November 1997 - Sinister

Sinister: Jason Pierce
by Mark 24 Nov '97

24 Nov '97

>thing, dumbstruck by the chaos and psychedelia thatcould have only been >produced by Jason Pierce, a man who refuses to eat any form of solid food >whatsoever (seriously!). This is patently NOT true. I have promoted quite a few gigs by Spiritualized and Jason is no stranger to the catering room. Good rumour though.... I once heard that Apple Computers were so called because Steve Jobs thought if you ate an apple each day, you wouldn't need to wash! >Did you take any 'substances' whilst watching the band that night, cos >you do seem to be have travelled to another plane judging by your review ;-) He might not have - they are totally wicked live. The Albert Hall show was one of the best things I've seen on a stage. Mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://surf.to/varsity ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Sinister: a century of elvis
by Nick_Dastoor.BSHO＠NOTES.compuserve.com 24 Nov '97

24 Nov '97

OK here's my 'corrected' version. Some changes from Rob's: * Pam turns into Karen (or Wee Karen). * "It was pretty much the colour of it" becomes "He was playing with his collar a bit" (very elvis thing to do) * They didn't have strange manners and stuff, it was just elvis * It's definitely not the desk that they were sitting on - maybe (and this came to me in a flash of inspiration) the "mezzanine" we were sitting in the living room on the sofa, the wrong way round, looking out the window. it was quiet, and then in the car park across the road we saw elvis - look, there beside the postman's van, and he was walking round the postman's van, looking in the open door. he looked as if he was thinking about getting in, but then the postman came back, and he swaggered off, walked past the window and down the stairs, and then at the bottom of the stairs right by the caretaker's office, he started licking the pavement. every night now since we moved in that new house there's this noise outside the door at just about half seven or eight o' clock every night. and if we go and look outside the door, elvis'll be standing there waiting to be let in. and then he wanders into the living room, maybe sits down on one of the chairs or even lies down on the floor. he doesn't say much, he just stays there for an hour or two, watching the tv. we talk to him a bit, and then around ten o' clock, he'll go away again, and not come back until the next night. there's a lot of lanes and stuff around here, around the house - although it's right in the middle of the city it seems quite like the country, it's dead hidden - safe i suppose, made for night living. there's a lot of squirrels and birds, and stuart says he's seen about nine foxes there when he's jumped over the fence on his way to prior's road. sometimes you can go out walking, and when you've been out for a wee while even you don't know where you are anymore, so it would be pretty hard for anyone else to find you. i suppose that's why he spends so much time there, that's why he's come to live there, or maybe it's just the squirrels. i read about somewhere that he likes squirrels quite a lot. there's these two videos that we got for wedding presents - called the e-files, e-files one and e-files two about how elvis is supposed to be still alive. and one time when he came round we were watching one of those, but he didn't say anything he just sat on the armchair. he was playing with his collar a bit, and we watched it right through and then when it finished he just got up and walked off into the mist and didn't say anything. the first few times he came round i didn't speak to him at all, i wasn't really sure what to say. and karen spoke to him quite a lot - she seemed to know what to do more than i do. he had quite a strange manner though, he'd go into your stuff and look through it, then he'd maybe pick something up and play with it for a wee while, but he'd never make any comment about any of it. seemed pretty rude to me. i just watched whatever karen did, and listened to how she talked to him and then, after a while i started to copy that, and tell him a few things, not really bothered about whether he responded or said anything back or not. i think the first time i spoke to him we were sitting up on the mezzanine and i said that i would tell him about me and wee karen, and how it was that we'd come to be living there. i thought he probably liked the fact that we were living there because he came round so much, so i thought he might want to know how it was that it came about. we did it all over backwards, i told him . first of all we got to know each other, and then a while after that we met, and when we'd known each other for about seven years we decided to have an anniversary, and that went quite well, so after the anniversary we had a honeymoon, and that went well too, so after that we decided that we would get married. that's why we're living there now. i used to think my dad was elvis, but i haven't told him that yet. i haven't told my dad either... Will this do? I thought it might be nice to print it out in a nice font like gill sans, centre-justified and all, then to blow it up on the work photocopier and hope noone spots me doing it. Someone has already discovered the initial printout in the laser printer and wondered what on earth it was. Actually I quite enjoyed the confuision it generated. And reading it on the tube in my suit was even better. Adopting the air of a thrusting young business hotshot reading an important document in progress (which of course it was). I hope it was being read over my shoulder. Umm... really embarassing, shameful request that I've delayed making because there have been so many other people out-grovelling and out-apologising each other with the same plea that I've held back. But where has that got me? Nowhere. Coyness is nice and so on. So, hrrrmm... yes, if anyone would offer to tape 'Tigermilk' and/or R1 sessions for me I would so grateful that I'd probably build an effigy and found some kind of rudimentary religion around them. If that appeals then please get in touch by e-mail. Phew, done it. Oh yes, another thing - did I read somewhere that one of the band members works in John Smiths on Byre's Road? Just because that's where my sister worked for a little while about three years ago when she lived in one of the tenements just opposite. I seem to recall her telling me that someone out of the Pastels used to work there too. Nick Dastoor, An enslaved corporate library assistant longing for the tigermilk of human kindness. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . 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Sinister: Thirteen way/lesbain action
by Neil Hargreaves 24 Nov '97

24 Nov '97

Hello, First of all cheers to all the people who gave me advuice about how to handle my wee computer problem. It seems to be sorted now.... at least I haven't heard anymore from the computer people at glasgow. Secondly, the 13th note did close for refurbishement, but it also moved. So I think theyre basically opening up two places when they re open (if they haven't already). I dont know wich bit Belle and Sebastian will be playing, or where the new bit is. Maybe someone else does..... And finally... wow! Suddenly everyones gone all sexy. Probably we've all heard the stuff about sexuality being blurred nowadays and all that and whateversexuall not really meaning that much anymore. Anyways I think Stuarts lyrics reflect this... he seems to feel some kind of attratction to both men and women anyhows. Also I think guys are obssesed with lesbians because we all secretly want to be lesbains.... it would solve some problems anyway. cheerio, neil ------------------------------------------------- " if you're chasing the morning, if you're sleeping all day..." ------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Grannies and their peculiarities
by ELIZABETH DAPLYN 24 Nov '97

24 Nov '97

> Years and years ago, we referred to a homosexual friend as "gay" in > front of > my grandmother, who apparently filed that piece of updated vocabulary > away. > After an outing of the church ladies (to a winery!?), she told us how > all > the other women were discussing the trip and kept saying it had been > "such a > gay day!" Gram was quite pleased with herself for knowing the "new" > meaning > of the word, and had chuckled to herself all the way home. Of course, > Gram > used to refer to her new neighbor as "a hanger." It took us quite a > while to > figure out that she meant "hooker" -- and she was embarrassed to learn > what > it meant... > > My Gran calls synchronised swimming 'sequenised swimming'. Far more > appropriate. > >> O.K. well my gran was brought up in a pub and so knows some extremely rude songs (in a kind of nudge-nudge Edwardian kind of vernacular)and will perform these for the delight of anyone who's around. Apart from this embarrassing lapse of taste, she's really cool. Hmmm, must be genetic... Ho ho ho. I'm about as cool as a sandwich toaster in Death Valley in midsummer, darlings, and couldn't give a flying tackle, frankly. Back to grannies: My other nan (mother's mother) is a right old bag, and the least said the better. Lots of something, Liz. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Manchester Tickets
by Katrina＠Jeepster 24 Nov '97

24 Nov '97

Hello all, Now I know know you're all excited (and worried) about tickets for the Manchester gigs, but we are not able to reserve tickets for anyone. I know this is annoying, but the promoter is basically handling the sales for us, and we don't have the tickets (or the orders for them from you all) to check. So, please don't mail me about tickets unless you are really really worried. I will speak to Barry over the next couple of days to see how the tickets are going, and pass that info onto you all, but apart from that it is out of my hands. Sorry guys, hope you forgive us! Cheers, Katrina & David. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Sinister: Some Questions
by Keith Watson 24 Nov '97

24 Nov '97

>1) On a Century of Elvis, who is doing the talking? Stuart David >2) Has anyone transcribed the whole of the speech, since on the inlay of >the ep it only has the first few lines; Don't know >3) Who are all the people on the back of IYFS? Belle and Sebastian. In reply to the other guy's post it's quite hard to identify. Stuart's sitting down, I can see Mick but the rest are pretty hard to pick out really, I haven't got it in front of me today. Won't be in at the Egg next this weekend Paul - got to go and visit my parents and pick up my stricken fan-beltless car - was there last week though, and you weren't (This could constitute a breach of contract!) 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 . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Jon
by iles＠boreas.leeds.icnet.uk 24 Nov '97

24 Nov '97

Sorry about this, but someone called Jon keeps emailing me, but his messages never include his address. So, Jon, if you're out there and want a reply, either get your mail sorted so it automatically includes your address in the 'reply to' section or write your address in your message. Otherwise I'm never ever going to be able to reply to your mail. Mark ___________________________________________________________________________ Mark Iles, Tel: +44 (0113) 2064573 Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Fax: +44 (0113) 2340183 Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Ashley Wing, Email: iles(a)boreas.leeds.icnet.uk St James' University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7TF U.K. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Understand that you are another world in miniature and that in you there are the sun, the moon and also stars Laetitia Sadier ____________________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Sessions at West 54th (Forward)
by ben ferneyhough 24 Nov '97

24 Nov '97

Jim Nisbet wrote: >'Although Pennebaker's involvement is restricted to 10 minutes of >interviews in each hour-long episode, he apparently exerts pulling power, >not only among viewers but performers. Douridas says the prospect of >meeting the veteran film-maker lured the chronically diffident Scottish >band Belle and Sebastian into giving their first television performance >(they had a song called "Like Dylan in the Movies" on their last album). >"They were very shy", recalls Pennebaker. "I really liked them."' I saw that too, and forgot to steal it from the pub to write to the list with, so thanks Jim, also, I was watching Live and Kicking, honestly, and Ian Brodie (Lightning Seeds) was asked what music he was listening to at the moment, and he said he was really into Belle & Sebastian. It fair made my day. Ben. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.31
by Paul 24 Nov '97

24 Nov '97

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Sinister: Sessions at West 54th
by Jim Nisbet 24 Nov '97

24 Nov '97

Not news of the B&S appearance I'm afraid but a reference in an article in today's Independent on Sunday review section in the UK. The piece is a profile of film-maker DA Pennebaker, mainly about his 'rockumentaries' but it also tells us that he is responsible for the interview segments in the TV programme. After a description for those of us on this side of the pond (which makes it sound like a programme well worth watching and not unlike Later with Jools Holland) it goes on: 'Although Pennebaker's involvement is restricted to 10 minutes of interviews in each hour-long episode, he apparently exerts pulling power, not only among viewers but performers. Douridas says the prospect of meeting the veteran film-maker lured the chronically diffident Scottish band Belle and Sebastian into giving their first television performance (they had a song called "Like Dylan in the Movies" on their last album). "They were very shy", recalls Pennebaker. "I really liked them."' Jim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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