November 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: B&S on Canadian TV
by Cathy Fan 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

Saw the fantastic 'Is it wicked...' video yesterday on MuchMusic's The Wedge. I really liked the huge lion plushy; the Jean Cocteau reference was lovely as well. The show had an 'All-Scottish' bands theme, so there were some bits on Mogwai, Arab Strap, J&MC, and Teenage Fanclub. They were in Edinburgh and also did a segment on the deep-fried cuisine. That's some pretty hardcore batter that they put on those Mars bars. We use this wimpy, dry, bread-crummy stuff...which is still good, but only if you supersaturate it with evil oils. Yum. Anyway, perhaps if you bugged them (the website is at http://www.muchmusic.com/thewedge) they will play it again because the presenter lady seemed quite fond of the band and twitched furiously when she mentioned THOSE kilts. Ok, she didn't, that was me, but she seemed pretty excited while doing the short segue for the promo clip. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: film question
by J. MURTAGH 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

someone asked for an idea to a film or something to that effect. Well, being an attempted scriptwriter meself, I came up readily with an idea. Follow a person along the street with your camera, but of course he's an actor. You follow him and dodging away every time he liiks around. You follow him to some woods from quite away, and he starts digging, the camera starts to shake as the person secretly filming is nervous about what the subject is doing. You can end it in any number of ways but I'll leave that up to you. john +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 haven't seen dundee - yet
by Sam Norman 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

well thanks for the message Tjonrr(a)aol.com. i'm spending new years in dundee with a friend of a friend who i don't know to well and after you glowing recommendation i'm begining to think that maybe i've made a boo boo by booking my train tickets already. please tell me that dundee isn't that grim. anyone in the the dundee area want to meet up? i'm there form the 29th Dec to 4th Jan. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 replies
by Alasdair Cook MS1996 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

Someone mailed me to say that I was cool and should keep mailing (I will mail you back). I don't see it myself, but I have to respect the views of the people on this list, and as such, here it is, another mail. Ho hum, better get on with it.... Sandip wrote > I just want to know who does the Dylan in 'Like > Dylan In The Movies' refer to Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's THE Dylan. The song goes, "Don't look back, like Dylan in the movies" which would seem to be a reference to Bob's very wonderful documentary film of his 1965 British tour, which was indeed titled "Don't look back"(I think.....actually I hope because this theory kind of falls apart if it isn't). Has anyone seen it? I especially like the part where Dylan, Donovan, Joan Baez and some other people are sitting around and they ask Donovan to play a song and he sings "To sing for you"(which is very good) and after he's finished he asks Dylan to play "It's all over now, baby blue" and Dylan duly obliges, and its all fantastic. So there you go, question answered I hope.(Sorry I rambled on for a while there, but I do like to do that now and again) Also, here's another reply to Mike who said > I was wondering if anyone could recommend some > groups someone that likes Belle and Sebastian would also like Since I do like B+S(as is evidenced by my being on this list), I suppose I'm as good a person to answer as any. I certainly wouldn't dream of saying that all fans of B+S will like the same other stuff as me, but here's some bands/artists that I like anyway, in no particular order: Suede, Jeff Buckley, REM, Van Morrison, James Taylor, Super Furry Animals, Divine Comedy, Geneva, The Clash, Nick Drake, The Pixies, The Smiths, Orange Juice, Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield, Patti Smith, The Pogues. There are some others but thats all I can remember at the moment. Hope I've been of some use. Cheers Ally +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Love it
by Vanessa R. Siegl 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

hmmm this is a story that kinda fits/doesn't fit here ..it is not Belle and Sebastian related at least not really about half a year ago a guy called Daniel mailed me ...about his literature group 'Gruppe '98' so I mailed back ,... I had a John Lennon song or rather a line from a J.L. song as my signature file back then so he mailed me a line from another song ... we did this for weeks then he suggested a date ... I went but didn't find him till the end when I met a guy called daniel but I got scared and ran away ...yes as in very fast ... in the car only I realised DANIEL oh shit We continued mailing .... then I didn't hear from him for 3 months (summerbreak shame shit in autumn then I met him by chance at a poetry slam (no he wasn't the guy I ran away from) and he acted as if he hated me ... spit in my ear and all that (he was only drunk but somehow I thought he hated me) anyway he mailed me the following week so he was unaware in who's ear he had been spitting ... I didn't mail back then cos I only felt like sending a very nasty line from a Placebo song about fools with small tools but this is not my style so I just ignored him Now last week he mailed again ..so I sent him a Belle and Sebastian line .... back to the same old shit and so on .... anyways ..... end of the totally boring pointless pathetic story love vanxxx _____________________________________________________ Forgive me for I have not sinned csaa7950(a)uibk.ac.at _gapminder(a)yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Sinister laugh-in
by John Johnston 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

I saw Alix's message "how can you tell if you've got mumps" and I thought "coz there are footprints in the butter". I fear I'm getting my jokes mixed up. This is just to say that I've arranged a special Sinister List discount at my comedy show this Thursday in S. London. Just mention Sinister at the door and you can get in for £3 instead of the usual £4. Outstanding value, I'm sure you'll agree. So if you fancy a London meet-up this week, please come on down. This isn't just a vain plug but the hope that we can have a meet-up before the social comes back. Twisted Nipple Improv Thursday 9pm (lateish bar!) Bedford Pub, Bedford Hill, Balham London - that's a right turn out of Balham station and it's 3 mins up the road, opposite Sainsbury's I didn't think of the name. xx John +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: B&S go Massive Attack!
by Anna J 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

Hi people, I thought I'd let you all know about this pretty great, but slightly peculiar B&S concert I went to last night as I was profoundly asleep in my freshly laundered sheets. They were playing in this old gym hall in a school not far away from here, and the room itself was pretty interesting, it was round and had lots of lockers in the middle so the audience had to stand around them. The place was packed, but most people didn't seem to know who B&S were. Anyway they got up on stage, and Stuart Murdoch (who, by the way, had grown his hair long and dyed it darker) announced that only half of the show would be B&S songs and for the rest of the evening they would be doing Massive Attack covers. Interesting choice I must say. Also they had this extra singer with them just for the occasion, who looked sort of like Jarvis Cocker 200 cream cakes later, who actually never got to sing and seemed quite grumpy about it. Then they started and even the B&S songs (they started out with "Le Pastie...") sounded like strange copies of Massive Attack. Imagine that please. After five or so songs they all went off stage for half-time as they called it and most of the audience left. Pretty soon, only a few people were left and I discovered that Sarah Martin wasn't on stage and I got all worried and someone else was missing too (I can't remember if it was Mick Cooke or Stevie Jackson), but this old man standing next to me told me it was ok because they were on holiday in Trinidad & Tobago and that there was a rumour that they were smuggling Scottish toys into the country. Then after the show Isobel jumped off stage and ran around hugging all the people who were still there, because she was so happy that we'd stayed till the end. Now, who wouldn't if B&S were doing Massive Attack-covers??? Also there's something you should all know about Isobel, after a while she took her plastic mask off and it turns out she's actually 70 years old. Pretty clever mask if you ask me. Dreams really are terribly enlightening. Now I wonder if B&S are popular in Trinidad & Tobago? Never mind me, Anna :) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Archives
by Adrian Evans 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

Paul Mitchell (must be a newby) wrote : Wouldn't it be funny if we all found out we were wearing the same underwear right now? It could happen...stop laughing, it COULD. We could have an underwear tree - we compile a list of addresses and send one item of underwear on to the next person every fortnight. READ THE ARCHIVES. Timothy H!O!P!kins started an underwear tree after the Leeds show, and nobody else joined in. In fact I have it on good authority that Ed Mason was in fact so scarred by the discovery of Mr P!O!O!kins panties that he has since upped sticks and moved to Outer Mongolia where he stalks cattle. Alex Arnold wrote : >And handy little holes you can hide things in, and you don't have to be >thirty feet tall to reach it. You can also keep it in your fridge - when >was the last time you saw a Giraffe in your fridge ??? What if the cheese has Bob Mould, of Husker Du fame? I hardly think he'd fit in the fridge. He would in a SMEG fridge...have you seen them ? Wonderful. Chris Butler wrote : probably not true of soccer (football) players who have to learn how to use both sides of their bodies well. hands are not the only appendages. In my experience most footballers don't actually know their left from their right so they don't count. Jessicafoxinasnow wrote : so i am wondering if some of you lovely listees could help me out with the names of lots of different Irish bands and musicians. I mean, the obvious ones would be, say, U2 and Sinead O'Connor, but i'm sure there are lots of somewhat less-obvious ones that it would be nice to have a bit of help with. Jessica I strongly recommend you seek out and enjoy some Fatima Mansions, and then If you will, some Microdisney. I promise you won't be disappointed. Someone mentioned going to B&S in a suit....smashing !! It's just so much more respectable than a cardigan :) Adrian.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: Smell Dee Hepburn's Feet
by Warrander John - FML 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

Oh dear, I'm being drawn in by the might of "the beautiful game". It's a thin line between minor flirtation and full on obsession you know. Actually, it's a wide gulf really, but I do seem to be managing to bridge that gulf at a frightening pace. A Japanese friend of mine told me that she worried about British football hooligans coming to Japan for the World Cup in 2002. I put her straight, they won't be British, they'll be bloody English. Of course, I don't really have any Japanese friends, certainly not female ones. But I have a dream. And dreams come true. Didn't John Gordon Sinclair sing that on TOTP once? Was he singing about wet dreams? How do wet dreams come true? I don't understand that. Am I stupid? Not as stupid as whoever thought Clare Grogan fancying John Gordon Sinclair was believable casting. Someone called Jake D'Arcy played Phil Menzies in Gregory's Girl and there's someone called Jake D'Arcy on the Shalala mailing list. D'you think they invited the entire cast and he was the only one that joined? I'll bet they're well pissed off Clare Grogan didn't. She's hard she is. She'd eat the entire Shalala cast for breakfast. I think it's quite hurtful that people have been saying bad things about that list behind their backs so I'm going to say it to their faces. They don't let you though. It's a scary world where all subversive opinions are suppressed and filtered out by someone called Pete in a "Twee As Fuck" t-shirt before they get to YOU, the people. I'm sure some dodgy political and religious groups throughout history have employed this tactic. I'm too ignorant to know which ones though. There is no humour in the world of Shalala. There isn't. Go look. It's true. Anyway, what I really meant to say was, has everybody read that joke about our heroes on the letter's page of the NME this week? I thought it was quite amusing so the suggestion that B&S fans are tight-arsed miserable sods that don't appreciate a good joke is right out of the window. The person who wrote it was from Aberdeen. I'm always proud when someone from Aberdeen gets a letter published in the NME. And I wish I could remember what it is Nancy Sinatra sings on Kinky Love. Something about "I know he's a man and he's got to have his Kinky Love". Isn't Nancy great? I fancy her. Especially the bits she's had cut off. I actually own them. They're in a jar next to my bed and I take them out and lick them every once in a while. I keep them in whisky, so they taste pretty good. I was going to use that line about a man needing his kinky love as my signature. But since I can't remember it, I'll use something Filthy McRagtag told me instead. Except I promised myself I wouldn't say anything bad about the Duke anymore and Robert probably doesn't want me telling the world what he's been saying in private. Kinky Love People, Kinky Love...John +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: News of the World Article
by John Stuart 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

Did anyone see the piece on Belle & Sebastian in the quality weekly periodical, News of the World? Trust me I don't buy the crap, but read it after staying at a mate house over Saturday night. I was bemused by their apparent 'Exclusive' story that Stuart Murdoch, lead singer of Glasgow's trendy(!) band, Belle & Sebastian is a part-time janitor in a church (shock horror - we never knew that huh!). The piece was hilarious, and even included a mock-up photo of what Stuart might look like as a janitor!! Stay happy, Nhoj. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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