April 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: voting thing at the fanclub site
by blue soda 27 Apr '98

27 Apr '98

we've just passed 300 subscribers to the voting booth, and in light of that i am prepared to add 5 questions of your choosing. if you want to nominate a question then just let me know, it must be a question that the answer can be marked on a 0-10 scale. so, instead of "do you reckon belle and sebastain will ever release tigermilk?" the questions will be listed like; "on a scale of 0-10 (ten being highest), how likely do you think it is that belle and sebastian will re-release tigermilk?" get the idea? david k PS: no-one has sent in anything to colour i, so it looks as if the international colouring competition will be called off before it starts! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Escucha, esto es pish, yo va a dejar -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: err long time coming (matron)
by Taylor JM 27 Apr '98

27 Apr '98

ermmm where to start.... firstly....massive sorry to julia,paul,martin and every else i met in mancjester (mmm nice typo) john of the ferris wheel and co, i'm really sorry i haven't been touch - 4 months since the marvelous mancunian matinee + soirees (sp?) and even a copy of the delightful xmas radio show tape from julia and what have i done ---- nout. not even a thankyou for that. public shameandapology. ermmm i guess no excuses really - work @ ye olde nut house being as chaotic as ever, comibined with the fact the only chance i usually ever get to use email is in the hour after work which isn;t always after work if you catch my drift. anyway apologies aside - i hope all the lovely people i met in manchester are happy and well. only list contact since was seeing Tag + mr poetry soc ?stephen? who's name i may have got wrong (v.sorrry :( ) @ snowpony @ waterrats..... when i think i probably seemed fairly spaced out, cos, i erm was. spaced outness post big yoga sesh + too many pints of guinness (forgetting the promise to myself no big seshs with work the next day) + being taller than people you are with and not being able to hear stuff they're saying half the time prob made me seem major weirdo so apologies tag + x if i came across rather distant....look i finally posted. on a poetry tip, i'm about to produce a booklet of patients' poems, with some fine prose from a poetry group i do each week on the ward and beyond. so maybe i'll force some of them on you lot (like how you go round to a friends house with a bag full of records entirley uninvited like i do occasioanly (the records uninvited that is, not me....anywyay... thank the non-existant lord i finally got back into the land of e + web to discover the london picnic - shall have to relocate minor get together of mixed friends (some B&S fans, some B&S virgins....i know i'm incredibly slack at forcing tapes on people) to primrose hill. is anybody i saw/met in manchester going to be there?? erm i was longhairglassessidiespurplejeansman...... nice to see Harringay best signed fruit'n'veg emporium making an appearance on the list, have never graced it but passed it on the bus a few times. off for lots of beer and 2.75 quid eat all you can eat veg curry. Angel Islington hate the overexpensive packed pubs.love the curry :) perhaps we could all migrate their post picnic....mmmm maybe not, not exactly in camden. last time i went to primrose hill was one of the most fun times of my life - post big pub sesh slegding february a couple of years ago marvellous. and its mentioned in sir Bragg's 'upfield'. + prob in elvis cost's l's brill parade. only can't remeber. up the arab strap. (if its not to painful... jim + has anybody heard of/ have opininon of dj downfall....? cheers peeps. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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Sinister: Dog on Wheels?
by Huw Jenkins 27 Apr '98

27 Apr '98

Anyone know the name of the song after The State I'm In on Dog on Wheels as my brother gave me a copy of the EP yesterday with no track titles and I reckon it's my favourite B&S song ...ever. Also, any London picnic goers like playing 'shithead'. creme chantilly, Huw

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Sinister: picnics for really scared easily intimidated people.
by David S Mccarthy 27 Apr '98

27 Apr '98

I'm writing on behalf of all those people who are too scared to go to picnics 'cause they don't know anthyone. On saturday morning I found myself with such a problem and was frantically watching channel five and chain smoking while my flatmate who said she'd come to hold my hand insisted on staying in bed untill 12:40, adamant that it would only take her 3 minutes to shower and ten minutes to walk up to Byres road. It took her 5 minutes to shower and it took us twenty to reach byres road. It had started raining halfway through our journey and by the time we reached fopp the other waiting listees looked even more scary due to their bedraggled rain-soaked appearance. But appearances can be decieving and they all turned out to be dead nice. The picnic itself was interesting, with scotch eggs, fairy cakes and the scary bloke with cheese sticks.Then the orchid show, then the pub. It was bizzare, at first it was just wierd sitting with people you don't really know but then people started talking about the list and then more abstract things like being chased by cows and medical problems mostly to do with testicles. Then all too soon my flat mate started to feel queezy due lack of sleep and abuse of alcohol,nicotine etc and had to leave, strangely drawn to farmfoods where she felt obliged to but three arctic roles for £1.39-bargin! I left soon after, happy with a day well spent. So hello to everybody I met, And anybody considering going to a similar event - don't be scared ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 è pish, io sto andando lasciare -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: so did that NYC picnic happen?
by Ciflux 27 Apr '98

27 Apr '98

...because it poured rain all day. Callie and I had every intention of going -- I even phoned Megan to see if it was still happening, waking her from a sound sleep -- but there seemed to be no word about alternate plans. And as poetic an image it might provide to spend Sunday afternoon huddled in a rainy Central Park, it didn't seem like the optimal picnicking atmosphere. Is there a rain date scheduled? We really should have a proper outdoor picnic in NYC... Mike ciflux(a)aol.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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Sinister: i hate picnics. humph.
by Sarah 27 Apr '98

27 Apr '98

i hate you all. but i am better than you. while you were all having fun going to picnincs, or at least you can still look forward to going to one, I have a clean bathroom! i cleaned my bathroom, HA. can't go to London picninc. cos for the simple reason tis on MONDAY and i have to be in college on TUESDAY. have hard exams the next week so cannot miss lessons as i haven't had one for five weeks anyway. haha. i'm going to fail Spanish. i don't know anything. all i remeber is aburrise is to be bored. god knows why THAT is what i remember... duke : i can't be arsed, i give up. there you go, i'm how you thought after all. well whats the point in arguing when nothings going to happen anyway? lets all listen to the spice girls. OH no. picnics. ah, they are for ponces. i am not at all pigsick i missed out. hah. hey guess what! next weekend i am going to....CLEAN THE KITCHEN! yey. oh the sarcasm must be becoming tedious now. who cares. self pity rules and my life does not. can't even afford to go see Arab Strap. or Magoo, or anything. i am lucky at least *i* can still get a bus pass to be able to get into Preston everday. fuckers. no-on eat college gives a shit anymore, and i hate the majority of them. hmm, apathy. sometimes its not apathy, its just that WE ARE POWERLESS. they may listen, but nothing will change cos of what we do. oh sorry i've just had a bad couple of MINUTES (problem?) and am feeling quite bitter. 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 . Ascolta, questo è pish, io sto andando lasciare -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: Sinister: nic nacks
by Iain 27 Apr '98

27 Apr '98

Chris said >Sorry, how embarrassing. As was >most of my turbo alcohol injected patter in the later hours of the >afternoon oops. We should have had name tags. Ah, the pub. Oh dear. I think I must owe someone a hell of a lot of drinks, but people kept offering to buy me them, so I just drank and drank and failed to recognise Stuart Murdoch, and then, in an attempt to be sociable, started talking rubbish to whoever happened to be sitting beside me at the time. Anyway, I enjoyed the bits I can still remember. Hi (and appologies) to everyone who was there. Luv Iain Iain Jones, Glasgow ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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Re: Sinister: Hopkirk and Lee/Seymour Stein
by Steve Genge 27 Apr '98

27 Apr '98

> Hello all > > In response to the people who have mentioned H & L > over the last few days, if you see the single BUY IT. For all you US listees out there, the Hopkirk & Lee single has been released in your fair land this week as a four song 7". Also Rough Trade in London have it apparently. In the same manner as phone messages from my mother all the other important information like cat numbers & label details have passed through my brain & hid behind the sofa but hopefully someone else may be able to help with this? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 è pish, io sto andando lasciare -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Pish Factory
by PJMiller 27 Apr '98

27 Apr '98

Good afternoon everyone, Before I embark upon a lengthy discussion of P!O!L!I!T!I!C!S! and P!O!P! with special reference to the Jamaican general election of 1976, I would like to take this opportunity to clear up a matter of great importance: Stuart David's Amazing Technicolour Outburst. May I suggest the following manner of expressing Mister David's tortured cry of monumental existential anguish ("Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave") in the language of Cervantes? A ver, esto es pish, me parece que me voy a marchar. Now, I hope that's cleared that one up. Onto the matter in hand: Popology and politics. First off, I rather enjoyed the Redskins' classic workers' anthem "Keep On Keeping On", which played a major role in the formation of the South Derbyshire Union of Democratic Mineworkers, whose Swadlincote offices can be found next to KwikSave, opposite the dentist's. Edwina Currie country, as was. Which brings us neatly to another pop-politics ley line : Edwina Currie's daughter. Last time I was in Blighty, she was mouthing off about how her daughter was a really great singer and the Spice Girls were all slags. Did anything ever come of it? The Jamaican general elections of 1976 produced some really great pop - Fire in Kingston by Yabby You springs to mind, in which Yabby tours the war zones that were Kingston's ghettos in the election year of 1976; the rhythm was played by Sly and Robbie at Channel One. I made that up. There's loads more. I must say, I do like a bit of pop and politics, the more simplistic the better. But I don't think B&S is ever so political, apart from sticking up for drips or something. Now, the Style Council, there was a good political group. I don't know why they get such rotten press these days. I almost bought a "new" album for the first time this year at the weekend - CappaDonna. But I chickened out. I have been calling Mog-W-A-I Mog A-W-I ! How embarrassing! I think I'd better slink back off to my hole. Speaking of which, I had a very B&S experience yesterday. I found a bird's nest in a hole in a wall. Oh how lovely! 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 . Ascolta, questo è pish, io sto andando lasciare -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: picnic niccy naccy noo nahs
by Honey 27 Apr '98

27 Apr '98

Cheerleaders and perverts, I see Chris just beat me to the Glasgow picnic report - but that's OK because he didn't mention anything in the pub - funny that. I had a suspicion he'd forgotten it all when he mailed me this morning and said could I do a report and he would "follow it up". He wanted to make sure what really happened I think. Well the day in Glasgow started spiffingly when, not wanting to be the first because that's not C!O!O!L!, I wandered in John Smiths and flicking through their small and perfectly formed CD collection I found some cracking stuff, including "Songs For The Jet Set". I have everyone's favourite Thai listee, Oon to thank for this who sent me the most fabulous tape of stuff, of which Tomorrows World's "Kites Are Fun" briefly eclipsed "Je T'Aime" as world's greatest pop song last week for ten minutes, which is something of a record. Wow. Sentence two and I am babbling. OK - we were due to meet at 1pm outside Fopp Records on the Byres Road for a blissful lazy butterfly-strewn Christopher Robin picnic - at 12:58 the heavens opened and it pissed down, which I thought was quite funny. We met a huddled group of about 15 wet B&S people (wet as in damp, I should add) hiding in the shop doorway - guess which dickhead had brought an umbrella ("for goodness sake Paul, it's a picnic you don't need one of THEM.."). Chris and Keith looked like bag ladies with their cheesy straws and dips and fairy cakes. Anyway, we all bravely trudged off to the botanics, picking up a dodgy looking character on the way, some Stuart Smirnoff or someone who "said" he sang in a "band". We're friendly types so we tossed him a few sandwiches without checking his credentials. When we got there, we sat on a bench in a line like we were waiting for the doctor, nibbled like rabbits and fed the pigeons. It started pissing down again so we ran for the big Victorian greenhouse thingy and admired a rather plasticky orchid show in true B&S spirit and Mr Smirnoff showed us his 60s camera he keeps in a sponge bag. After a bit the murmurs of "pubbb" from Chris Leonard got too much, so Keith got us all together, tied our shoelaces and wiped out mucky faces, and led us off in a row to the pub. That was it really. We went to the pub. We stayed there for - was 7 hours and a jolly time was had by all 15 (approx of us). All I can remember is: o Much amusement at Linda's clip from the Daily Record about Arab Strap being a "disgrace to Falkirk" (the mayor) o The appearance of Keith's genetically engineered clone, Leon o Stuart's story about being trapped in a hawthorne hedge for half an hour by a herd of wild ferocious cows o An unhealthy fascination with testicles and medical experiments - not in the B&S spirit I feel o Ghost stories o Garlic dip all over everyone's coats o Stuart's rain-shrunken dog on wheels hat doing the rounds o Chris peeing his pants It all started running down in numbers around 8 oclock, but Susannah kept us all going with tales of missing ears. I can't report on the rest of the evening, as mummy said I had to go home, but it sounds like noone else can really either - I wait with bated breath. Anyway hello to everyone like Anne, Julia, David, Stuart's mate Paul who promises he'll join the list, oh god I can't remember all your names, but thanks for coming anyway and especially to those of you who didn't know anyone at all - we're not that bad really are we? Oh and thanks a million to Keith and Anne and Chris and Julia or whoever it was who bought all the food. Resounding success seems to be the general opinion, so there will be more, although whether we will have the gall to keep calling them "picnics" and stretching the Kitchen concept to the limit remains to be seen. Sunday saw a little soiree in Edinburgh with Linda, Keith, Susannah and Mick, fresh and besuited from an Amphetameanies gig, all stuffing curry down their gobs. Guess what we talked about? Bull's testicles. I begin to see a theme emerging for the new LP... Honey 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 . Ascolta, questo � pish, io sto andando lasciare -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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