January 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Greetings & Salutations
by David Murrow 29 Jan '98

29 Jan '98

Hey B & S cats -- I'm new to the list, and wanted to say hello. I found out about B & S through Anglophile Clem, and it is some of the most uniquely gorgeous pop I've heard since, well, OK, Freddie & the Dreamers! (kidding.....:-) Anyway, Like Dylan in the Movies is my bip-boppin' pop tune of the year. And I'm here to learn more about B & S from your in-country perspective (I lived in London '89-91, Amsterdam '91-96 and Brussels '96-'97 before heading back to Clintonville.) Clem wrote... >>>this music has SERIOUS crossover potential and being signed to a major indie here in the states can only help I can only agree on B & S's potential to open up dead ears in the US. In the past, I've made some indie pop / cool stuff tapes for one of my brothers with little feedback in return. But word back from younger bro on "If You're Only Feeling Sinster" has been very positive, and this is coming from a bozo who listens to Dead Person' Music -- really! Stevie Ray Vaughan, Hendrix, Doors, blah, blah, blah. Me? I like B & S songs ALOT. They're very fresh, witty, cheeky, lovely, groovy and pop-posaurus! 15 minutes with B & S? I wouldn't say no.... Proudly cognizant, Dfactor ______________________________________________________ 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: sorry...
by J.B.Hunt 29 Jan '98

29 Jan '98

Jeez, I've just been through the archive, and noticed that B+S and Peanuts have already been discussed in excelsis. Doh. So sorry for the previous witter. Ho hum. If anyone in Ayrshire feels down after Blind Date and Family Fortunes on a Saturday, you should visit the Attic nightclub in Irvine. Not only is it very reminiscent of a school disco with lots of snogging and crisps, the DJ invariably plays Lazy Line Painter Jane. It's a fine moment. The dancefloor clears and about five people with a variety of disfigurements hobble on and dance furiously, then the record stops and Cast ooze out of the speakers and the B+S kids are trampled underfoot by a thousand retro trainers. Does anyone know the listing for the new single and/or the new LP, or is this something else that's already been done to death? JBH ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Re: Baby Birkin
by Nrbqlover 29 Jan '98

29 Jan '98

<< In a message dated 98-01-28 18:44:43 EST, escossia(a)electus.com.br writes: << Can anyone tell me anything about Baby Birkin ? >> the unnamed by the sea6 sez: >>Produced by Russel Senior, ex-Pulp guitarist. Or is it Russel Junior? Anyway, heard two songs; good. >> Clem would add: the band also features the most excellent Delia, ex-mambo taxi and current member of The Family Way who pays the rent by selling indie records at rough trade to saddoe mail order customers like myself. i like the single i've heard. clem lane nrbqlover(a)aol.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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Re: Sinister: Club nights?
by Look Mum! A new e-mail address... 29 Jan '98

29 Jan '98

On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, adam the fool wrote: > And i think we should have a heated debate about little smileys rather > than the edinburgh clubs (bit far away you see...) ;o) > (I like mine to have a lopsided nose.) One of my new years resolutions was to give up smileys. "Signposts for the humour impaired" as someone so eloquently put it. Or "if you have to explain it, it isn't funny" to quote Paul Merton. I've created a special sig, though, just incase... > Oh yeah - valentines day soon - anyone else think this is the worst day > of the year? Naw - just time to dig out my Drugstore - "Solitary Party Groover" shirt! > What else? Well why don't we pick a day sometime next month and then all > phone Radio One's Most Wanted (freephone i think) and force Dave Pearce > to play Expectations (or whatever) that would be cool. Do you think if we all phoned up and requested that "Dangerous" Dave Pearce just fucked right off, he would? That would be infinitely preferable. I've met David Bowie, dontchaknow? ObB&S: I know someone called Jenny, and would like a photo of her, but I don't have one. Is that on-topic enough? Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | If you were at all offended by this message, please add some of | the following smileys to the text where appropirate: :) :) ;) :P ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: This takes the BISkit
by Pissing In The Wind 29 Jan '98

29 Jan '98

Following BIS's name appearing on both these lists over the last week, people may be interested to know that there's going to be a couple of free BIS gigs in London and Glasgow. http://www.bisnation.co.uk for how to get your tickets. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Q-spicious: adj. Examining a cotton swab immediately after use to | make sure part of your brain isn't attached to it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 comp?????
by DALE COOPER 29 Jan '98

29 Jan '98

hihi got a post from the list about the b&s metal comp. yesterday can this be true???? well david and katrina - what's the word from the homefront?? personaly i don't think that ozzy will do it justice - however it would still be a laugh!! a bit puzzled boho :) ______________________________________________________ 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: Sing Hosanna! Actual B&S content (sort of) for once!
by ELIZABETH DAPLYN 29 Jan '98

29 Jan '98

I have a dream! This is fabulous, I can never remember my dreams normally, but this morning one of them actually stuck in my head. Woohoo! So children, are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin... I can't actually remember most of the aforesaid nocturnal ramble, but I'll briefly outline the pertinent section, which is the bit I can recall clearly: I was walking through a big group of people, arranged in one of those oh-so-typical Sixties-student-film tableaux: you know, lovely young things with long hair in flowery frocks, paisley shirts and afghan coats decoratively spread out around the surface of an idyllic park-type setting in comfy, liberated, conversational groupings, deliciously disapproving of war and other nastinesses. Anyway, as I said, I was walking through this Garden of Earthly Delights, and I suddenly heard something very familiar: I looked around me, and I saw a girl with long blonde hair sitting by a fountain, singing and accompanying herself on an acoustic guitar. She was playing Modern Rock Song. Quite badly. This, of course, seemed perfectly logical while I was asleep, but as soon as I woke up I had one of those "What the hell was that all about" moments. I haven't even listened to Modern Rock Song for ages (well, a couple of weeks, which counts as ages in the relative scale of listening to B&S tracks). And why was she playing it so badly? She had a really whiny voice and everything. If this says anything disturbing about my psyche to anyone, don't hesitate to tell me and scar my fragile ego forever. Well, I'd better be orff then. I'm going to Canterbury (hurdy-gurdy street-performer capital of the Western World) tomorrow, which should be absolootly marvellous. Or something in that general line of description anyway. So, 'tis time to say Au revoir, Liz. (edaplynr3n00297(a)kiadroch.kiad.ac.uk) ********************************************* On a bus Outside this window A gull is caught in the sky Patiently waiting ******************************************* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 clubs
by Mr J J Sansom 29 Jan '98

29 Jan '98

Hi everyone, I'm gonna be in Edinburgh at the weekend on a charity hitch from Coventry.So I was wondering if anyone could suggest some good alternative clubs I could visit on Friday or Saturday night Joe xxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: I've got no enthusiasm to even answer the phone...
by Keith Watson 29 Jan '98

29 Jan '98

> >I do like Mogwai though, I think they'd be even better if they did > >collaborations with singers perhaps, as again, I think it'd be >pretty tricky > >to continue much longer just doing the same thing. > What's this? the Keith Watson rock and roll consultancy hour? Have >your artistic career redirected coutesy of all-seeing Keith ? :-) Err.. No, just an opinion - that's the purpose of the 'I think' construct as seen above. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: I've got no enthusiasm to even answer the phone...
by Keith Watson 29 Jan '98

29 Jan '98

>> Just been watching the NME Brat awards show on Channel 4 >> Arab Strap are absolute shite!!! >> Their set consisted of one fat Scottish bloke sitting on a stool and >> SAYING crap lyrics and then a pointless, non melodic crappy chorus of >> plain old guitars >> As I heard in "DreamTeam" yesterday.... >> "What a bunch of strokers" Only time I saw Arab Strap was supporting B+S at the Moir Hall (in Manchester I was too busy drinking to watch them), and the main problem to me was that you couldn't hear what was going on, not a misunderstanding problem (I lived in Falkirk for 6 years - believe me, his accent's very posh compared to what it could've been), the guitar was all out of tune too which didn't help. I don't think they're bad, but I don't think they're that good either, I do think they get a disproportionate amount of press for what they are, I don't know how they're going to sustain interest just doing that sort speaky over guitar chord stuff. Having said that, their remix of David Holmes' "Don't Die just Yet" is brilliant, and by far and away the best thing they've done, reminds me of De la Soul. "The Clearing" I thought I liked until I realised i was playing it at the wrong speed, and playing it at the correct speed seemed to dullen it a bit. I do like Mogwai though, I think they'd be even better if they did collaborations with singers perhaps, as again, I think it'd be pretty tricky to continue much longer just doing the same thing. Another Glasgow band who seem to have been very much overlooked in the recent cases of overexposure are Long Fin Killie, who make a dead nice Bark Psychosis-esque noise which is really good, Luke's voice is amazing, although unfortunately they've just split up. Keith. Also, the person who was talking about A Century of Elvis.. I don't doubt for a second this was heavily inspired by Arab Strap. Which brings me on to another point, are B+S really all acting members of the T.A.? :) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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