March 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: The slug that turned
by Kevan Cooke 12 Mar '99

12 Mar '99

Hello folks, as Pete Waterman's sour grapes crusade seems to be an ongoing thing, it's only fair to try and redress the balance by suggesting reasons why Pete Waterman should resign from the board of the BPI. If anyone wants to contribute to this cause please feel free to mail me directly at fatslug(a)chickmail.com where I'll chuckle away for a while, and then maybe forward them all on to the BPI, or one of those music journalists you meet hanging around Covent Garden and New Cross. Here are some examples of the sort of thing you might come up with: NUMBER ONE ---------- Pete Waterman is a board member of the BPI, the BPI have confirmed that B&S won the Brit award fairly, but Pete Waterman insists that they did not. Pete Waterman is calling the rest of the BPI a bunch of liars, and as such should resign immediately from the board. NUMBER TWO ---------- Pete Waterman is a board member of the BPI - a priveliged position of trust in which he will presumably have access to confidential information. And yet he has "tipped off" a journalist at Billboard. Obviously this highly inappropriate behaviour makes his position untenable, he must resign. NUMBER THREE ------------ The BPI's stated aim is to "Celebrate the best of British and international pop music talent." Pete Waterman produces Steps. Enough said? Kevan The Fat Slug *********************************** chickclick.com http://www.chickclick.com girl sites that don't fake it. http://www.chickmail.com sign up for your free email. *********************************** +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Super Looper
by ar981611＠student.paisley.ac.uk 12 Mar '99

12 Mar '99

Yes they were very good indeed, as has been mentioned before. B&S types in attendance were Stuart (sadly the red hair thing has been proved to be true, and for a shy retiring type, standing on CD racks with dyed burgundy hair is hardly the way to preserve anonymity - OK I never actually saw him but I was down the front, but Calumn says so so it must be true), Chris (who appears to have been wearing the same jumper for about four years now), Stevie and Mick/Nick/Chick. Oh, and obviously Stuart David. Big hello to everyone who was in King Tuts with us afterwards where we very scarily ran into Calumn Shearer who we were supposed to be meeting before the Looper show, but we hadn't told him where we were meeting then we didn't meet him in Missing, but a fortuitous last minute change of drinking venue led us to the elusive Mr Shearer sitting in King Tuts on his own hoping we would turn up there... Anyway a very good time was had by all (well by me anyway, due to the large amount of red wine consumed in practice for the all-in drinking championship of the world which is Bowlie) and that's all I wanted to say really. But everyone seems to have not seen anyone off Sinister, so I'm with Mark on the idea that we need some way to identify each other - I spent half an hour trying to pluck up the courage to approach three people in a pub without sounding like a twat if they weren't the people who we were supposed to be meeting, I mean, you try going up to a stranger in a pub and saying "are you the person I am supposed to be meeting" without sounding like a blind date set-up or something...I'm with the idea of badges anyway, but I suppose I should have told Mark that personally, well I will, but it seemed a natural progression to mention it given that it was relevant to all the Glasgow Sinisterlings who missed each other yesterday. We'll all be better organised for the Gentle Waves gig, I promise!! Erm, can't think of anything else to say, except that I thought the song about Columbo and the GameBoy was fantastic. Ailsa 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Sinister Bloody Sinister
by Honey 12 Mar '99

12 Mar '99

Mummy's been a bit absent recently, but here's a bulletin of things. First off, I'm sad to inform you I'm not Mrs Murdoch - a few people seem to have decided I am. I don't have the panache or the knitting proficiency, and I suspect poor Stuart would go off to school with cold toes every morning if I was in charge. The fragrant Mrs M merely sent me the email because her Hotmail account was proving troublesome - I think Mr M is going to set about it with a spanner at the weekend. Now Looper: for anyone who hasn't bought "Up A Tree" yet, do so please. It's really quite tremendous, and Stuart and Karn's story on "Impossible Things #2" is extremely reminiscent of lots of stories I've heard of long-distance email-mediated romance under the sinister covers between you smutty Sinistereens, prior to actually meeting and things going all squelchy of course. Someone asked who The Gentle Waves are: Stuart David tells me it's basically the band minus himself. Stuart's staying in cos he thinks it's a sin... etc. Someone mention that Jeepster have set up their GW site now, and a recent news mail from Jeepster (for anyone who doesn't get it) indicated the 7" is in short supply so order now if you want it. Oh, and that adverts you may be seeing for a 25 Japanese Tigermilk CD won't result in you getting it early, so don't go for it - everyone gets the real Tigermilk at the same time, apparently, and I know it can't be long because Stuart M made a trip to London to sort it out recently, and I think it's being mastered now. Maybe. On to more fickleness: doing my daily Sinister scan, I spotted the following proverb from the super David Moore: "He who f**ks with honey will come to a sticky end". Shall I use this as some sort of advert for Camber Sands? I might earn my entrance fee back with positively glowing references such as this. I will place it in florid writing above the door to my chalet, all clients get a free G&T and a foot massage. Rod's punchlines: "Goodness Father Antonio, I said pass me the loofah". Don't blame me, after Steady Mike's revelations about which section we find ourselves in Time Out magazine, I'm just trying to get us listed under the "Cheesey 70s Smut" section too. And advertise my love for "Sunset Beach". There's been a load of newspaper cuttings recently on all the Brits stuff and I've got a proper little collection. I'm "clearing copyright" just now, which makes me sound terribly important, but actually means I sent three emails, so soon I'm hoping to stick them up on the Sinister wall, for your delectation. They're very amusing, sometimes unintentionally so. I quite like Peter's one-man campaign for screaming guitar solos on the new B&S LP, and I suspect it's paying dividends already on the list. A tribute to Dave Gilmour, countless The Who odes, and some sort of Metal convention being held under our auspices?? Goodness I'd better dig out me denim. Can I mention that Linda bought Black Sab's greatest hits last year? Along with The Corries. Not on the same CD. A few customary reminders: please remember Jeepster set up a "Meetup Bulletin Board" ages ago, for people who are trying to organise Sinister (and presumably non-Sinister) liasions in various parts of the world, just to keep information that's only relevant to a few off the main list (remember there's 950 of us). I'd suggest that we keep on using this, and mark the entry titles "Sinister:" there if you want to refer to list meetups, to make it clear where we're coming from. This should keep Andy Dean happy in his big hairy cave. If you want to mail the list once and mention that you're trying to organise something locally, that's ok, just take it offline after that, maybe asking local people to mail YOU privately and then setting up something between yourselves. And then tell us what happened when you get back, to file away in the Sinister Chamber of Horrors. I'm hoping Jeepster will similarily set up a Support Group Message Board for Mr Christopher Mellan from Holyrood School, so you can similarly send messages of support offline. Finally I'm still hoping to get to the Looper doo-dah in Edinburgh this afternoon, as long as my legs stay on. So I'll see you all there then. "honey man/lady" (c. Chris Mellan 1999) xxx P.S. Finally, I'm all for covert operations, but it would actually be quite nice to recognise other Sinistereens at Cambers, the Looper things etc. I don't for a moment imagine we can get our act together to get special Sinister badges, broaches or hats organised (I'd be worried if we could), so what I suggest is this: if you wish to be identified by other Sinistereens, wear a B&S badges upside-down, a bit like an old Vincent Price film. If you haven't got one, make one. For added sinister effect, you can mutter the words of "Photo Jenny" backwards in latin under your breath is you want. Upside-down. 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Sinister: Heresy begins at home
by John Johnston 12 Mar '99

12 Mar '99

I love that band Belle and Sebastian but the whole Looper thing doesn't really float my (paper)boat. I've got the last Looper single and as with A Spaceboy Dream, I just think "Well alright then - but so what". Except for the beginning of spaceboy dream where it sounds like " a trip to ma arse". So should I get the album or will I continue to wonder what it's all about. You know that band Steps? Don't you think they are the culmination of the 90s pop dialectic? You do? I thought as much. You don't need to be Hegel to spot the Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis at work. First of all boy bands are all the rage. The 'That and their ilk sweep all before them. Until Girl Bands arrive and replace the boy bands. The inexorable march of progress means that only one solution follows - a boy-girl band. Is this the end of history? The thing is I always saw B&S as the antithesis of Oasis. When people used to ask me what B&S were like I'd say - "You know that band Oasis, well picture that point in the music/emotional universe furthest removed from them and that's Belle and Sebastian". (That'll be my Canadian upbringing making me define myself by what I'm not..). Anyhow if my hypothesis is correct what can the future hold - a B&S/Oasis hybrid churning out stadium filling anthems about uncertain sexuality and buses. Who knows? Dame fate is a fickle mistress. xx John +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: "It's keen!...no, it's greater than keen, it's...kugat!"*
by Mark Casarotto 12 Mar '99

12 Mar '99

Well, last night was a surprise and a half - how easy it is to forget that Belle and Sebastian have fans who aren't us, and manage to remain blissfully happy (ignorant?) without a soupcon of electronic stimulation every morning at 11.25 am (for some reason)... Yes, the 200 Troubled Teenagers bash was, somehow, a huge success, with a good deal more than 200 not-quite-teenagers-any-more packing out the place. The music was almost entirely fantastic, especially once I was lubricated enough to shimmy (I had feared that my bip-bopping days were over, but I even outlasted my legendary party animal girlfriend :)), especially Isobel's absolutely fantastic new single which R!O!C!K!s with a lot more vim than anything our increasingly media-savvy chums in the band have done. And yes, David, it does sound like French Disko, which is a darn good thing (oh yes - a big kiss to the DJ who played the unsurpassable Lo Boob Oscillator last night - I think I wet myself with joy - and a big grin at the girl in the cloakroom who saw my Looper t-shirt and gave me files of freebies :) ). One thing that was obvious, though, is that with B&S actually having fans these days, it's going to be more and more difficult for us listerines to meet each other when we're out on the razzle. Hopefully this is going to change somewhat when the picnic season is upon us again - for 60 people to have ventured out to the first London picnic last June was something quite astonishing, and it's up to all of us to make sure we beat that this year :) But otherwise, the need for identification (if you *want* to be identified, natch) is getting more pressing, especially with Fopstock almost upon us...surely Sinister button badges would be pretty easy to do cheaply, discreet enough to not compromise your individual style (ahem), and a nice little thing to have in any case. If there are enough people interested, I'd be happy to try and sort something out myself, though distribution something that would need to be worked on...mail me privately with suggestions if you like. One more thing before I stop rambling - Vicky, Tim H, Pam, Steady Mike and myself started off last night in a groovy pub in New Cross called the Montague Arms (zebras behind the bar and all that), and it got infinitely more groovy when the regular entertainment kicked off - an old blind bloke who plays the keyboards with an almost contemptuous flair. Make no mistake, this guy is a fucking genius - there was a coachload of Dutch tourists by the stage bit, and as soon as he realised where they were from he launched into "Tulips from Amsterdam", which went down a storm (although obviously they weren't singing the right words, being foreign and all that :)). He also knew what Pam had for tea, which was a bit weird, but my god, if you ever want a wedding singer, this is the man for the job. Superb. Now you know why I don't post very often any more... Auguri e baci, Mark xxx *more film fun, chums - any suggestions? +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: hello all you looper darlings...
by Deborah Elaine Prior 12 Mar '99

12 Mar '99

Hiya sweeties... uh, ooh this 'posting' lark is a bit freaky... nobody will remember, i expect, but i used to be on this list last year, but then i went off to uni and stopped using email as much, so unsubscribed. but now i'm in every day emailing someone so i resubscribed last month. hope that's ok! I went to see Looper last night and it was fab and now i am listening to the album on my walkman in the library. I hadn't intened to buy the album just yet, as i don't really have much money, but the thing is that after they played we went to the pub for a few drinks and then to Fopp to hear the new Blur album... and anyone here who has been to these album playbacks will know that they always give you lots of free beer, which is icky, but which you have to drink anyway, because it's, er, free. So this means that you get a wee bit drunk and then start looking at all the cds they have lying about... and then someone foolishly reminds you that you are in possesion of a Switch card and that the tills are still open... and , well, i'm sure you know the rest. Oh dear. But still. It was a lovely day in Missing Records, but i didn't meet any Sinister bods, which is a shame. But i did see Wee Chris Geddes for the fourth time in a month. Honestly, that boy really ought to stop following me around, it's getting quite tedious now! ;-) I wanted to go and see them in Edinburgh tonight, but i have a tutorial til four and i wont make it through in time. Oh well, maybe some other time... love, debbie 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: gentle waves 7 inch.
by Thessaly1＠aol.com 12 Mar '99

12 Mar '99

hello there wonderful people! :) i am wondering if there is anyone over in the uk who can order an extra copy of the gentle waves 7 inch that comes out on march 22 for me? it sounds like it is not going to be possible for me to get it here in america and i would really love to have it. i will pay for the price of the 7 inch and mailing costs of course! :) if you can be a gracious soul and do me a BIG favour i will love you forever! please contact me at Thessaly1(a)aol.com cheers! jennifer in Los Angeles, CA p.s. did i mention that my birthday is in 2 weeks and i will be SO sad if i don't get a copy of this special 7 inch? :..( +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I'm Not Shy
by Mick McMick * Sandcastle Records 11 Mar '99

11 Mar '99

Hello Folks, Just burning some idle time... Monday I went to ask the fellow at the record store if they'd be getting the Looper album in on Tuesday. They said maybe. Then I went in on Tuesday, and they said they might later on, but due to the snow (somewhere between 3 & 5 inches of it) they might not come in until Wednesday. Wednesday my family came to visit me, and consequently I didn't make it over to the record store, since it closes at 5. Today I probably would have forgotten too, but I was uptown checking my e-mail on a terminal, I read a few Sinister posts, and went "Oh yea! I forgot," rushed over and bought it. I'm listening to it now, in fact. I think that it's quite pleasant, and good in places as well. Some of it even sounds lovely and inspired, like "Dave, the Moon Man," butI don't like "Ballad of Ray Suzuki." It just sounds like a bunch of indie boys have gotten ahold of some synthesizers and think they're Squarepusher, only they're not. For some reason that happens all too much around the US. Overall, thumbs up, and some of it surprisingly fits pretty neatly in between my now small electronic-type music section and my B&S collection. Now it also occurred to me earlier today that, without realizing it, I had worn my Stow shirt today. Coincidence? Maybe not. Maybe my shirt is prescient. I also carefully examined the Gentle Waves webpage. You know, the cover of her album reminds me of a recent release by a band I liked. Possibly due to the fact that it was a lovely odd-colored landscape, and I think at sundown. For the smut content of my post, I would like to create an addendum to the smells-inducing-memories post by Natasha. It works in some very naughty situations as well. You know those scented massage oils? Or, to take it a bit further, make your own massage oil. I think I will graciously leave how to fully utilize the oil up to your collective imaginations, so as to allow other people to get some smut in their posts. Also, all this about being shy and everything... I just wanted to make sure that people didn't get the impression we were all shy, because I'm certainly not, except in certain situations. I could go on, but I've got to make some dinner. /"\_/"\_/"\ Mick McMick/Sandcastle Records <<->> bp224996(a)ohiou.edu \ / Sandcastle Records Homepage: ICQ#5056758 | | http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Amphitheatre/4972/ | | "I am always wishing to make people | | in the world happy with my smiles." | | -Mr. Friendly +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Glasgow Looooper show
by Kara Baer 11 Mar '99

11 Mar '99

Dear Sinister Confessional List Diary, I've just got back from the Looper show. It was really very good. The set up involved lots of TVs, a slide projector, a wee satelite dish spinning round and round on a record player, an inflatable spaceship, and Stu D's twiddly bits. Perhaps some one can help me with the song names, but here is what I remember: -a song with some children's voices sampled; it was accompanied by a shots of some cutie-pie children doing cutie-pie things -a very lovely song, this was; it was a story about a girl from behind the pillars, narrated by Stu D. I think this one was my favorite. -a song about burning flies..accompanied by shots of a girl doing just that. -a song about the moon landing being faked -a song about Karn -the ballad of Ray Suzuki -the Colombo Song. I quite enjoyed this one as well. -up a tree, as sung by Stu D. I enjoyed the show very much. I'm sorry I didn't get to meet any Sinister Folk, except Niall. (Hi Niall, how was the comedian?) The store was very crowded. I even saw Stu M and Chris in the audience--not that I did anything stupid this time, although I did follow Mick around McGees the other day. I often wish my life was one of those soap opera comic strips. I'd call it "The Hilarious Mishaps and Wacky Adventures of Kara." It would feature me, my unrequited love interest David, a wacky side-kick, a trustworthy friend who's just a little on the wild side, and an arch-nemisis. Send in your orders now, kids! Love Kara "Stop asking questions that don't matter anyway / Just give us a kiss to celebrate here today / something changed?" --Pulp *********************************** chickclick.com http://www.chickclick.com girl sites that don't fake it. http://www.chickmail.com sign up for your free email. *********************************** +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: �escandalo!
by Emanuel Brown 11 Mar '99

11 Mar '99

>Simon Ludlam wrote: >If he did, he'd probably want to produce them. Imagine Sonia or Sigue Sigue Sputnik coming out of the woodwork to cover 'Is It Wicked Not To Care' or 'Fox In The Snow' to a disco beat...where would that end up? We'd have to talk to ex Kylie and Jason fans, and this list would get really weird then... how beautifully wicked! this wankerman guy sounds like a real piece of work, crying over his ersatz teenbeat minions like the old hipster-pervert he must be. sour grapes, all the way to the bank. why is it so hard for people to understand that a large percentage of the population doesn't care of overproduced rehash? pete, you are most certainly a jewel in the crown of the music industry... i read that times article that was posted and it sure doesn't make him look any better. being a yank-listee, this whole thing is more intriguing than the dead horse known as monica & bill. and you know how we americans love scandals (by the way, tony blair better get on the stick if he's gonna keep up with his pal clinton)... emanuelxoxox Free, fast e-mail accessible anytime, anywhere http://www.imaginemail.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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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