April 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Teenage B&S Fanclub
by Stein Vegusdal 30 Apr '98

30 Apr '98

Last sunday i met Teenage Fanclub after a gig in Oslo - Norway, where i asked them a few questions about B&S. The whole band seemed to be big fans, and (at least) three members of the band are proud owners of Tigermilk! Norman Blake told me that Stuart M. was a good friend of his, and was very happy when i told him about the prices Tigermilk gets these days. He said "thats good for Stuart, he deserves all the success in the world!" They also hoped they would get a chance to see B&S live again, soon. Stein ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Slushetye, eto pish - ya seberaus uyehat -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Tales of Preston.....
by Sarah 30 Apr '98

30 Apr '98

...or, Sarahs guide to making a tit out of yourself in front of people you haven't met before I got to Preston bus station at about 5 to six, the plan was to be meeting the delactable Tim H!O!P!kins there at 10 past. AS I was walking poast the Manchester stop, I see some who I think looks a tad familair. So, what do i do? "Excuse me, are you Tim Hopkins?" Look a bit closer to see if I m sure? NO. i have to go "hi are you the guy i'm looking for?" mr man" um, no ....um...." (looks scared) well, then it turns out that this IS Tim, so off we head into town to try and get some food! For our PRESTON PICNIC, I had two bourbon biscuits and 2 hula hoops, and Meester Teem had gone to M&S to buy butties and pop, and we ate them on one of the strangely shaped picker- nick tables in Winkley Square! While there, we derided the entire human race on the basis of the NME STYLE guide, discussed various manners of music, and ate our picker-nick butties with much gusto! We then made our way to the stormin' Preston Adelphi. And as soon as we get there, one of us see's people they know. Would it be Sarah, the girl who is in Preston every day? NO! Again, Tim shows himself up to be a socialite of some repute by knowing more people there then I do! Tis fine, they are nice, though one person decided he would tell me to watch out as another girl wanted me to work in her ferret factory...i said that was perfectly fine as i happened to love ferrets, and this guy goes DARN! and runs off....leaving me somewhat confused... Anyway fast forward ---> after getting perhaps the last 2 tickets for the gig, we wandered off upstairs to see Electric Sound Of Joy. Hmm. *wonders* Perhaps Electric Sound of Boredom? The Sinister duet decided to move downstairs again, and block the bar, discuss reggae and vinyl, and reggae vinyls....Tim tells about his hiphop past, I say proudy that I have one Wu-Tang single and that will do me for now....and luckily the hip-hop wars are not relived! We see Monkey Boy downstairs...and decide to go back upstairs....as my back is killing me, I need to sit down! I silently choked as I walked in as I had never seen teh Adelphi jammed as such, so I think I snaked through the people, and sat on the stage resting on the speaker thing. Completely in the way, jolly fun! And HoneyPaul! Your mission was carried out. Unlike SOME people too afraid to say this, *i* informed Aidan of your message.... as he was wandering past me to go and "take pictures of naked birds pissing" i was pushed by SOMEONE into him, and thus shouted in his ear "hey Stuart Murdoch pissed himself at your DISGRACE TO FALKIRK article", and Aidan laughs and goes summat like "Disgrace to Flakirk thank you thats us" and i turn round, and with complete dignity say "mission accomplished". Or something. :) AS Da Strap were perviously engaged, the gig did not start as planned therfore due to having to catch last buses, The Daring Sinister Duo take their leave of the Adelphi, and wander their way through the deserted streets of Preston to the bus station, leap on respective buses, and hie their way home :) Due to a little alcohol imbibment by me, I kind of fall asleep-ish on the bus the way home, and today I write with a bad case of the flu! Hangover faded after I filled myself up with drugs, now I just have the "not stopping coughing" thing, and teh who drank all the lemsips look. TO make this better, guess what! I got an email from an old mate through telling me i have an interview with 60 FOOT DOLLS!!! ooooh....i'm off back to bed...... So monsuier tim what does thou think? :) I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!! Sarah " fotherington thomas who does lark around saying hello trees hello flowers. he is a wet and a weed and i shun him utterly" http://www.elsato97.demon.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 . Slushetye, eto pish - ya seberaus uyehat -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: h'lo
by C. Gregor 30 Apr '98

30 Apr '98

h'lo as ever. I was just reading through the digest and came across some comments about the list and what types of people there are here etc etc.. and it made me start thinking about the whole belle and seb thing. I was looking for some people to play music, start a band so that I could amp up and get other peoples' input on my songs and I put notices up all over town (Cambridge). thjis was a year and a half ago. this bloke replied and I thought all well and good, he played bass and other things and we seemed to get on. we played together for a while and I (it being my first real foray into this kinda thing)_ got aaaalllll hyper and thought it would all work out great (straight to the island of Conclusions). He then sold me his bass and I never heard from him again. I returned all his stuff with a note wondering why he was so mean (only I used the word wierd) and thought to myself at least he could've TOOOOOLD me instead of gutlessly slinking off to no-contactland. Once he had tha monay. Nasty, no? But it all worked out ok because among the many tapes we lent each other was If You're Feeling Sinister which I listedned to constantly for about 6 months. And then I went about organising a band with a much better attitude (less assumption)and it's all going well, gigs and all. So there we are. That was how I got to hear Belle and Sebastian. And my drummer is called Sebastian. And his sister is called Isabelle. It must be fate. Does anyone have any favourite recipes? How about Sunday May 3rd for the Cambridge boogie? enuff. x Milla. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Slushetye, eto pish - ya seberaus uyehat -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: Sinister: Events and stuff
by Chris Leonard 30 Apr '98

30 Apr '98

i want contact lenses. apparently their going cost 249 pounds a shot cos i have strangely abnormal eyes. boo hiss. guess i'm gonna be speccy for the rest of my life. I'm bored, didn't you know..............i guess everyone that is scared to go to a picnic will not be scared by now. but to make sure here is a true story "The Sparrow And The Dog" by Chris age 22 =================================== "Aye", said the sparrow to the dog, "it's going to be a hard winter". "Tell me about it", said the dog to the sparrow, "Last week when the ground was clear I buried a big tasty bone. It was the best bone I have ever had, and now that the snow has fallen, I can't remember where I buried it!" "I have a bigger problem than that", said the sparrow. "I'm supposed to be in Africa just now with all the other sparrows. They left yesterday when I was asleep, and I don't know how to get there on my own. It's getting terribly cold now. I don't know what to do!" "Why don't you come down of that tree and help me find my bone", said the dog. And while we're looking I'll think of something." The little sparrow hopped off it's snowy branch onto the top of the dogs head. "OK then", he said. The little sparrow and the big dog searched for the bone until it started to get dark. "It's getting dark now", said the dog. "I really should be getting back home for my dinner. Won't you come with me, my little friend? You are very welcome". "Yes, I would love to come with you", said the sparrow. The dog and the little sparrow went back to the dogs kennel where they ate and drank their fill, savouring each others company. THE END Do you understand? The sparrow and the dog both had problems of their own but they pulled together and had some magic food. This is just like shy people going to a belle and sebastian style picnic. OK? hugs, melancholy 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 . Slushetye, eto pish - ya seberaus uyehat -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Events and stuff
by Keith Watson 30 Apr '98

30 Apr '98

I dunno about this alienated and disposessed bit really, people ought to come to these things just cause it should be fairly obvious there's a really nice bunch of people out there. I'm always wary of this alienated bit cause it's really a load of bollocks, everyone's alienated as much as the next person - or no-one. Yet again it singles a certain group of people off (essentially the people who explicitly feel like they are for whatever reason - and decide to try and show it). I don't particularly feel part of this group myself even although I meet all these people and have a great time. So come along anyway to these events please whatever you feel your position is - I couldn't hack it if a group of people who're all having a laugh suddenly becomes co-opted by some people who think they feel the same - everyone's views are important and that's why we have a great mailing list, cause there's a huge spread of opinion on stuff and people don't just talk about fucking foxes all the time. Even RoDDnEEyySSS views are welcome. We could on the other hand become like a group of people who through safety in numbers decide that they're better than people with differing opinions - but that just wouldn't do. There are people out there whose views on music - which I suppose is the main thing we talk about, differ massively to mine, the Duke and Andreas perhaps spring to mind, but who without I'd be a whole lot less interested in the list. It's just a case of living together I suppose - which sounds all hippy-drippy but it's true. Cheers, Keith. ps :sorry for rambling a load of shite, bored in lunch hour - anyone going to Money Mark in Glasgow tonight, will see you there if you are. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Slushetye, eto pish - ya seberaus uyehat -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: So, stop thinking so much about love and start thinking more about colours?
by babyblu＠gold.globalcafe.co.uk 30 Apr '98

30 Apr '98

Another listee wrote about feeling intimidated/shy about coming to the picnic. I know David has already gone over this manifold times, but I just want point out something. WE ALL UNDERSTAND! We are all (I assume) very different people but the one thing that we all have in common is listening to and getting something special from Belle & Sebastian. A band who deal almost exclusively in lovesongs to the misfits, the outsiders, the dissapointed and the dreamers. Go back and listen to the albums again, sit down in a comfy chair, maybe rustle up a cup of tea and a bourbon and think to yourself, 'how can people who recognise themselves in these emotions so much that they make the effort to mail in, make web pages, organise picnics etc.. possibly be nasty!' It's a foregone conclusion. We like you already. Much the same goes for the Blue Soda social. The idea of this is that it's going to be like a fantastic party at your best friend's house (except that hopefully, after the pubs shut we won't get gatecrashed by a group of hard lads who look like East 17 and monopolise the stereo playing nosebleed Techno and shooting murderous glances at anyone who approaches them). The poetry cafe is a snug little nook with lovely Laura ashley sofas, everyone there will be dead friendly and approachable and they have KERPLUNK! So come... Oh and Cappadonna and the Wu-Tang clan are a bunch of wussies because they run a beauty salon (true!) and they let that bint out of Texas destroy one of their tracks. Second generation East Coast Hip-Hop rules:- Gangstarr, EPMD, Main Source, PE, Eric & Rakim, Brand Nubian and of course the original, the master:- Parappa the Rappa. Stay Lucky, Rory xxx P.S. Friday night will be the 42nd time I've seen Gregory's Girl. Is this healthy? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Slushetye, eto pish - ya seberaus uyehat -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: Sinister: Thailand / Fanclub
by PJMiller 30 Apr '98

30 Apr '98

Spod said: > I think we should vote Oon most beautiful person simply for having the >best name in the world.....ever :) I quite agree, but we know very little about Ooon. Well, we all know that Oooon lives in Thailand, but not much else. Ooooon's article contained a lovely image of Belle and Sebastian as a swan in a busy street, an image made all the more striking by the thought that it was a Thai street, with elephants marauding hither and thither and people darting to and fro between the elephants' legs in dug-out canoes laden with silk and spices. But something troubles me....does Ooooooon look like Yul Brynner in The King and I, or is Ooooooon really a girl? Of course it doesn't matter, because we all know that boys are girls and girls are boys nowadays, but still... So come on Oooooooon, how about a few identifying ink polaroids? Also, how about marketing some "Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave" t-shirts? It's sure to be a money spinner. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Slushetye, eto pish - ya seberaus uyehat -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Picnics and things
by afoley＠csc.com 30 Apr '98

30 Apr '98

Hello all you lovely lovelies, Just read the last few digests and some interesting or should that be confusing words therein... Someone said that the NYC picnic didn't happen due to rain, then someone else said that it did and about 45 people turned up - that's a bloody good showing, but then again quite a few of you listees are across the ocean in the US of A, I suppose... Well, even if it was raining,there's no need to abandon the idea totally, why not take a leaf out of our Glasgow friends' book and just go and get pissed in a nearby pub, err, I mean bar, and have a laugh or two?? On second thoughts, I don't even know why I'm suggesting this because I'm not in the USA and am far too shy to go to the London picnic, I really am painfully shy you know. Besides which apart from having to go to work early on Tuesday, St Etienne are playing here on the Monday night, and I'm still toying with the idea of going to that gig, but I'm not too sure. I'm also very indecisive, I think. And what's all this talk of Hopkirk and Lee, the only Hopkirk I know used to be with Randall and he was deceased anyway...... Why are people mentioning the Housemartins again? They don't need rediscovering because they were a complete pile of doggy do's - that bloody happy hour song, so bloody irritatingly catchy. Why is it so many irritating songs are so catchy? I even find myself, sin of all sins, humming along to those damn Spice Girls from time to time - sorry Roddddddddddddddddd, I know you love 'em, but they just get reet on me tits! Back on the housmartins thing again, that norman cook bloke who played bass(?) doesn't he go under that slimboy fatty name tag now? I believe he was involved with Cornershops Brimful of irritating ashtrays, but have you heard that new one about sleeping on the left side? It uses the bass line from that Beats International cover of the SOS bands Just Be good to me - Dub Be Good to Me, which aint surprising really cos that Norman Cook bloke used to be in them aswell. He gets around doesn't he!?! And did someone mention G Love and Special Sauce???? Yes? Goodo, I haven't heard the new(ish) album, but I've got the blue one from 1994 and that was great, in fact I must dig it out again and give it a play, oo err. Off to see Feeder tonight at the Astoria, hopefully it will be good. I may just settle for a picnic in my backgarden on Monday as I can't travel too far on bank Holidays, something to do with the amount of alcohol I consume on Bank Holiday weekends....... Anyway, that's it for now, take care y'all and have fun. Ady >Crackout. rock music. PS - Hello to J.M. Taylor. Are you Jim and don't I know you from somewhere.....? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Slushetye, eto pish - ya seberaus uyehat -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: picky nick! los angeles style!
by ahalter 30 Apr '98

30 Apr '98

okay perhaps courtney has got all this under control but i feel like i should mention this anyway... its the los angeles picnic! i am suggesting the observatory as the picnic place because its easy to find and there is a great view of the city and we can make like james dean in rebel without a cause... and i think that we can probably picnic on the lawn or theres got to be somewhere around there... so who is bringing stuff? do we have any games? do we have something for music listening? do we have P!O!P!? so this is what i know = not much of anything... courtney if you know more of what is going on then please do mail me... otherwise i am taking suggestions and offerings - mail them directly to me... also i think if people could tell me or courtney whay they intend to bring for food we could compile a list so that we donot wind up having 5 potato salads and nothing else... and this way we can know how many people approximately are coming and corresponding amounts of food... can everyone please bring something? i am thinking i will make vegan chocolate cupcakes... and maybe something else but i dunno what yet... so cmon los angeles/orange county listers! the picnic is scheduled for 2oclock saturday afternoon (may 2nd) griffith park observatory be there or be a square take care allison o i am such a rhymer... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Slushetye, eto pish - ya seberaus uyehat -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: NEW YORK PICNIC REPORT
by Runegg 30 Apr '98

30 Apr '98

Here's how the New York picnic went! We arrived at the Central Park Carousel at 1pm. The sun was shining and the weather was sweet. There were 47 of us. After bribing the carousel worker into cranking up the dial, we each got on one of the olde-tyme wooden horses, and the thing started spinning. Sweet Dina, unfortunately, was not on a horse, but rather, on one of those little runty unicorns. She wanted to impress us New Yorkers (she'd walked from Washington just for this event), so she grabbed onto the unicorn horn, and using the torque provided by the spinning carousel, hung from it, her body flapping outward like so many wind- whipped flags. It was then that disaster occured. Her sweaty palms slipped from the unicorn's horns and she flew outward, upward, like so many rocket ships to the moon. She landed in a tree, where Cindy, Phkintz, mlk206, and twelve of the other picnic gatherers ran to find her. Unfortunately there was not much left of her head. (On the bright side, we'd forgotten to pack lunch--and we're not vegetarians!). We New Yorkers are a surly bunch, so we started, as they say, "chowing down." Mm, those Washington DC people sure do taste funny! Unfortunately one of New York's finest witnessed our little picnic. Apparently cannibals need a permit to gather in Central Park. Cindy tried to sweet-talk him, to no avail. He was about to write us a ticket, and he was on the verge of handcuffing Phkintzshch, but then he heard the sweet strains of "Fox in the Snow" emanating from Megan's ghetto-blaster, like so many sweet strains of "Fox in the Snow" emanating from Megan's ghetto-blaster. His heart, well, it just melted. Soon he was like that proverbial "fox in the snow", dancing around naked, his pink fleshy body jiggling in the spring breeze. It was quite beautiful, although we're all sorry about Dina. Next time, we'll pack a lunch! with love, Ari ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Ascolta, questo � pish, io sto andando lasciare -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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