February 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: General ramblings
by ***Rob B*** 17 Feb '98

17 Feb '98

Hello happy bunnies Ha! I'm in a good mood today - we've managed to get our house for next year, but the best news is that all seven of us bar one are B&S fans, so we will have the ultimate B&S community. You can all come round for picnics and wild parties on long summer evenings. Has anybody got the lyrics to 'The loneliness of the middle distance runner'? I got a copy of this a few days ago (cheers Stuart!), and I was trying to work them out, but there are bits that still make absolutely no sense the way I hear them. Is it going to be on the next EP? Hope so, it's become one of my favourite B&S songs. Speaking of which, I was listening to '...Sinister' yesterday, and it dawned upon me why I hadn't voted on the fanclub site... as each song started it instantly became my favourite song on the album - for different reasons, the title track because of the lyrics, such wonderful lyrics like '...' oh there's no need to write them down, you know them as well as i do. And the gloriously sad but beautiful 'the boy done wrong again', 'all that i wanted was to sing the saddest song, and if you will sing along, i will be happy..' The emotions i go through in one hearing of the album range right through tears and elation - there's a song for every mood, and it all combines to create a masterpiece of unimaginable beauty. Sorry, i'm blathering now, it's just something really beautiful only comes along every now and again, and sometimes this album hits home so much that i'm just in awe of it. Can anybody tell me about Serge Gainsbourg? - I got a couple of CDs of his a week ago - 'comic strip' and 'le jazz dans le ravin', and I am very impressed by them - it's just I've heard his name mentioned on the list before. These two albums are compilations, I think, but I was wondering if there are any other records that I should get by him? Ah well, I'll be going now then Love, Rob xx P.S. a couple of amusing belle and sebastian anagrams, if you like that sort of thing: Intense baseball ad Absent slain beadle ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Manic
by Ruth McCurry 17 Feb '98

17 Feb '98

I've been following the Not So Manic Now debate, and I really don't think that the Brick Supply original is up to much. It's a bit like that Scandinavian Torn. I had the dubious honour of hanging out with Sarah Dubstar in Newcastle during the year when they were making the first album - she shared a flat with some friends of mine in the next street. She was an absolute gem, and it just makes me a bit sad to see what's happened to them now. It's so strange to see someone so totally unsuited to pop stardom thrust into the limelight for everyone to stare at. (I know she chose to do it, so it's her fault.) B&S's refusal to be buggered around by the industry is such a good thing, even if it only teaches a few future stars that you don't have to play by the rules to succeed. Does anyone else know of any pop stars who really would be better off doing something else instead? Celine Dion is one that springs to mind... Lots of Love, DAVID ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 PEEPELL
by Keith Watson 17 Feb '98

17 Feb '98

Anyone coming for a curry this Saturday, there's a few of us already organised to go to the Cavalry Club Indian on Shandwick Place this Saturday, if anyone else fancies coming along, or perhaps meeting afterwards for a beer, give me a mail... Cheers, Keith.

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Sinister: Nick Drake
by Huw Jenkins 17 Feb '98

17 Feb '98

Dear List, I was told by a friend last night, whilst trying to introduce him to B&S, that Nick Drake sounds a lot like them. somebody else mentioned, earlier, something to do with Nick Drake, I can't remeber who or what they said as I've deleted the message now but I want to know if this is true and if anybody out there can send me some Nick Drake stuff so that I can find out for myself. Cheers, Huw P.S. has anybody here, heard of a band called Karate

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Re: Sinister: B&S activities?
by Keith Watson 17 Feb '98

17 Feb '98

>Does anybody actually know what the band do all day while we're listening >to their records? >11.00am- Wake up. >11.30am- Wash their face in bowls full of money. >12.00pm- Drink tea and eat Cake. >15.00pm- Swim in a pool full of money. >15.30pm- Return library books. >16.00pm- A quick chukka of Polo. >17.00pm- Give alms to the poor. >17.35pm- Watch Neighbours. >20.00pm- Watch The Bill. Hmmm, I'm afraid pools full of money and the like are not altogether likely to be true. However returning library books seems perhaps feasible. Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 activities?
by Robert Hardy 17 Feb '98

17 Feb '98

Does anybody actually know what the band do all day while we're listening to their records? 11.00am- Wake up. 11.30am- Wash their face in bowls full of money. 12.00pm- Drink tea and eat Cake. 15.00pm- Swim in a pool full of money. 15.30pm- Return library books. 16.00pm- A quick chukka of Polo. 17.00pm- Give alms to the poor. 17.35pm- Watch Neighbours. 20.00pm- Watch The Bill. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 activities?
by Robert Hardy 17 Feb '98

17 Feb '98

Does anybody actually know what the band do all day while we're listening to their records? 11.00am- Wake up. 11.30am- Wash their face in bowls full of money. 12.00pm- Drink tea and eat Cake. 15.00pm- Swim in a pool full of money. 15.30pm- Return library books. 16.00pm- A quick chukka of Polo. 17.00pm- Give alms to the poor. 17.35pm- Watch Neighbours. 20.00pm- Watch The Bill. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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->pavement
by Musicman 17 Feb '98

17 Feb '98

I heard all about B&s from some people on the pavement mailing list, and decided to buy. I picked up if yr feeling.... about two days ago, after waiting about three months for it to get imported into Australia, and am loving it. It does remind me a lot of Nick Drake for some bizarre reason, but I very much like it. Anyway, that's why I joined up. Also: is their any web page generally perceived to be the best/most comprehensive? L. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: lyrics of life, hey, catchy......
by Sarah 17 Feb '98

17 Feb '98

Some people were doing their song lyrics that tracked them through life. not that i've had that much of a life to track by music, but here are some which have been 'portant to me so far... Here at risk of being a twat, are some of mine. Keith look away, some 6th form shite is bound to follow: 1) MSP :"Do not listen to a word I say, just liste to what I keep silent...I close my eyes and this is yesterday" "the only way to gin approval is by exploiting the very thing tha cheapens me" in fact the whole fucking lyrics to this is yesterday. 2) Belle and Sebby : "You shone louder longer, you put my shine to shame" - the boy done wrong again 3)Belle and Sebby : "beauitiful only slightly mental beautiful only tempramental" - -Beautiful 4)MSP : "I am an architect they call me a butcher, I am a pioneer, they call me primitive I am purity they call me perverted" -- faster (Sensing my two fave lyricists here?) 5)Belle and teh boy Sebastian : "OOH! get me away from here I'm dying sing me a song to set me free"....get me away from here i'm dying 6)B&S "desperation is the devils wrok,it is the folly of a boys empty mind" - the state i am in... 7)SFA! (yay!) "there are people who think and there are people who don't, and the eople who don't are the ones who have most..." Download. in fact the whole song again. 8)joy Division "Heart and Soul, one will burn existence well what does it matter, i exist on the best terms i can the past is now part of my future, the present is well out of hand" Heart and Soul 9)B&S :"wouldn't you like to get awayy give youself up to the sllure of catcher in the rye"- le pastie...cos its a true lyric. people give themselves to books hoping to find contentment within the pages of some other persons imagination. Including me. But now i look to song lyrics as well. 10) Dexys midnight runners-"Hollow sorrows nothing new just enough strenght to last to tomorrow untill i believe in my soul" Untill I beleive in my soul 11)MSP : "...the past is so beautiful the future like a corpse in snow i think its all the fucking same, its a life sentence babe" Condemmed to rock'n'roll (i am slightly embarrased by the word 'babe' too. but it fits in wth the song. it just loks cheesey on paper/pooter screen) 12)MSp (again *sigh* i;ll make this the last one) "the difference between love and comfort is that comfort is more reliable and true brutal and mocking yet always there a crutch for emnitys saddest glare" --Comfort Comes 13) last one!John Shuttleworth! I'VE GOT AN AUSTIN AMBASSADOR Y-REG Y- REG Y-REG DON'T KEEP ASKING ME WHY REG IT JUST HAPPENS TO BE THAT YEAR!!!!!! thangyewverymuch. next post i think shall be about my FAVOURITE SoNGS FROM THE EIGHTIES. A great decade for pop methinks. i'm talking about yer ELO's...fandoobydastic. I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!! SarahBelle "Beauty is not a human invention" --Saul Bellow ********************************* * FEATHER BOAS & NAPALM ZINE * * C'MON! PUNCH THE AIR! * * 1 * * 9 Westfield Drive, Warton * * Preston, Lancs * * PR4 1ED * ********************************* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Brick Supply
by MATTHEW M STEAD 17 Feb '98

17 Feb '98

I haven't got any of their stuff, but my Dad seems to go on about them lots, maybe I'll be able to get him to find some. Matt. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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