September 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: if i may...
by Gidgette16＠aol.com 02 Sep '98

02 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* hello all.... if i may i would like to display a poem that i like for the list to read.... this one is called "meeting at night" by robert browning...a wonderful wonderful poet The grey sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And they startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As i gain the cove with pushing prow, And quench its speed i' the slushy sand. Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach; Three fields to cross till a farm appears; A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch And blue spurt of a lighted match, And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears, Than the two hearts beating each to each! i hope you like it...i wanted to put my ab fav poem, "the lady of shalott" or something fabulous from rupert brooke on here but they were all too long....anyhow... lots of love and kisses, shawnie "they danced by the light of the moon, the moon, the moon, they danced by the light of the moon." +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Re: Sinister: toronto?
by LMJ216＠aol.com 01 Sep '98

01 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* thank you all for the information on the toronto date. i really appreciate it. i will be either going to the boston gig or the toronto one. I remember a while ago someone said that people should wear "my name is" stickers for the picnics or something. Well i think we should do this at the belle and sebastain gigs, so we know who is on the list and meet each other and such. LoveLisa +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Re: Sinister: who knows about NY dates?
by mkl206＠is8.nyu.edu 01 Sep '98

01 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* me me me!!! ok, so i don't know that much, but as my fellow sinisterine brian and i went over to tower today to check with the *evil* ticketmaster, we know some. they aren't selling tickets yet. yup, what a wealth of knowledge. then we went to other music where, since i lack any scruples, i'm always willing to ask any number of questions. and was rewarded with the knowledge that the tickets for the 1st and 2nd (or 2nd and 3rd, whichever two dates the shows are on) of november at the supper club in lovable manhatten will be on sale at other music some time next week. ticketmaster will have some too, so if you're far away, you can go by that route. and in ultra exciting news (that i know that rachee will care about) air are going to be doing their first nyc show on october 23!!!!!! tickets go on sale on september 11th at noon. it's 20 bucks, which is a lot, but then again, it's air. so who can argue. and finally, to all you sinisterines who still have shows to go to, buy me souvenirs!!!!! xoxoxo megan mkl206(a)is8.nyu.edu visit the magnetic fields web page at: http://www.dissemination.com/megan/magneticfields/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: South by Southwest, B&S and Pharmacy
by Sam Devere 01 Sep '98

01 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* Is anyone planning on going to South by Southwest. I heard it was a good time last year and was thinking of going. Pharymacy's jukebox is groovy indeed, I noticed IFYFS right after Pharmacy opened. IFYFS is also in the Fox and Hound jukey thanks to Andy. Sam Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:49:24 -0400 From: "Cakuls, Tom" <CakulsT(a)advisory.com> Subject: Sinister: attention DC listees Dear friends The pharmacy bar here in washington will be hosting a party in honor of the US release of The Boy with the Arab Strap, to which all of you are cordially invited. The festivities are scheduled for Monday september 7 and things should get rolling by 9 pm or so. ______________________________________________________ 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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: US tour
by donovan＠matador.recs.com 01 Sep '98

01 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* I understand that some tentative US dates have been posted here. There are also promoters in a couple cities advertising dates as being confirmed. I just got off the phone with the band's booking agent 5 minutes ago and following are the ONLY CONFIRMED DATES THUS FAR. This is absolutely, positively the most up-to-date info there is. There will be more dates, but this is it so far. 10/21 Boston Photo Resource Center 10/23 Philadelphia Trocadero 10/26 Chicago Metro 11/1 New York, NY Supper Club 11/2 New York, NY Supper Club -donovan/matador recs +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: disney thing
by KimbrJack＠aol.com 01 Sep '98

01 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* folks this disney thing is a HOAX!!!! dont pay any attention to it!!!! kim +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: NME absolutely bloody spot-on shocker
by Funkyseb＠aol.com 01 Sep '98

01 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* I hope this doesn't spoil it for anyone but: NME gave 'The Boy with the Arab Strap' a totally justfied 8/10 under the banner 'Sebastian Coup' (nope me neither). Anyway, it's a big 3/4 page review so I won't type it out now but to summerise, John Mulvey says: 'Belle and Sebastian are a peculiar musical accident, a band who aspire to be underachieving cutie elitests, but who (sic) by virtue of their wise, uncommonly lovely music, find themselves the biggest 'unknown' band in Britain...there is a care and a craftsmanship at work...that leaves almost all their contemporaries for dead.' He then says lots of lovely things about all the tracks, and some bollocks about pearl jam and the levellers being similar in ethos, and ends by asking why Murdoch won't discuss...well, anything ever, and says that it's a bit cowardly to dis Aidan and then not discuss it. It's unarguably one of the best albums of 1998 apparently, which I'd second obviously. Incidently, there's one of those great collages to illustrate the article- with a naked Stuart I think, and Isobel sat on him. Not having seen the cover yet, I can't really comment. Ooh, Scotch Pie and chips....yummy Seb (Oh, I get it, Sebastian Coe= Sebastian Coup. That's truly shit IMHO) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Re: Sinister: Fwd: Fwd: FW: [Fwd: FW: FW: Read ASAP!! -Forwarded]
by Scott Turner 01 Sep '98

01 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* Attention Morons, Imbeciles, and other quarter-brained knit-wits: DON'T waste the time of those of us that have brains: don't send your suckerfest chainletters to the LIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! (you should be spanked for believing in that moronic chain letter in the first place) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Fwd: Fwd: FW: [Fwd: FW: FW: Read ASAP!! -Forwarded]
by GoFkYrSlfz＠aol.com 01 Sep '98

01 Sep '98

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Sinister: mmuuu
by poetryplace2 01 Sep '98

01 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* A rather nice review in today's Select magazine, which thanks to the miracle of OCR I can reproduce for you below. There was also a chirpy little interview with Stevie, but I couldnt scan it cos it was in a funny colour. I haven't bothered to proof it because a) it's more fun that way and b) that's all I've been doing since 7am this bastard morning. Love Trousie xxxx BELLE AND SEBASTIAI4 The Boy With The Arab Stiap .IEEPSTER ( Third album from Glasgow eight-piece, following 'Tigermilk' and the acclaimed 'If You're Feeling Sinister; both released in 1996. ( The limited-edition 'Tigermilk' is now worth a small fortune - so much so that Belle And Sebastian guitarist Stevie Jackson recently sold a spare copy for £450. When people use the word 'cult' about bands they usually mean 'desperately unpopular'. In the case of Belle And Sebastian, however, it's entirely appropriate. They rarely play live, refuse to have their picture taken and give interviews about as often as Stanley Kubrick. Yet they recently sold out London's Shepherd's Bush Empire in a day. They also have their fair share of acolytes. Getting a single in the charts may not seem like much these days, but to do it without making a video and still keeping your day jobs? You have to wonder how Embrace would've fared under similar conditions. Here, their perversity is best demonstrated by the fact that right when mainman Stuart Murdoch is on the cusp of being acknowledged as a truly potent songwriter - a kind of cuttingly literate anti-Noel - he lets a handful of compositions be written and sung by three of the band's own Boneheads and Guigsies. And then there's the fact that the title namechecks fellow Caledonians Arab Strap. Belle And Sebastian's preciousness about their music can sometimes verge on the adolescent - the line "Record company man, I won't be coming to dinner"somewhat spoils the sumptuous 'Seymour Stein'. But listening to their third album, you can understand why they wouldn't want to taint music this joyously individual by appearing next to that bearded buffoon on Channel 5's The Pepsi Chart. In the past, Belle And Sebastian seemed to live through their book and record collections, their songs dripping with fairly obvious boho allusions to Bob Dylan and Sylvia Plath. Now they sound genuinely 'For Real' in their plaintiveness. The adolescent dreaming has been replaced by a wistful sense of the disappointments of growing up, like Douglas Coupland's mid-20s breakdown set to music. The album's opening line, sung unaccompanied by a fragile-sounding Murdoch, sets the whole tone: ~He had a stroke at the age of 24/It could have been a brilliant career." And while they've remained in the same musical bracket as Nick Drake and the early Velvets, there's a sense of adventurousness here that fits the lyrical assurance. 'Sleep the Clock Around' is a gentle ode to laziness, rendered dreamlike by mysterious blooping sounds before the unexpectedly welcome arrival of a bagpipe, while the downbeat wall-of-sound pastiche 'Dirty Dream #2' sounds like The Ronettes, albeit with Alan Warner in charge rather than Phil Spector. Elsewhere they manage to move out of their familiar landscape of provincial Scottish youthclubs. 'Chick Factor', named after the US alt-rock uber-'zine and written and sung by guitarist Stevie Jackson, is a homesick letter from America in the same folksy vein as Simon and Garfunkel's 'Homeward Bound'. But even here the aching melancholy is lightened by touches of ribaldry that would make Morrissey proud: "Met a cigarette girl, took a note of her charms/But no cigar." All of which makes you curious as to whether their ambivalent attitudes towards their musical 'career' is a necessary part of their make-up. At one point Stuart murmurs "Anything's better than posh isolation" - having created one of the albums of the year, perhaps now they should move from being a secret society into a fully-fledged religion. mmuuu JOHN MULLEN +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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