirt. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)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(a)majordomo.net -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: Sinister: Belle and Sebastian Quiz
by Keith Watson 07 Oct '97

07 Oct '97

How'd I do? Katrina - bored at work :) [Keith Watson] Join the club! It's looking to quite a few people that the B+S mailing list is a "bored at work" club... It certainly brightens up my day - replaces Steve Wright in the Afternoon as a source of entertainment, so a big shout to anyone out there who's BORED AT WORK! Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)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(a)majordomo.net -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Judy Blume
by Matthew A. Neimark 07 Oct '97

07 Oct '97

Her books were amongst the first I read. I remember tales of a 4th grade nothing (about a boy whose younger brother is driving him crazy and eats his pet turtle), Then again Maybe I won't (about a 7th or 8th grader who is beginning to have wet dreams), and Blubber (about a girl everyone at school makes fun of). The books were poignantly well written, and reflected preteen life very well. In some ways, I think she might be described as a preteen Vonnegut (especially in then again where she uses that "then again maybe I won't" device over and over. And So it Goes, Matt ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)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(a)majordomo.net -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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by 'Training Unit' 07 Oct '97

07 Oct '97

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Sinister: A Travellers Tale
by Stip / Blue Music 07 Oct '97

07 Oct '97

So seeing as I am currently searching for every - any - reason not to attend to the downright offensive pile of work before me, I'll tell you about my latest trip on public transport under the influence of Belle and Sebastian. After being mollycoddled on the coach by the tea lady last time I travelled to Glasgow, I reckoned the train would be a safer bet this time, and armed myself with a legion of cola bottles to distract myself from the music if things got a little, er, emotional again. It was an early train, though, and I soon fell into an apparently deep sleep to the heavenly strains of B&S. And it was then I started dreaming. Thinking I was still wide awake, I was surprised to experience 'Expectations' being interrupted by a somewhat ominous voice with a warning. It did not, I hasten to add, occur to me that I was dreaming, so I subsequently took what this mysterious voice was telling me very seriously. I was warned in rather urgent tones that *they* (whoever they may be), had discovered that I had a rogue bone in my ankle which was attracting ships from the equator carrying aliens, and that if the train travelled too close to the coast on the way up to Scotland they would most probably detect me. Horror. Was awakened by a now frantic old lady next to me, who could take my writhing and babbling no longer. Had excrutiating cramp in my leg. Was disorientated to the point of believing that I was indeed in grave danger. Had thrown my cola bottles all over the floor in blind panic. I cannot, even in sleep, listen to B&S and remain unmoved. No sign of the aliens so far, though... -- Nicola M Stip / Blue Music www.stip.demon.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)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(a)majordomo.net -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: Sinister: Belle and Sebastian Quiz
by Nigel Turner 07 Oct '97

07 Oct '97

>I'm another bored at uni I'm afraid. We don't even start lectures until Thursday What.....you mean every week? I'm going back to uni to get bored. >Until you've been properly bored, you can't begin to understand the entertainment value of reading another e-mail about Wallace & Gromit merchandise or the children of members of Shawaddywaddy. Am I right in thinking that another "son of Showaddywaddy" once played football for Luton Town (and may still do)? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)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(a)majordomo.net -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: a good picture.
by ben ferneyhough 07 Oct '97

07 Oct '97

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Sinister: re:electric suite
by John S Grinyer 07 Oct '97

07 Oct '97

To anyone's whos interested... The Electric Suite are playing the following gigs: Bull and Gate, Kentish Town Rd, NW5 on Monday 20 Oct, doors 8pm Free Butt, Albion Street, Brighton on Sunday 12th Oct, doors 8pm The Kings Head, 4 Fulham High Street, SW6 on Friday 7th Nov, doors 7.30pm The Electric Suite are a well established alternative rock band and all the above gigs have two or more other bands on the bill, so for a guaranteed good night, check it out (or words to that effect) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)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(a)majordomo.net -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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