March 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Gentle Cheese
by L. Kerr 31 Mar '99

31 Mar '99

Chaps Just had the shocking news that The Gentle Waves "gig" in Glasgow is sold out... I was pleased to see a message about a Glasgow meet-up. The last one was excellent, even tho no-one wanted to linger in the Botanic Garden hothouses looking at prize orchids, preferring to head for the pub. Shame on you. I will expect more sensitivity at this one, if not free copies of limited edition singles :) Just a quick word to say that if you are ever stranded in Dublin with no money, as your purse has been nicked in a CyberCafe while you are talking nonsense in the Sinister chat room, within 20 min a very nice Irishman will appear with rescue money, and introduce you to his equally nice friends. Oh and give you dinner. So, thank you again Joss. See you on "the bus" Linda x +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: gentle cheese in the nme
by Fluffy Sarah 31 Mar '99

31 Mar '99

(hooray! whistler album out 29/3/99!) And by the way, did everyone know that Mogwai are one of the few bands with something left to say? eg "i think the fact we don't incorporate singing seperates us from all modern music...is as radical as bob dylan alerting the souther states of America to their racist ways in the 1950s." And there I was thinking they were just scared of good old mister tune.. anyhoo - the gentle cheese album review which i am going to post FIRST! cos I'm bored. for a band that has spent most of its year thus far shunning the limelight, 1999 is turning into a mightliy peculiar year for belle and sebastian. barely three months in, they've already won a brit, organised their own indie festival, and pissed off a nation of vinyl junkies by re-releasing Tigermilk. Now - gawd bless us - come the solo projects... stuart davids looper album recently sneaked out of the traps and now its the turn of isobel campbell to inflict her gently glum ponderings upon us. recorded in the space of a week, 'the green fields of foreverland' is fundamentally an half an hours worth of homespun cosiness. With galivanting Black beauty style frills, B&S chums tinkling on the xylophone and tunes like toasted muffins on a cold winters eve, this isn't so much a record as a glowing acoustic based advert for the scottish tourist board. true, weathershow charges about with a certain feistiness, and Evensong has a touch of Carry On sauce about it. Yet isobel and her seethingly cutie vocals are frequently to be found in more fragile quarters, fretting about lifes little mysteries and dabbling in sugary sweet sorroes like Enchanted Place, Dirty Snow for the Broken Ground, and of course Tree Lullaby. NICE. Next month: Stuart Murdoch releases his pipe-smoking solo opus :No Cigarette Packet required. We bet. 6/10 and that was written by Simon Williams. Britney Spears got 1/10. the gentle cheese are also the ON gig of the week: yet another belle and sebastian offshoot which, if they continue at this rate of proliferation should result in at least 67 unpresuming new indie bands come the millenuium. the gentle waves (cheese) are the softly sung brainstorm of B&S cellist Isobel Campbell who recorded her Green Fields of Foreverland LP (on jeepster) in only one week - with the help of a handful of her B&S bandmates. Its a dark, errily affecting record, stretched taut between warm, folk-influenced lullabies, and incy, minimal meandeings, somehow both comforting and strangely disquieting. liver performances should be suitably low key and thronged by whispering B&S devotees. blah blah ticket details etc london improv theatre 8 nicker a go.... I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!! Sarah +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: No sun for me, and how to describe music.
by Neil Dewhurst 31 Mar '99

31 Mar '99

ooooh, sounds like fun! fingers crossed it'll be fine an sunny on Sunday...ive never been to a B&S picnic thing before, but i may very well just venture down to this one. im going to the Gentle Waves gig, of course, with a mate who has a cunningly placed flat fairly close by, but ive no idea who'll be at the picnic affair since ive never been to one before. how many people are we all expecting, roughly? i hope im not the only student there...who'll join me??? JaMeS :) Damn all you sun-enjoyers and you Sunday idyll. I, for one, will not be there, due to my required presence chez mes parents this weekend. I will be at the gig, however, which I am still fairly excited about. Do they sell tickets in numerical order, by the way, because I have a childish excitement in me from being sent tickets 5 and 6. Does this make me important? It surely does. On the how to describe music thread: Accusing journos of laziness is perfectly justified. I'm kind of in that field, and I'm as idle as a tortoise in December. I think that sloppy journalism would be a better tag, though, since an amazing number of mistakes somehow get made despite common sense and the need for only a very small brain to avoid them. Describing music can be a bit tricky, though, as I found while trying to buy the state of grace album. Shopkeeper: What's it like then? Me Erm Shopkeeper I've heard its like St Etienne a bit Me Erm, yeah Shopkeeper And One Dove Me Kind of crossed Shopkeeper Right. Me Yeah. Not bad for a budding music journo, you have to admit. Cheers for now, and happy easter to all. Neil xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I've got that wide awake, give and take, five o'clock in the morning feeling...
by Blake E. Hamilton 31 Mar '99

31 Mar '99

Dear Flowers, Oh how I weep... Here in the darling southeastern United States it is 6am. I have been up since around ten am this morning and I am not happy. It seems that a wretched bout of insomnia has crept and taken hold of me like a shadowed ghoul. The sun is beginning to rise, and the sky is a sort of lavender palette right now. My point, well, is that I am very sleepy and I can't go to sleep for the life of me, and I have no idea why. One of the reasons that I was unable to sleep (not why I cannot sleep as of now) was that my roommate officially left earlier this morning, after being kicked out of school a few days ago. Oh, people who cannot hold their liquor, do take care of yourselves, if you are indeed out there. My roommate was a slob. So instead of taking back all of his things to friendly California he left me with a considerable mess, and as opportune as my bad luck is, a friend is coming in later today, and I only have a few hours to make this place look habitable. I'm afraid there isn't a lot of B&S content in this post (as if there really is any, ever!). Well, I did talk to a very old friend today, who goes to Oxford (in Georgia that is) who has a dear friend who loves B&S. She said she had listened to them a few times, and thought they were quite nice. I was about to go on about the new album, single, and Tigermilk, but I figured she didn't want to hear me gush so. Thanks to the many Sinisterees who have gotten in touch with me after my auction of screen names last week. I have met some adorable shy folk who absolutely take my breath away... I believe that does it. Please, anyone, send me wishes of sleep, oh sweet repose. It's now light outside and I'm beginning to panic. Perhaps I will never sleep again. love, blake PS Anyone else think Blur's Tender (the 'oh baby, oh why?' bit) sounds WAY too much like Jarvis' Dogs Are Everywhere? The little guitar bits are very very similar. "seven weeks of staying up all night...." +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: i need your help
by araymond＠roanoke.edu 31 Mar '99

31 Mar '99

Hello 'Sinister' People: I don't post very often, but I have a question to ask the list members. I'm going to be studying in England this summer (I'm from the U.S.A.). Unfortunately, I just realized that most of the people I'll be flying over with are choads who therefore will not provide me with much camaraderie. Fortunately, I remembered that I was on this nifty mailing-list and that many of those subscribing to the list come from the United Kingdom. This is where you step in. I need friends!! I'll be at St. Anne's in Oxford and if any of you will be in that general vicinity between July 5th and August 15th I would like to meet you. It would be beautiful if I had friends in England before I even left America. And, with our shared love of Belle and Sebastian, I'm sure we'll have plenty to talk about (I'm sorry if this sounds too much like a desperate personal ad in the classifieds). Thank you, andrew +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: just a-bumbling of me
by Molly 31 Mar '99

31 Mar '99

First off, a few tiddy-bits of little things that have been rolling in my mind (the proverbial B&S content to follow, however old it may seem) To whoever asked: Sarah Michelle Gelar (or whatever): I haven't seen that vampire show, but I saw a picture of her once, a while ago, and I couldn't help but admire her pointy-straight, clumpy hair. As a person? I can't judge. As an actress, I can't judge that either, but was she in one of those screamy-still know what you did movies, I'm going to have to say... no. Of course, it is my own unqualified opinion. Unqualified because I haven't had the opportuity or the desire to viddy a screamy know what you did last summer movie. Anne of Green Gables: I love Anne of Green Gables... almost as much as the Princess Bride, and that is saying a lot, seeing as how I used to want to BE the Princess Bride and tried to make myself pretty dresses and grow my hair in an attempt to do so. Anyway, Anne is very good, I think, and this time I think I am indeed qualified. The mini series/movies are excellent too. To the person doing their homework: can you research anything? Although I am extremely new here, I've been around the Internet block more than once. I just read a very negative article at ABC News online about 'net addictions. You should set up a "How 'net addictions can be positive" or even make it completely neutral and report both sides. I'm sure that you can find someone to help you with the HTML if you needed it. Of course, you could just ask the list, but then it would be biased. I haven't known B+S for very long, a little over two months, probably. If I were in it from the beginning I would want to flick new people like me in the ear and punish them and test them for sustainability. However Mr. Honey seems to have done that already with the little nursery room. I gave myself an extra week of non-posting pennance for composing a post in my mind. I'm so dirty. Yeah, I'm new. ANd I only heard about Belle and Sebastian because I was (although it is hard to admit to such a large audience) watching MTV2 one day and saw the end of the very pretty video of "Is it wicked not to care?". Then i bought sinister and listened over and over and over and over (ad infinitum) because I was afraid that TBWTAS might ruin the spell that IYFS had over me. I don't have rarities and I don't have a record player. I just love the music. And that's my story molly +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: ooh la la
by Alix Campbell 30 Mar '99

30 Mar '99

well, ma frriends i came home this evening, to find my dear papa clutching a wee teapot, all for me. it could only be described as dinky, loathe as i am to admit it, but it really is charming. its intrinsic dinkiness allows me to overlook the fact that is, how can i say, brown. i'm drink rose pouchong tea from it right now. well, technically i've poured it into a cup, i'm not pouring tea from the spout into my mouth, that would be silly and messy. so, my teapot hunt is at its end. i fear once the novelty wears off, i shall feel empty and directionless. but should that happen i will simply put the kettle on and be myself once more. i'm trying to think of something interesting/ relevent to say. love alix the universe contains everything that exists, the planets, their moons, the stars, star clusters, the galaxies and groups of galaxies and all the space and all the gas between them. as far as scientists know there is only one universe and there is nothing which is not part of it. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister:Falling over all the right lines
by headrush city 30 Mar '99

30 Mar '99

--- Suzanne Schroeder wrote: > have you ever tried explaining what one of your > favorite bands sounds like > to your friends? It's very hard especially when > they don't listen to > anything even remotely similar to what you do. > And you think of all the > nuances you have grown familiar with and realize > that your friends don't > want a dissertation and don't have the patience > to sit as you explain this > band song by song. Exactly!! You feel so strongly about the music you want to get across how much it means to you, and why. This also happens when you've got an album playing in your room, or a tape in the car, and someone asks you who the band is. Soon after, your friend is kicking his/herself for asking the question, because you've got yourself so worked up with detailing how fantastic the song is... That will be all for now, popsters. Love and smarties, Natasha xx === "Here comes a soul saver on your record player" The Charlatans _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.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" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Lazy journalism is king!
by Suzanne Schroeder 30 Mar '99

30 Mar '99

-----Original Message----- >Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 11:21:05 +0000 (GMT) >From: Stuart Gardiner <skg21(a)hermes.cam.ac.uk> >Subject: Sinister: Gay Mark, we don't want to know... > >The music press are always going to stereotype B&S fans as being all the >same, even though it's blatantly not true. It's the same as the way they >make up genres and subgenres to describe what a band sound like, and lump >in with them other bands who sound completely different. It's just lazy >journalism. Get used to it... Lazy journalism? Probably so, but think about it this way: have you ever tried explaining what one of your favorite bands sounds like to your friends? It's very hard especially when they don't listen to anything even remotely similar to what you do. And you think of all the nuances you have grown familiar with and realize that your friends don't want a dissertation and don't have the patience to sit as you explain this band song by song. You're left with either going for how the band makes you feel or what somebody else said. So, you pull a name of a band out of your hat to make your friends shut up. With that in mind, try imaging people with 10 digit IQ's trying to pull off the same feat. That's the dilemna of journalists! :^) It's probably a tired subject, but I have finally scored the Looper album. I was a bit saddened to see the limited edition of the Gentle Waves 7" was gone already, but hey, it might as well be sold to someone with a turntable who can actually hear with the thing sounds like, and considering that I have the Looper 7" from this summer that hasn't been played either..... At any rate, I heard this album when i got to my bandmate's house, and it immediately caught my ear, so this is a sign that I wasn't going to convince myself that I was going to like it once I bought my own copy. I went home with this and Catatonia's album. And I admit the Catatonia album was getting more play at the beginning, but I'm enjoying this for it's cheesiness, but I have to wonder, does Stuart down deep wish he was with Arab Strap? After giving their 2nd album that name, and making this thing as Looper with mostly spoken word, you sort of get the idea that he is secretly kicking himself for not doing random spoken word albums, and has to refer to Looper as nothing more than a side project.....but that's probably my own projection, and who in the hell knows what he's thinking? If you are a prolific writer, I'm sure a catalogue of songs that don't fit what your band does start to pile up and you hate to see them wasted. the only complaint I have is that the vocals are mixed so low that I can't hear what's going on. That must be a Scottish thing since Arab Strap was the same way.....and no, it's not the accent that is confusing me since I lived in Glasgow for several months. _______ Suzanne http://home1.gte.net/suzsch/index.htm +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: airport muzik (fwd)
by Arantxa Sanz 30 Mar '99

30 Mar '99

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 15:41:22 +0100 (BST) From: Arantxa Sanz <pcxas(a)unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> To: sinister(a)majordomo.net Subject: airport muzik Dear lot: Here I am back in tea-world ( I am writing while some tea break, and this sort of breaks only takes place is this country,sure) though I am not a professional as fantastic Alix.My friend has given to me a mug, with some electronic Citibank product reference on it,as she is a marketing analyst there and a pocketbook angel all at once.Now I won't feel as the marginal outsider ,bloody foreigner I am in my department with my own mug as all natives do and tea breaks have a new meaning to me. Perhaps if Stu M. was moved to Spain could be able to condense in some lines about how weird he feels when going to the bar and not distinguishing among allthe different white/black coffee classifications(Fluffy : manchado,mediana,cortado...etc,etc)the feeling of loneliness abroad where nothing is like at home.This 'coffee' stuff is bloody difficult for not Spanish in Spain ,I have been told by well aware and concerned sources, especially if you have to order the coffees for the eight people who will go with you at the break. Sorry Honey for all these apparently nonsenses about tea,coffee and cultural gaps but I just wanted to show my total agreement with someone(difficult Oriental name to quote,some American I believe) who started some thread about atypical but necessary lyrics in Belle's songs. How an Arab strap could turn to be so symbolic? To my eyes, boys with arab straps is nearly a sociological niche, but probably it would have taken a lifetime to me to find such an expression to define them. Weird places to listen to some of their songs: what about an airport in Madrid while four hours of waiting because of 'NATO attacks!' last chapter? They are good as relaxing therapy,promise...!I also was happy in the daze of a drunken hour when unexpedtedly Dirty Dream ploughed into my ears through the smoky atmosphere in a dodgy club. Only 23 days left.It's the begin of the countdown.And the beginning of my self-embroidered t-shirt. Arantxita +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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