March 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: one for the football fans out there
by John Jackson 13 Mar '98

13 Mar '98

Here is something I received earlier... I laughed and laughed and laughed...sorry to any Spurs supporters! (not really, we're playing Spurs tomorrow) "From: Richard Tan Date: 13/03/98 15:55:53 Subject: Christian Gross spotted I've just been down the Building Society at lunch to draw some cash out of the old savings account. While I was queuing, you'll never guess who walked in. Yes, Christian Gross. While he was queuing he was overcome, perhaps by heat, and he fainted. A couple of people rushed up to him, and using some cold water were able to bring him round within a couple of minutes. As he came to, he said, groggily, 'Where am I????' 'The Nationwide' said one of the people who revived him. 'Fuckin' hell', said Gross, 'Is it August already'" JJ xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: No B&S at all - I stand corrected
by Faker 13 Mar '98

13 Mar '98

My bold and stupid claim that I was the only person in the world on both the B&S and Afghan Whigs mailing lists has been refuted by two people. I am mortified - what kind of freak listens to both these bands? Ohh...waitaminit... off for more amphetimines and coffee.... Todd P.S. - sinister chatters: Thanks for explaining POOF to 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 . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Later.......
by lee.whitehead 13 Mar '98

13 Mar '98

So the Jools Holland show did`nt come of, shame. I would have loved to see the big jam thing they do at the start..... picture the scene: Metallica to the left, the Wu-Tang Clan to the right. Jools himself sets the ball rolling with one of his honky tonk/jazzy/muso (yawn) piano riffs, then James Hetfield and the Metallica lads go absolute ape shit and their plectrums begin to melt....meanwhile our heroes look at each other with puzzled expressions....it`s the Wu`s turn to join in and the D.J. fellow drops in a phat beat (yeahh man, I know all the lingo!).....the studio audience smile and some even clap in time! the rest just look pretty.....the camera pans over to Belle and Sebastian, you can tell from Stuart`s expression that he wishes they`d decidied to go with that O-zone idea, but it`s too late now. Belle and Sebastian begin to join in with the honky tonk/thrash/hip-hop noise that now fills the studio.....and if you strain your ears really hard you just might make out the delicate strumming of an acoustic guitar and a single organ tradgically lost in all the chaos of rock and roll......Jools is told by the director to wind it up, he begins to implement the outro...... it all falls quiet (that is after a 5 minute drum solo from the Metallica sticks man, accompanied by some impromtuo break dancing from Celine Dion, who`s also there).......hmmmm i can now see why they did`nt do the show, but it would have made great television! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: I sense a bent ballad
by susannah 13 Mar '98

13 Mar '98

This has probably cropped up before, although not in my time on the list , but you can have hours of fun at http://www.mi.uib.no/~ingeke/anagram/index_eng.html a little site that will generate anagrams for you. Belle and Sebastian came out as (Apart from Bleed Satan Lesbian which is Honeys pseudonym): I Sense A Bent Ballard A Tense Bible Sandal I, Deniable Bent Lass And my personal favourite: A Neat Sensible Bald See ! They Don't Lie!! See if you can get these, either band memebers or listees: 1) hot rum custard (Yum!) 2) Bogart germ tract 3) hot senses erupt 4) lethal lip cum 5) avid art stud 6) a shot Ukraine 7) I mock coke 8) ample bible cellos Don't post answers to the list, I'll post them myself later. Ah! sarong suntan 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 . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Alex Chilton/V-Twin
by Julia Mary Brown 13 Mar '98

13 Mar '98

<I know I speak with all the zeal of a recent convert, but there is <no denying the power of these guys' music. Do any of you know what <has become of Alex Chilton? The sleevenotes tell how Chris Bell died <in a car crash but other than saying that Chilton was demoralised <and out of music by the 80s nothing more was said. I can come up with an etremely tenuous B&S link with Alex Chilton. Here goes: V-Twin, the band that Chris Geddes sometimes plays (played?) with, supported Alex Chilton when he last came to Glasgow (though I couldn't go cause I was working- in a shop accross the road from the venue, just to rub it in). I heard it that they got to do it because Jason, the singer sent a tape of some of their songs to Alex Chilton and he liked it a lot. In fact they got on so well that Jason and the guitarist (don't know his name) are supposedly going to New Orleans to live in Alex Chilton's spare house. You still see them about Glasgow though, so they're not on their way yet. And talking, well kind of, about B&S members extra-curricular acivity, Mick Cook played with The Karelia when I saw them play a couple of weeks ago. He played trumpet on one song, and guitar on the rest, but i got the idea he only played guitar so much because the singer couldn't- becuase he had cut his finger. Does anyone know anthing more about this?, that is Mick playing with The Karelia, not the singer's cut finger. And Keith, count me in for an Edinburgh picnic. I think many of my friends can be persuaded to attend. When I told them about the London picnic they said they wanted to go. Yet they wouldn't go to the Manchester gigs with me. I don't know. That's all, I think. Love Juliaxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Crush me
by Keith Watson 13 Mar '98

13 Mar '98

Just saw this thing on the news at lunchtime thought people might find quite funny. The British Government's just come up with a cracking new scheme to get people to pay their road tax (for the benefit of countries that don't do road tax, it's to pay for new roads etc.). They've started this pilot scheme in London whereby if you persist in not paying road tax, they just take your car away and crush it! So there's this guy on the 1o'clock news standing in front of a file of 400 crushed cars which was well funny. I'm all for a few more comedy laws like that to be passed. Perhaps if you don't pay your council tax they could knock your house down - just as well the poll tax doesn't exist any more otherwise they'd have to employ snipers to take out citizens. 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 . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: New Order
by Adrian Evans 13 Mar '98

13 Mar '98

>Mark wrote: >Subject: Sinister: Even as we Speak >Or, the case of the disappearing Australian band. Did they release >anything else? >Not many people have had the courage to cover New Order and I >wonder if any of you know of any other covers besides this Bizarre >Love Triangle version , the Oyster Band's rendition of Love Vigilantes >Galaxie 500's take on Ceremony and James Last doing Blue Monday. The >last one I haven't heard. It must be a scream! Frente also did Bizarre Love Triangle I believe I am right in saying. Also Paul Young did JD's Love Will Tear Us Apart........TWAT. (Slightly off the beaten-track but well....poo it's Friday!) 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 . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: I'm new, please don't be cruel..
by afoley＠csc.com 13 Mar '98

13 Mar '98

Greetings All, I'm new around here, just one day so far, and I'm still not quite sure how this goes, but you seem like a pretty decent bunch so I'll break the ice with a little joke first: Q. Why is the Wonderbra the sheepdog of lingerie? A. Because it rounds them up and points them in the right direction! wehey boom boom!! Now onto a spooky dream bit: I had a very vivid dream the other night that it was the end of the world, well there was this "thing" in the sky flying around, and there were planes surrounding it trying to shoot it down. I thought it was a spaceship at first (and no i hadn't been watching Independance Day), but I could see this scene out of the window and also on TV at the same time, where they were showing 24 hour news, due to th eimpending doom. There was talk about floods, earthquakes and stuff like that. Just as I thought I'd reached the end of the road and was gonna be wiped out, I woke up - pheww! It was well spooky. Anyway, on the news yesterday, there was all this talk of an asteroid coming to hit us and end the world in the year 2028 - Bloody Hell, was this a sign or what? Well, I don't want to bore you with any more guff than necessary, but I'll fire in with the odd mail every now and then, as I get to learn what's going on. Cheers, Rick Ramrod (Haven't I got to use a name like that or something?)or is Dick Dasterdly better? PS - I'll be seeing Animal House (no, not Farm!) tomorrow night, and I'm looking forward to it very much. Maybe I'll let you know all about it next week. You will no doubt here more about this very fine band in time anyway...... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: F.I.B. GIG!!
by Carlos 13 Mar '98

13 Mar '98

Do you have any plans for yor next holidays? a suggestion... you should visit a city called Benicassim in Spain Why in that place? the main reason is: Belle & Sebastian will be playing LIVE at F.I.B (Festival Internacional de Benicassim) the next August 8 (saturday)!! The festival will celebrate its fourth edition the first august weekend (7,8 and 9) at this sunny city by the Mediterranean sea. Another bands will be playing: Tindersticks, Velocette, Saint Etienne, Yo La Tengo, Supergrass, Bjork, Strangelove, Spiritualized, Chemical Bros, Prolapse, Strangelove, Tortoise... and lots of more see you all there! Carlos ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Even as we Speak
by Mark Hester 13 Mar '98

13 Mar '98

Or, the case of the disappearing Australian band. Did they release anything else? Not many people have had the courage to cover New Order and I wonder if any of you know of any other covers besides this Bizarre Love Triangle version , the Oyster Band's rendition of Love Vigilantes Galaxie 500's take on Ceremony and James Last doing Blue Monday. The last one I haven't heard. It must be a scream! Mark. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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