November 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: List Legends in the Making
by PJMiller 02 Nov '98

02 Nov '98

Rory, Duke's book is called "Young and Foolish - A Personal Pop Odyssey", and is written under the frankly bizarre pseudonym "Alistair Fitchett". It is published by Stride, who turn out to be a poetry press! Its number is ISBN 1 900152509. It'll change your life. Unless you've already read it on the Information Superhighway, in which case it's a nice souvenir. Stuart Gardiner's in it, and Paul and Jamie Huxley and Michele Waggner and some other people. I wonder if the chapter entitled "American Rock" is a tribute to Denim? I bet it bloody is you know. List Legend 1: Teddy Pendergrass. Today I snapped up "The Philly Sound: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and the Story of Brotherly Love (1966 - 1976)", featuring the aforementioned Teddy Pendergass during his time with Harold, Melvin and the Blue Notes. I haven't listened to it yet, but I just know it's great. It looks and smells fabulous. I've never seen so many afros in one place. List Legend 2: Richard Roundtree. On Thursday (I think) I'm hoping to see the big man himself on the big screen. Sadly not in "Shaft", "Shaft's Big Score" or "Shaft in Africa". Looking at the posters for the Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, my eye was caught by something called "The Winged Serpent", and there was Richard Rowntree lurking way down the cast list. Some of you may have seen this film on late night everyone's in bed telly. It's absolute shit, but I'm going to see it anyway. I think the director's going to be there, so if he is, I'm going to ask him for Richard Roundtree's autograph so I can send it to the fantastically funky FunkySeb, whose Richard Rowntree joke was one of the highlights of my life. List Legend 3: Reid Dossinger. What can I say that hasn't been said already? All I hope is that New York listees are as willing as Reid and his constantly expanding bevvy of main squeezes to embarrass themselves in front of the band and then tell us all about it. By the way, my chum has said he's definitley going to try to be there tonight, so please feel free to accost total strangers and ask them if they are Cheeky. Which is the best way to pronounce his name. I bet he won't get there, but still. Yesterday I went to the pictures and it was Sliding Doors starring Gwyneth Poultry and she looks like an inside out mackrel and the film was really sick and disgusting and I was frightened and I wanted my mum and everyone gets pregnant twice. Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: New
by Frederic � 02 Nov '98

02 Nov '98

My name is Fred. Form France, we've heard a very good perf of B&S on the radio France Inter (sthg like BBC). Happy to know you're existing in this world. Tenderly, Fred. ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Bad Matchings
by Aranzazu Sanz-Garcia 02 Nov '98

02 Nov '98

Hello from this frozen laboratory to all listees , especially to physical chemical brothers and sisters (they are likely aware of these sacrifices on behalf of science...) The worst matching experience I can remember was quite a long time ago, a Londoner band opening in Madrid for Elastica, when Justine was still Brit Pop's sweetheart...etc, and they had just released their first album , I think (spring 95).Supergrass were the expected ones, but some of them had just had his first kid and came back to England suddenly to celebrate the happy event with the family I cannot even remember the name of their stand in's.Something with the word Kinky in it.They were the most awful impersonators of The Jam I never saw, with some glam crossing too , apart from some bassist wearing a horrid Adidas orange jacket jumping all over the stage without any sense of ridiculous or rythm. But as the smutty time seems to have finished , I will not tell you the worst of this story... Another remarkably pathetic coupling was some awful Z series Spanish band with adorable Pavement during their last tour in Spain: the gap between them and Mercury Rev, who had been Pavement's matching in some sort of Big Cat festival I first saw them,tended to infinity and more Late happy Halloween... Arantxa +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: mismatched openers
by baggy trousers 02 Nov '98

02 Nov '98

i think probably one of the worst match ups was when i went to see beck/cardigans/atari teenage riot at my university. they had atr and then the cardigans but by the time atr were finished i swear my ears were bleeding and my hearing was already fuzzy. other than that the match ups have been fairly good still smiling over such a wonderful show in athens, roberta **oh you look so tired + "Rock'n'roll is the most brutal, mouth slack and wide + ugly, vicious form of expression - ill-housed and ill-advised + sly, lewd, in fact plain dirty..a your face is as mean as + rancid-smelling aphrodisiac..the your life has been + martial music of every delinquent crash into my arms + on the face of the earth..." i want you****** + -'jack the ripper' (morrissey) + -Frank Sinatra 1957 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: We all have our Guv'ner stories it seems...
by bkim0＠dept.english.upenn.edu 02 Nov '98

02 Nov '98

How funny that they opened for B&S! Although not so funny if you were there I suppose. Gosh, what a match-up, you might as well have had Cannibal Corpse play! At least they would've been entertaining. I had the misfortune to see them open for the Lilys last week, and while they weren't *terrible*, it's sometimes worse to be mediocre, which they were. And again, the match-up made little to no sense. THe only think I could appreciate were some of the guitar squeals and squalls, but not much else. I even remember hearing about them on another stop of the Lilys tour and the person who posted at the time said something to the effect of how bad they were. I thought "Oh, how bad could they be?" Well, not BAD bad, but in the context of the show... I feel sorry for you Sinisterites who saw what must have been a *painful* juxtaposition. I think one of the worst match-ups I've heard of (but not seen) was Counting Crows opening for Suede. I myself witnessed a Godawful band called Distant Shores open for Blur...it was supposed to be Pulp but I guess Philly (the last stop on the Parklife tour) was not on their itinerary. So we got this American band who pretended they were British all glammed up in makeup and glittery sleeveless shirts. The singer would regularly shake an open water bottle to simulate ejaculation...bleah. On top of the glammy rock was some awful sequenced electronic parts... At the very least, these things pummel the audience and allow the headlining band to come in and slay. Best match-ups, tone-wise, could very well be Codeine and Mazzy Star...ah, so that's what it feels like to be in a coma! (It was good though, don't get me wrong). Anyone else have bad match-up concert stories? Xavier -- BXK "It's recess everywhere bkim0(a)dept.english.upenn.edu but in his heart." http://www.english.upenn.edu/~bkim0 --Ralph Wiggum X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Some ink polaroids before I forget. Keywords: Sandwich, burn, thatcher, exploit, prison, cigarette, lozenge
by WeeJay 02 Nov '98

02 Nov '98

Hokay. I've been putting this off all weekend. Except yesterday when I managed to burn my hand on my sandwich toaster and spend the rest of the day with it (my hand) in ice water. What's more I've won another one (a sandwich toaster) from the NatWest who I don't even have an account with, but I'm glad to exploit an orgainsation illegally privatised by evil evil evil evil Thatch. BTW people - please don't worry about my 18-hour sleep. I'm not ill or anything, so you can stop telling me to go to the doctor. Right, here we go; Here's one which is in a strange hazy circle. It's looking out of an eyehole down a long faceless straight corridor. No-one is about at all. Think higher class of prison. This is where I live. This one is looking across a small-ish square park with 2 diagonal paths cutting it into four triangles of grass. In the centre of the picture is a long line of people trudging towards a set of buildings in the centre. To the right is some grass where schoolkids play a game of football. This is a view from a window. The whole left side of the picture is dominated by a huge building looking like flats or some kind of hall of residence. at the side there seems to be an extention, the door of which, near to the centre of the picture, is open and displays a full laundry basket and a row of machines. Outside the door, filling the space to the right of the picture there is a lot of neatly mown grass, and a middle aged woman with black hair leaning against the wall of the house smoking a cigarette. Meanwhile a cat lies in the sun. To the top of the photo is a road, beside which is a high wall on which a line of children, who cant be more that ten, precariously walk. This one is in a small, dingy, empty bar. 5 people sit around a table, and behind them you can see the tackily decorated bar with a couple of people standing near it. The foreground is a table with drinks and these five - from the left to the right a drably dressed girl whispering to her evidently more socially acceptable friend, who half listens while partially turning to a long haired indie boy with a ridiculous goatee beard. He's talking to the frighteningly stereotypical indie-lad with an 'status quoasis' t-shirt, and to the far right of our scene, a tall pierced boy with short bleached hair. This is in a small bedroom. To the right of the scene are 4 blokes giggling about lozenges, for some reason. There are the indie-bloke and the long haired one from the scene above, plus a large middle aged man and a wiry, blokey one. These three are watching the TV. Huddled up with the camera are a chinese girl and a strange boy dressed up with a scarf and flying jacket like biggles, all 3 covered up by coats and lying against the wall. XXXXXXXXX WeeJay James(a)twopounds.u-net.com Manipulating you illicitly since 1979 http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/cabaret/5523/ (Which will no longer crash your computer. Hopefully.) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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RE: Sinister: time for B&S tonight?
by Lesley Higgins 02 Nov '98

02 Nov '98

I went last night and they had the doors open by 7ish, opening band Containe were on by about 8 and B+S were on by 9:30. As you know it's sold out so get there early... Lesley ---------- From: Raquelita[SMTP:rkb200@is5.nyu.edu] Sent: Monday, November 02, 1998 11:31 AM To: sinister Subject: Sinister: time for B&S tonight? Does anyone know what time the band will be going on tonight? Tickets say 8:00 but is that for the doors to open or the show to start? thanks... rachel +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: time for B&S tonight?
by Raquelita 02 Nov '98

02 Nov '98

Does anyone know what time the band will be going on tonight? Tickets say 8:00 but is that for the doors to open or the show to start? thanks... rachel +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: i'd be happy but i am hebrew
by Damon Seils 02 Nov '98

02 Nov '98

You begin to realize there's little to be said about the Washington, D.C., gig once you know that the band covered a _Southpark_ song. I hate to add to the confusion, but I could have sworn it was Stuart David at the piano who was responsible for this, just before he broke into "A Century of Elvis." So we can now say, most assuredly, that "It's Hard to Be a Jew at Christmas" was performed by Stuart D and/or Chris, possibly with backing from Isobel and/or Sarah. Exact, in'it? It's probably not even important. Let me just quote John Monroe for a moment... "I saw B&S cover a Southpark tune!!" The venue was full up and, as Mr Dossinger says, <<the front and center was populated by guys over 6'2">>. I know because I was one of the guys over 6'2" populating the front and center. Ah, well. Perhaps you'll find some justice in the fact that I was trapped behind a boy who was even taller than me. And thicker. Anyway, Reid gave an excellent synopsis of what went on at the show. I wish I'd known he was there: I could have added him to the list of sinister bunnies I met, many for the first time. Imagine seeing the band onstage, and just in front of you are Megan, Mick, Brian, Matt (the adorable NYC foursome); you know that somewhere in back are John and Michele; and the crowd pressing against you, filling the room, is undoubtedly dotted with sinisterines you wouldn't know from an empty beer bottle on the floor. Add to this the awkward, nervous little chats you had with Stu M and Chris before the show, and... Is this what it feels like to lose gravity? It's certainly enough to take away the pain of the Guv'ner set. --- Damon +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Canterbury tales
by jrs4 02 Nov '98

02 Nov '98

Dear Sinisters I have a great problem, I have been at university in Canterbuy for three and a half weeks now and as of yet I have not met anyone who has listened to B&S. This sucks bigtime. The only thing that has kept me daydreaming has been this wonderful mailing list, the reports on the shows, the smut and the trials and tribulations of life in the world of B&S, thankyou. James +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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