May 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: I'm feeling a wee bit sinister
by william robertson 15 May '99

15 May '99

Hello, I'm new so please be gentle. My name is Willy, I'm 18, I'm from Perth in Scotland, I play guitar in a band and I'm doing 'Sound Engineering' at College. Richard Colburn and Tony Doogan have both done the course as well...sorry for the name drop but first impressions count and I'm trying to look cool (even though I'm not) I quite liked being in the nursery 'cause it felt like I was reading someone's diary but it was a bit frustrating. But, now that I'm out I'm finding it hard to think of interesting things to say. I first got into B&S when I saw the video for Lazy Line-Painter Jane on MTV's Alternative Nation. I went out and bought it straight away and after a few weeks I was hooked. I wasn't at Bowlie 'cause I couldn't afford it and I'm very jealous of anyone who went. I'm going to go now but before I do I'll tell you some of my favourite bands:- Talking Heads, the Delgados, Arab Strap, Mogwai, Radiohead, Herbie Hancock, Pavement, Supergrass, the Beatles, Miles Davis, Massive Attack, Portishead, Bjork, Roni Size, Talvin Singh....I can't think of any more, so I'll get 'me' coat. --- >From Willy __________________________________________________________________ Get your own free England E-mail address at http://www.england.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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Sinister: worked the clock around
by mike windisch 15 May '99

15 May '99

hello all, during a sunny day rummage through a church bazaar, i aquired a school year's worth of children's reading books circa 1974. Besides the youthful characters of all colors sporting indie gear and having wholesome adventures like 'the bus trip' and 'the bicycle ride', the content is heavy with messages of tolerance ('the odd pup' is clearly a poof), and lots of tender small word rhymes (a la Stuart M). Maybe it's been pre-ordained, or I've just got B&S on the brain, these little primers are perfect illustrations of many B&S songs. 'Gumdrop' and Judy and the dream jibe perfectly and the boy girl band in 'the hammer and the drum' have to be what the duo belle and sebastian the look like. As such, they will soon be converted into keepsake zines for distribution at the New York and Boston gigs and at the new england picnic should it ever occur. This little tale of my recent auisitions has two points. The simpler is a basic call for any sinisters to be on the lookout for similarlly precious children's books to help my collection of these great little artifacts grow (and maybe so I can have some more foreign language study aids) The second is so I can weigh in on this merchandising flap. If we all want B&S paraphernalia, why not just make some like the baltimore lass who sent me those great spring break stickers. I'm sure most people who wear B&S in their hearts can play with words and pictures well enough to fabricate something suitable to wear on their sleeves. Plus if we gift or trade them with one another, no profit results, and no jeepster artwork is appropriated, it should be on the legal up and up, and come with the added bonus of exclusitivity (should that be a desire) I'm glad to see the flaming lips getting appreciated, they were near to the heart of mystic in times past, but have recently gone unheard in these environs. Perhaps a second helping is required here. fyi about the subject header: publishing deadlines being much less inflexible than university (ie no extensions) and my last minute workstyle still prone to extensions, I was forced into that most ufortunate club of those who have literally worked the clock around with nary a hour of leisure or sleep. Though napping under the desk much more perferable than in the cop shop, which was another recent indignity but another story alltogether. last bit: should anyone have any B&S live tapes, and like the make up, perhaps we can exchange your tape for mine which features all the hits off of I Want Some and a half dozen new songs and some of snippets of my interview with ian sevionus. sweet dreams kitties mike _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.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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Re: Sinister: what's happened to the list crush site?
by Jygsaw18＠aol.com 15 May '99

15 May '99

Dear sinistereens: help! the list crush site appears to not be working. Did it move when I wasn't looking? I've gotten several mysterious letters from www.thespark.com telling me someone likes me. allegedly you enter the email addresses of those you like, and if they've listed you under people THEY like, a match is made, and it notifies you. Just like cruising someone at a bar, only you don't have to look at them, and if they don't fancy you, no harm done. anyway, i was going to cleverly use the list crush site to see if anyone voted for me, thus narrowing down the field of people who could be responsible for those letters. Belle and Sebastian content: I'm looking for tapes of any B&S shows out there. (other than the black sessions) Does anyone have any they'd like to send to me? I'll either tape the Black sessions for you, or send money, whichever. The one i'm most interested in would of course be Bowlie; i'd love to hear the stirring rendition of "The kids are alright" but any show will do. Remember; i compensate. dave* +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Select
by Power15755＠aol.com 15 May '99

15 May '99

Hi! Has anyone noticed that the magazine Select seems to turn into a B & S fanzine? Not only do they feature the band (or their fans :-)) in almost every issue, but here's what I found while reading the album reviews in the latest issue: Arab Strap - Mad for sadness Stuart Murdoch is usually associated with pastoral whimsy rather than deft character assassination, but "The boy with the arab strap" immortalised Strap mumbler Aidan Moffat as a drunken, masturbatory baboon ... Ben Folds Five - The Unauthorised Biography of Reinhold Messner Knowing vaudevillian pop with pathos, this has enough stylised repression for Belle & Sebastian fans to become closet admirers ... The Go-Betweens - Bella Vista Should show B & S fans that arty acoustica had a previous form ... The Lilac Time - Looking for a day in the night Stephen reportedly bought 20 copies of Belle & Sebastian's "Tigermilk" album when it came out and gave them all to friends ... Luna - The days of our nights It's a safe bet that Luna's entire UK fanbase was assembled for their set at Belle & Sebastian's Bowlie Weekender last month ... Well, that's all I found but I didn't read all the reviews. Bye Antje +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: "its not a deal breaker, but i would like to know"
by Timothy Roberts 15 May '99

15 May '99

on the subject of the next bowlie, dawn of the replicants were on beat patrol last weekend, and they said they were playing, as well as having a laugh with the presenter about the general concept of the thing. i dont know what they were getting at, arent they supposed to live in caves or something. least thats the impression i get from their records. i think "wilfully obtuse" is the phrase. yeah, but the new albums a grower. all those strange noises get qquite endearing after a while. anyway, i doubt the appearance of DOTR would swing it one way or the other for anyone considering going,but i just thought id mention it. from tjohn. (did you clock the new email adress? im moving up in the world...) its an alan partridge reference, you cultureless heathens. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: orange
by ian 15 May '99

15 May '99

hello not the most original introduction, but its saturday and the sun isn't shining. turns out i got kicked out of the nursery three days ago and i didn't even notice. its strange how things sneak up on you when you are fast asleep. i joined the list the day after i came back from bowlie. partly to blether about bowlie, because just about everybody i know was sick of hearing about it. now you are all sick of hearing about it too. i met some people from sinister at bowlie, which was how i found you all...they were sitting on top of a sand dune on sunday morning, waiting for the sun to come up. we had staggered off to the beach after the flaming lips and a second night of northern soul, in the dark, scared of the ghost-bushes that lurk either side of the sand dunes. we stayed a while, chatting to people in the dark, and then climbed up a sand-dune to play frisbee. as if by magic, the sinister people appeared. there was a bloke called jim who we saw later at the b&s gig. he gave my fainting friend some water to pour over her tits. it helped a lot...and i was thankful because if it was a choice between my friend lying in a heap on the floor in the middle of a gig, and me missing belle and sebastian then..well...i'd have just had to hope she didn't get trampled too badly. the people in the chalet nextdoor to us had those t-shirts with the bus on...the ones we tried to order on the internet and couldn't get...grrrr.....they put them in their window one night and so we tried to compete. but the only thing we had to compete with was a copy of the nme. we cut a picture of this mad starey geezer out of the paper and stuck that in the window with some glitter glue. we thought it was rasputin. turns out the man was from the cover of electronic's new album. worse, it wasn't rasputin, its actually the son of sam, a serial killer. nice. the next day they had windmills. all we had was a yellow and pink microphone from the kit kat cafe. i truly believe that if we'd stayed there for a week they would have had their very own eiffel tower erected on the roof of their chalet (despite the fact that they were on the ground floor). we would probably have had a sand-castle. perhaps with a few decorative shells on top. which electronic would have stolen for their next album cover. twas groovy anyway. and i met some great people. but enough of that now. on with your lives. ian +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: no more smelly diapers
by Murdoch The Stunted 15 May '99

15 May '99

Hello all of you, I`m out of the nursery now, yes i`m free..but strangely I don`t have a lot to say. Th others weren`t nice to me in the nursery, they said I smelled real bad and had an awful lot of facial hair for a baby. I`ve been a Belle And Sebastian fan for quite a while,(and yes,I do own Tigermilk,but funny story- i did something a little strange with it,not necessarily strange,but something I felt was right)but due to the lack of technology around here (I live in a cave,no seriously,I really do,it`s not what you`d think) I am just starting to embrace technology, so I`ve been amusing myself by looking around through this sinister home and the gallery.My my, aren`t you all a tasty lot? It gets awful lonely round these parts.You`re all just a dream for this lonely sea dog!That and those crazy tales. Well so far,from what I`ve seen,this list is simply the bee`s knees,but I guess you kids don`t use that expression anymore, har har! I suppose an introduction would be good, age and all that,but I`m much older than all of you "young `uns". I just wanted to say that I got Chris`s joke (the lemur irish stew one) without having to look down farther and have the real meaning revealed to me. Don`t be too rough on me now, Iain Signup for your free Virtual Countries E-mail address at http://www.scotland.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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Re: Sinister: Too tired to come up with anything witty
by Ickle Al - Glitter Guy 14 May '99

14 May '99

Well, after many Tommy Pickle from Rugrats style attempts at getting out of the nursery I'm now finally out.... Being new to the list (and just generally not knowing very much about anything) I really don't know what to say........ I've been waiting evr since Bowlie to say something, and now I can I can't think of what to say!! For people wondering I am the same sad little Al that appealed for some friends on the Bowlie noticeboard at Bowlie........ not that it made any difference. :o( Still I had a great time though..... :o) ummm... errrr... sorry to have wasted your time with this stupid message... loads of love Al xxxxxxxxxxxxxx === ************************************************************ "I think therefore I am confused" ************************************************************ _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Too tired to come up with anything witty
by David Moore 14 May '99

14 May '99

Hi Sinistereens, C4 Teletext says that Bowlie II will be called All Tomorrow's Parties. I still reckon you shouldn't get too excited about it because I suspect it will be a B&S free zone (and that would definitely be the uncoolest of them all) Looper bit: a while back there was a brief thread concerning an unreleased song about writing a song for Elvis. The song is apparently called Piano Window Piano, & will sadly remain unreleased because its an Impossible Thing to get clearance for an Elvis sample. But: The story from the song is going to be in a collection of poetry and stories released by Hodder&SToughton called Oral. Along with poems and stories by Nick Cave and Jarvis and Shane McGowan. Thanks to STuart for the info. Honey, I like Stina Nordenstam too, or at least I like Little Star a lot. Another debt to Mark'n'Lard's Graveyard Shift. David Moore Chelmsford, UK +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Everybody else is ranting so...
by DavidJ2502＠aol.com 14 May '99

14 May '99

Hello, Lets sort this whole merchandise/Tigermilk thing out now shall we. I met a bloke in the pub this evening who claimed to be an insider with the band- aparently he once gave Mick Cooke a fag or something. Anyway he told me that from now on merchandise will be produced and sold in limited editions of five T-shirts per year and will only be sold to fans who write a short story (min. 5000 words) with the title "The day I bought a Belle and Sebastian T-shirt". As for Tigermilk, that will only be issued to the band and even then only to those whose names have an "a" in them. Sorry, no-one likes a sarcy pants. Surely Jeepsterr are a record company. I don't know how many T-shirts and things they sell but it must be a fair few (lets have a show of hands of how many people have more than one B&S T-shirt... thought so) and the time they take parting us with our hard earned cash takes their attentions away from their other lucrative signings like, er, Snow Patrol. Sorry, Snow Patrol. Just because Jeepster might be maybe thinking of some time perhaps getting another company to do merchandise doesn't mean that we will end up with the official B&S Playstation game or B&S approved genuine Arab Straps (not a bad idea actually). I'm sure the indie-snobs among us won't have to worry about the time when "Study at Stow" shirts do not get funny looks on the streets. Having said that, though, I am mourning the loss of the B&S mugs from the online shop. Boo! I wanted one. Genuinely real fact: My brother made me a coaster for my birthday with a picture of Mark E. Smith on it with the caption "Have a drink on Mark E. Smith." I suppose you had to be there. That's all from me, David J. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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