March 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: A dead good book
by MRissb7989 20 Mar '98

20 Mar '98

A very good friend of mine from the states has just sent me the most marvellous book in the world ever. It's called Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock, and it's the story of a post card artist in England who gets post cards from a mysterious woman on a tropical island...basically the book's only a few pages long as it is all told on postcards and letters...it is wonderful because: The artwork is divine, a real joy to look at The book is about long distance friendships (and romances) developing via letters, quite a *sinister* thing to do I guess It really feels like you're reading other people's mail, always a slightly perverse thrill Apologies if this is old news, especially to US listees, but it really did blow my mind, and I've never seen it in this country. And I feel happy today because the sun was shining, and I had my sunroof open in the car, blasting out B&S as I sped along...bliss.. Gesundheit Risso x ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: I Really should be going... <fwd>
by G R Thomas 20 Mar '98

20 Mar '98

--- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 13:08:26 +0000 (GMT) From: G R Thomas <grthom(a)essex.ac.uk> Subject: I Really should be going... Sender: G R Thomas <grthom(a)essex.ac.uk> To: Sinister(a)ph.ed.ac.uk Cc: kenickie(a)coolist.com Reply-To: grthom(a)essex.ac.uk Message-ID: <SIMEON.9803201326.A(a)sf138.essex.ac.uk> Well, it's about that time again... Another term has past, another great term for the list, and it's time for me to go home, having finished uni 'till April 20th. This of course means no e-mail access so I'm also unsubscribing as of today. If anyone needs/wants to contact me (J.B./Mylene/anyone else) then you know the address. Actually, I'll mail you both privately. Sorry list!... Anyway, time to go, eagerly awaiting the new singles/LPs as we all are, Cheers, and keep on keeping on, See ya all April, GIDEONxxxx "Make your on kind of music, Sing your own special song, Make your own kind of music, Even if nobody else sings along..." Kyle Daydream --- End Forwarded Message --- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: I Really should be going...
by G R Thomas 20 Mar '98

20 Mar '98

Well, it's about that time again... Another term has past, another great term for the list, and it's time for me to go home, having finished uni 'till April 20th. This of course means no e-mail access so I'm also unsubscribing as of today. If anyone needs/wants to contact me (J.B./Mylene/anyone else) then you know the address. Actually, I'll mail you both privately. Sorry list!... Anyway, time to go, eagerly awaiting the new singles/LPs as we all are, Cheers, and keep on keeping on, See ya all April, GIDEONxxxx "Make your on kind of music, Sing your own special song, Make your own kind of music, Even if nobody else sings along..." Kyle Daydream ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Sinister: Nostalgia ain't what it used to be <fwd>
by G R Thomas 20 Mar '98

20 Mar '98

--- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 21:57:45 +0000 (GMT) From: G R Thomas <grthom(a)essex.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Sinister: Nostalgia ain't what it used to be Sender: G R Thomas <grthom(a)essex.ac.uk> To: Stuart Gardiner <skg21(a)hermes.cam.ac.uk> Cc: Belle and Sebastian Mailing List <sinister(a)majordomo.net> Reply-To: grthom(a)essex.ac.uk Message-ID: <SIMEON.9803192145.A(a)sf105.essex.ac.uk> On Wed, 18 Mar 1998 17:11:17 +0000 (GMT) Stuart Gardiner <skg21(a)hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote: >> I really got into indie music purely thanks to the Radcliffe graveyard > shift show. I remember listening to the first ever show he did on Radio 1 > (and even a few of the shows he did on Radio 5 on Wednesday evenings - Hit > The North I think they were called) and thinking, yeah, it's really funny, > shame about the music. This was in a period of my life when my taste > wasn't very developed (Confession time: forget Menswear, anyone remember > the London Boys?!?) and Radcliffe's music seemed too obscure. But as time > went on, and I listened more and more, I came to love the music as much as > the comedy, and I haven't looked back since. The man is indeed a genius. > And that's where I first heard B&S... And I'm exacyly the same. Not about the London Boys bit (yeah, I do remember them), but all the rest. I first started to listen to Mark and Lard in the summer of '96, mainly so it was so rib-ticklingly funny. But I started listening more to the music, and really started to get into it. All my 'indie' type taste spring from listening to Mark and Marc, as well as my love of poets like Ian Macmillan and the Bard of Marsden, Simon Armitage. I have M+M to thank for B+S ('Judy' was the first track I heard), Kenickie, MSP etc etc. I stil listen to the few shows I have taped, including the whole of the last week. Oh, how we cried on that last night.... Oh, well, they're still about, if only on t'afternons. See ya, GIDEONxxxxx "Oooh yeah, baby" FAT HARRY WHITE --- End Forwarded Message --- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: hello, i must be going...
by C Browning 20 Mar '98

20 Mar '98

well thats me done for a term. its been an interesting mailing list and i shall miss all these reccomendations of good films, good books and good music. oh and occasional discussions of belle and sebastian as well. you're a top bunch of people and even though at times the sheer wealth of e.mails has caused my poor ickle pooter to crash its always been worth reading them all. have a fab easter. i'll be popping back every so often to finish my final year project so will occasionally check the archive to see if nything interestings going on. see ya chris ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Tigermilk recommended for investors/Yeats
by Martin Conneely 20 Mar '98

20 Mar '98

1. From today's Irish Times Business (!) Section, in an article about collecting vinyl: "Not many people have heard about a new Scottish band called Belle and Sebastian who only formed two years ago and have never troubled the charts or _Top of the Pops_ but because they're deemed 'artistically significant' by music journalists and the _cognoscenti_, Belle and Sebastian's debut album two years ago, called _TIger Milk_, of which only 500 copies were pressed up, is now passing hands for more than 200. From 15 to 200 in two years, you could be naming your own price in 10 years time." The Irish Times Entertainment section also gave IYFS a very good review when it came out. But I'm not forgetting that the Sports Section tipped Dun Belle recently (which seemed to me to be a message to the _cognoscenti_), leading to a depletion of my disposable income that week. 2. Runegg <Runegg(a)aol.com wrote >Here's a short Yeats poem.. Poor Willie, spent his whole life >trapped in unrequited love for Maud Gonne... I hope there were "others", as he says, >or else he doomed himself. >A Deep-Sworn Vow >Others because you did not keep >That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yes, there were quite a few "others". The first seems to have been Olivia Shakespear, when Yeats was 31. According to Samuel Levenson's biography of Maud Gonne, "Olivia was everything a man could want in a woman. But Yeats's nervous excitement was so great during her first two visits that he was impotent". He felt it was "best to sit over out tea and talk". (Maybe he had been indulging in that "temperance tea" that Mr Hopkins of this list found so enervating). Anyway, as Yeats put it, "My nervousness did not return again and we had many happy days." So that's alright then, although he did remain obsessed with Maud and I have a hunch that it was not quite unrequited. Martin C. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Re: Modern Rock Song & Birthday stuff ...
by Katrina House 20 Mar '98

20 Mar '98

Jennifer Phillips-Bacher wrote: > Hi Katrina -- > I don't know if this has ever been brought up on the Sinister list, but a > certain web shopping store (www.ab-cd.com) is listing B & S Modern Rock > Song as "currently available" (as of 12/5/97). They list the cdep > (JPRCDS004) and 7 inch vinyl (JPR004)...I thought this was kind of strange > considering that it has not yet been released. Hi again everyone ... just to remind anyone that is panicking that this a) not true and b) can't be possible, considering that snow patrol's last single was JPRCDS004 ... one of these days these on-line shops are going to get it right! oh-ho-ho ... :) it's listees birthday time coming up shortly too ... two of our best loved scribes - the one and only tag (aka saint lucy, robert mctaggart, sex boy etc. etc.<mctag(a)mcmail.com>) has his birthday next wednesday 25th march and the indescribably lovely susannah (aka astral, susie, "can i just say something" wondergirl <susannah(a)tormentor.clara.net>) has her birthday monday week on the 30th march. i think there's going to be a party party sometime next week in london ... if you fancy joining us, mail me for details! okey dokey .. i'm off ... cheers, Katrina. (p.s. is my sig file really crap?) ******************************************************************** jeepster recordings ltd. - jeepster.uk(a)virgin.net 217 canalot, 222 kensal road, london, w10 5bn ph - 0181 964 9432, fax - 0181 964 8600 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: let's go out to the lobby
by bradford 20 Mar '98

20 Mar '98

hey. that last post was a forwarded message by the way. someone wanted to reply to the list and sent it to me by mistake. does anyone know anything about this: Motion Picture "Every Last Romance" PS, US Sparse guitar, crooning sleepy-boy vox, dreamy cello undertones, waltzing rhythms, lotsa atmosphere. Think Felt, Belle & Sebastian.Recommended! WordsOnMusic-001 CD 10.25 i found it on the parasol site while trying to find a copy of that felt tribute album. speaking of that album...does anyone have it? and maybe would want to tell me who's on it and what songs they do and maybe if they want to sell it. -brad ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Re:Lullaby For The Working Classes
by JOSEPH FOSTER 20 Mar '98

20 Mar '98

I wouldn't call them the American B&S, but they are worth checking out, try the latest LP, 'I never asked for the light', I think it is called, it has some fantastic songs on, but be warned, it may be country. Does anyone else admit to falling in love with 'Beyond the sun', by the late Billy Mackenzie. (There's a B&S link in there, there simply must be). Some days I think that it may be better than IYFS. I reccomend it to every last one of you with a passion. Dodgy Records? OK Here goes..... .... Cast, Ocean colour scene, shed seven, heave, king prawn, korn, napalm death, levellers, coalesce....... .....I could go on and on, that King Prawn one is really awful, I listened to half of the a side, yuck. Could someone enlighten me as to a band whats called 'loop'? i bought a loop T-shirt once, not knowing about any band. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Britpop and more
by Shaft 20 Mar '98

20 Mar '98

I still listen to "Different Class" by Pulp all of the time, and I still think it's one of the 10 best CDs of the '90s. I nearly peed my pants when I read on a flyer at Tower that they have a new CD coming out March 31!!! I have a Britpop question that maybe somebody out there can answer; Rodney on the ROQ a few months ago played a new Sleeper song and said that a new CD named "Pleased To Meet You" was going to be released stateside imminently, yet to this day nobody I ask seems to know about it. Where is it? Did it get shelved in the states due to lack of interest? In B&S related material, I'm pleased to announce that I have made *three* converts in the past two months. At this pace, and with some help from other SoCal fans, maybe we can get enough interest to warrant a Los Angeles appearance! My favorite book that everybody should read; "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. Take Care- Andy #:-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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