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Sinister: Channel 5
by Huw Jenkins 10 Mar '98

10 Mar '98

Even though channel 5 is generaly full of Dros and vegitating entertainment there is one highlight to watching it...... Sarah Cox. I think she's fantastic. Anyone know how I can cook a rainbow trout for my tea tonight, while I listen to Belle & sebastian, should I grill it? Fry it maybe if you think that you know then E-Mail me.

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Sinister: Re: SINISTER: Sensitive = Gay?
by sgawdin＠netcom.ca 10 Mar '98

10 Mar '98

> Adam the Fool (ah6991(a)bristol.ac.uk) > > > Shawn Wrote: > > My name is Shawn and I am a huge Morrissey from Vancouver, > > Sorry. This just makes me laugh uncontrollably. > Please don't be sorry. When I wrote it I realized someone would imagine a sumo wrestler with a quiff. Here's something else funny: A couple months ago when I was looking for a copy of the Sinister album I went into the Virgin Megastore here and asked a clerk if he knew if they had a CD by a group called Belle & Sebastian. He thought a moment and then said, "Oh, I think that would be in the children's music section." (he was thinking of Belle & Sebastian from Disney's Beauty and the Beast) Shawn PS what's with the picnic fetish? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Um.. OOps
by Richard Anderson 10 Mar '98

10 Mar '98

Hi As you may have guessed that Aidans day E-mail wasn't intended for either list. I was drunkish and sent it to everybody on my mail list. Basicaly its an annual piss up at my college at Durham uni, with trinking games t-shirts and frisbee's (like the picnics but with different music). Sorry for any distress caused but you can all laugh at the fact that my dad was on the mailing list as well. Richard Anderson Put your clothes back on, Carol, I can't concentrate. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Crap name for a band...
by MRissb7989 09 Mar '98

09 Mar '98

Katrina wrote... >I think most sinisterines are going to LOVE Salako ... >they sound like "the gates of heaven opening up and a hundred angels >beckoning you inside" I don't doubt that they do for a second, but if you think I'm buying anything by a band named after a second rate Coventry City winger.....! Love and kisses Risso ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Re-Lyrical Particulars.
by ButchDone 09 Mar '98

09 Mar '98

Danial wrote...... <<Please could someone inform me of a lyric from a B&S song which I cant quite work out with my own inadequate ear/brain combo. The song in question is the 'hidden' track at the end of the 3..6..9.. Seconds of Light EP. I know 'Belle and Sebestian...on the radio...playing songs for children' and the bit that goes'sorry for all the trouble we've caused' but there is another line which sounds like it ends in the word lunatic but this is what i am unsure of. Any smart ear/brain combo out there willing to divulge this valuable information? >> I believe the line in question is "playing songs to learn and sing", presumably a quote reffering to the Echo and the Bunnymen singles compilation of the same name. No doubt someone will have beat me to it, but there you go. Also Peter wrote..... << >BBC 2's perennial favourite "Call My Bluff", am I right? Come come now Mr Miller, I think you can do better than that. Indeed I can. After an entire weekend spent scratching my ever-expanding bald patch, it finally dawned on me that the line in question (we have a difference of opinion Jeffrey) did in fact come from a programme hosted by the aforementioned Jimmy Tarbuck. I can't for the life of me remember what it was....it wasn't "Whose Baby", that was Leslie Crowther and Phil Lynott.....it wasn't "Play Your Cards Right", that was Bruce Harris.....but it was something vaguely connected to the world of gambling, ten to one shots and so on. >> It was called Winner Takes All. Gary ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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RE: Sinister: My Inner Turmoil
by Hopkins T 09 Mar '98

09 Mar '98

So anyway, I arrived In Edinburgh, looking forward to meeting friends and associates at the annual convention of the Scottish Presbyterian Temperance Society, of which I am an enthusiastic honorary member. The fellow at my hotel had recommended a quiet and respectable tea room at which to lunch, by the name of Berts, and had suggested I try their unusual form of decaffeinated tea, which is served by the pint and is named Deuchars IPA. He had a strange and twisted smile on his face, I remember. I am not sure why. The tea was uncommonly good, and I was enjoying my third or fourth cup when I was accosted by all manner of unruly youths, who spoke in an argot I could barely comprehend. They seemed to be addressing each other as 'Paul', 'Linda' and 'Keith'. This latter individual had a strange tan on his neck, as if he would ordinarily wear some form of roll-necked garment during his daily trawl around the parks and public spaces of Scotland's capital, searching for half-smoked cigarette ends to satisfy his craving. I must own at this point that I was beginning to feel mightily peculiar, a fact which I can only attribute to a mild case of food poisoning, or perhaps the beginnings of a mild influenza due to the inclement Caledonian climate. The rest of the day is something of a blur. I have nightmarish memories of faces mouthing words like 'Amon Duul II' and 'Rod Stewart catsuit', but have no recall of context or, indeed, what these words might mean. I seem to remember being on some form of low-life emporium, where the owner was advising dubious looking types on music for porn films and something about French ladies. The denizens called him 'Professor', although I cannot believe that I was in any normal kind of educational establishment. I awoke on Sunday morning to the confirmation that I was indeed subject to a bout of the 'flu, so incapacitated did I feel. I had not only missed the convention with my fellow abstainers, but had also missed morning prayer. Next to my makeshift parkbench bed was a pile of foul-smelling vomit and a bag of popular music records. I wonder if you friendly and godly chaps on this mailing list might help me to work out where I have been, what happened to me and who the young ruffians I met might be, by analysing the names of the records? They were by the folowing artists: Nathan Abshire, Tricky (an unpleasant ditty called 'Polygram Is A Nigger', whatever that might mean), The Gaylads, George Jones, Irma Thomas, Starbound, Volume 10, Oliver Sain and Ninjaman. I also appear to have been relieved of a rather large quantity of money during the hours of my unfortunate incapacity. I would appreciate any help you may be able to give me on what may have happened during my 'lost' hours, or why my influenza appeared to clear up so very quickly (within the day, indeed). Yours hopefully Hopkins ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Channel 5?!?
by jim-bob 09 Mar '98

09 Mar '98

David S Mccarthy wrote, at the end of an otherwise perfectly respectable email: "Is anyone else starting to like channel 5 as well?" I'm sure you're a really nice bloke, 'n' all that, Dave, but do you really think this statement can ever be justified, even if every other Channel was playing a rerun of "Right Here, Right Now - the Oasis Rockumentary"? I live on the Greater London/Surrey border, and many people can't get C5, in the shadow of the North Downs. I however, as one other person on sinister can testify, live high on a hill, in full view of that glorious Crystal Palace transmitter. I get absolutely perfect quality pictures, and it still looks like a bunch of arse. Perhaps it would be better not to have good reception: At least then, you could stare at the fuzz and try to look for autostereograms. I now realise that I have not backed up this outburst with any factual content at all. So I give you "100% Gold". Taking it as your typical C5 programme may not be fair, but any channel that dares to show such pointless drivel should immediately be disconnected. Actually, on the plus side, I heard that they're thinking of increasing the power of the Crystal Palace signal, so that everyone can get it. The only thing is, they don't know whether it's going to interfere with television just across the English Channel. Please do, as it would certainly drive all the French mad, and they'd get out an EU directive to ban C5 from ever broadcasting again. Aaah, that's better... I feel much calmer now. jim-bob ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: www sites
by David & Katrina 09 Mar '98

09 Mar '98

this will hopefully give you an idea of what there is on belle and sebastian on the internet. i've attached a web page file which will document all the key sites (i.e. unique in content). it doesn't actually give details of what is on the fanclub site though, but the link for that is below. enjoy re/discovering the resources david -- ******************************************************************** Belle and Sebastian Fan Club merchandise, mail-outs, chat, lyrics, poetry, biog, links, fiction, news, FAQ http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/ mailto:bluesoda@totalweb.co.uk ********************************************************************

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Sinister: I'm new and hope not to annoy
by sgawdin＠netcom.ca 09 Mar '98

09 Mar '98

Hello, My name is Shawn and I am a huge Morrissey from Vancouver, B.C., Canada and have recently gotten into B&S after having them recommended to me by friends on Panic the Morrissey list. Hello to the people I talked briefly to on #sinister (I was MozBoy). Too be honest, when I first heard the Sinister album I all I could think was YIKES! sounds like someone is ripping off Donovan. But I recently got ahold of the Lazy Line Painter Jane CD as well as a 7" of 3..6..9 Seconds Of Light and was blown away by Jane as well as A Century Of Fakers. Fakers reminds me of why I love Morrissey, and the vocals by Monica Queen on Jane are INCREDIBLE! She reminds me of a young Dolly Parton or of Skeeter Davis. Has she done anything else? Solo or with B&S? A couple questions that I hope don't annoy the long timers on this list (I know how new ppl can be a pain so I apologise in advance) What's with the cryptic liner notes that tell you nothing about the band? (That kind of thing was cool when when I was a teeny bopper into Depeche Mode, but now I just find it annoying.) Is Jeepster their own label? (I have a feeling I should check the faq) WTF don't they reissue their first album? Can't they afford it? Or is it some snobby reason? Has any of their stuff charted in the UK? (I try to avoid the eNMEy) I looked briefly at the last digest on the Sinister site, and noticed what seems to be a discussion about the lead guys sexuality based upon a couple songs, my question is: Does the lyric "My brother confessed that he was gay/ It took the heat off me for a while" imply that the speaker is gay? What is he trying to avoid people finding out about him? (BTW boys I'm single ;) ) Also, what's with the stuff about "...I was moved to kick the crutches/ from my crippled friend"? An act of violence? Or an act of charity considering that he next seems to suggest that he somehow healed this friend? (OK I just confused myself) That's all for now, I don't want the welcome mat rolled up yet. Shawn ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: incidental muzak
by John Jackson 09 Mar '98

09 Mar '98

Talking of B&S music in programmes, on some kids thing on BBC2 Sunday morning presented by that Katy off of Blue Peter, they were using a loop of 'Like Dylan In The Movies', just the opening looped over and over...whilst some kiddies looked at machinery or something. Bluddy graet it were, I'm telling yer 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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