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Sinister: looper on Beat Room
by Gillian McKay 24 Aug '98

24 Aug '98

hi everyone, heard on the radio that Looper and V-Twin will be the guests on the recording of the Beat Room on Tuesday night. It is at the Polo Lounge, Wilson St, Glasgow and tickets will be available from John Smiths or by phoning 0141 338 2179 (they are free). sorry if no-one is interested or if you already know this. gillian p.s on monday night it is yo la tengo and future pilot AKA +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Shepards Bush Green may be nice
by Sam Norman 24 Aug '98

24 Aug '98

I don't know. I may have missed any suggestions about meeting up prior to the shepards bush gig. I was talking to a friend last night and we came up with the idea of a gathering on the green. OK it's pollution bound, a major artery for london's traffic, but hey. If anyone agrees or has any better ideas it would be great to hear from you. >From the amount of people on the list without tickests it seems as if that the gig will be full of journo's. Oh yeah and apparently on XFM after it's relaunch Bob Geldoff will be DJ-ing for 104.9 days continuously. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Foxy Lady On The Run In The Snow
by PJMiller 24 Aug '98

24 Aug '98

Hello Playmates! After a weekend of frantic trout tickling, I feel sufficiently refreshed to attempt a message contaning 100% Belle and Sebastain content. If you should spot any poor quality references to ironic song combinations or cod-reggae, just shout "IT'S BEHIND YOU!" and I'll turn round really slowly and pretend not to see it. Last Friday, for the second week running, I tuned into John Peel's BBC World Service programme in the hope of hearing something from the new B&S album. I decided to do the washing up at the same time. So there I was, scrubbing away and digging some rather nice go-go music from 1982 when Mister Peel said, "Hey! Let's bossa nova!" and this record jingled and jangled into life. Between the washing up bubbles (which by this time had filled half the kitchen) I thought to myself, "Jesus, I hate these shitty indie groups that do bossa nova when the real thing was so good..." Slowly, very very slowly, it dawned on me that the singer's rather effeminate voice was vaguely familiar, and I stopped washing up and fought my way through the bubbles to the kitchen table where the radio was. I sat down and looked at it. Yes, the voice definitely rang a bell, but I still wasn't sure. Then a big squawky violin solo piled in and everything fell into place. I managed to catch one word, "acknowledge" and it was all over. "Yet another great record straight outta Scotland, that's "Ease Your Feet Into The Sea" by Belle and Sebastian from the new LP.....etc." said John Peel enthusiastically. Naturally, I immediately revised my opinion of indie bossa nova and took the day off work to celebrate. A "Dreadlock Holiday", so to speak. Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Stockholm gig
by Niclas Johannesson 24 Aug '98

24 Aug '98

A rumour says B&S will be playing at Studion, Stockholm on September 26. I this really true??? /Nick

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Re: Sinister: Cockernee scumbag puts in his two-cents worth
by Keith Watson 24 Aug '98

24 Aug '98

> 'Ok', say sarah and everyone else outside the M25, 'but why should I >give a fuck?' >And fair enough. You don't have to care. You just have to realise that Xfm's >death is another sign of indie failure, that it brands us as losers, a tag >that I thought we didn't deserve. >Xfm gave massive exposure to bands like, hey, Salako, Snow Patrol and Belle >and Sebastian, and helped them sell more records, and establish them as, erm, >moderately known bands. What happens to the next generation of Jeepster >signings? You won't hear them on 1fm, certainly not before Midnight, anyway. > Most of all, it's a sign of the growing chasm between 'their' music and >'ours'. Without a voice in the heart of Europe's music industry, there's >nowhere indie can go except back into it's ghetto. >Which means more of your favourite bands being dropped from majors, record >shops going to the wall, and ten more years of shit on the TV and radio. > But hey, I don't care, 'cause I don't live in london... I don't care on the grounds that if XFM's idea of "Our Music" are bands like Snowpatrol then frankly they can keep them. I'd rather Fleetwood Mac than Jack at this juncture. Another "Indie failure" is a natural problem in that 99.9% of the music simply isn't good enough. It's definitely a good thing having people broadcast new music - I mean, I for one am all for the likes of John Peel playing anything and everything on his show. But frankly haven't been able to actually listen to his program since having to sit through a Terminal Cheesecake session in 1988. In any case, for the few years that XFM's been running, all I've really seen happening in the music scene in Britain is a great big thing called britpop when loads of bands from London copied loads of bands from the sixties... Grrreat. I haven't seen any great improvement in the scene at all. I'm afraid though that I'm just not of the opinion that if you get some bloke on the radio who'll play absolutely anyone - that they're some sort of a hero. You say Radio 1 won't be playing these bands before midnight, well they've certainly played plenty of Belle and Sebastian, and I can't say I really care about them not playing the other bands. Anyway again I'm not having a go - I just can't say I care about a radio station going down when it's a) shite (what I've heard of it) b) I don't get it anyway (like 50 million others) and c) has had no noticable positive effect on the "scene" at all. Thanks, Keith. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: we have lost even this twilight
by JonnyDream＠aol.com 23 Aug '98

23 Aug '98

my friends and fellow sinisterines i write to you from brooklyn again where not every sunday can be spent reading poetry in the sun and drinking pomegranate juice and not every sunday can be spent listening to fresh new vinyl (some italian swing from the sixties and a little south american psychedelia) but this one was this one. was. much love to all jonny (jonnykat) (jonnydream) XXXXXOOOOO smiles : ) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: arab strap cover
by SpaceboyUK＠aol.com 23 Aug '98

23 Aug '98

will someone send me a .jpg or.gif file of the album cover? thanks. -a.james +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: The Boy With the Arab Strap
by susannah 23 Aug '98

23 Aug '98

Kids, You know, the title of the new album. I really wonder if it will be a BIG MISTAKE. I mean, its a bit RUDE isn't it? OK, so it fits with the cover, but I'm just wondering about the possible consequences. This is what I think will happen: Sept.10 1998 : Parents of boy scouts 'taken up the hills' by Murdoch discover lewd title and inform Scout Leader. Stuart is sacked as scout helper. Sept. 11 : Church Hall Commitee discovers album after an insinuating piece in the Glasgow W.I. quarterly . Stuart is suspended as Caretaker Sept 12 : Parents of young B&S fans discover new album appearing in their teenagers bedrooms and are outraged. Sinisterines forced to unsubscribe from inappropriate mailing list. Only over twenty-fives remain. Sept 13 : Group of rubber fetishists descend on the Church hall and elect Stuart as their new S&M cult leader. Sept 15: Church Hall commitee threaten Stuart and Richard with eviction. Sept 16: 'Madame' Cecile Aubry discovers title and is disgruntled. Immediately demands band change name forthwith despite Isobel offering prized toy lion as concession. Sept 17: Band change name to '1975' after year in 'the state I am in'. Sept 18: Faced with eviction, stuart decides to change album title to just 'the boy' and Church hall committee withdraw eviction notice. Sept 19: Hoards of teenyfans confuse '1975' with 911, east17, level42, 5ive, and hanson(?) and record sales rocket. sept 20: Stuart becomes national pop celeb and featured on the O-zone and bluepeter. sept 21: Daily Mail discovers Stuarts 'shady' past including lascivious leather trousers and runs full 3 page spread on corrupting influence. sept 22: Sinisters mail server shut down 'obscene' mailing list. Honey goes into hiding. sept 23: Church hall commitee, all avid Daily Mail readers, spontaneously evict Stuart and Richard from church hall. Sept 24: Gay rights group 'Outrage' 'outs' Stuart. sept 25: Stuart moves in with Mark Owen. sept 26: Stuart and little Mark collaborate on new side project. sept 27: all original B&S fans now dissullusioned , claiming stuart has sold out. sept 28: Stuart sells out. sept 29: Rest of original B&S join Buddhist colony in Milton keynes. And all in one whirlwind month readers!!!!!! We must warn stuart before it is too late, so don't delay, print out and post to Stuart today. susannah. xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Dem City lights..
by Fluffy Candarel 23 Aug '98

23 Aug '98

Hi Sinisters! I'm scared, I'm actually looking at a Computer and Software Engineering course at LONDON City University...how scary is that! I'll have to change my name to....Jasper-ina or something! But...it would help me get a job, its been rated 5 stars (aparently) and they don't NEED a maths a- level..... but da big city is an awful big place.... and I feel very little and innocent compared to ze city boys... and it costs soo much to live there... does anyone DO courses at City? If so and you've got nothing better to do :) tell me if it's a nice place and how the flip you manage to survive there! Ooh! Heres my granny walking past! Lets have another comment since you all seemed to like her last chat so much :) good lord what can I say? tut tut..eeer....I don't know! I don't like hard rock, I like classical music and *some*, some Pop, such as The Beatles, and um, Take that and Abba, yes, I like those, there's lots of others but I can't remember their names.... Groovy eh? "object orientated programming in java...", now gee that sounds, er, quite hard actually...my DAD, who *is* a big software support hotshot, says you don't actually NEED all this maths, as the formulas are EASY to look up in a book.... I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!! Jasperina? Candarel +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Xfm - website (fwd)
by Rod Begbie 23 Aug '98

23 Aug '98

You can get the latest news and sign a petition at the site below. Alternatively, go to http://xfm.co.uk and shiver when a picture of Eagle-Eye bleeding Cherry appears. Rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "Finally, an erection from actual physical contact." | -- Brian Krakow, My So-Called Life ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 15:11:41 +0100 From: nick xx <scrawn(a)netcomuk.spam.co.uk> Newsgroups: uk.music.alternative, uk.media.radio.misc Subject: Xfm - website i've thrown together a website with as many details as i could manage regarding the Xfm saga: http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~nsheff/xfm/ nick xx -- scrawn@netcomukicoiuk dot those "i"s www.netcomuk.co.uk/~nsheff/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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