September 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: gig-gles
by .j 0n 04 Sep '98

04 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* are there any after show happenings going on after the nottingham / london gigs or stuff happening before ? no-one ever tells me anything bye .j 0n +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: (s)Tow college
by Colin Campbell 04 Sep '98

04 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* Hiya kiddies, and grownups too. I saw a funny thing on the telly today. It was on the scottish news about a truck that had crashed over a wall leaving the driver's cab hanging over the edge. Wait for it, B&S content coming up, the wall was beside stow college and on the side of the truck it said Murdoch. Well fuck me if that isn't the darndest thing. love to you all colin. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: B&S song names
by Scott Turner 04 Sep '98

04 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* On 4 September at 16:15 GMT, Mark Casarotto <Mark wrote: <<My love is growing, Biondino>> Does that mean you don't need the arab strap anymore?? +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: CMJ Online review
by Reid 04 Sep '98

04 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* Oh, goody! I get to supply the list with yet another TBWTAS review, this one from the CMJ online site (which has two reviews with audio samples a day...it's a good source for new music, w/ lots of variety <http://www.cmj.com>). The audio samples are of the title track and, ahem, "Sleep Around the Clock". Steve Lamacq doing the typing, apparently. ****************** Belle & Sebastian's third album reveals the Glasgow, Scotland band's recent growth without losing any of the magic of 1997's acclaimed If You're Feeling Sinister. Frontman Stuart Murdoch is helped by greater songwriting and vocal contributions from his seven bandmates. The album builds on the band's gentle blend of orchestral pop (keyboards, horns and strings) and acoustic folk while incorporating more dynamic elements, including whispered vocals and cacophonous horns and drums. The song titles suggest that Belle & Sebastian's fascination with misfit adolescents may have been replaced with an obsession with the music world. Luckily, "Seymour Stein" turns out to be only partly about the band's (real or imagined?) dinner with the Sire Records President, and the standout title track is really the story of troubled personalities, not an homage to fellow Glaswegians and labelmates Arab Strap. The bittersweet lyrics here are not only more introspective, but also increasingly poetic and clever (a favorite: "We all know you're soft 'cause we've all seen you dancing/We all know you're hard 'cause we've all seen you drinking from noon until noon again"). -- Wendy Mitchell ********** If you ask me (I'm aware that you didn't), this is one of the better reviews that I've read. It seems like everyone else is writing almost exactly the same review. It starts out with mentioning how shy they are, talks about the acclaim that IYFS got (okay, this has that one), talks about Stuart Murdoch not singing all the songs anymore, and usually just ends up coming to the shocking conclusion that B&S are gentle and pretty. Blech. By the way, speaking of Stuart Murdoch and the songwriting...Isobel didn't write "Is It Wicked Not to Care" did she? And did Stevie write "Seymour Stein" and "Chick Factor"? Did he write "Wrong Love"? Or is Stuart M. just getting other people to sing his songs? That one review that said that Stuart M. "hogs" the songwriting credit is total bunk. I can't even find songwriting credit on any of the sleeves. ~Reid +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: B&S song names
by Mark Casarotto 04 Sep '98

04 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* Though it really threw me at first, I am now totally convinced that "the boy with the arab strap" is the absolute best name I've ever heard. I can't explain why - it struck me as vulgar, lazy and confusing to start with, but after a couple of days its ungainliness, contrariness and my inability to define what the hell it was referring to both seemed to fit in with the ethos of the band while sticking two fingers up to virtually everyone. More than anything, it Wasn't What We Were Expecting. Tigermilk, on the other hand, is a bit of a wussy name for an album by a fey bunch of indie bedroom boys and girls. I always feel a bit squeamish when, in their lyrics, B&S provide fodder for those who idly pigeonhole them (the beginning of A Summer Wasting, say, which has taken over from Seeing Other People as my least-liked number). But it's a very minor complaint - no band ever has had be literally bouncing round the room (or, on some more scary occasions, my car) simply thanks to the beauty of the words - I've always been a music man, with the lyrics being an added bonus if they're good. But one listen to "You made me forget my dreams" (specially the verse about rockets), or LLPJ, or ...Sinister, or Expectations...I could go on and on... There you go. 275,160 seconds until B&S come on stage in Shprd's Bsh, and I'll be breathless for every one. My love is growing, Biondino +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Nottingham picnic
by jon g. 04 Sep '98

04 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* Hey kids! bethey is on the phone right now, as I write, back from holiday. Despite there being a hurricane in Nottingham, bethey and I are going to have a picnic in nottingham. We will be sitting in the recreation ground at the top of the lenton boulevard at 5:30. If you don't know where that is, look at my map at http://www.btinternet.com/~jon.g/map.jpg Come if you want to (you might want to bring a mac). Also, bring some chocolate or fruit or even a pork pie and a thermos flask of a beverage. Whatever....... see you? love jon g. and bethey jandb(a)polbox.com - http://surf.to/jongandbethey +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Titles
by Scott Turner 04 Sep '98

04 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* Hi Matt, why do you think the song titles are so pish? Both are references: one to a ny zine and the other to another scottish band- both of which endow meaning to the songs? so why so pish? .scott On 4 September at 14:55 GMT, MATTHEW WIMBURY <m.wimbury wrote: I have no doubt that the new L.P will be fantastic but I have to say I not in a long time seen a worse album title than The Boy With The Arab Strap or song title than Chickfactor. Normally their bizarre song titles are great but these two are pish. Never mind....thats my only gripe I've had about B+S ever since I got into them apart from the continued lack of rerelease of Tigermilk and the fact that I still haven't got hold of a couple of the unreleased tracks, though obviously that last one isn't their fault..... Matt. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: La Cigale (sans fourmis)
by kingc＠advisory.ngo.ph 04 Sep '98

04 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* Is anyone on the list going to the show at La Cigale? From my favourite striking airlines, Northwest, Im trying to wheedle a free stopover in Paris en route to DC from Manila (Philippines) so do any listees know if the date posted to the list (6 October) is tentative or certain? Im going to try to drag my friend Jean-Michel to the gig but he says B&S is un peu trop mievre - a translation of which might be a bit too twee or mawkish. (Francophones de la liste, s.v.p. aidez-moi avec cette traduction inexacte!) Is there a Parisian branch of our cult (I mean list) organizing a Sinister outing? E-mail me if youd like to meet up for the show or for a picnic or something. I will bring along Jean-Michel, who is preparing for le CAPES and needs an enforced break, and we can collectively convert (I mean enlighten) him. Claire P.S. Oon, when will you be returning to Thailand? I was in Bangkok (clinic in Patpong, so near your flat, I think) for a few days this week but you were apparently busy raiding all of Glasgow's record shops! Vicariously, I am enjoying every moment! Enjoy yourself at the gigs and bring back lots of Marmite and digestives. Y-a-til quelquun soit en France soit en Angleterre qui voudrait maccompagner au concert de Belle & Sebastian a la Cigale? Retournant chez moi des Philippines, je pense faire une escale a Paris le 6 octobre. Mais cette date est-elle provisoire ou definitive? Et savez-vous comment je pourrais acheter des billets par carte bancaire (et, si possible, par telephone des Philippines!)? Contactez-moi si vous projetez daller au concert et si une jeune femme anglaise avec un accent atroce ne vous agacerez trop! Je sejournerai chez des amis a la rue Coypel (je ne me rappelle plus larrondissement) et je serai tres contente de faire la connaissance des enthousiastes sinistres (ou plutot des adherents du Sinister?!) a Paris. Une grenouille manquee +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Sleep The Clock Around
by MATTHEW WIMBURY 04 Sep '98

04 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* Just listening to this song again, I'd forgotten it will be on the new album, hell it's even better than It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career. I am even happier and even more in anticipation of Monday now...wow Happy Bunny. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Titles
by MATTHEW WIMBURY 04 Sep '98

04 Sep '98

*---* HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES *---* I have no doubt that the new L.P will be fantastic but I have to say I not in a long time seen a worse album title than The Boy With The Arab Strap or song title than Chickfactor. Normally their bizarre song titles are great but these two are pish. Never mind....thats my only gripe I've had about B+S ever since I got into them apart from the continued lack of rerelease of Tigermilk and the fact that I still haven't got hold of a couple of the unreleased tracks, though obviously that last one isn't their fault..... Matt. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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