September 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: Hush baby turn around...its the call of the playground
by Walkn10＠aol.com 24 Sep '99

24 Sep '99

I must concur with Mark N. who rushed to the defence of LLPJ. I think its tops! I mean, 369 and Modern Rock Song still beat the pants off of it in my book but You Made Me Forget My Dreams is definitely one of my B&S faves, and so is the title track. As for Monica Queen I like her voice quite fine. I imagine an entire album of it would get quite boring but my fave part of the Bowlie tape is when she belts her lines and the crowd just goes ape. That and when Isobel jumbles her speech before The Kids Are Alright...she really is the cutest thing. On the advice of several from the Sinister parish I went out and bought Hefner's "The Fidelity Wars" and I must say I'm decidedly non-plussed. In fact, I'm actually on the border of revulsion but maybe that'll change. I mean, the guy obviously has a beautiful voice when he sings softly or at least at a normal level but instead he belts out the tunes and totally turns me off. I won't say they're terrible but I'm definitely returning it...should I get the new Aluminum Group or East River Pipe? On the inside of Donovan's greatest hits it lists his personal email address but I can't think of anything to say to the guy. He just seems like such an oddball (and a pretty arrogant guy to boot) that I'm a little intimidated. Any suggestions? Speaking of Mr. Leich, I have to agree with the critics who say B&S owe tons to him. Colours sounds alot like the B&S song that never was. The only difference being Donovan looks like a horses-arse and sings songs of beautiful women whereas Stuart looks like a beautiful woman and sings songs of girls who looks like horses-arses. Hmmm... Do I fancy women in Y-front undies? Not sure yet... Steve C. PS- I bid a fond adieu to George C. Scott and Werner Voss. RIP +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: "Lazy Line Painter Jane" and Beulah
by Mark Niciu 24 Sep '99

24 Sep '99

Hidi Ho, Well, I guess this missive is intended for an underwear-obsessed chap named Steve, but I am interested in others' opinion on the topic as well. Personally, I like the Scottish folk-singer who appears in "Lazy Line Painter Jane" and whose name escapes me now. And, incidentally, "Lazy Line Painter Jane" is in my top five favorite Belle and Sebastian songs because of Chris Geddes work on the hammond organ (isn't it time that he gets more credit for creating the Belle and Sebastian sound?). Nevertheless, I would much rather listen to someone like this bird than the breathy, five-year-oldesque lyrics of Belle and Sebastian's gentle wave. Albeit she is extremely cute (and this initially endeared her voice to me - call it the Backstreet Boys syndrome in reverse), her voice is progressively getting more and more annoying at every listen, especially on "Green Fields of Foreverland". Give me an off-key belting Scottish bird who isn't obsessed with being cute any day of the week. On the Elephant 6 tip, I saw Beulah at the CMJ in New York and they were fucking top! Personally, I prefer them to both Neutral Milk Hotel and Olivia Tremor Control. They also have an extremely rare first album (released in 1997) which wqs available at the show. Not as good as "When Your Heartstrings Break", but it is worth the investment if you can track it down. Rememberin' the punks and the hippies too, Mark ______________________________________________________ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Death
by SSharp5210＠aol.com 24 Sep '99

24 Sep '99

Aloha. The subject of being scared of death was mentioned by..um..someone (apologies.I'm a skimmer).Why on Earth should anyone be afraid of something that they can do nothing about?.That's like being afraid of growing old,phone-bills or Noel Edmonds. Don't worry about it.It happens to the best of us. Steve S xx Strangely,I don't have a thing about girls in Y-fronts (boys,however,is another story) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: "virtual realities and nanotechnological macguffins"
by Cairns, Joe 24 Sep '99

24 Sep '99

A lapse back into schoodentsville imminent, we took it upon ourselves to actually buy some books, and sauntered into A Very Large Bookstore, where the regulation Lovely Kooky Bird in Black Specs was on duty. Only this week it was a different Kooky Bird, and she looked a lot like that Kooky Yank Bird off the Kooky Computer Show on channel 4. Mmmmm... Kooky Birds in bookshops. Like David Attenborough in one of those pervy films, we pretended to look at books whilst hanging about the counter to get a better look. But what to select to impress an (obviously savvy and refined) Kooky Bird? Mailer? - too macho. Burchill? - too pulp. Your Comprehensive Nude Video Guide? Desperate for kudos, we grabbed a shiny hardback of 'All Tomorrow's Parties'. A Billy Name memoir, perhaps, or some PopArt collection? No!!! How she giggled as we realised it was the new cyberpunker from Billy Idol's favourite author, William Gibson. As she turned away in scornful laughter, we took a sneaky peak before scurrying back onto Deansgate. Well, it's a 400-page airport-buster about a strange, millennial cult, who communicate via an immense web of intertwining fibreoptics, and decide to convene in a barren, remote, possibly contaminated location to listen to low, Caledonian mumblings and apparently random belching noises. The jacket promised long, convoluted, plot twists and PR gaffes, before an eventual climax involving gratuitous trouser fumblings and Special Guest Appearances. OK, it's not. It's actually about computers and swords and crap, like all his other books, but some things never change. Which reminds me of my point. Ages ago, when we went to college still, all the kids who were Picked On At School crowded round outside the library and enthused about William Gibson. And Pearl Jam. And Winnie the Pooh. Whilst the friendly, successful, popular, Townie kids got laid and went clubbing, the Alternative Kids huddled in a corner, wearing badly-applied mascara. Yes, they whispered, we like music and we are Special. They were very boring indeed. Have you noticed how this was written in the third person? Just like the NME! Say something pretty if you can, Joex ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: he was a german educationalist and scientist actually
by Archel1978＠aol.com 24 Sep '99

24 Sep '99

okay, so my steiner question was clearly misjudged, you bunch of crazy japesters (or indeed jeepsters). but this is a biggish list and if people can enquire whether anyone else has a 1972 vinyl recording of Jeff Minimus Stradivarius Kryten doing a version of The Girl Who Ate Green Bananas And Then Sat On My Face, then i should be able to ask which school people went to without being mocked. so there. good heavens jake, i'm not surprised you can't get this girl out of your psyche if she flashes her underwear at you (sound familiar, alisdair?), fondles your sleeping arse, and showers you with graphic details of her sex life. hardly fading gracefully into the background. that is very bad form IMHO. i have had an 'emotionally interesting' few days, but now i am just wet after choosing precisely the wrong moment to step off the train (ie. when it was raining), and back to square one re. jobs. the bookshop is run by anal retentives who have a special tappy thing for tapping the books into a straight line every five minutes, and who want me to sign a contract in blood. i have precisely nothing to say about the smiths. props to ailsa. i'm glad that there are people on a sort-of music based list who appreciate that when judgement day comes, whether one spent one's life listening to b&s, or bryan adams, or bach, or nothing much, will not be of paramount importance. it has been said many times before, but i like b&s because of how they make me feel, not how they make me look. luv archel xxx ****** Rachel Playforth archel(a)iname.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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Re: sinister-digest V3 #322
by Nicola Goodchild 24 Sep '99

24 Sep '99

>To append my mail yesterday a few of us are meeting up at the Spread >Eagle>in Camden at 8 to try to recapture the glory days of well last weeks >ATP>replacement activities. Or at least have a few beers, the odd giggle >and>then shake our thang at Strange Fruit. Noooo, I thought it was over, gone and locked up in Oxford again? Or thats what Trousres told me at ATPissUp anyway, I think, but I did tread on my glasses and my ears dont function so well without them either. Oh well, I may see people there then. Nicx ______________________________________________________ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: some nights i still sleep on the beach....
by B.E. Hamilton 24 Sep '99

24 Sep '99

quadrophenia=buyah. this is a short request, as i was flying around honey's magnificent sinister page, i saw the scribbled lyrics from bowlie for the kids are alright. this reminded me that i still don't have the bowlie show, on tape, at all. please, somebody, i need to hear struan sing TKAA. it's a WHO thing. anyone, please? thanks to the people who emailed me about my page. you see, when i say the nerdy shy eyed pacifist, i wasn't lying, was i? well a picture does entail a lot, you know. oh and my tigermilk review was posted in the paper! albeit a few nasty editorial changes. ugh. i tried talk to jarvis yesterday on the all seeing i web site. somebody in the chatroom mentioned that he was poor with computers. it figures. that time reserved for advancement in technology is instead used to look studly. what a chap. happy weekend kisses blake xx the nerdy shy eyed pacifist http://members.tripod.com/nucleartrout ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ "I am not Jesus, though I have the same initials." - Jarvis Cocker +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: tape swaps
by spak boy 24 Sep '99

24 Sep '99

anyone interested in tape swaps? i'm desperately want the belle and seb version of reel around the fountain.anyway,tapeswaps whatever,send lists or something to spakboy(a)hotmail.com bye ______________________________________________________ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: tea and dry toast
by Joss Moorkens 24 Sep '99

24 Sep '99

Aye up, bald eagles. It is not a good Friday. It all started swimmingly last night. I went to see Melt Banana and they were marvellously metaltastic. There was a violent looking moshpit which I decided to brave. Unfortunately, I did so with my anorak hood pulled up so I didn't see the mystery assailant who booted me directly above the ball area, rendering me somewhat incapacitated. Then the bastards lowered the price of vodka and red bull to £2. An act of outright cruelty. As a result, I am still drunk at midday in work and have to stay here until 8 o'clock. Not good at all. It's going to be a long day. Last week I was drunk in a bar in New Cross that plays ska music and I was accosted by a drunken middle aged crusty Glaswegian street poet. In a referee's jersey. He asked me if I'd vote for him if he tried to be prime minister. I considered explaining that I lived outside of the jurisdiction, but since he was looming menacingly I decided to tell him that I would. He copped my accent and started going on about the IRA and the UDA next, pointing out that stopping violence would be foremost in his manifesto. At the time, I think this was something of a relief. Anyway, he said he'd like to send me some of his poetry in the post because I was "a good man". The charmer, eh? Drunkenly, I decided 'what the heck', I mean... what harm could it be giving him my real address and getting something interesting if perhaps a little insane in the post? In retrospect my decision seems somewhat unwise. I have a horrible feeling that when I arrive home, tired and unwell, there'll be a drunken Glaswegian in my living room. Who isn't called Ailsa. If that happens, I will be very pissed off. Yours in discomfort, Mr Joss scilabs(a)thumped.com PS I bought a Music Tapes record yesterday on the advice of one Lance Bangs. I haven't listened to it yet, but it has a great pop up cover. Not enough people make records with pop up covers these days. If B&S did I bet we'd all be *dead* impressed. ;) PPS The bloke my friend followed on the tube: http://www.madfrankiefraser.co.uk/madfrank.html PPPS If anyone wants to, they can mail Paula at booze_explosion(a)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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: LIMERICK
by paul carney 24 Sep '99

24 Sep '99

HI ALL I'M PAUL , THIS IS MY FIRST MESSAGE SO HERE GOES. I LIVE IN LIMERICK , WHICH IS IN IRELAND. ANYWAY I WAS CHECKING THE ARCHIVES AND ONLY FOUND ONE REVIEW OF THE DUBLIN GIG. WAS ANYONE ELSE THERE? IS THERE BELLE AND SEBASTIAN NIGHTS PLANNED IN THE FUTURE FOR IRELAND. ANYWAY THATS ALL FOR BYE PAUL ______________________________________________________ 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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