November 1997 - Sinister

RE: Sinister: Younger people on the list
by Keith Watson 06 Nov '97

06 Nov '97

you are a star..... much appreciated lovely! you near london? Petra [Keith Watson] Well... relative to Alpha Centauri yes... but Edinburgh in any other language. Having said that, I'll be in London next week, on Tuesday night, as I'm attending some sodding Microsoft Developers conference on Queen Victoria Street (?!) the next day and flying back on Wednesday so if anyone fancies a drink on Tuesday night in London, let me know. 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: The Enclave etc.
by barzy＠networkmags.com 06 Nov '97

06 Nov '97

Don't worry..no Sarah rowing outa me. The nice listman asked for no mo, so shut it, I will..... On a lighter note.....I went to see a film last weekend (House Of Yes, which was piss-yer-self funny by the way...) anyhoo.... as i'm sitting down, I see this familiar face sat down behind me...and it's John Bauccio from The Enclave! He just moved from New York to LA and got a job at Vapor Records....(home of Acetone)....It was SO good to see him...The last time I saw him was in NYC for the Belle & Sebastian shows....He seemed sad and nostalgic about The Enclave stopping, and seemed a bit soft when he saw I was wearing my wee B&S badge...It's odd to find a label person who REALLY loves the band they're working with...and he really does love Belle & Sebastian...He asked if I had 3..6...9..Seconds Of Light and asked what my favourite track is...I said "A Century Of Fakers" and he said "REALLY!!? No! Mine is 'Beautiful'!!" I hope there are people at their next American label who adore them so..... He also said there is a dat floating round of one of the NYC shows!!!! Beth ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: gender spread
by Eeyore 06 Nov '97

06 Nov '97

> I'm actually much more interested in the *gender* spread of >the list, but too shy to ask. Since you have now *indirectly* posed the question everyone else was too shy to ask, I'll give you this hint: Eeyore's a girl.... >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >. 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? >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Eeyore "the more you ignore me, the closer I get..." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: unfair kind of fame
by Richard Edwards 06 Nov '97

06 Nov '97

Here's my useless thoughts on recent list subjects, skim as applicable: 1) Rock Legends Part 374: The Jeepster Story Yes, Orlando were signed to the label in December 1995, but sadly didn't release anything for boring money-related reasons. From Sarah to Jeepster to Mike Alway/Geoff Travis' Blanco Y Negro. We have taste, what can I say? Mark Jones had a Post-It by the desk that said "SKIN UP YOU CAAAANT", which I always wondered about, but was too afraid to ask. 2) Claims to Fame I think it's funny that a mailing list for a band that (commendably) rejects the fame and PR machine so much should be concerned with prostrating themselves before "names"... it seems Baudrillard was right. Still, the Jim Morrison one was pretty impressive. As for me, I could relay many anecdotes and scurrilous tales since entering the evil music business. But here's a few: I've been on a homosexual TV show, playing guitar with the words "Miserable Spice" written up my arm. You could read my lyrics on Ceefax as the song played. Noel Gallagher came over to me at an aftershow party once when I was in full eyeliner and shiny suit mode, and was so charming I won't have a bad word said against him. My friend Howard tried to chat up Gore Vidal the other week when I was with him. Oh, and I met Russell Harty once. He took the mickey out of my gran's Weight Watchers autograph book. And my album has had great reviews in Gay Times and Penthouse UK. But my proudest moment to date is this: the latest issue of the Pastels newsletter, "Pastelism", namechecks me as cool. Noel who? 3) Tigermilk copies Amelia Fletcher has one. Blanco Y Negro has at least one. Ian Watson, Melody Maker writer, has one. Sandy Blair, internet wizard friend of mine has one. Harvey Williams, who thinks B & S are the Orchids without the beerguts, has one. I don't have a copy myself: but like the Pooh Sticks song, I've got it on tay-ay-ape. Along with everything by the Ronettes. I've got "Falling and Laughing". The original Postcard version. I've got The Pastels' "Songs for Children". Sky Saxon's solo album... Sorry, I'll get a grip. I do recall "Tigermilk" coming out, and (heresy alert!) really hating the sleeve. To me it looked like some bad heavy metal group was behind it. Girls with no clothes on fronting boys' music. It made it into Select magazine's corner of dubious sleeve artwork, I remember. I still think the cover image is a bit creepy... the childhood purity of cuddly toys sullied by the adult nudity of breast-feeding. But then, the Tellytubbies give me the screaming ab-dabs too. Thankfully the subsequent B&S artwork has proved to be much loved in my world. But who cares what I think? 4) Sarah 100 Party - Why Violence Is Entirely Justifiable Against Music Critics I'm always pleased to see the old "Sarah 100 Tim Chipping/Neil Bouquet" ruckus rearing its lovely head on internet mailing lists over two years later. Tim, the signer of Shelly (cat no SARAH 98) and Orlando is a hot-headed firebrand of a waif who spent his formative years surviving on a rough council estate in Poole, Dorset. You can all sneer safely behind your computers now, but I dare you to cross him in the flesh. Neil out of Bouquet frankly had it coming to him, even his ex-girlfriend congratulated Tim afterwards. It was a vicarious thrill for many good people and a blow against the myopic, kneejerk, lazy critics and cowardly little shits of this world. I was honoured that he got himself thrown out defending a record I made and I'm amused that Tim's actions clearly upstaged the rest of that evening's tweefest (Bristol, summer 1995). There should be a blue plaque on that boat. I myself am completely incapable of violence, I take it out on myself and on guitars, which is a shame because there are so many names on my dartboard these days. Thoughts of hurting certain journalists, for example, cross my mind daily. Any Americans here willing to get me a Uzi? I can swap.... (snip!) Belle and Sebastian leaving the NME out in the rain? Great stuff, but next time if Murdoch and co want to gang up and "do a Bjork" on a journalist I'll happily hold their coats. Don't phone, it's only a bit of fun. dickon x Fosca homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4152 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 Canadian stuff (I think).
by MWaggner＠aol.com 06 Nov '97

06 Nov '97

In a message dated 97-11-05 10:14:35 EST, you write: > performance take place in a 150-year-old cathedral. Church services at the > cathedral are still presumably free, but rumor has it that use of God's > quarters for that September evening of mellow melodies enhanced by fellow > Scots the Pastels cost the band $10,000 At least 150 years old, but I believe it is a former Synagogue, as it had Stars of David carved in the woodwork and what seemed to be the woman's gallery above... I think it is an art space now, not a "working" place of worship . If they paid $10,000. they were ripped off... (maybe they sold off the last box of Tigermilk copies to pay for the rental). --michele ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Re: Sinister
by goldenboy＠adelaide.on.net 06 Nov '97

06 Nov '97

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Sinister: Re: Geriatrics
by MWaggner＠aol.com 06 Nov '97

06 Nov '97

In a message dated 97-11-04 14:23:25 EST, you write: > likely too old wanting > > to admit it. Please > > someone come out and pretend to be older than me > > or something. Or give me > > a medal for still liking decent music and caring > > at my age. Or something. Oh Lordy -- I'm old enough to be the mother of most of you. I've even got the Duke beaten... I'm 43. Mostly I don't feel it, thanks to music. Today, however, I do, having been out too late seeing Stereolab two nights ago and getting lost in Harlem on the way home. Just don't bounce back like I used to. what's everyone's claim to fame? Not fame, but here goes: When I was in 8th grade (about 14 years old), Jim Morrison of the Doors asked me to come along to NY with him. My best friend and I had sneaked around back after the show and came face to face with the band, which we wanted to do -- but didn't really probably. So we made some inane chatter and I asked where they were going next, eliciting the invitation. (Be still my adolescent heart!) Being a very good Catholic school girl, I was on my way to saying, "No thank you, sigh" when along came my mother who ruined it all by saying it for me. He had gotten kind of bloated by then anyhow and had switched to brown leather pants which weren't as sexy as the black ones by half. And here ya go Matt: Several years later, while passing the stage door on our way in to see Ten Years After, a friend and I were in a slight disagreement. Some guy lounging in the doorway began to mimic us and got us pissed off. Thinking he was a roadie, we launched into him, calling him various and assorted names which I will not repeat here as they are politically incorrect and I am now older, wiser and more sensitive (and most of you are British). I believe we won the verbal battle. When the stage lights came up, we discovered that the object of our vilification was none other than Rod Stewart -- who we didn't know from a hole in the ground then. But to this day I feel very little regret. And then there are the tales we don't tell because our sons are on this list as well... --michele ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: comment and a query
by Felicia Daniel 06 Nov '97

06 Nov '97

>here's another B&S query for ya: was anyone else on this list at >their NYC gig on Sunday Sep. 7? (not the CMJ show on the 6th) I was >there...just wondering what other people's experiences with it >were...and did anyone make note of the setlist? > well, i *know* that there must be more of us lurking about who were at the show. myself, i felt like it was practically a religious experience (maybe the temple-as-venue thing helped a bit, but only a wee bit). and the setlist, you ask? well, i've got a photo of myself holding it...i can post the song rundown if no one's done so yet. cheers, felicia :) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: first posting
by Chambers & Chambers SF 05 Nov '97

05 Nov '97

I'm a little nervous, as I've been on the list for a week and not yet figured myself witty enough to write something. (And this entry may prove it) But I'm wondering; as B&S will not be releasing anything new soon, nor will they be here in San Francisco or ANY PART of the states any time soon, my B&S "fix" is limited to IYFS. Are there any groups or artists of a similar vein who could serve as as sort of substitute? I realize there's no one like them (otherwise I wouldn't be subscribing to this list), but a little Nick Drake, a little Left Banke, even a little Love can stretch out those B&S vibes for me. Does anyone have an additional suggestions (that are available in The US)? I'd be grateful. By the way, I'm getting a big kick out of all these "claims to fame" people are making about people I've never heard of. And also BTW, I'm 27, female, do NOT own a copy of Tigermilk, and have no clue who Jarvis Cocker is. Am I missing out? MOLd ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: comment and a query
by Amanda Bergman 05 Nov '97

05 Nov '97

"We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we?" I don't know about the happy tunes part...but we're certainly as prolific as bunnies when it comes to posting. Over 40 posts were in my e-maibox this morning when I woke up. and they wonder why I never get any work done... here's another B&S query for ya: was anyone else on this list at their NYC gig on Sunday Sep. 7? (not the CMJ show on the 6th) I was there...just wondering what other people's experiences with it were...and did anyone make note of the setlist? ta, Amanda ------------------------ Amanda Bergman Northwestern University a-bergman(a)nwu.edu "I don't love anyone." --Belle and Sebastian ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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