August 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Glasgow gigs and Pensioners on extacy....
by Stein Vegusdal 17 Aug '98

17 Aug '98

Hi! We are 3 Norwegian list members going over to see both Glasgow gigs, and wonder if anyone know of any cheap places to stay. Hotel, B&B, private - we'll take anything as long as it's not too far from the venue and costs less than 35-40£ per night for all of us. Thanks (Seymour) Stein And now a little story to tell you that B&S have fans of all ages: Last weekend my sisters boss (aged 44) went to Malmoe in Sweden to see the scandinavian equivalent of the Grand National. In the car with him was his father (aged 72). The youngest guy put on Sinister at a very low volume, just to be kind to his dear father. After a while the old man turned up the volume and said: "Very nice music, can i borrow it?". On the way back to Norway he played "Seeing Other People" and "Fox In The Snow" four times each, and has now bought his own copy...:-) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: A fat slug writes
by Kevan Cooke 17 Aug '98

17 Aug '98

Now then folks, Shepherds Bush Empire may have sold out, but I have a couple of spare tickets which I am happy to sell to anyone on Sinister at cost price. E-mail me directly if you are interested. If no-one buys them then I am going to have to confirm my position as a capitalist fat slug by selling them at a vast profit to some evil multinational conglomerate, who will in turn use the tickets for corporate hospitality purposes. On the subject of list songs, and sorry if someone's said this already, my fave is "What Will Death Be Like" by Momus, in which he lists many things that death will be unlike. I started writing a list song last year, called Hate List #1, but I ran out of rhymes and it was all very negative. If anyone wants to help me finish the song, and get those negative vibes out of my system, just e-mail me with a short list of things that you dislike (and preferably which rhyme with asparagus). I was watching the local news last Thursday and they were talking to one of the last remaining Greenham Common peace camp women. Imagine my surprise when they announced that the elderly lady they had been interviewing was Katrina House! People have been talking about advertisments, so I feel justified in mentioning the Levis advert with the child hammering the square peg through the round hole. It's not a phrase that I tend to use, but this advert ROCKS! I don't know why, but whenever I see it I think of Keith. I tried to alert everyone to the danger posed by Elliott Smith but, in true conspiracy theorist style, my protestations lead only to disbelief and ridicule. Why don't you listen? He is obviously going to wait until Shepherds Bush before he does the deed, because the song in which he announces his intentions is called Killing a SOUTHERN Belle. Kevan +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: b+s . london
by .j 0n 17 Aug '98

17 Aug '98

hello my friend said he carnt now come leaving me with a spare ticket to the london gig. anyone interested ? bye bye .j o n +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Looper Single
by John Stuart/mail+schedule 17 Aug '98

17 Aug '98

If anybody in Edinburgh is looking for a copy of the looper single, there is one at Fopp reserved under my name. I've already got one sent from Sub Pop. So just go in and pretend to be me. It's £3.99. John Stuart. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Me and my granny and Looper
by Sarah 17 Aug '98

17 Aug '98

Hello! First order of business shoud always be the introductions. So, I am Sarah, and here is my grandmaaa! Yippeee! My name is Josephine Francis Clarke, I'm staying with my grandaughter Sarah for a couple of weeks and she is showing me how her computer works. Magic! Thats it, right, good good.... That'll do. *cough* Hehehe! Righty-oh thats enough! Me me me! LOOOPER! To anyone who hasn't got the Looper single you should get it now for tis absolutely amazing and wonderous and has a typewriter solo (ish) for Peter Millers sake (I think I am getting obsessed with his Pete-ness, is there a Peter Miller anonymous?) so you should all get it!! NOW!!!! I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!! Sarah +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: yes yes Ikea have got the Robin CD cabinet in! in G REEN
by Seamus Campbell 17 Aug '98

17 Aug '98

> -----Original Message----- > From: JJ [SMTP:johnj@seahouses.u-net.com] > Sent: Saturday, August 15, 1998 3:49 AM > To: sinister(a)majordomo.net > Subject: Sinister: yes yes Ikea have got the Robin CD cabinet in! > in GREEN > > > How many other list songs have there been? I remember the Billy Joel > song We Didn't Start The Fire, and of course A House's Endless Art/ > More Endless Art (and it's erm tribute, the Divine Comedy's > Booklovers) > but there must have been more. > Mary Lou Lord's "His Indie World" and Tullycraft's "Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid To Know About" spring to mind... 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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Fwd: Sinister: American Radio and TV Commercials - Double Take
by Ripoffs＠aol.com 17 Aug '98

17 Aug '98

speaking of tv commercials that feature better music than radio, did anyone notice the velocity girl song in the volkswagon commercial a year back? and vw also has a stereolab song for the new beetle. a cheap attempt to attract wannabe urban twenty-somethings, perhaps? belle and sebastian could advertise for a kids clothing line, if you ask me. but they would definitely work for an extra sweet and crunchy cereal as too.

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Sinister: American Radio and TV Commercials - Double Take (fwd)
by Jessica Murphy 16 Aug '98

16 Aug '98

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 14:16:17 -0400 From: Samiam <samiam2(a)ix.netcom.com> ^Currently, TV commercials in America feature much better music than ^what's played on 'progressive' radio. My local stations are full of ^Matchbox 20 and Three Blind Mice (slag intended) -- they all sound the ^same. It's true... I keep hearing bands like Lush or Stereolab wafting from the television during commercial breaks, but I never even turn on the radio anymore because I've given up. (Also the reception is bad in my area, so I don't get the smaller stations.) Have B & S ever showed up on "120 Minutes," to anyone's knowledge? ^ If ^ B&S decide what sort of commercial to have their music played with, I ^ wonder what sort of products they would endorse? I love this question. Some kind of sweet crispy breakfast cereal, maybe? ^If it hasn't been already answered (I'm way behind on Sinister digests), ^the Dream Academy called it quits in '91 after the 'different kind of ^weather' album. Thanks, by the way! jessica m >Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 18:00:59 -0400 (EDT) >From: Jessica Murphy <jmurphy(a)UDel.Edu> >Subject: Sinister: double take >Speaking of hearing music you love when you least expect it... Has anyone >else been startled by the TV ad for Acuvue contact lenses that plays a >remix of The Dream Academy's "Life in a Northern Town"? (This might be >airing only in the States.) I haven't heard that song in ages, and it >brings back memories... Whatever happened to The Dream Academy, anyway? >I lost track of them after the second album. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: in need of help
by Heinitz 16 Aug '98

16 Aug '98

hello everybody - i'm new here, and i am here for a particular reason. i have searched high and low, but it transpires too late, to get tickets for belle and sebastian in leeds. me and my nice friend (he has good shoes, you would want him there) are wondering whether anybody has spare tickets. if you could help such a damsel in such distress, please email me at abi(a)heinitz.clara.net, or alternatively send me telepathic thoughts (the former method is usually more reliable) love and dreams of horses, abi 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: a very important public service announcement
by Erin Lewis 16 Aug '98

16 Aug '98

Hey kids, I was going to send this message to the tape tree members only, but then I realized it would benefit us all to hear this. I have received many, many tapes in the past week or so, and all of them have the little plastic tabs on top intact. This is a very bad thing, because if I was to accidentally press play and record at the same time (since they are neighbors, it wouldn't be hard), I would erase your tape! And not because I wanted to! This is even scarier when you think of all the tapes (tape tree and private trade) that people spent their precious time on, only to be (GASP!) erased over, even if only for a split second. Or, and this is even sadder, if you get a Tigermilk in the mail, which was hard enough for you to get in the first place, and you accidentally tape over your pride and joy. Oh no is right. (This will never happen if you get one from me, because I pop those suckers out as soon as the tape's done.) So my message is: POP YOUR TABS!!!!!!! The next tape you get in the mail that someone else has lovingly made, pop the tabs. And the next tape you send out to someone else, pop the tabs. Besides, if you really want to tape over it, all you have to do is fix a bit of tape over the tab hole and - VOILA! - you have a recordable tape again. Pardon me if this is all old news to all of you, but it needed to be said. Thank you, and good day. Love, Miss Erin +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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