November 1997 - Sinister

Re: Sinister: 13th Note
by Sandy Blair 27 Nov '97

27 Nov '97

I thought the gig was in the new 13th Note which is where the Ventura bar used to be? If so it is near King Street (where the Tron Theatre is). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Ooh-er
by Nick Dastoor/BSHO/GB 27 Nov '97

27 Nov '97

I've just been informed by a kind correspondent that SM's working title for "Tigermilk" was the incomparably superior "Cock fun" I wish he had gone the "Cock fun" way really - such a stunt, peurile as it may be, might have stopped some of the lazy dismissals that some (particularly in the music press) seem to have made. Moreover, wouldn't it be great to have people baying for "tapes of cock fun" on the sinister mailing list. Mind you, I'm on dodgy enough ground subscribing to it on my work e-mail anyway - I'd really have some explaining to do if they happened to intercept such messages. Nick Dastoor Nick_Dastoor/BSHO/GB%BSHO@notesgw.compuserve.com@internet@cserve ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Electronic Renaissance
by Belleanseb＠aol.com 27 Nov '97

27 Nov '97

> > The story I heard about Electronic Renaissance was that it was a > throwaway song, Stuart M proving (to Chris?) that it was dead easy to > write dancy stuff. > Luv > Iain, Glasgow That sounds very plausible to me, sadly Stuart succeeded in proving quite the opposite. Don't we love them for their guitar-led brilliance rather than this synth cackhandery? Guess it just goes to show that even a band as talented as B&S can have their David Bowie moment. Let's just hope they drop the touted speed garage track "Sebastian's Nation" from the next album. I had hoped they were above all that. x Belle ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: musical genres....
by Sarah 27 Nov '97

27 Nov '97

a b&s speed garage track?? wow! DO IT. This could be amazingly good or amazingly bad, but hey! Thats whats exciting!Do you want all songs to sound the same? -- Sarah ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: B&S international dating service
by Keith Watson 27 Nov '97

27 Nov '97

-----Original Message----- From: Rod Begbie <rod(a)null.net> To: plaird <plaird(a)ndirect.co.uk> Cc: 'sinister(a)majordomo.net' <sinister(a)majordomo.net> Date: 27 November 1997 17:01 Subject: Re: Sinister: B&S international dating service >On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, plaird wrote: > >> Keith Watson wrote: >> >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!) >> >> "Go to work on an Egg" - THE EGG Marketing Board > >The Egg? Do we mean the club at the Wee Red Bar?? I've bee thenre a few >times. I'm the one in the B&S T-shirt :) > >Can't say I like it much, though. > >Rod. > I know what you look like mate - I remember you from School. Can't say I've seen you there though. 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: HAPPY HAPPY DAY!
by Sarah 27 Nov '97

27 Nov '97

TO ALL THE UK KIDS!!! happy lancashire day!!!!!!!!! (honestly, it is.) sayonara sausages!-- Sarah ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: a century of elvis:
by ***Rob B*** :) 27 Nov '97

27 Nov '97

Here you go then James, 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, 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, up past the window and down the stairs, and then to the bottom of the stairs right by the caretaker's office, and 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 round 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 lies there for an hour or two, watching the tv. we talk to him a bit, and then about ten o' clock, he'll go away again, and not come back until the next night. there's a lot of lakes 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 been 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. it was pretty much the colour of it, 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. pam spoke to him quite a lot - she seemed to know what to do more than i do. they have quite strange manners, they just went through your stuff and looked through it, then maybe pick something up and play with it for a wee while, but they'd never make any comment about any of it. seemed pretty rude to me. i just watched whatever was happening with him - less than pam, she talked to him and then, after a while i started to copy that, 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 desk and i said that i would tell him about you, me and pam, and how it was that it we came 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 until now. first of all we got to know each other, and then 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'd get married. that's why we're living here now. i used to think my dad was elvis, but i haven't told him that yet. i haven't told my dad either... I know there are loads of mistakes in it... I'd appreciate it if anyone could correct any of the more obvious ones, 'cos there are bits I just can't seem to work out. Love, Rob P.S. talking about misheard lyrics, I thought it was '..there's these two vineyards that we got for wedding presents..' and that confused me a lot! ------------------------------------------------------------- **"..give yourself up to the allure of catcher in the rye..." ------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 international dating service
by plaird 27 Nov '97

27 Nov '97

Paul Mitchell (all hail!) wrote on 20/11/97: >Well funny you say that. Someone else on the list (pen name ce ce >peniston) is privately begging me to set up a Sinister Blind Date with me >in the role of Cilla. So if anyone wants to send in their details, >height, weight, likes/dislikes and favourite foods, I will set up an >agency and match you all up. Oh and you better add details of your >sexuality. even funnier, I've noticed over the last few months the odd mail from non-Scottish listees who have fallen for the Scots accent, as featured on Century of Elvis (and utilised by my good self up here in Edinburgh). So maybe your agency could assume international status and link up the hordes of Scots fans (all armed with Sean Connery brogue) with all those lovely people. Gawd, I'm bored. Keith Watson wrote: >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!) apologies. I was on holiday in Sicily and would have gone through London when you were at the Bill Gates-fest. The only bad thing to come from such a break was downloading the 150-plus mails from you lot alone that had piled high while I was in sunnier climes. Byeee! 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: misc stuff, some b&s
by Andrew.Dean＠BULL.NET 27 Nov '97

27 Nov '97

um, bits of everything: the virgin suicides: i've read this as well, chosen from the book club catalogue because i liked the cover but it turned out to be rather good - all about the repurcussions on a small town in america when one of a family of 5 oppressed girls commits suicide as seen through the eyes of the neighbourhood boys. was like a cross between 'stand by me' and anything by anne tyler. beatnik: they had a pile of these in dillons on trafalger square the other dinnertime when i was in there. i knew it sounded familiar but couldn't place where i'd heard of it before. some old car on the cover or something? international dating agency: bad idea. email is not the way to conduct a relationship especially on days like today when it's a public holiday over there and you know you aren't going to hear from them tonight... or for the rest of the weekend for that matter... sigh. b&s session: um, having now heard lazy line without monica i now see why people didn't like the real version. and last night's 'sleep the clock around' was superb, nice to hear a proper version (ie not live and mumbly). the lyrics are finely crafted too, none of that sense of crowbarring them into the song that i got with (some of the tracks on) the last ep. has anyone had a stab at the lyrics yet, it's probably the hardest to decipher thing they've done so far? i have most of verses 1 ('and the moment will come') and 3 ('in the morning') but verse 2 ('take a walk in the park') is more gaps than actual song... i've also got almost all of 'modern rock song' if it's not been posted before... (yes it has, it's in the tab section of the mailing list site) thanks to andrea for offering tapes for everyone. i've done it in the past but i had a bad experience and am reluctant to start again - someone asked for a tape, not b&s but that's not important. i told them to send me a tape etc and they did. the tape was posted to me on the monday (this is transatlantic postage we're talking here so it's going to take about a week). on the wednesday i had email asking if i had it yet. on the friday i had another asking if i had it yet 'and why aren't you answering my emails' (because i'd been out the office and i had nothing to tell). i did the tape on the sunday morning and posted it back on the monday. and that's it. never heard back from the person concerned, no thankyou, no nothing. ungrateful cow. actually, thinking about it, all the people i did b&s tapes for were great and i still write to a couple of them... and steve lamacq was worse than ever last night. i've decided he must die... yep, arab strap breeze block was good. can't remember a single thing they played now though. oh, something from 'pod' by the breeders, some more stuff... ok, have a good time those of you who'll be in london tonight. andy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Get to Falkirk!
by Sarah Wheeler 27 Nov '97

27 Nov '97

>I used to live in Falkirk - where did you live. My dad also helped Magnus >Magnusson present the 1974 scottish General Election program! I stayed in Larbert, before moving to Wallacestone (in a privately owned house, which makes me a complete snob, at least according to the whole of Graeme High School (or so it seemed))! I still frequent Falkirk quite regularly, especially Firkins, where Arab Strap can be found most days, if not at Pennies Indie disco. Oooops, only my second mail, and already I'm completely off-topic. To get back on, can anyone tell me if the B&S cartoon t-shirts are as cool as they look on the merchandise page??? Sarah Snob (yep, it's a very sore point) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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