September 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: Reykjavik Cowboys go Glasgow
by mctag＠bigfoot.com 01 Sep '98

01 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* Hello Campers, Say it loud, I'm back and I'm proud. I had a lovely holiday, thank you for asking. Highlights... A two hour ride on one of those lovely Icelandic horses across fine mountain scenery, although this seems to have given me a strange gait and a dull ache somewhere unmentionable; Being forced up a near vertical cliff by my significantly more energetic travelling companion, complaining all the way, only to be rewarded with the most amazing view of a volcano and the coast and a huge glacier; In the Blue Lagoon, the cure for every ailment known to man, just sitting there as the warm water eased over my bones and soaked into my pores; Not going to poxy Damon Albarn's bar (why does everyone ask me that?); Last but not least, hanging out with the mighty Olla, our Icelandic Sinisterine, and discovering that she rules with the best of us, especially after Tom, the middle-aged Minnesota millionaire who latched on to us, had bought us numerous drinks in a futile attempt to convince us that mercenary capitalist bastards had feelings too. But, God knows, you kids want to know about Belle and Sebastian. As my flight conventiently came in to Glasgow, I was able to attend the B&S whist drive/bingo/youth club event at Maryhill Community Centre, (next door to Taggart's car complex, the source of much merriment) an occasion that allowed me to meet "Tasty" Tim H!O!P!kins, the famous Mister Ed (our chauffeur for the night), the delightful Ooooooon, the publishing David, not to mention "zany" autograph hunter Calumn, along with a few of the usual suspects. Keith "Snap Happy" Watson was causing trauma with his funsize camera, playing air piano (a true multi-instrumentalist) with Tim to "Outdoor Miner", and missing the golden oppurtunity to drink in a band named after his favourite drummer - Bonham. Susannah had a cold. Jackson Jeffrey Jackson was wearing little more than a smile, to celebrate his hat-trick against Newcastle, Rachel's breasts preceded her, Katrina and David and Anne and Paul and Linda and Chris and Julia and Sandy and were there too. We mingled and dug the sounds. Then we were herded like cattle through to the "auditorium". Katrina's botty shuffle across the dancefloor (no stilleto heels by order of the management) was the unexpected support act, and then some band or other came on and played some songs. They were damn good, you know. Lots of stuff of "Sinister", a scattering of new songs, a couple of "Tigermilk" ("that song is available on Electric Honey Records" said cheeky choirboy Disco Stu), we were introduced to Momma Murdoch. It was like watching a (good) dress rehearsal in some ways, which was fascinating in its own right. Star of the show was undoubtedly Stevie, who appeared to be playing "The Boy with the Arab Strap" entirely on his own as the rest of the band disappeared behind monitors and pianos. They left, we went to the bar (the barman, with a completely unnecessary lack of dignity, was practically begging me to drink), mingled a bit more, digged Andrew Symington's Booty Bouncing Bohemoth beats, and went home "tired...but happy". That's it really. See (some of) you at the weekend. Love, Tagnusson 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 +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Re: Go on then, rub it in
by Funkyseb＠aol.com 01 Sep '98

01 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* <<So how was it? What did I miss? anyone want to join in a hate campaign against Connex South East? or any other rail operator?>> Do any listees want to join a hate campaign against me? I am the founder. I'm sure you missed many things though all I really remember is being VERY LOUD all the time and causing a mess everywhere. Salsaing tapes and burning seats. So, sorry to everyone whom I've upset. I'm going into the corner for a bit to think about the consequences of my actions. Seb BTW don't you hate it when you buy a ticket for a train, and then no one bothers to check it? Connex SE must be the worst at this. But if you don't buy one, you feel so guilty. For weeks. Tsk, eh? +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: who knows about NY dates?
by matthew_kelly_at_hscb-b7＠netmail.hscbklyn.edu 01 Sep '98

01 Sep '98

Howdy all. Does anyone have any info for me on a ny show? I have heard supper club on 11/1. If anyone can tell me more please do or you'll wake up with peanut-butter on your glasses and if you don't wear glasses, well than ... nothing happens to you. Thanks Matt _______________________________________________________________________________ Subject: Sinister: Back, front, side to side From: THAIAN N TON <tton(a)welchlink.welch.jhu.edu> at Internet Date: 9/1/98 8:34 AM *---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* Hello my beautiful Sinisterees, I hope life has been treating each and every one of you as happy as you can be. I missed the list and finally re-subscribed to find it as wonderful as ever. Ink Polaroid of the last month: That's me, dashing about, I finally chatted up a blokie in the record shop and he agreed to give me a copy of The Boy ... and I'm dancing with such joy. I have to promise, though, to give him an equally good copy of Tigermilk. I'm still dancing even though my car's been towed, I've got no money, but the beautiful Belle & Sebastian are coming to DC! Hooray! Love, Chi chi xoxo (Thaian) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: the monday poem (slight return): espadrille
by A.M. Horne 01 Sep '98

01 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* so, posting to the list again after what has to be a couple of months. and it feels a little odd. can i remember how you're supposed to do this...? oh, one thing i _do_ remember is that you have to talk about tapes that keith's done you, and to say how great they are. well, actually, thanks to the wonders of the tape tree, i _can_ do this. and so i shall. particularly since i should have mailed him personally to thank him already. but, hell, everyone else is doing it, so why shouldn't i? (as the cranberries, who _don't_ feature on keith's tape (or actually cd)) once nearly said. so. ok. thanks keith... for the cd. i suppose i shouldn't actually go into loads of detail about what's on it, since, unusually, some of you will actually be hearing this yourselves at some point or other, but i will say that the notorious b.i.g. track on the cd sounds just like something off the first snoop doggy dogg lp. thanks again. oh. and liz daplyn's tape is wonderful. superb. but anyway, that's enough of that. let's talk about something else before i get on with my contractual obligation and post the monday poem, which is why i'm posting the list in the first place (thanks genevieve), after deciding that i'd be better off on the benedictine-monastery mailing-list (fairly quiet in terms of the number of mails, but we brew our own beer) so. thanks to those of you who've mailed me or even the list to ask why i don't post any more. thanks particularly to james errington for his little parable at the end of last week, which i can exclusively reveal to susannah and anyone else who may (or not - please yourself) have been wondering what it was about, was actually about me and honeypaul. and the list. this probably isn't the place for a full sunday-school-style interpretation, but thanks james, anyway (oh. and don't worry, honeypaul. i won't be making a habit (gosh. can't stop the wretched puns even when i'm trying to be serious) of posting to the list. this is a one-off. or counting yesterday's apology, a two-off. whatever.) anything else? vh-1's offering a whole day devoted to the beegees fairly soon, which of course _i_'ll be glued to. any gossip i ought to respond to? not really. all quiet on the preston front. i can, of course, exclusively reveal that the notorious eric griffiths (the 'disrespectful don' of paper fame) may well be a nasty man, but he's also very funny, in case any of you daily mail readers are out there. the chart show's dead, but i'd hate to stir up any trouble about that in case anyone used to watch live and kicking instead. no reviews of the gigs? things _are_ quiet. still, at least the software'll be happy. love 'the boy with'. and 'brilliant career'. can't wait for nottingham and london. and wasn't that muck-raking documentary on the carry-on films last night appalling. so charles hawtry, kenneth williams and frankie howerd were gay. gosh. and they hid it so well. how long before we get an expose of oscar bloody wilde. (who isn't as funny as any of the above anyway) anyway, the poem. a day late. but there you go. by frank o'hara. who was a genius. but you knew that already. and it's called 'the day lady died'. and it's about billie holiday (not the 'because we want to' billie, tho i'm sure simon armitage has already written a poem about her, being the on-the-pulse sort of guy he surely is (and no, stuart g, don't mention murray lachlan young. don't even think about it)). so. billie holiday. not billy bragg. or billy mackenzie, who deserved something like this himself. ok. the poem. 'the day lady died' It is 12:20 in New York a Friday three days after Bastille day, yes it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine because I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton at 7:15 and then go straight to dinner and i don't know the people who will feed me I walk up the muggy street beginning to sun and have a hamburger and a malted and buy an ugly NEW WORLD WRITING to see what the poets in Ghana are doing these days I go on to the bank and Miss Stillwagon (first name Linda I once heard) doesn't even look up my balance for once in her life and in the GOLDEN GRIFFIN I get a little Verlaine for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or Brendan Behan's new play or _Le Balcon_ or _Les Negres_ of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaine after practically going to sleep with quandariness and for Mike I just stroll into the PARK LANE Liquor Store and ask for a bottle of Strega and then I go back where I came from to 6th Avenue and the tobacconist in the Zeigfield Theatre and casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a carton of Picayunes, and a NEW YORK POST with her face on it and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT while she whispered a song along the keyboard to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing (oh. and a p.s. a poem by tom raworth. who is also a genius. if anyone's still reading. after which, bye.... (the-list-exile-formerly-known-as-espadrille)) MY FACE IS MY OWN, I THOUGHT morning he had gone down to the village a figure she still recognised from his walk nothing he had explained is won by arguing things are changed only by power and cunning she still sat meaning to ask what did you say ? echo in her ears he might just have finished speaking so waiting and taking the scissors began to trim off the baby's fingers (ok. that's the last from me. i choose the lovely and very bright debbie to do the next one. and nothing from tom stoppard, young lady. ok. bye. i'm going now. or something like that. to listen to my del shannon lp.) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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". 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Sinister: Back, front, side to side
by THAIAN N TON 01 Sep '98

01 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* Hello my beautiful Sinisterees, I hope life has been treating each and every one of you as happy as you can be. I missed the list and finally re-subscribed to find it as wonderful as ever. Ink Polaroid of the last month: That's me, dashing about, I finally chatted up a blokie in the record shop and he agreed to give me a copy of The Boy ... and I'm dancing with such joy. I have to promise, though, to give him an equally good copy of Tigermilk. I'm still dancing even though my car's been towed, I've got no money, but the beautiful Belle & Sebastian are coming to DC! Hooray! Love, Chi chi xoxo (Thaian) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Chicago, Now!
by John F. Monroe 01 Sep '98

01 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* right from the Chicago Metro website ( www.metrochicago.com) Mon., October 26 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN Tickets: $14 18 & Over Doors: 8:00 / Show:9:00 if this is not the case, someone please tell us so :) ( Leonard Nimoy knows a good parade when he sees one.... ) -john +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Re: Go on rub it in
by padraic doorey 01 Sep '98

01 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* i didn't make the picnic either cause it clashed with road trips to dungeoness whilst downing gin and tonics in strange fluorescent slim jims. i managed to get to the tail end of the event and put some picnicers in the back of the car while we successfully went to stratford and quite unsuccessfully ventured towards crouch end but ended spectacularly up in enfield. and then funkyseb dropped the cigarette lighter on the passenger seat and burned a big hole in it (naughty funkyseb) but it doesn't matter coz it was a rental. however, yesterday, the fabu *vicky* played to me wonderful songs from TBWTAS as we drank more gin and tonic. i heard a rumour there might have been another picnic in primrose hill yesterday....did it go ahead? should i be green with envy? are any of the listees going to make it to the NY shows? *mwah* *mwah* Lady Penelope _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.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: Go on - rub it in
by Sam Norman 01 Sep '98

01 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* yet again, i have been the subject of Connex south east's plans to stop young people travelling. Over the weekend no trains stopped at my locl station (Chelsfield) but did they tell anyone, probably. But did they send me a personal letter telling me that there arrangements would stop me going to the greenwich meeting, they certinley did not. i spent two hours on Sunday sittig watching trains, including the eurostar flash past me. All i wanted was for one train to stop and let me get on. So how was it? What did I miss? anyone want to join in a hate campaign against Connex South East? or any other rail operator? ______________________________________________________ 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: i'm back, tour dates, and anything else i feel like talking about, so THERE!
by mkl206＠is8.nyu.edu 01 Sep '98

01 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* hello all! well, i'm back in good old nyc, apparently in time for another picnic. luckily, i'm not planning this one, so i encourage all to come out. then we can be happy and frolic and whatnot. yup, sounds lovely. or we can be like the british sinisterines and get hopelessly drunk and end up sobbing in an alleyway somewhere. don't think your happy little photos have me fooled!!! have to get up pretty early in the morning to do that. or at least earlier than me. which would mean noon. so about the dates, yeah i finally get to see them in nyc!!!! i would like to offer an invitation to the band to stay in my dorm. it's actually against the rules in a technical manner, but i think i could sneak them into the laundry room. and really, it's all about location after all. ooh, and they can stay with me if they play in portland, or in janurary. i've already informed my mother, and i'm not joking there. she was getting ready to host them this summer. personally, i can think of few things more entertaining than having belle and sebastian stay at my family's house. we have a trampoline, so i think they'll want to come. and the scary thing is that my parents will probably like them quite a lot. i'm not sure why i think this, perhaps because the idea of my mom and stuart murdoch discussing the merits of judy blume amuses me to no end. on a more realistic note, the second issue of movers and shakers is now complete. it features interviews with #poundsign#, the cat's miaow, the apples in stereo, his name is alive, and the shoestrings. and lots of reviews, including some of b&s. guess how i rated their stuff.... hmmm, i really know i had something else to say. oh well, forgive me if i sound odder than usual, but i just moved in today and i've been unpacking and a bit off for most of the evening. and now i'm feeling myself crashing. sigh. ok, i'll be back later. xox 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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by Calumn Shearer 01 Sep '98

01 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* right, i've missed the 1st post about the gig (thanks to colin!) but yes, it was fun. I was the mad man running about collecting signatures from everyone I could find and generally making a complete fool of myself... serves me right for having such a good time! It was good...... I discovered that I was at the same "residential" music course as Isobel (claim to fame!) and I even met her auntie (she's _really_ nice!) I've managed to finally put a face to a lot of the names I've met on the list and on IRC, which is nice but don't expect a review of the gig, cos I'm going to leave that to someone who's heard b&s live before. don't think I've got a hope of winning chris' elvis pic though, I can't remember my entry to the competition, but I'm sure that that set was nowhere near it! A fine end to my day-off-work! Love to you all, and honey - I've still got Karen's pen! cal (drunk, but still upright!) P.S since it's the end of my sabbatical, I'm going to be answering all these e-mails that have been flooding my way (hopefully!) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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