March 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Re: Are They Still Alive?
by Jarrett Frankel 18 Mar '98

18 Mar '98

>From: Pierre.Coat(a)cable.alcatel.com >Subject: Sinister: Are they still alive? > >Does anybody know if The High, The La's, East River Pipe, >Another Sunny Day or Brian still exist? I can only speak for two of the aforementioned bands, Brian and East River Pipe. East River Pipe are still going, as far as I know. Their last album was '96's mostly excellent "Mel", released in the US on the fine Merge label. I haven't heard any news on a new album, though I can't imagine what Mr. Cornog would do if he didn't make the beautiful music he makes. Don't expect a breakup, that'd be quite the feat considering ERP consists of FM Cornog and FM Cornog alone. As long as he exists(a long time, hopefully, we don't get songwriters like him everyday) East River Pipe will exist. And anybody reading this who has never heard of ERP and feels adventurous enough to want to take a chance on a record that could possibly change your life, PLEASE go out and buy/steal/borrow for a really really long time the "Shining Hours In A Can" compilation on Ajax Records. Guaranteed you'll cherish it. If not, I'll say a prayer for your kids. Brian, my sources tell me, has(have?) a new album coming out supposedly this year on the Bar/None label here in the states. I believe the last thing put out was the wonderful "Understand" EP. related note: B&S would do fine covers of ERP's "Silhouette Town" and "Times Square Go-Go Boy," dont'cha think? rendered, rainforested & rolexed: jarrett frankel jfrankel(a)intr.net ************************************************************** albums of the week: 3/16/98 ~Richard Davies- Telegraph ~Plush- Found A Little Baby 7" ~Tortoise- TNT ~DJ Cam- Mad Blunted Jazz ************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: nbs or no content for that matter, feel free to skip this one
by OMUser=Olafia Svansdottir 18 Mar '98

18 Mar '98

>Ah, the heady BritPop summer of '95. Happy days! oh, how i remember that magical summer of 95,, I had just turned 18 and was going to London for the first time- the city of Britpop( the wonder of it all). Imagine my delight when I arrived and I thought to myself ' I'm in the same city as Jarvis Cocker' coming from a hillbilly country like Iceland where there are no big stars to daydream about, it was like magic! Being an all britpopper at the time, I myself too liked menswe@r and this beautyfull list has made me come to terms with it,there was a time whenI felt slightly embarresed about it, but i remember one actually good song- it's called I'll manage somehow... I was too a Gene fan, and I dont know what to think about that now, should I be embarresed too or should I show off my three cd's I got with them? I was watching bbc prime the other day and I saw a show called Britpop now- remember? it was in the blome of britpop and had: Blur(in school uniforms singing country house), Echobelly, Sleeper(oh they still exist), Elastica,Menswear and Supergrass,,, it took me back,,, some bands did come out of that area ok, and are still live and kicking and I dont mean to trash any of them. But now I'm (almost) 21 and I look back to those days with a bit nostalgic mind I must say. Being on this list is not only entertaining, it's educative too, I'm learning all these new words and learning the names of bands I would really like to listen to, but it's no chance of me purchasing the cd's here( in the fasist state I live in) but there will be a fest next time I go abroud, and what books to read-although they are all in english and I dont find it fasanating enough to read a whole book in english without getting a grade for it,,, but I'll wait till they are translated.. on B&S content....ummm no I cant think of a thing.. I like them, did I mention that...? Could somebody pass Begbies homepage address to me, I've been to Sarahs and I want to judge which is better ...................................................................... ..............................................................olla ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Are they still alive?
by Mick McMick 18 Mar '98

18 Mar '98

Pierre.Coat(a)cable.alcatel.com wrote: > got a question. Does anybody know if The High, The La's, No idea on these... > East River Pipe, Last I heard he signed to a major label, but wasn't there something about the division he signed to folding, and so he wasn't signed to a major anymore? Regardless, it's just one guy, so he can't really "break up" =) I guess he could stop doing music, but I don't think he will anytime soon... > Another Sunny Day Isn't Another Sunny Day just Harvey Williams of various Sarah Records-related bands fame? If so, he played a date here in the US a few months back. I believe he was opening for the Divine Comedy, but I'm not wholly sure. I don't know if he's playing much these days or not. If it's someone else, I don't really know about their whereabouts... > or Brian still exist? Yeah. They have a webpage somewhere, and I think they finished recording their next album, with string arrangements by Sean O'Hagan. /"\_/"\_/"\ Mick McMick - mick(a)indiepop.com - ICQ#5056758 \ / Sandcastle Records - sandcastlerecords(a)indiepop.com | | Sandcastle Homepage - http://indiepop.com/sandcastle/ | | | | "Everyone has their own cup of tea. | | Some just happen to like a lot of sugar in it!" | | - Me! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Precedence: bulk
by Mark Hester 18 Mar '98

18 Mar '98

Pierre, The High went all grungy, totally changing their sound (unnecessarily, as they were never really part of a 'scene') then vanished). Don't know about East River Pipe - I liked them as well. The La's split up, but the bassist is now the singer with Cast. In the US, mention there she goes and the response is usually "yes, that great song by the Boo Radleys" as apparently they covered it on a film soundtrack or something. Mark. -------------------------------------------------------- Mark Hester Engineering & Technology Elsevier Science Ltd The Boulevard Kidlington Oxon OX5 1GB UK Tel. +44 1865 843296 Fax +44 1865 853319 E-mail m.hester(a)elsevier.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Strategic Planning Sub-Committee
by Adrian Evans 18 Mar '98

18 Mar '98

>Rodney Bigboy wrote : >On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, C Browning wrote: >> ahhhh - the mark radcliffe graveyard slot. i think if many fans of belle and >> sebastian out there were to say where they first heard of them mr radcliffe >> would get one of the majority mentions. he's better in the afternoon than he >> was in the morning >I was on the Busy Buzzy Bee game about a year ago. It was the same day >that David Bowie was on -- http://www.maingate.demon.co.uk/sounds/rod.ram >for the trailer for that week. I was quite chuffed! Wow !! I was on that too last May. I was on the show that the hapless boy Lard decided to try out his Mike Hunt gag on the handover to Funky Si. Silly Boy. We all sat round eating cake and drinking tea at about 7:30 in the morning....very civilised...:-))) Unfortunately I was unable to take part in the end game due to drinking excessive amounts of fizzy brown water in the Britannia Hotel till the early hours of the morning and feeling rather sick with a bad case of the DT's. Not a good preparation for the marathon that is the Busy Buzzy Bee Finale. But what a nice jar of honey I got....with Pecan nuts in. How I miss the graveyard shift and Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwells wonderful ramblings. Lucy. -- ******************************************************************** "Yes there is a Santa Claus, and anyone who blasphemes against Santa or any of his helpers shall DIE!!" Jimmy Tarbuck. ******************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Gigolo Aunts
by Paige Rosella 18 Mar '98

18 Mar '98

I saw the Gigolo Aunts quite recently opening for another band. I had never heard them before, but, being from the Greater Boston Area, had heard much OF them. I was so sourly disappointed. The first song was OK, kind of jangly and retro a la Push Kings, but then they just started to (pardon my French) blow. One song was completely indistinguishable from the next and they were the most banal, nondescript songs I have ever heard - and I have sat through a lot of dull and/or bad opening bands (don't even get me started on Kenickie....). They were only hindered by the weak, thin voice of their lead singer. Yuck. Wondering if it's wrong that I like the new Madonna, Paige ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: scrawn, shirley and your holiday reading list...
by Alan Prior 18 Mar '98

18 Mar '98

Just feel I should get my mark radcliffe views in too... He is my hero. Sad but true. I love him so- even though my music obsession is all his fault; B&S, PJ Harvey, Secret Goldfish, Kenickie, Urusei etc were all his fault... Not as good during the day, though. But he's still well sexy. I was just looking through my 'New Improved Formula' NME...oh, I'm so glad it's costing me an extra 10p a week to get the adverts in full colour now. Bloody great that is. Having said this, it does feature the oh-so-sexual Shirley Manson on the cover. Mmmmmmmm- reason in itself to buy any mag, even if it does now look like a Sunday newspaper colour supplement or sommat...oh well. Additions to the book list; --'The Bowels Of Christ' Graham (Secret Goldfish) Lironi --'The Rachel Papers'- Martin Amis --'Our Lady Of The Flowers'- Jean Genet --'Tropic of Capricorn'- Henry Miller Whatever you do, DON'T READ 'American Psycho' by Brett Easton Ellis- it's the most HORRIBLE book I've ever read. Bleugh. Obviously this is now gonna have the reverse effect, but it really is icky... I feel that after my Menswear admission everyone should now declare the most embarrassing record in their collection before we go any further. Any NKOTB/Rus Abbot/Five Star/Cast out there? If nothing else, it wouold make me feel better... love, Debbie xxx. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: The Streets of London (Well Essex)
by Adrian Evans 18 Mar '98

18 Mar '98

>John wrote : >Subject: Sinister: London has let me down again? >Hi, >Sorry no B&S here. Just wanted to ask a favour. I might be moving to >London and wondered whether any kind soul might enlighten me on a decent >area to live. Any comments off the list gratefully appreciated. Try Barkings Thames View Estate....lovely smells in the morning. Lucy. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: We're only making plans for Northy
by Keith Watson 18 Mar '98

18 Mar '98

>daydreamer sounds NOTHING like XTC! at all! dull flat monotonous are not the >hallmarks of either colin moulding or andy partridge's songs. i have nothing >against menswe@r as a whole but please don't liken them to XTC or i'll cry. >blur are the only band who've evr had the guts to admit to being inspired by >swindon's finest anyway. and nothing they've done - yet - has matched the >works of XTC > >sorry i'm getting off my hobby horse now. apologies to all... > >chris Yes indeed I would agree, I cannot see any comparison between Menswear and XTC at all. Wire yes, in fact Daydreamer is almost exactly the same as "Practice makes perfect", except of course that has nowhere near the style that Wire have. Chairs Missing is an excellent album, as are all of Wire's early records and are dead cheap too, well worth getting. Didn't the Stone Roses admit to being fans of the Dukes of Stratosphear records? I seem to remember this. The Duke would be proud. Cheers, 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Sinister: Meeja Hor
by Rob B 18 Mar '98

18 Mar '98

Begbie wrote: > > To me, the old Graveyard Shift was a more accessible version of John Peel. > You got to *hear* the bands that the NME/Melody Maker were going on about, > usually before the papers had started going on about them! But the > addition was the him'n'Lard were so laugh out loud funny, especially when > they were causing Mark Kermode to get completely exasperated. The > "Competition Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime" > jingle was a classic of our time. > I was so sad when Mark 'n' Lard left the graveyard shift - they were the only radio programme i was ever devoted to - remember Classical Gas? now that was the funniest thing i've ever heard on the radio. plus - they were the only really popular outlet of poetry for new poets like Simon Armitage, John Hegley, Ian Macmillan, etc - it's a great shame that that's all gone now. And, they never spoke over records - compare the B&S sessions on their show and the Evening Session sessions - Steve Lamacq, without fail, will talk over the introduction and last 30 seconds of every song he plays... now that annoys me rob ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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