September 1999 - Sinister

Re: Sinister: Indie rock sensibilities gone horribly sour
by Jygsaw18＠aol.com 17 Sep '99

17 Sep '99

Can i share something with the list? Alright,i will,thankyou. I've realized that what i don't like about the jock/townie whatever you call them crowd is the attitude, not the clothes. I don't own anything by Tommy Hilfiger or Phat Farm, but even if i did, it wouldn't matter. The problem is the mindset that "Because I am wearing what I am wearing, I am worth more than you" And i don't really like a lot of the popular music today, that is, TOP 40 stuff, but that's personal opinion. To their ears, belle and sebastian are probably just as repugnant. Unfortunately, Music Snobbery and Brand Name Consciousness are just as prevalent in the indie rock scene. We hate it when our heroes become popular, and widespread enjoyment of a previously underground band makes them pariahs. The mere mention of their name causes previous diehard fans to say "ooh, i only like their old stuff, you know, before they sold out" We're all so happy and smug because the pair of ratty pants we have is the antithesis of the popular style. Pride in hideously tacky Goodwill pants is no less pretentious than pride in the largest pair of Boss Jeans available.. I don't mean to point fingers at anyone. If anything, i'm one of the biggest offenders i know of.. So please don't take any offense at this. I'm just posting it in the hopes that maybe some of this list will take what i say to heart. I wish that there was more of a sense of camaraderie and unity at liking a certain style of music, rather than this "i'm more indie than you" feel i get sometimes. I'm making an effort to be a nicer person, both on the list and in my personal life, which probably won't affect any of you too much. But I'd like to apologize to anyone i may have offended. I do mean this, too. Only rock stars and millionaires can be jerks and get away with it, since they have truckloads of money. I doubt I'll ever be either. I'd rather be a nice guy. It's much more satisfying. I'm sorry if this is boring or irrelevant for any of you.. i just thought perhaps this was the best forum to voice this opinion in. take care, sinisterites... dave. (lunar tic) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 #311
by Nicola Goodchild 17 Sep '99

17 Sep '99

>Anyone knows how to get Trembling Blue Stars last 7" ? Yeeeees. Well I got mine from Rough Trade surprisingly. I think I did anyway. I got a friend to fetch it for me. Fetch, boy, fetch. I heard it last>night and itŽs amazingly beautiful. Does AnneMary Davies sings the>background vocals ? I have no idea yet, I have been running everywhere with elastic legs and I havent even listened to it yet. >Especially now that TIGERMILKING has been hastily put together on = >Saturday>night, post-picnic - Oh excellent but HELP I know the picnic's on Primsoe Hill, but loike WHAT TIME, I don't want to turn up at 6pm and find everyone had left me *sob*. And Im not going to be there at 9 in the morning anyway. So help! Anyone? Please? 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: Musicians Needed? Please help!
by CHRIS LEAK 17 Sep '99

17 Sep '99

Dear All As this is my first posting, I hope I am forgiven for a bit of self promotion. My band (Marwood), are currently looking for a new female vocalist and other musicians. We're based in Preston, NW England (it's not that bad, honestly), and have gigged at the Roadhouse in Manchester a couple of times, The Night & Day Cafe, Camden etc. The songs are really strong but our current vocalist isn't! In addition to the lead/rhythm guitars, bass, drums & vocals we'd really love to add some strings, maybe keyboards/sequencer, brass, well just about any kind of instrument would be welcome. As far as influences go it's not just Belle & Sebastian, there's the Delgados, Smiths, Beatles, Beta Band, Spiritulized plus many more. So, if you're based in the North West and your interested, please get in touch. I promise next time I post it will be much less self indulgent. Cheers Leaky P.S. I am going to see the Beta Band at Manchester Ritz later on this month, anyone else going? ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: it's "beurre" goddamn it.
by Helen 17 Sep '99

17 Sep '99

Hello.... Went to a quiz night last night, (I had to because I knew a girl organising it) and managed to get a question wrong on how to spell the french word for butter. Firstly it was a crap question, a token question because the quiz night was run by a french club ( and partly the politics club) and secondly I was sure 'butter' in French had only 1 'R'. This from a girl who has an essay to be written in French about Eluard's poetry due in about 3 hours. Oh crap. Any french listee's out there who want to..... Anyway we kicked ass in the music round. Sorry I digress... A friend of mine bought Salako's reinventing punctuation Cd for only $5 Australian,( some record store worker had accidentally put it in the singles pile.) Its Ok, I liked it, but its not mindblowingly good (as I have come to expect from another band on the Jeepster label)...I mean I'm not going to run out and join a mailing list and order their entire back catalogue or anything :) It was actually pretty weird to find it in Australia considering it doesn't actually have release here. But is any of their other stuff different or is it kind of the same? In my opinion, good B&S dancing songs would have to be: dirty dream number two,she's losing it,and TBWTAS as well. Have fun on your picnic....(bitterly said, but with good intentions) Helen ______________________________________________________ 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: Lord of the Flies
by Curtis Heath 17 Sep '99

17 Sep '99

Okay, what's going on? Two Morrissey songs have now fallen into capitalist hands... "Stars of Track and Field" is a sportshow themesong... And just now, as fellow Illeana Douglas fans may have seen, "Burning Flies" is playing behind an advertisement for "Dog Park," a new movie with Luke Wilson playing the lead. Now, I love Luke Wilson, (he and his brother Owen, who wrote "Rushmore" and "Bottlerocket," are from my neighborhood) but what's up with these suddenly frequent commercial sell-outs. Does Wee Carn want a new treehouse? Obviously, having a great song placed on a movie's soundtrack isn't as bad as selling leather-seated nissans (meat is murder) or economy-sized mini-cars (you're the one for me fatty,) but this movie seems like the usual Hollywood fluff. It doesn't deserve Looper, and, as for me, I don't condone the murder of flies!!! Get your FREE Email at http://mailcity.lycos.com Get your PERSONALIZED START PAGE at http://my.lycos.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: all day breakfast squirrels
by Honey 16 Sep '99

16 Sep '99

Chums, The Search at the new archive site is now working. It wasn't before and I *know* some of you were being good and not bugging me about it: it's why I love you. honey 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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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by Michele Waggner 16 Sep '99

16 Sep '99

Hey Kids, Shameless promotion and list abuse here -- but it's not self-promotion and it might give some sinisterines an idea for a night out and it might be fun, so I guess maybe we can think of it as a public service. Yeah. That's it. Up-and-coming "fey aesthetes from Connecticut" The Butterflies of Love have a few gigs happening so if you are on the lookout for something to do on either side of the Atlantic... ...this Friday, Sept. 17, the Butterflies will be appearing at the Baggot Inn as part of the CMJ thing. The Baggot is at 82 West 3rd St. between Thompson and Sullivan. The band is scheduled for 7 p.m., the location is central, so it might be a good way to start off your evening's festivities. A journey of a thousand miles, etc. You get another shot at seeing them on Sept. 29 when they open for Bis at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ There are some other gigs in the NY/CT area so if you are interested mail me off the list and I'll fill you in. Then the Butterflies take flight and pack up to flutter over to the UK for a bit of October. They will be playing as follows: October 14, Nottingham, Bunker's Hill -- with Airport Girl and Twinkie. October 15, London, Bull and Gate -- with Mark 700, Action Time and Sportique. October 16, London, The Scala -- with Cato, the Smith Garrett Band, Airport Girl, Spraydog, the Family Way, Comet Gain, Birdie (St. Etienne backup singer), Rosita (two of those Kenickie girls), Spearmint and Quickspace. October 17, Leicester -- with Airport Girl and Marine Research There's a NME review of the Butterflies' single ("Wild" on the Secret 7 label) on nme.com this week. There. Now get out of the house and get some fresh air. It'll put some roses in your cheeks --michele +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: I used to think my dad was Elvis
by George Ducker 16 Sep '99

16 Sep '99

Hullo, At last I have scaled the nursery walls and joined the ranks. woo hoo. Basically, I am now living in Chicago and am hard pressed to find any sinisterites although I haven't really had much time to look. I spend most of my days working in FAO SChwarz which, for those of you who don't know, is a rather large and expensive toy store. I'm sure there might be some uncomfortable Freudian analyses about people who work in toy stores, but I should probably leave that one alone. In any case, my tip for the day is that B&S is near impossible to listen to on the el or in the subway what for all the clamor and noise that the damn trains make. Mogwai is also rendered unlistenable in the depths of the subway. Fortunately, the bus is the perfect place to listen to both bands (and any other quiet ones, for that matter). Magnetic Fields is also excellent bus music. Geez. This post isn't going very well. Okay, so I'm going to end this before it gets messy--if anyone in the Chicago area is interested in having a little meet up before it gets too cold, please make yourselves known...and also feel free to drop by the toy store :) love to you all, george ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.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: from today's nme daily...
by Josh Baze 16 Sep '99

16 Sep '99

BATHTIME WITH BELLES Belle and Sebastian's Isobel Campbell and Richard Colburn will appear on the new album by The Bathers. Campbell plays cello on three tracks while Colburn drums on most of the album, which is called 'Pandemonia' and is released on October 4 through Wrasse Records. Belle and Sebastian are planning to release their fourth album this autumn with a three track single beforehand. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: ou est le moorkens
by Claire Timmins 16 Sep '99

16 Sep '99

Help needed folks. The fool that i am got Joss's mobile number wrong, but if anyone happens to see him tonight or knows his number could they please get him to call me. If anyone is going to The Betsy trotwood thing then you may see him. please find him. Thanks folks, Claire** ______________________________________________________ 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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