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Sinister: Kerrang!
by Hicks, Simon 19 Aug '98

19 Aug '98

Did anyone see Belle & Sebastian's mention on Teletext yesterday (I was bored, can you tell?). Having announced all the nominees for the Kerrang "music" awards they rather amusingly pointed out that there were "surprisingly no nominations for Belle & Sebastian". Where would we be without irony and wit? Also, list songs (again): my two favourites are: The Psychedelic Furs' absolutely wonderful "All of this and nothing" and Suede's "The Young Men" Simon +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Remember what happens in Animal Farm
by Mark Casarotto 19 Aug '98

19 Aug '98

Hello boys and girls, This is me leaving for a bit. I'm sure no-one will be sad (and Nick Dastoor will be able to walk the streets again, although there are scurrilous rumours doing the rounds already about just that sort of thing), and I'll see you all on the 7th anyway. Keep in touch privately if there's anything you want to say - hope you do, occasionally. Rory - mine's a brandy. Kill yr idols, Love Biondino 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: out with a bang (if only for a week) baby
by mkl206＠is8.nyu.edu 19 Aug '98

19 Aug '98

hello sinisterines as usual i am in a state of complete disarray and cannot remember what i told who last, so to clear the record, i'm going to be m.i.a. for the next ten days or so before reappearing in my missed new york city. four months but it took more time to get used to not being there than to get used to being there, but whatever. it's been a good summer, and i love all of you that i got a chance to meet, if i haven't already said that 7 or 8 times. but there is a point, for the first time in a long time, someone has had a sinister dream (that they've reported to the list, i think some of you have been holding out) and from another new yorker oddly enough. At 11:25 PM 8/18/98, Carrick C Blair wrote: >And I'm now going to claim to have the first dream with a song from >the new LP contained within. I was in a school gymnasium sitting >at a table, when off in the distance I hear the faintest strains of >Rollercoaster Ride emanating from what I find out is a tiny transistor >radio. When I get to the table with the radio everybody is smiling, >and for some reason my chair gets real small and the table in which >the radio is sitting on gets real tall. Then I woke up smiling. At least >that's how I remember it. well, i'm not sure about being the first one to dream with the new lp in mind, but i think this one is pretty straight forward. if your years at school were anything like mine, than the school gym probably represents some unpleasant scenes involving failure at sports and torment by peers (i actually mispelled that as pears, which is pretty funny. i mean, who would think that pears would be rude?) so as such, it could represent the world. the classmates represent the citizens of the world, and the transistor is symbolic of belle and sebastian as a relatively small group of people in a remote section of the world. (and yes, scotland is remote to most of the people who don't live there). the table growing in proportion to the chair's shrinkage symbolizes the realization of the paltriness of one's own problems in relation to those of the world as a whole. so basically this is a really happy world peace dream which seems a bit reminiscent of the small world ride at disneyland with better music. can you believe i only got a b in psych? allright, before i cause too much more damage, i'd just like to say, good night and saint lucy bless. xoxoxoxoxo megan +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: why won't b&s release US dates?!
by Ginger Nance 19 Aug '98

19 Aug '98

Hello, you darling Sinister folks. After much hesitation due to the rumored volume of mail generated by this list, I have given in and subscribed. After a few beers, I have decided to post. I'm not British, I don't think I'm particularly intellectual or witty, but for better or worse, I'm here. Hi, I'm Ginger, upon the good advice of a wonderful boy who also subscribes to this list but never posts, I started listening to the wonder known as B&S. I'm in love now. They are spleindiferous. Oh, for the guy from Mexico: Estoy de acuerdo. B&S son fabulosos. Estuvo in Mexico por una semana este verano, and my Spanish is rusty. :) That's all for now, thanks for listening! Ginger :) ginger_nance(a)unc.edu http://www.unc.edu/~gnance +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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RE: Sinister: list songs
by Seamus Campbell 19 Aug '98

19 Aug '98

> -----Original Message----- > From: James [SMTP:thunderw@globalnet.co.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 1998 4:06 PM > To: sinister(a)majordomo.net > Subject: Sinister: list songs > > > Hey, any Vic Chesnutt fans on the list? Wrong Piano. (another list > song) > On an unrelated note, I saw the Magnetic Fields on Sunday night (absolutely fucking brilliant) and one of the between-songs-topics was a Vic Chesnutt show that Stephin Merritt attended. And if we use your definition of "list songs", then I will contribute the Magnetic Fields "Love Is Lighter Than Air", with it's opening line "Summer, summer, summer". seamus +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 benefits of Matador
by carrick44＠juno.com 19 Aug '98

19 Aug '98

are that you can go to your local Indie R!O!C!K! store were they still love you for spending all your money as a teenager buying Husker Du and Dinasour Jr. records and ask them to call up Matador and ask for a promo of the TBWTAS. You come back a few days later and they pass it on to you. I think I'll buy the record proper from them when it comes out just as a thank you and the for the fact that I never buy anything from them anymore. Won't give away any secrets, but I'll just say that what I thought was going to be my least favorite song, is one of my most favorite songs. And what I thought was going to be my favorite song is one of my least favorites. Just say BOO TO THE MOOG. OR WHATEVER'S MAKING THAT SILLY SOUND RUINING MY FAVORITE SONG, THE SONG THAT PRODUCED LITERAL TEARS OF JOY WHEN I FIRST HEARD IT LIVE IN NEW YORK LAst september. I'm tired of holding down the shift key. sorry for all that. I do like the bagpipes, though. Oh well, it seems I let some secrets out. Well, you all be reading the reviews soon, anyway. And I'm now going to claim to have the first dream with a song from the new LP contained within. I was in a school gymnasium sitting at a table, when off in the distance I hear the faintest strains of Rollercoaster Ride emanating from what I find out is a tiny transistor radio. When I get to the table with the radio everybody is smiling, and for some reason my chair gets real small and the table in which the radio is sitting on gets real tall. Then I woke up smiling. At least that's how I remember it. And for all those boys lusting after St. Lucy planning to convert to Catholicism, if you look closely you'll see she is wearing a Star of David around her neck. So make that Judaism. Which depending on what level of Orthodoxy dear St. Lucy holds up to, and what your parents decided to do with your "song snake" when you were born, might involve a rather painful medical procedure. Speaking of St. Lucy, a message to her boytoy Tag, I will drop a line soon. I just haven't gotten around to it. you do remember, the Looper basher. The first I might add. Love Carrick, the Luddite who still thinks Looper are a bit pishy, and that Spaceboy Dream is furlongs better than Spaceboy Dream #3. That's depth, baby. Soul, Deep Soul. Well not that deep. More boogie woogie than deep. listening to Sea Urchins - Live in London, which I'm glad I got for free, because it sounds a bit pishy as well. I think the liner notes are the best part. _____________ _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: london concert
by xavier watkins 19 Aug '98

19 Aug '98

Hello I'm looking for 2 tickets for the B&S concert in London in sept. Can anyone help me? --------------------------- visit my homepage http://perso.club-internet.fr/xwatkins +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Modest Proposal for an Asian Tour
by kingc＠advisory.ngo.ph 19 Aug '98

19 Aug '98

While suffering the plague of Tantalus awaiting the release of TBWTAS and its painfully slow shipment to me in the Philippines, I have devised a compelling (or at least amusing) plea (in loose list format) for Belle and Sebastian to broaden their tour to include Southeast Asia. Fans You have proselytizing fans in the region, to wit, listees Oon in Thailand, Richard and Glen in Hong Kong, as well as me and my cultish converts in the Philippines. Posh digs Because of the lingering Asian economic crisis your British pounds would be worth wagonloads of local devalued currency. You could all stay in swank hotels and not feel guilty since your indulgence would help our ailing economy (except in Manila, of course, where band members could kip at my flat - please?!). Beyond Melodymaker Ancillary instrumentation is something that makes Belle and Sebastian special. SE Asia would offer an opportunity to broaden your repertoire of neat noises. Here are some suggestions from the Philippine archipelago: Lunggo: imagine a cylindrical tuning fork made of a hollow bamboo shaft. It is held in one hand and slapped into the palm of the other. It vibrates and makes this interesting twanging vibration. Kulintang: sort of like a glockenspiel for drummers, kulintang means gongs in a row. Played among the Maranao, the Maguindanao, the Tausog and the Manobo tribes, it is basically a melody instrument consisting of eight gongs placed horizontally in a frame and tuned to a flexible pentatonic or five-tone scale. Lots of cool plectrum instruments of Spanish origin but Filipino flavour such as the bandurria, laud, octavina, mandola, guitarra, and bajo de unas (supplanted today by the regular double bass). Oon, Im sure, could tell you about all the possibilities in Thai instrumentation. Tarsier on Wheels Sure the Discovery Channel features all of the fascinating evolutionary animal mutations left in Australia by Plate Tectonics because they are really cute. But Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim are teeming with oddly endearing creatures (not many marsupials or hoppity wallabies though which is too bad). Some examples of what we have in the Philippines are: Kolugo: a charming flying lemur with sad eyes The nasty and belligerent national symbol, the monkey-eating eagle Tarsiers: saucer-eyed, insect-eating midget monkey. Four to five inches tall with a giant tail, the tarsier is very cuddly. It looks a bit like a micro raccoon and hugs tree trunks like a koala bear but with these cringe-worthy bulbous tree frog toes. Butuki: like geckos, they are harmless lizards that helpfully eat our malarial mosquitoes. They range in size from cute micro ones that scuttle up and down the walls to son of Godzilla okay a bit of hyperbole, but there are some frighteningly gigantic ones with suction cup feet that latch onto people in the rainforest and have to be cut off! Endangered sea horses: B&S could do a moving ballad called Judy and her song of seahorses, dedicated to a species that is quickly disappearing from Philippine mangroves to make herbal potency extracts (Asias ancient answer to Viagra). Note: Sorry, but we have neither foxes nor snow. General Exoticism Wacky tropical fruit like hairy rambutan, spiky (and pongy) durian, aubergine-coloured mangosteen and even buko milk (juice from the baby coconut, tastes a bit like how I imagine Tigermilk) Youve got C&A and Marks & Sparks but weve got a huge chain department shop called S&M. Its like a dead Nietzchean metaphor; nobody (alright, a few expats snicker) knows what it stands for anymore. (a question for Americans on the list: what does A&W stand for? I saw a bottle of that root beer here but cant figure it out) Calamansi Honey especially for Honey (calamansi is a tropical citrus fruit like a miniature cross between a lemon and lime but not in a cheezy lymon Sprite way) Even if I havent convinced Belle & Sebastian, perhaps Ive won over some Sinister listees? Oon, we need an Amazing Thailand equivalent post! And, Richard, you and Gloria could forward Hong Kong as a venue and then host the B&S gig on Lamma Island! >From the mayhem that is Manila, Claire P.S. To add to the list of list songs, my favourite is Trams of Old London by Robyn Hitchcock. Here is a gratuitous excerpt: On a clear night you can see Where the rails used to be Oh it seems like ancient myth They once ran to Hammersmith Trams of Old London Taking my baby into the past Through Electric Avenue, Brixton Downing, Southwest, too Teddington and Kennington Twickenham and Paddington In the Blitz they never closed Though they blew up half the roads Oh it hurts me just to see em Going dead in a museum +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: when we travel I read books
by Mphintz＠aol.com 19 Aug '98

19 Aug '98

dear dear lovely lovely brian wrote: <<statton island, on the other hand, sounds very interesting indeed. devoted to musical minimalism and and the choppy guitar playing of stuart moxham?>> I just called my travel agent and learned a bit more information about Statton Island. Apparently, it is not too far from the cosmopolitan decadent city of el and rather close to two-tone west country scenes of Sarah. I may be wrong, but I believe the northern city of Belle and Sebastian is only a bus ride away from these three places. As for music biographies, I just a finished one on the Go-Betweens. Now the cover looks awful (someone must have picked the worst publicity shot), but the book itself is quite informed and informative. However, reading it you already know the ending--the band breaks up! It was very sad. In the magazine "The Big Takeover", in an interview with Edwyn Collins, the esteemed is asked about Belle and Sebastian. He says that he has never heard their music but did meet them on a plane from Scotland to London. My Bloody Valentine have a song "Honey Power"--does this mean that the Spice Girls' schtick was stolen from our own dear HoneyPaul? Can you imagine the stick-figure Honey in platforms and a tight miniskirt (the tightest since he is already a stick!) Living and loving Matthew +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Lists songs
by Enrique_Jimenez＠ccmail.sgo.sony.com 19 Aug '98

19 Aug '98

hi! I have another list song: "Up on the Catwalk" by Simple Minds. At the end of the song when Jim Kerr sings: "... Natasja Kinskni, Rober De Niro and Martin Luther and so many otheeeeers .... so many others ... up on the catwalk walk walk ...." e/whoscrewedupbysayingthatthemagneticfieldssinglewasonsubpopwhileitsactuallyonme rge +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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