November 1999 - Sinister

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by Tim Gardner 29 Nov '99

29 Nov '99

Well hello Sinisterites, Nick Dastoor asked if Comet Gain had covered "Don't Worry Baby". I referred to my walking encyclopedia of pop, Comet Gain section, at Track & Field on Friday and apparently they haven't. Which is a pity, really. Especially as I was looking forward to being able to say "Yes, and I can get you an autographed copy from..." in an Arthur Daley stylee. Erica plugged the David Devant & His Spirit Wife gig on the 11th of December in London. I'd love to go but I think I'm out of town that night. It's annoying because I haven't seen them for two years and, while they aren't anything very special on record, when they play live they're a real treat. Did you know time: Nick from DD&HSW's missus is in this week's Hot Tickets, very scary she looks too. I nearly dropped my coffee when I saw it. If you have Hot Tickets then look at the bit in the Clubs section, the Clubbing It piece on Uncle Bob's Wedding Reception, you'll see what I mean. David Geraghty and Zoe mentioned Daniel Johnston. Yes, Daniel Johnston. His first record for years came out a few months ago on Leicester's own Pickled Egg label, on virgin white vinyl. He also penned "True Love Will Find You In The End", which was covered by Sonic Boom a few years back. I didn't have to refer to my walking encyclopedia of pop for that one, just my spoddy knowledge of all things Spacemen 3-shaped. The whole Isobel debate seems to have finished for now, which is good. I wouldn't have wanted to express my opinion either way for fear of ruining the fantasies of a hundred twee indie boys (and girls) or perpetuating that "Isobel is perfect" thing. I'll keep my opinions to myself and if anyone wants to loosen my tongue by plying me with drink then you're all very welcome to try. Go on, please try. It'd make my day, just like the letter I received last year that said "If you do this for me then I'll suck your cock for a week", or words to that effect. Seriously, pop stars should remain aloof. It allows them to retain an element of mystery, keeps them special. Otherwise they just turn into pathetic showbiz whores, see 'er from Catatonia, Jarvis Cocker from Pulp and The Sexcapades Of Dan Diego. Equally, pop stars shouldn't be down to earth and normal. Then you get the Shitophonics who are quite the dullest band I've ever chanced upon. It's a balance thing. If I sound like a music fascist then so what, it's my job to be a music fascist. You don't get to be an elitest indie SNOB overnight y'know. It takes literally days of training and years of bitterness. Not forgetting a chip on your shoulder the size of the Jubilee Line extension. We lay on the bed there, kissing just for crack pipes... Yours Tim Gardner BA (Hons) Musical Fascism. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I'm waiting for the day when you can love again...
by Walkn10＠aol.com 29 Nov '99

29 Nov '99

I'm not exactly sure what happened, but after not posting for an entire week my list crush votes doubled. I'm not sure whether to be overjoyed or a tad insulted...ahhh, who am I kidding? We all know I talk rot, so I guess in that case less is more. Can anyone tell me if the new version of "Loneliness..." differs from the various demo versions they've done? It is a truly great song, and I guess the fact that they recorded that for the Tube would imply that its the first single as rumored. I hope Lord Anthony is still the B-side. All this talk about Stuart David distancing himself from the group is a bit disconcerting. I know they're not the Monkees and all, but it seems like he's growing a bit sick of the deal. He really loves to knock us doesn't he? First he calls one of our members "ignorant" awhile back (didn't he post that to the list), then he calls us all "freaky." What's up his crag? I also remember Sarah mentioning in one of the early updates that he liked to ruthlessly belittle the people who took time out of their lives to mail the band. I don't think he likes his fans too much. He seemed awfully jolly at the Looper show, but I guess B&S fans aren't his bag. Any DC/MD/VA listees who have nothing to do this Sat evening should all come out to the Antietam battlefield (in Sharpsburg, MD) at 6pm. This is the date of the annual "Battlefield Illumination" where over 23,000 candles are lit around the field to represent each casualty of the battle. I've never seen the Illumination, but I hear its quite nice, and the park itself is actually breathtaking in how well its been preserved. Its free and if you're a pansy who can't stand the cold, you can just take the driving tour and stay inside your warm, cozy car (and maybe listen to something nice at the same time). Mail me if you'd like to meet up somewhere in town. I heard Marie Elia's school had a day off because it was the first day of Hunting Season. I just have to laugh (with her of course)... I'm out like trout... Steve C. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: What age are you? Twenty. Twenty? Nobody's twenty!
by Alasdair Cook MC1996 29 Nov '99

29 Nov '99

I was, I think. It's all a bit of a blur. I think I saw an oasis. But maybe it was just a shit band. Anyhoo, I had spiffing weekend, made all the better by the arrival in this fair city of Stephen "Oh, this looks like a nice place to be sick" Hewitt and Rachel "You do look like a tortoise, actually" Playforth. Whose scarf is great. And not just by proxy. The only downers were managing to miss Owen "Robin Askwith" Lowery and Kevan Cooke. Bugger. AWW, HE'S SO SENSITIVE, A BIT LIKE STUART MURDOCH EXCEPT UGLIER I'm not one to get all moist eyed for no good reason, usually only if someone steals my Beano, but I did last night and then again this morning, for different reasons. Luckily I was on my own both times so no-one was there to laugh at me. Strange. Oh, I've just realised something ironic, but it's of no interest to any of you lot. Mark N: > ...if [Erica] shows her bodypart, I'll show my > flabby example of it as well. Alright, lets have a vote. Which do we want to see more, Erica's tits or Mark's? Send your answers to me, or the two of them can just send me the photos and I'll decide whose are better. Nick Dastoor wrote, ages ago: >this is >someone who only recently realised that 'Archel' was subtle corruption of >'Rachel'. Which has nothing to do with anything, I just felt like laughing at Nick. Ha ha ha. Sorry. Jordi: > I´ve become a big Pythons fan, even though they had a nasty sketch about the scots (The one > about the "poet" Ewan McTeagle) Which is strange, cos I thought that was one of the funniest ones they ever did. "If you could just lend me a fiver 'til monday, I've got a postal order coming through etc". I'm laughing again. Continuing the dream theme, I had one the other night where Struan was repeatedly punched by girls he used to go out with. Which probably happens anyway, but it was quite funny in the dream. Everyone who hasn't already should go and see Fight Club this instant, as it's an absolute corker of a film. Comedy, violence, Ed Norton and Meatloaf, what more could you ask for? I'm sure I had other, more interesting things to say than this. Probably not, actually. I should go anyway, so I'll stop here. Alasdair xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: damned by dream
by mike windisch 29 Nov '99

29 Nov '99

it was most certainly some tight and perverted business indeed. But thanks be to the wisened arbiter of normal reality, it was just a dream. The docile, twee and ever-so-stylee easy listening belle and sebastian somehow morphed into a heavy metal rock video on the street in front of this here office building. Stuart Murdoch, sporting a mullet cut (see mulletsgalore.com) and brandishing a flying-V guitair, was strutting about like some coked-out cross between mick jagger and billy squire in a revealing pair of tight-assed nuthugger jeans tucked into oversized pony hightops (circa 1984). A sleeveless Ted Nuget shirt revealed them thair arms of sex held high in a callous clap-along to an amphetimine-fueled version of TBWTAS. I had to rub my eyes, blink numerous times and say "what the shit" out loud repeatedly in an effort to clear this abberant hallucination from my sight. But to my chagrin, this sordid scene continued to unfold as that demure chanteuse Isobel emerged from behind the cello done up in patent leather fetish gear with a menacing scowl pasted across her visiage. She strutted sluttily over to Herr David, who was hastily scribbling something into a note book. With a mighty motion of her stiletto-heeled thigh-high Kiss boots, the Isobatrix kicked the scribe square in the bass and onto his ass. Laughing, she snarled wickedly into the microphone something to the effect that she had had enough of his panty-waisting poofta antics and had better scamper off to his tree fort if he didn't want her to unleash the full force of her fresh can of whoop-ass on him. With a studly chortle, Stu. M quipped into the microphone that "this fuggin shit always happens when the bitch's bender ends because the crank ran out" ..... At this point I awoke with a gasp, my sheets sweat soaked and heart racing. I was gripped in a hybrid emotional state that combined fear, laughter and the odd sensation that things were not right in the world at all... In fact, just recounting this horrific scene makes me feel dirty and sinful. In other realms, I caught a very intimate Hefner gig at Brown a couple weeks ago. It was my first encounter with their music and despite a possessed pa was very rewarding experience. I cannot stop listening to the recording I made on the down low with my trusty radio shack recorder. Also, the Make Up will be gigging with a hastily-named supergroup (featuring members of sonic youth, the bad seeds, and some other indy luminaries) this Friday night at the Secret Theater in New London CT. This is a good co-op space with a byob speakeasy booze policy. contact me or check www.hozomeen.org for more details. ciao, windisch ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: big ups to the sinister massiiiive
by Paul McAllister 29 Nov '99

29 Nov '99

i think its about time for another of my tri-yearly postings. i think i must hold the record for watching a 5 minute video clip the most number of times. i have now watched that tube clip more than 35 times. sad i know. anyhow, first a plea for advice.....ive just started getting offers back from universities. well ive got one so far which was from glasgow. if theres any kind folk who either go there, did go there, or know people who go there, i would be most grateful if they could make any comments as to whether its any good etc etc and what its like to be a student in glasgow la la la. ive heard one horror story from a friend who's cousin went there and got nastily beaten up in his first week for being english. i assume thats not commonplace but feel free to correct me. am i being naive...... hmm only a few 6 months left of school ever. yay. then a big holiday. we've just bought a huge old dodge van to paint black and recreate the A team van so we can drive it to amsterdam for euro 2000. which should be good. and expensive. oh dear. why cant i be rich.... ATP....im a bit bothered about this. there seems to be a lack of information from official sources. all ive heard is that mogwai are deciding the lineup.....but most of the original line up will be there too. so that either means that theres going to be lots of bands, or (more likely) that ive got confused somewhere and have got it all wrong.... original tickets are valid, so does that mean that there arent many tickets left? or have they made more available? what are the chances of a certain octet turning up as surprise guests? or am i just dreaming here....... re: mr.david. tis all a bit worrying. if he really isnt touring again with the band does that mean he's left? or is he just waiting for the album to be finished so he can leave then? or is he just a lazy arse? or am i reading far to much into it...... and can i finish every paragraph with a rhetoric..... right im off to disappear for another 4 months or so, be good paul ---------------------------------------------------- Paul McAllister paul(a)belleandsebastian.org ICQ#21292923 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: .....
by diana :) 29 Nov '99

29 Nov '99

hello....erm.... I have quite a fondness for trees and i think that it can be linked to the fact that i am a 23 year old girl who pathetically hides the fact that she smokes from her parents. Every evening when i come home from work (my third job) i stand outside a few doors down from my house and i smoke a cigarette and stare at this spindley tree that twists it's way about a lamp post... i can't get enough of it...it is so beautiful. I must admit, however, that i am not so fond of trees in the summer months because you cannot see the lines...those beautiful lines that i love to paint as i crouch up in my room and sneak my other cigarettes and stare at the lovely tree in my backyard as i hang like a silly girl from my window. yesterday i was coming home from work along my quiet nightime street and i stood across from my pretty tree and i turned up my felt cd and i lit up. I started singing rather loudly and, since it was dead on the streets, dancing in my usual silly manner. Suddenly i looked around there was this guy that lives 3 doors down just staring at the hilarious sight of me being the regular nut that i am ....needless to say i quickly threw my cigarette in a nearby puddle and ran home to hide my face in my pillow... sorry to bore you... you can look at my weird paintings and stuff... www.chickpages.com/musicmania/miss_modular/index.html :)diana ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: greetings from nova scotia
by ipecac spice 29 Nov '99

29 Nov '99

hi all! i was sooo excited the other day when i got the message that i was out of the nursery. then i became paralysed with fear b/c i knew that i could never be as brilliant and witty as i want to be... i greatly enjoy getting all your messages. i won't bore you all by telling you all about myself. i will just say that i'm madly in love with belle and sebastian and if i cannot find sebastian to marry my first born son will be sebastian. i m sorry to have missed out on the whole dialogue on fall and break-ups. so, even though it's long over i'll add my 2 cents now. i don't like fall. it depresses me, everything's dying and it means cold and winter are coming and i hate the cold. i think there's connection between the fall and the seeming number of excessive break-ups this time of year. relationships, like the plants start to die. so what's the deal with gregory's girl? i never heard of this film until i joined this list. anybody want to fill me in on why it's so fabulous? does anyone know if it's ever going to show in halifax (n.s.)? my little brother got the new beck cd the other day. it's good, but quite a jump from mutations. it's as if 2 cds grew out of odelay and it would have made more sense if midnite vultures came right after odelay, but then mutations would seem strange comeing after this so...i liked mutations better even though it makes me sad and lazy. midnite vultures mkes me dance around my room, but i get tired of it before the disc is over. i have never had a b&s related dream. i don't usually dream about bands, esp. if i've never seen them. i did however, recently have a dream that puff daddy married one of the spice girls, no one knew which one but the rumour was it was sporty. ok, i won't bore you all anymore. -di "i want to defy the logic of all sex laws" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: grinning inanely
by fiona 29 Nov '99

29 Nov '99

alas and welaway! that i so promised i will not protest but for god's love pray make a new request. take all my wealth and let my body go. nay then, beshrew us if i do! so much for modern english translations, but any excuse to email the words 'alas' and 'beshrew' as i continue my ingenious masquerade of actually doing something useful. take all my wealth and let my body go - if only!! clearly written by a man who could imagine that has never tried to search for someone who will spend copious amounts of money on me, in a sea of skint students. not that i'm complaining, mind, (grins inanely again) re: list crush thingie - 3 votes!!! my meteoric rise has begun!! but methinks it won't get very far if i continue sending confused and disjointed posts such as this. those of you who have a view of trees from their window, spare a thought for those of us who have to be content with staring out at a wall. on those lonely staring out of window evenings i just have a wall to keep me company. its not even a very interesting wall, either, i'm sure its a very nice wall and always remembers people's birthday and phones its mum every night, but it really is rather nondescript. thats not dissimilar to the description i would give of the charming people i see in maths lectures every day. the whole world is geared towards making me feel more interesting!! a revelation!! i feel all warm!! this is almost certainly the wrong place to ask, but does anyone have any serious views on cardigans? (as in the garment rather than the band) i have studiously avoided them for the past couple of winters because a) far too many townies wear them, usually not to very flattering effect b) try as i might, i cannot get past the idea that they are for old people and should not be worn by glamorous young hipsters such as myself. they do, however seem to be a very good idea, because it means much of my summer wardrobe can be worn all year round simply by the addition of a cardigan (i've tried this with a scarf but that doesn't keep my arms warm, and numerous jackets become too cumbersome) so you see my dilemma!! shit, calculus is calling me, stay beautiful, kidz, fiona +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Nick Drake
by Paul Rudolph 29 Nov '99

29 Nov '99

So has anyone seen the Volkswagon commercial on TV where they played "Pink Moon" by Nick Drake? Very nice! +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: 6 o'clock already? I was just in the middle of a dream
by Mark Casarotto 29 Nov '99

29 Nov '99

Good morning f. chickens! For some reason I'm pleased, despite being at work. And it being Monday morning. And damp and grey. But hey! I just voted for B&S in the NME readers poll, and Belle and Sebastian as Best Dance Act can only be a click away... For all of you who haven't voted yet (and this includes foreigners, natch), get your arses down to http://www.nme.com/newsdesk/19991117163652.html <http://www.nme.com/newsdesk/19991117163652.html> pronto and vote for the groop in whichever category you think appropriate. In The Face, Pete Waterman! Yeah! Hell, attach it to your sig file! Time for gratitude. Thanks to Ready Steady Mike! and the gorgeous, pouting Pam. They know what for. Thanks also to Kronenbourg for 750 ml bottles of beer. They make you look dead cool, as if you've invented an amazing space-age growing-things ray gun. Thanks to Simon and Garfunkel for writing the "Hello Grandpa my old Friend" song. I think they did, anyway - I have seen the S******s episode it appears in, but my memory (and my prostate, I shouldn't wonder) ain't what it used to be. It's called "The Sound of Silence". Isn't it? Marvellous. No thank, however, to Adrian Evans. You bastard, you were right <sob>. Oh well, another triumphant relegation-avoiding season for the mighty Gulls beckons :-( Lucy Alder, in the living room, with a medicine ball, Mark xxx ******************************************************************* The contents of this e mail from HIT Entertainment PLC are confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy or further distribute this e mail; please notify us by telephone on 0171 224 1717, and delete the e mail from your computer. This e mail has been checked by our anti-virus system before leaving us; we accept no responsibility for the e mail and any attachments once they leave us. www.hitentertainment.com www.bobthebuilder.org ******************************************************************** +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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