December 1997 - Sinister

Sinister: Belle and Sebastian .. playing songs for children
by Honey 22 Dec '97

22 Dec '97

Quick run through the Beat Patrol show for those who will miss it, as I'm listening to it just now. Sorry about the comments, just ignore them if you want. And the tape offer stands. *** Beat Patrol, Radio Scotland, 5-6pm 21st December 1997 *** OK - we get all the band members except Mick. They all pick favourite tracks and we hear three newish B&S recordings and some merry banter. I've not heard Beat Patrol before but I think the presenter's a bit blown away by the choices the band make, which is nice. There's quite a bit of teasing at the beginning by Isobel, Stuart David and Sarah, as anyone who was around when Stuart joined the chat unexpectedly a couple of nights ago will expect (ask me for a log :). Richard, Stuart M, Chris and Stevie come along then and we talk music a bit more. It's also nice to put voices to erm.. faces or shoes (Pam?) or something I suppose. - B&S: Loneliness Of The Middle-Distance Runner - [What a lovely song - I've actually never heard this as I'm behind on my session tape scraping and begging] - Isobel - Bobby Gentry and Glen Campbell: Little Green Apples [Cute Campbell link, a present to Isobel from a friend for Christmas sometime, whooshy swinging soft and sweet, just like Isobel's voice] - Stuart D - Tom Waits: Earth Dies Screaming [Tom in his rougher later more theatrical plonky phase - Stuart likes all Tom's stuff and very fine it is too.. erm, well I think so - Stuart says that is what B&S are aiming for - yeah...] - Sarah - Queen: Don't Stop Me Now [OK erm I'll beg ignorance of why on this one so I'll say nothing - that's what I like about B&S, the little shockers] - B&S: Slow Graffiti - [Another new one for woefully ignorant me (can someone do me a tape of the latest sessions??) - and this is the highlight for me, I can't think straight when it's on, it's so crushingly beautiful] - Stuart M - Madness: whatsitcalled, You're An Embarrassment (?) [Well everyone knows this - Stuart says it's because he hadn't heard it in ages] - Richard - Miles Davis: toon anyone? [I start getting very excited here: Miles Davis arranged by Gil Evans, earlier stuff, staccato and just wonderful; Richard apparently plays "cabaret drums"] - Mick - Chet Baker: Let's Get Lost [OK I can admit it now: I swoon everytime I hear Chet's trumpet and, although there's some teasing about his "crooning" I love his voice too - seems like a wonderful feminine kind of masculine voice. If anyone wants to talk Chet with me I will forever, and supply copious tapes! Forlornly romantic and so west coast coooool] - Chris - Young MC: Theme from Shaft (remix of Isaac Hayes original) [Chris's well known rap/groove persuasion coming out here - he says he doesn't want Stuart M to rap on stage necessarily, but he does really] - B&S: Just A Modern Rock Song - [We all know this I think?] - Stevie - Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band: Listen The Snow Is Falling [B side of Christmas by John Lennon - really cute simple Christmas song, depending on your point of view (Tim J might go all scroogy on us)] - B&S: We Wish You A Merry Christmas - [DJ Krush remix] [Only joking] Honey P.S. Hugh's scared of you all now. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Belle and Sebastian .. on the radio, and virgins
by Honey 22 Dec '97

22 Dec '97

Yeah I can probably start returning the hundreds of favours from you beautiful people by doing some tapes of the B&S radio program too. I slapped it onto video tape instead of audio, so quite by chance I can, even though one of my tape players is out of action. So mail me if people want them - but if others apart from me and Chris could volunteer it'd be helpful - Linda will keep me if it means she misses The Sweeney. Chat room thing - we're getting a lot of wanderers, I was going to say Virgin wanderers, which is probably appropriate, who are just after cheap sex. So when Tag isn't around they get a bit lost and cause trouble and chat me up, which is fun sometimes but at others annoying. The option is to make the chatroom invisible except to those who know - you lot. But it might be confusing for newcomers and we might have a bit less fun. Votes to me please. Honey ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Floors, Youth Hostel, cheap hotels.
by Chris D Martin 22 Dec '97

22 Dec '97

a) If I go for a wee boogie after the show on Saturday, can I still get into the Youth Hostel, or is there a curfew. Otherwise, anyone suggest a very cheap hotel for the night, or offer a floor for me. I can bring Jaffa Cakes or flapjacks. cheers, chris ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Possible spare ticket.
by Chris D Martin 22 Dec '97

22 Dec '97

I've possibly got a spare ticket for the Saturday show. If anyone is interested, give me a buzz on 0131-337-7120 this evening or tomorrow evening, and i'll see what I can do. love to all, chris ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Edinburgh ---> Manchester.
by Chris D Martin 22 Dec '97

22 Dec '97

Would anyone like to share petrol costs, would like a lift from Edinburgh to Manchester. Leaving Saturday, whenever-ish, returning Sunday, lunchtime, early afternoon-ish? If so, drop me an email, and if I don't reply to that by 5 tonight, give me a call on 337 7120. Barp, barp, chris ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Beat Patrol.
by Chris D Martin 22 Dec '97

22 Dec '97

So there I was, tuning in to my favourite radio program, to find out that it was being 'hosted' by Belle and Sebastian. I found Belle and Sebastian earlier this year. I was clearing out my tapes and came across this tape of a radio show. I was idly trying to work out what it was, whether I should wipe it, when I came across an intro "Monday morning, wake up...." etc. etc. I was hooked. Peter Easton, the presenter, exclaimed at the end "Shucks. Don't you think? Shucks." I suppose that brings us back round to Peanuts. But anyway, yesterday, all B & S, bar Mr. Trumpet man where in the studio choosing their favourite records, which included Queen and Tom Waits. Isobel was charmingly nervously gigly. Some B & S tunes where played, Slow Graffiti. I've got it taped if anyone wants the whole thing. Its not particularly great sound quality, but hey. Lots of jokes about whether Mr. Murdock should strutt around the stage. Anyway, love to all, chris xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Hi Belle and Sebastian list
by Pete 22 Dec '97

22 Dec '97

Hi I just joined the list. I live as far away from Glasgow as could be conceivably possible, Sydney Australia. Although I did see the Fannies a week ago and again they played this song by Yo La Tengo, of which I'd love to know it's name so I could listen to the CD. Anyhow I do much love Belle and Sebastian, and bought the CD If You're Feeling Sinister with no preconceptions as to what it would be like, except the memory of reading somewhere that it was a gem of a CD. I don't have much money so this was an importamnt purchase for me Sooooooo, I listened to it once, didnt enjoy it, although thought Nick Drake and Tindersticks who i adore. Listened to it again, then again, and suddenly it seeped into me like some of my favourite music. Marvellous stuff chappies, wonderful playing, beautiful atmospheres and textures and wow lyrics which are more than worthy of reading and contemplating. I wonder if they'd attract a mosh in Sydney. Anyhow if a Belle or Sebastian person reads this, come to Australia, I can guarantee a good crowd at a decent sized venue and anything else you think of within reason :) Anyhow, hi people on the list Pete ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Please.
by jon g. 21 Dec '97

21 Dec '97

Visit mt website!! This is not a desperate attempt to gain more hits (I don't have a page counter),but I thought you might like it. There is a Belle & Sebastian section, which is not very good, but I had to make the effort, as a sort of pilgrimage. The other reason you should go is so that you can vote for your Album and Single of 1997. I changed the rules of the Album one, so that you could vote for If You're Feeling Sinister, but I am getting votes for Urban Hymns and other such non-delights. Please, for the sake of fab B&S, go and save them from the teeth of that Ashcroft man. It is at http://www.btinternet.com/~jon.g/ thanks jon g. (A sunday luchtime person)

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Re: Sinister: Snow! State! Help!
by susannah 21 Dec '97

21 Dec '97

on 18 Dec 97, Nick Dastoor/BSHO/GB wrote... >The State I am In (parts 17-24): > I confessed to joining in #sinister to some friends last night. They were not >impressed. I think they were worried I might end up married to a club-footed >spinster from Arkansaw or something. It was all so difficult to justify to an >outsider. Even the mailing list. "What on earth do you talk about?" scoffed >Suzanne. "Um" said I. Ha ha! I haven't even confessed to my friends (except my flatmate who's a 'geek' too) that I even use the INTERNET , let alone am chatting happily away to a bunch of strangers in cyberspace. What would they think? Probably drop me straight away I should imagine, for the net is still halfway between the preserve of trainspotters and computer nerds and a way to go before enjoying any sort of credibility. I made the dire mistake of telling an old bloke at work, who is online at home too, hoping he would have the sense to refer to it only in hushed whispers, but at corporate tea-time the other day, he suddenly piped up " 'surfed' into any good 'websites' recently ;-) ?" to which my workmates turned round and stared at me incredulously, like all my clothes had suddenly vanished or something. I muttered something about my flatmate buying a computer and 'internal modems bog standard these days' , but the die was cast and am forced to wear 'GEEK' tattoed across my forehead for all to see. They don't know what they're missing susannah(a)tormentor.clara.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: yo la tengo
by robinh＠en.com 21 Dec '97

21 Dec '97

>>>>> Hi I just joined the list. I live as far away from Glasgow as could be conceivably possible, Sydney Australia. Although I did see the Fannies a week ago and again they played this song by Yo La Tengo, of which I'd love to know it's name so I could listen to the CD. <<<<< hmmm. if it's an instrumental, long-ish, chances are it's I Heard You Looking, from Yo La's truly outstanding _Painful_ album. Teenage Falnclub have been known to include it in their live sets from time to time... other recommended YLT albums to explore: _I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One_ (the most recent one), _Electr-O-Pura_, _May I Sing With Me_ .... and the odds & sods collection from last year _Genius + Love = YLT_ is pretty damned wonderful too. the holidays exhaust me ---rh ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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