May 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: the longest day
by Gillian McKay 05 May '98

05 May '98

does anyone know the line up for this years longest day festival? I just saw that Teenage Fanclub will be playing and it will be on the 20th june in kelvingrove park (if the rain stays off!!!!) at the fwwt site (http://www.fwwt.com/) time to lurk again gillian ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: We are stardust...
by poetryplace2 05 May '98

05 May '98

What can I add to John's deft summary of yesterday's hilltop shenanigans? In years to come it will be looked back upon like Woodstock or the first Pistols' gigs, with half the country claiming to have been among the lucky 52. Memorable moments include: ~ 3 ten year olds making the rest of us look a bit daft at football ~ the triumphant march of The Pastels 7-aside team through the piecemeal defence of both the Black and White teams ~ Katrina and Susannah providing an impromptu gymnastics exhibition ~ the touching concern of many for the whereabouts of the Monday Poem ~ Katrina becoming the official List Mum for her way with a black bin liner in the rubbish-strewn aftermath ~ The landlord of the Spread Eagle threatening to call the cops if we didn't take our cans elsewhere ~ suddenly symphathising with Stuey Murdoch, as the massed ranks of sinisterines failed to remember anything but the first line of any of the songs that Rob B bashed out on his axe ~ 'Steady' Mike returning from a fag run to the offie with a mysteriously-acquired Arvo Part cd ~ 'Unsteady' Elisabeth Z providing a sterling rendition of every Scandinavian Eurovision entry since 1976 (complete with choreography) What a lovely bunch we are. Rumours suggest that the next London bash is already planned for the 25th of this month... I guess we all ought to thank the dear, departed Blue Soda Socialists, David and Katrina for their matchless organisational skills... Trousers xxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: Sinister: Liz Daplyn bakes exceedingly good cakes
by ELIZABETH DAPLYN 05 May '98

05 May '98

Chris "Johhny Mathis' Feet" Leonard wrote: > Dear Sinister Mailing List, > > REF:The London picnic > > Will someone else write something about it please, > cos just now it looks like John imagined the whole thing, doesn't it? > I said "john" then "imagined". Spooky. > > yours concerned, > mr leonard Hey, worry no longer! For I am here to put in my tres pesetas' worth about the marvellous events of yesterday. And I bake exceedingly good cakes, and so may be trusted to outline a tasty and nourishing account of the day. In the morning, after skilfully avoiding some evil Morris Dancers in Rochester on the way to catch a train and meeting Charlotte (hapless friend, she will be on the list very soon, oh yes she will) at Charing Cross, she and I went to the Royal Academy of Arts to have a gander at some aulde Russian icons. Very nice, although some of the saints were inexplicably holding TV arials. So much for culture, eh? John wrote: > There was loads of food There certainly was! Twiglets and crisps there were many. Marmite sarnies there were some of. Rory's birthday cake there was not much of by the time everyone present had had a bit. and bonhommie. I recovered my amazing Connect-4 powers from kiddie-land (spatial awareness, don't you know, old bean) and played Snap (or OLE! as we failed to rechristen it) with weird Spanish playing cards, but sadly failed to enjoy Buckaroo. Would the bleedin' toy donkey buck? Even with all the wee plastic guitars/lariats/sombreros loading its fragile donkey back down? Would it buggery. I shall be informing the manufacturers through my lawyer. And, of course, there was that top singalong of Mayfly, with added-value live vocal Stylophone break from everyone. Anyway, it got a wee bit windy, so we decamped to the Spread Eagle dahn in Camden Tahn, where we proceeded to spread ourselves across the pavement outside like a living carpet of beautiful Belle&Sebastian-loving flowers. And variously drink, natter, drink, play charades (oh God! Not "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" _again_...), drink, eat chips, drink and stand around telling jokes about prawns (shame on you, Tall Git!) for the next few hours. And there was an old bloke trying to sell his bike (which Susannah fell off) to us for 5 quid at one point in the evening. Charlotte and I had to go at a ridiculously early time (she to write an essay about Grecian urns or something, I to get home to dear old Rochester, from whence the Morris Dancers had thankfully departed by the time I got back), so I can't say what happened after 8:30 in the evening. Maybe the rest of our beloved party held a Black Mass outside the pub, sold their souls to Satan and are even now screaming in the depths of the deepest circle of Hell for mercy which never comes... I, intending to virtuously do some (say it quietly) *work* when I got home, got a train back to Rochester and started to walk home. However, on passing my Dad's house and seeing the lights on, I popped in and sat there drinking whisky and talking about fishing with him for a few more hours. So no work was done. Ah well, never mind... Bless all you beautiful people who turned up, and those who were only there in spirit (methylated), and especially David and Katrina for organising and stuff. ByeBye, Liz. (edaplynr3n00297(a)kiadroch.kiad.ac.uk) ******************* silence .is a looking bird: the turn ing; edge, of life (inquiry before snow e.e. cummings ********************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: It's all gone horribly wrong
by plaird 05 May '98

05 May '98

>In the run-up to the new belle and sebastian album and in light of the >continuing flak that we are taking regarding defending the bands rights >re: Tigermilk Bootlegs we will be unsubscribing from the sinister list Arghhhh!!! look what you've done now - you selfish gits. You and yer bloody Tigermilk!!! :-( Now we're going to have to get down on our collective knees and beg David & Katrina to come back!!!!!... I mean, we've gone through so much together - joint feelings of despair as their computer gradually went on the blink last year, the anger at the bastard who nicked all the fan club gear at the Manchester shows (Mugs 'n' all). The elation as Katrina posted pre-release info nuggets and David wuth new merchandise... D & K COME BACK, COME BACK, COME BACK!!!! Sarah in a her top post remarked: >Duke - "home taping is kiling music" on record sleeves? seriously? you >ARE pulling my plonker! haha, thats magnificent! if its an invention (feverishly searches record collection) Oh Damn, the last time I saw that on a record was my copy of "Action Trax Vol.1" when I was about 12 years old - Ahh, that oh-so-clever logo of a tape cassette overlaid with skull and crossbones: so very 80s. Genevieve remarked: >did strangelove really break up? - Gawd, I hope so. Rest in pieces. Rodddd and T in the Park: >Me! Got my ticket on Saturday (oooh, it's sparkly), so I'll be wandering >around all weekend in my "Helen Love" t-shirt again :) Haha, you'll then be easier to spot so we can 'rip the pish ootay' yer antics over the weekend ;-). (incidentally Keith W.- Money Mark appears to be booked for the T) TTFN, The Lairdster. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: bang shang-a-lang
by Alan Prior 05 May '98

05 May '98

Message text written by Rod Begbie >So anyway, back to that Euro(Trash|Vision) thing last night. Anyone else watch this? The Kenickies performed an astonishing version of "Save All Your Kisses For Me",< yes! their cover versions are always classy, 'specially 'It Started With A Kiss' on that EMI 'come again' album. not that i will be buying either of these releases cus the rest of the tracks are probably wank on a stick. why can't they release them as b-sides? bah. but at least their own songs are as good as their covers, unlike ash ('does your mother know', 'get ready', 'punk boy' etc.) whos own stuff is a bit pants in comparison. how come pulp never competed in eurovision? they would have been the ideal candidate a few years ago... possibly. i was trying to imagine B&S doing it, but it doesn't seem right... they'd have to start wearing spangly outfits for a start. hehehe. although, on that Radio Scotland christmas show they did, Sarah did say she'd love to see stuart m. prancing around the stage in a spangly leotard. hmmmm, seems as likely as Tigermilk being released in the forseable future... (sorry!) love, Debbie xxx. "We are all the same, everybody is the same, only it is the prerogative of youth to believe that this is not so" (mishima) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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None
by C. Gregor 05 May '98

05 May '98

forgive me if I'm wrong, but can we just leave the to copy or not to thang behind? Everyone who wants can get hold of it through this list and the kind- peeps who have it, and who knows it might be rereleased so you can drool over the hard copy. I agree with whoever it was- ok great music great band and I love it all- but it is only a record. Not worth hard or hurt feelings. hope you all agree.... milla x ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: RE: pic nice
by Chris Leonard 05 May '98

05 May '98

Dear Rocketeers, How are you today? I am very well thank you and just had the loveliest of weekends. And I now know what Keith does on Portobello beach because on Sunday I participated. Now the sunny weather has departed and I feel somewhat empty inside, like my best days are behind me and now I only have work and failures to look forward to. I'm fibbing of course but I fooled you, didn't I. regards, melancholy chris ================= Dearest friends, Delighted to see some chat about "Stars in their Eyes". As you all know, earlier this year I made it my mission to appear on this grand program as Johnny Mathis, the man who provides the mental soundtrack to the rare romantic moments in my life. But Mathew Kelly has made it quite clear he will have no children, no drag and no blacking up on his show. So I'm scunnered on all three criteria. Plus I totally bottled it at the first step, so I wouldn't have got on anyway. Now cast your mind back to the Glasgow Picnic. We were discussing stars in their eyes and what white adult male I could go on as. I suggested to Stuart Murdoch I could go on as him, and do you know what he said? "That'll be fucking right" (or similar words to that effect) and looked utterly disgusted. Still gives me a chuckle. happily yours, christopher leonard ================= Dear Sinister Mailing List, REF:The London picnic Will someone else write something about it please, cos just now it looks like John imagined the whole thing, doesn't it? I said "john" then "imagined". Spooky. yours concerned, mr leonard ================= Dear Sezah, I tried to email you but got it sent back. Can you mail me and i'll try again or something. Cannae get the codrazine thing here at all though i tried and tried I swear I did. Je Taime, Les Christophe ================= Dear String Band Fanatics, Oh happy day now, cos theres a documentery on BBC2 tonight about the incredible string band, in case you didn't know and you wanted too. Always yours, Coco ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: harder they come
by OMUser=Olafia Svansdottir 05 May '98

05 May '98

If you mailing champions are proud of your selves, what about us non-mailers, I've been of this list for.... 6 months and I have only sent about 4 letters, I should be the campion of longest running lurker.... But now I wanna correct my ways and make me one of the unforgettables, so I'm starting on my intriduction. cos i just figured that you dont know who the hell I am and I consider all of you as my friends (oh that sarah she's such a kidder... yes give'em hell RRoooodd and such). I would though like to think that I practise the underground of Sinister, having made some friends out of that, and hopefully free accomodations when I go to England.. I even met a friend of a Listee and gave him a tour around Reykjavik, cos that 's the best I could do. ********************************************************************** ****************************** Olla's autobiography - Part one, from age 0-12..(from cradle to puberty) I was born that magical year of 1977 in Reykjavik, the year that Elvis died and only two years until Abba broke up.. Only 12 years until beer would be alowed , and nobody knew about about Iceland.. I soon learned that if I wanted to survive I had to hide my fondness for Wham and say I liked Duran Duran.. Iceland was becoming an almost civilised nation and CD's hadn't been invented.. At age three I went to Kindergarden, and stayed there until I was six years old and then I went to school, I stayed in that same school until I was 16 and then I went to another school and stayed there for 4 years and now i'm here.. where ever I am... and in that time slot, I evolved my dislike for sports, learned how to play the flute, read alot, and got to know Belle and Sebastian... and that's all folks,,, ********************************************************************** ***************************** You can expect my next letter in say.... july, but then I will be in copenhagen drinking Carlsberg and staying inside hiding from the sun.. (no I dont have read hair, not that that's a bad thing). So if anyone of you live in Copenhagen, or are going to Roskilde it would be nice to get an e-mail ... Olaf7(a)tr.is,,,or Kakkalakki(a)hotmail.com... ps: I'm thinking of doing my own sinister picnic, only it will be my birthday and none of the guests will be on sinister, but there will be a Belle and Sebastian(i will be 21 next tuesday congratulations will be in order) 'give them hell Quimby' 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: rockin' like mad pig in a barrel
by Alan Prior 05 May '98

05 May '98

Message text written by Rod Begbie >Miles better than the shambles two years ago (Ricky Ross, Barenaked Ladies and Alanis Morissette playing the main stage). My only concern is Garbage and Natalie Imbrooglywoogly are both third billing on Sunday on their respective stages -- However will I decide who to see?< confession time: i stood through the whole of Ricky Ross' set that year... but only cus the manics were gonna be on right afterwards and it meant i could get to the front. was v. bad though. they've still got the 'give 99p to the help Ricky Ross' type thing in Fopp where they're tryin to get rid of his records... and how come the camera kept coming down over my head when he was playing and not when any decent bands were on? 'snot fair. i just know i'm gonna end up dashing about all over the place like last year trying to see as many bands as poss. but not natalie thingy cus garbage are the most fantastic sexiest gorgeous band at the moment. well, today anyway... they're in Q this month too, which leads me on nicely to the fact that my friend Michael has one of his questions answered in the 'cash for questions' thing to the Spice Girls. *Be* jealous, Rod... Message text written by "Keith Watson" >Debbie, didn't you say you lived in Liberton or something< um, wheres that then... hehehe. this from someone who got an 'A' in geography...oh dear. Nah, actually i live in a scummy wee place called Ratho. which is crap. and is famous only for having the annual Union Canal jump where people make arses out of themselves by trying to jump over in with a pole, only to fall in and get eaten by the rats. Blue Peter came once, y'know... as did Glen Michael's Cavalcade. lovely. oh, yeh, another mis-heard lyric, i think (but not of the B&S variety, sorry). Last night i turned on the radio and there was this 'song' playing by (and i know this wont be how you spell it) DJ PunkRock which sounded like it said; "aliens in the bed/ blow bubbles up my arse" (or 'bluebottles up my arse') Now, surely this can't be right. Ah, well on that note i think i'd better be going... 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: UK listees: Dance to indiepop/C86/pop-punk classics this Friday
by Dr C.B.Stride 05 May '98

05 May '98

Hiya all, Offbeat is back with three dates in the next few weeks..... ...if any of you listees are coming let me know, and get some early requests in to me now....... OFFBEAT - a real indiepop night....... with late bar, free lollipops and request sheets Sheffield Uni' SU Raynor Lounge (non-students most welcome) 9pm to 1am, £2.50 on the door... FRIDAY 8th May FRIDAY 22nd May (Smiths Special) TUESDAY 9th JUNE Playing......Classic Indie, Punk POP 1977-1997 and C86/C96/new underground of indiepop..... HELEN LOVE-HEAVENLY-BELLE AND SEBASTIAN-DELGADOS DWEEB-CHAMELEONS-PASTELS-R.E.M.-SMITHS-PAVEMENT- FALL- BLUR-JAM-HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT-TALULAH GOSH- SUPER FURRY ANIMALS-ELASTICA-CURVE-URUSEI YATSURA- BOGSHED-TIGER-SNUFF-DEAD KENNEDYS-PWEI-CARTER USM- DISCO PISTOL- COMET GAIN -VELODROME 2000-ANORAK GIRL STEREOLAB-CHINA DRUM-BLAGGERS ITA- BUZZCOCKS-BIS- WEDDING PRESENT-ASH-SONIC YOUTH-BODINES-PIXIES-CUD PRIMAL SCREAM (early)-GENE-SHOP ASSISTANTS-FIELD MICE CHILLS-PETER AND THE TEST TUBE BABIES-BLUEBOY-SCARFO. plus many more in the same vein...... for more details/to join the Offbeat mailing list email C.B.Stride(a)Sheffield.ac.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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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