November 1997 - Sinister

Sinister: registers...
by Sven Fuchs 03 Nov '97

03 Nov '97

My favorite moment will always be "Outside the butchers with a knife and a bike chain - La La La" from I Could Be Dreaming. And I'm 29 (I know I am pushing the average upwards) and my official title is Research Scientist, but I still have an ISIC. Sven ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Tigermilk register
by Keith Watson 03 Nov '97

03 Nov '97

And Stevie has the same birthday as me! How cool...i swear no-one famous ever was born on 16th Jan before. You know you used to get Smash Hits yearbooks and all that that told you famous people's birthdays...no-one was ever born on the same day as me *sob* so now i'm happy! [Keith Watson] Aha - and that's where you're wrong, have you seen Ross Harper on Scotland Today? (Not the motorbiking lawyer), I used to sit next to him at school, and his birthday's then too. There you go - it's your lucky day. 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: B+S Classifieds
by Pat Gay 03 Nov '97

03 Nov '97

Hi! My name is Pat. I'm a SWM, age 18, NS, ND. I'm looking for a special person. To be that special person, you should have the following personality traits: 1. You should own a nice clean original copy of _Tigermilk_ by Belle and Sebastian. 2. You should also own a nice CD burner, and be willing to burn me a copy, at my expense of course (or maybe we could work out a trade). Of course, I have a worn out, nth generation dub, but I'm looking for more clarity, hi-fidelity, and permanence in my life. Please let me know if you are that special person. Hope to hear from YOU soon..... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Tigermilk register
by Caz 03 Nov '97

03 Nov '97

Well a friend of a friend of mine's got one, Neil Humphreys from Glasgow. He's a friend of Isobels and could ahve got one for free but went out and bought it anyway to support them...thats all i know. But Laura Muetzelfeldt's the music editor of our uni paper...i'd never noticed her having great taste in music but i'll pay more attention now. And Stevie has the same birthday as me! How cool...i swear no-one famous ever was born on 16th Jan before. You know you used to get Smash Hits yearbooks and all that that told you famous people's birthdays...no-one was ever born on the same day as me *sob* so now i'm happy! So what percentage of this list are students then? I am too, incidentally... love and stuff caz ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: B&S 1st Meet-up report
by plaird 03 Nov '97

03 Nov '97

Keith Watson 22/10/97: >On a different note: >Having a B+S meeting on 1st Nov at the Egg in Edinburgh, at least, Pam >from Washington is coming across, so if Nathan, John, Paul or indeed >anyone else wants to come along, we'll meet up... In fact... I'll probably >be spewing up... Well, it's only a quid 50 a pint! So it's not my fault. > > >Cheers, > Keith. MEETING REPORT: Well, the meet went ahead. Pam Berry and american friend (I forget his name) turned up. Unfortunately Keith Watson never turned up, which meant that anybody else who came along wouldn't have known who to meet!. I myself only know Keith and Dave Nicoll and wouldn't have recognised other listees. Only by chance I later discovered 2 people there for the meet who said it was all Keith's fault, they then chatted happily with Pam. I'm actually worried about Keith - he hasn't mailed for over a week and with not turning up to an event he organised I can only assume he's got a bad case of the flu. I hope that's the case and nothing worse has happened. Get well soon Keith. The Egg itself wasn't great (and I'm one of the DJs). I wouldn't go as far as saying it was a rotten(!) Egg, but it was definitely a bit off (sorry for puns). The 2nd DJs choice of tunes was, to put it mildly, 'uninspired'. I Managed to include 3 B&S songs throughout the evening - and 'Comin' Through' by The Pastels for Pam. Presented Pam with LLPJ poster and Egg mug (old promotional tool), which I think she appreciated. Discussed woeful state of UK radio (The US has commercial shows which play Soul all day) in relation to some uninspired soul track which was being played. I pointed out that even hearing Aretha Franklin or Otis Redding on radio up here in Edinburgh was rare. Also discussed B&S decision not to re-release Tigermilk and came to the decision that it's almost criminal. I think I talked too much :(. A disappointing night (for me!) was capped off by one of our regulars - a rabid B&S fan - drunkenly accosting Pam and friend with the offer of a party. Not a bad thing in itself, but given the state he was in, more like Rab C Nesbitt with expletives whilst strumming 'The State I am in'.(try to imagine it!). Pam wisely made excuses. So overall the '1st Informal B&S Meet-up' was a damp squib. Hope any future meet-ups work out better. Hanging my head in shame, Paul <plaird(a)ndirect.co.uk> "Go to work on an Egg" - THE EGG Marketing Board ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: TIGERMILK REGISTER
by mlang＠inch.com 03 Nov '97

03 Nov '97

A very good friend of mine was Tom Zutaut's (yes, the guy who signed Guns N' Roses also signed Belle and Sebastian, in case you didn't know) assistant at the now defunct Enclave. That is actually how I got into Belle and Sebastian. Anyway, she has heard TIGERMILK because Monsieur Zutaut has a copy which makes much sense. Of course it would have just been too good to be true to know someone internal at B&S's American label... It just HAD to go under, right? :) Steve Matrick... who thinks I Don't Love Anyone is the most likely Belle and Sebastian song to be a hit single.... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Rough Guide
by Eeyore 03 Nov '97

03 Nov '97

>(and mine's November 15th .. all cards + pressies to either Jeepster or >the PO box please ...!) You've done it now, Katrina! Boy are you going to have a good birthday this year.... ;) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Tigermilk Register
by Neil Hargreaves 03 Nov '97

03 Nov '97

Hiya I've got one, in my house all the way up in Kirkwall in the Orkney isles. I got it for eight pounds from John Smiths Bookshop record bit, by Hillhead tube station in Glasgow (and completely humiliated myself by asking if the had in on CD, a cardinal sin I know) I cant remember it having a number but I'd need to look at it to check.... Its in OK condition but I think I might have lost the wee papery inner sleeve thing... love neil H PS Stuart did ask people at the QMU gig who had a copy of Tigermilk. When I put mu hand up he sort of looked at me nodded at went 'I dont belive you' he probably didn't mean me speciffically but i still bear the scars.... -------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: whoops..
by Eeyore 03 Nov '97

03 Nov '97

Oh Eric, sorry I bothered you just then... after fidgeting for ages I found out I was at the wrong Rough Trade site. It's Publishing you need, innit? Well, I'm there now so I don't need instructions SorrySorrySorry...AGAIN! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: TIGERMILK REGISTER (fwd)
by Paul Mitchell 03 Nov '97

03 Nov '97

This one from David and Katrina that got sent to me only - it was part of the Tigermilk count but I can't keep up! Another summary soon, crikey, it's better than counting sheep... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 14:55:02 +0000 From: David & Katrina <d.kitchen(a)virgin.net> To: Paul Mitchell <psm(a)Majordomo.net> Subject: Re: Sinister: TIGERMILK REGISTER Paul Mitchell wrote: > Meanwhile: here's a stupid idea. It always seems to me that a reasonably > surprising number of people on this list hint at having a copy (and you're > all too polite to brag, but you want to, go on). So how many of the 1000 > copies can we track down? There's 322 people on the list but Susannah and > I don't have a copy so that brings it down to 320 so far... > > So for anyone with a real vinyl copy, or who KNOWS anyone with a copy, let > us know: > > 1. Owner name, location (not house number or I'll break in) > 2. Where you got it > 3. Are they individually numbered, in which case tell us your serial > number > 4. Coffee-stains, scratches that tell a tale david kitchen replies (from a cybercafe, urgh!) er, we've got two. plus there's three that Mark Jones owns, and then there's the one that Stef owns. sorry, that makes it six doesn't it! anyway ours; the first we bought for �10 from a rep who works for 3MV, he didn't know what it was but just that it was by Belle and Sebastian and had a blue-ish cover. the cover's slightly tarnished from sitting in a van for 8 months, but the vinyl is mint. we've lent this copy to one of our dearest friends for as long as we've got our other copy. So simon's got this one in East London the second one we bought from a guy off the paper version of the mailing list, we paid �60, gave him �40 of CD's and promised him 10% dicount for the shop we worked in at the time, he didn't have a record player and said he'd rather someone that loved them could listen to it. We also had to do him a pro copy on a very good tape to make sure he still had a copy. The record itself is perfect, as is the sleeve. We've wrapped in plastic and keep it safe when people come over. The computer and the record appear to be the two things we can't live without, oh, and maybe each other. This copy is held 19 floors above West London, as close to heaven as you can get with concrete. mark jones's and stef's; well they do own Jeepster and have every right to own copies of the album. mark's are in london whilst stef's is in winchester. er also, some 25-ish were given to very ungrateful journo's at the time! we do have a full list of who and where, but we're probably not allowed to say. these are the sort of people that slagged it to hell and back at the time and now come grovelling for an interview. the only exception being Jo Whiley who has always been supportive, by the by, she's in west london. so that accounts for about 31. oops! i nearly forgot but Stuart Murdoch has one too! that's in West Glasgow. so now that's 32. love, david. oh and anyone who sent in orders for merchandise, or sent ill-fitting shirts back to us, fret not as we're doing them at Jeepster and even though we've charged your cards yesterday, they'll be shipped out on the next postmans van after Tuesday, and for badges and stuff, well nearer the end of the week. -- ******************************************************************** http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/Belleandsebastian.htm mailto:bluesoda@totalweb.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 . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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