January 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

Re: Sinister: Other bands that get you off musically...
by empyreal 11 Jan '98

11 Jan '98

-----Original Message----- From: Damon Seils <ds3624a(a)american.edu> To: Belle & Sebastian Mailing List <sinister(a)majordomo.net> Date: Sunday, January 11, 1998 3:40 AM Subject: Re: Sinister: Other bands that get you off musically... >OK, some other bands that have been getting me off lately... > >acetone >the beautiful south >bjork >future sound of london I'm selling ISDN and Lifeforms (2CD). Both almost brand new. Interested? >gusgus >his name is alive Warren DeFever _is_ something of a demigod, isn't he? Check out ESP Summer, his side project band with Ian Masters. Acoustic, lovelorn, and painfully melancholic... >luna >radiohead >red house painters >tindersticks Have you heard the soundtrack they did for "Nenette et Boni"? Smoky French cafe atmospheres... and all the problems of the world dissolve in a cup of cheap coffee and a cigarette... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: bands one gets off on
by dollarbrand＠webtv.net 11 Jan '98

11 Jan '98

Although resigned to just read these messages daily (or be faced with hundreds at week's end) I would like to offer a short list of bands, beside Belle & Sebastian, that set my head spinning: The For Carnation Giant Sand His Name is Alive Home Abdullah Ibrahim Astor Piazzolla ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: stop argument
by Richard North 11 Jan '98

11 Jan '98

I never meant to start a full blown political debate! Basically I am (would be) a Green party voter But on a non environmental basis I am a Tory voter Please respect my opinion I respect and understand yours - but just 'cause I don't agree with it, please don't attack me now lets just carry on being Happy Bunnies (under a Labour government) b&s content - none but this will be important to making other mails with no b&s content less plentiful bye Northy ``Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.'' - David Lloyd George. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: music we love?
by Richard North 11 Jan '98

11 Jan '98

OK - here are the bands I "get off on" though I do not like that terminology Catatonia Radiohead Velvet Underground Frente Lightning Seeds Warm Jets ermmm.........thats about it for the mo. ``Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.'' - David Lloyd George. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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-digest V2 #10
by David & Katrina 10 Jan '98

10 Jan '98

the lovely andy dean wrote: > ok, was just doing a long overdue web site update and was > cobbling a list of the tracks played in manchester. what i > have follows but there are gaps (except for the sunday > matinee which is taken from the set list nick, er, stole). > does anyone have cononical lists for the two evening shows? > or can someone smart and intelligent and, say, australian > who has heard proper versions help fill in the gaps using > the lyric snippets that i have? thanks. > umm, don't 'spose you mean me ... well, shelley hasn't heard the tracks yet, and i've forgotten all the names of the other antipodeans on this list, so here goes ... oh, by the way, i'm actually half-and-half ... well, so say's my passports anyway ... > saturday evening: > Put The Book Back On The Shelf > I Don't Love Anyone > Century Of Fakers > Chickfactor > Slow Graffiti > ??? "I dreamt..." (words spoken by Stuart D) this is Space Boy Dream (might be Spaceboy, we didn't go over the specifics!) > Photo Jenny > ??? "...is this happening..." > Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying > Is It Wicked Not To Care? > ??? "He had a stroke at the age of 24..." > Dylan In The Movies > Arab Strap > Rollercoaster Ride now, one of these is Simple Things, and the other is a track that i'm pretty sure Stuart M sang, and i have no idea of the title ... andy, can you give me more lyrics and i'll try to figure it out. i think the "stroke at 24" one is the one i don't know, as i don't remember those lyrics in "Simple Things" boy, i wish i'd heard some tracks from the recording of the new lp ... won't be long though, as they're out of the studio on Feb 3rd, and after then we may have a date for the ep & lp. > sunday matinee: > Seeing Other People > Mayfly > Beautiful > Dirty Dream > Fox In The Snow > Tigermilk > Expectations > The Stars Of Track And Field > Lazy Line Painter Jane > Seymour Stein > Simple Things > Middle Distance Runner > Something On My Mind* > Arab Strap > > sunday evening: > Modern Rock Song > The State I Am In > (Interlude: Matchstalk Men And Matchstalk Cats And Dogs) > La Pastie De La Bourgoisie > Seeing Other People > Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying > The Loneliness Of A Middle Distance Runner > In A Nutshell* > ??? "I know where the summer goes..." I Know Where The Summer, > according to Stuart's set-list > She's Losing It > Judy And The Dream Of Horses > Century Of Elvis > Seymour Stein > Dylan In The Movies > ??? "If you want me i'll be there..." this is the most incredible song ever, "Simple Things" > Sleep The Clock Around thanks andy. i did write down the set-list for saturday, and put who sung the tracks i didn't know, but what with all the fuss and bother etc., i think we may have left it in the hotel room. some holiday ... cheers, katrina. -- ******************************************************************** Belle and Sebastian Fan Club merchandise, mail-outs, chat, lyrics, poetry, fiction http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/ 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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Sinister: pop quiz! help me cos i wanna show off :0)
by Sarah 10 Jan '98

10 Jan '98

aaaaaah! you have to help me people! i know *some* of these questions which overall just has to be the worst thing, but the nimbers and such like i have NO idea! so i am relying on Sinisterian pop experience and love to please HELP ME !!! with this pop quiz. yes i know it was on the SFA list but its starting to bug me!! 1. Complete the sequence... 8, 3, 7, ? (4) 2. Complete the sequence... 43, N/A, ?, 22, 38 (5) 3. Si tu etais un ange... Comes from which current single? And what does it mean? (2) 4. What was the UK's best-selling single of 97, and what was Europe's? (2) 5. Lauren Laverne is currently seeing which journalist? (1) 6. Who released an album last year named 'Ice Cream'? (1) 7. Name the band/track from this lyric "Idiot - Slow Down" (1) 8. Name the band/track from this lyric "Too much Montechristo No 4 - Pass The Ventolin, I need some more" (1) 9. Name 5 Welsh bands who have had top 40 hits in the last year. (5) 10. A Brimful Of Asha on the WHAT? (1) 11. Name Embrace's debut single and record label it appeared on. (2) 12. Name any three singles which have been re-released under different mixes. (3) 13. Who, if we take everything he says literally, does Thom Yorke want to be? (1) 14. Complete the sequence... I?CP?WSHIWMB?MSRSCPNP?CCO?NINCAMGIFC (10) 15. Name the only duo to have two top 40 mid-price LPs in 1997. (2) 16. "That worm-pie you made me, you made me eat from the butchers" : By whom, and what is it? (2) 17. "I stole his shoes and ran away trying jolly hard to see if we could catch him round the bend" : Again - artist and track please. (2) 18. Gene's debut single only half appears on the debut album. How and what is it? (2) 19. What year was Babies by Pulp released? (2) 20. So Make Sure That she's old enough, before.... What? (1) It's out of 50 - so just try your best. thank you for your time pop pickers :) I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! Sarah "I am, Yet what I am no-one cares, or knows" -- John Clare ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: aftershow apologies
by mctag＠mcmail.com 10 Jan '98

10 Jan '98

On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, the tallest man in the world wrote: >So then we trundled off to the aftershow, in a ridiculously small >room the other side of town (1 person behind the bar, about 100 people >waiting to be served...). A distinct lack of Jarvis-size celebrities this >time. Oh yeah, sorry about that. We never expected so many people. The landlord opened the place especially cos all his staff were at party and he had to get friends in to work. They did open the bar downstairs, but they may just have serving the group, I'm not sure - not my decision. Chris probably kept them busy single handedly. Can't do much about the lack of celebs, I was kind of hoping smashing music and happy revellers would be enough?? It's a love thing The Sparliest Orangiest Man in the World ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Holiday article (no B&S content)
by Amanda Bergman 10 Jan '98

10 Jan '98

Since someone had mentioned Holiday to the list, I figured this might be of interest. It's a review of their new album that appeared in this month's CMJ magazine. The album was "recommended if you like Magnetic Fields, Orange Juice, and Belle and Sebastian." So, here it is: ---On its last record _Ready, Steady, Go!_, Holiday had all of the makings of great lounge-pop, but couldn't piece the puzzle together. Lush horns and sweet melodies don't mean much without great hooks. On _Café Reggio_, the quartet has discovered a lot of what they were missing. Josh Gennet's spry vocal lines are immediately hummable, shimmying between the jazzy guitar lines. The album opener, "There's a Place," floats along like a dingy kissed by the summer breeze. The song might not be a classic, but it's close. With the help of Dave Max on flugelhorn, trumpet, and trombone, Holiday shows it can churn out rich and reverent arrangements using just a handful of people. Giddy rave-ups like "Something About You" and "Just Follow" are perfect fare for your next soiree at the cabana. Unfortunately, only eight out of the 12 tracks here are new. The last four are from the band's early single, "New Year's Anything," which included a cover of the Magnetic Fields' "Candy." Here the Brooklyn band rides the crest between new wave and indie rock with moderate success. Holiday has since moved its sound forward quite a bit by borrowing more from the '60s. Heck, if they had been around 30 years ago, these guys would probably be gigging with Dionne Warwick in Reno right about now.--- So, there you go. Just for anyone who was curious. I have the album, and I love it. Good stuff. ta, Amanda ------------------------ Amanda Bergman Northwestern University a-bergman(a)nwu.edu "¿En qué te ofendo, cuando sólo intento poner bellezas en mi entendimiento y no mi entendimiento en las bellezas?" --Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: press release
by plaird 10 Jan '98

10 Jan '98

>hey. a couple months back or less a press release was posted to the >list for 3..6..9. the one where some member of the band reckoned some >song on the new e.p. sucked or something to that effect. >could whoever posted that, or if anyone saved it, please repost it please. >thanks. >-brad Actually I didn't save the mail, but I was sent one of the press releases, so here it comes: BELLE AND SBASTIAN 3,6,9 SECONDS OF LIGHT EP RELEASED 13 OCTOBER - JEEPSTER featuring the songs: CENTURY OF FAKERS LE PASTIE DE LA BOURGEOISIE BEAUTIFUL PUT THE BOOK BACK ON THE SHELF Hello, I've been asked to write a press release for this, our latest record. I have never written one before. I have never seen any of our previous press releases. I don't have access to one, so I can't copy it. I'm in the group, I play guitar. I assume this goes out to journalists at the newspapers and the music press. I have not read that much on the group previously, but I believe we have done quite well with regards to exposure in the press: mostly positive, occasionally ecstatic and sometimes quite derisory. I don't care, I love it all. It's great reading about your group in the press, including the inevitable inaccuracies (but that somehow only adds to the fun). One thing though Much has been made of our unwillingness to do interviews and be photographed. I don't understand it. During the early summer you couldn't open a magazine without someone in the band's mug and words of wisdom staring back up at you. I suppose if we get perceived as awkward, contrary, Scottish Indie Popsters, that's the way it goes. I'm not complaining, it's only showbiz and I'm quite grateful for all the attention. Right now we are making more records and attempting to get better at playing gigs. I know we are a shambles, but we've only played about ten shows and the gaps between songs etc. are caused through ineptitude. We could never be deliberately contemptuous of an audience and we are trying to get better - HONEST! Which brings me to our latest record. It's really good, and I like it a lot. Track 2 is my favourite, although wee Chris on keyboards thinks it sucks. Track 4 is a really good song, which I think we could have done much better, although Mark at the record company went wild for it. Well, so much is in the ear of the beholder I guess. Anyway, I hope you will like it. Love Stevie. ************************************************************ and if that's not enough, I was also sent LLPJ, so here's the PR: LAZY LINE PAINTER JANE EP RELEASED 28TH JULY - JEEPSTER This is Belle and Sebastian's new single. It's about a girl called Jane, who is lazy. Belle and Sebastian are lazy too, but they don't draw lines. "It would take too much effort" (Stuart David - Belle and Sebastian). "I used to dream of making music this good, used to wish that I'd written all the songs that I'd ever fallen in love with. Then along comes this band who seem to drift effortlessly into my life, just to as effortlessly create the songs that I now fall in love with. After so long of liking half an album or half an EP, it's a bit strange not to be able to fault a whole back catalogue and they still continue adding to it. 'Photo Jenny' is all those moments when my innocent desire turned to innocent want (in the 'Pictures of Lily' vein). 'You Made Me Forget My Dreams' is the morning after you first tell someone that you love them and 'Lazy Line Painter Jane' has so far escaped meaning, It's just an epic of a song if 'just' can be used in that way. That's what these songs are to me, maybe they mean something totally different, maybe I read too much into these things. Either way I don't think I could carry on as I did, now I have these songs in my head." David Kitchen (Official Fanclub Agent) The "Lazy Line Painter Jane'EP is the second of the three summer EPs, all of which contain new material. The four songs on this EP are: LAZY LINE PAINTER JANE PHOTO JENNY YOU MADE ME FORGET MY DREAMS A CENTURY OF ELVIS ***************************************** Phew! yes, I've got a bit of spare time tonight. anyway, brad, could you save it this time? Byee! 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: ..with a knife and a bike chain...
by Funkyseb 09 Jan '98

09 Jan '98

Alistair wrote: >It might just be don't look back, the (bob) dylan film: What a shame, I did hope they were closet Dougal fans. I've never watched rock stars in films since sitting through Labarinth at an impressionable age. And have you seen that Ned Kelly rubbish? But anyway...'Small Faces' is fantastic isn't it? Especially Kevin McKidd. and that bit when that nice artist boy got beaten up by the girls seemed very Belle and Sebastiany, at least I thought so, fragility of art etc. blah blah blah. Belle and Sebastian at the Albert Hall? Nice thought, but it wouldn't be fun for the (majority) of people in the balcony. I saw the Manics there,and I was sat somewhere in the roof, between two miserable sods, and spent the whole gig staring mournfully down at the mosh pit far,far below... and from playing there and seeing concerts there, I've found it all a bit crappy, front and backstage.Still, I agree with the sentiment. Maybe the band could buy the newly redundant Britannia, and sail around the coast, playing songs for fishermen? just a thought. Seb ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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