November 2000 - Sinister

Sinister: Sodastream Play Glasgow!
by Mick Cooke 09 Nov '00

09 Nov '00

Hi there, Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I only seem to post when I have information to impart. But this is good information. The sublime Aussie popsters Sodastream will be playing Hyndland Church Hall in Glasgow on Friday the 17th November. And Sinisterines will be familiar with the support act, the wonderful acoustic sounds of Mr. Christopher Leonard. And I'll be playing a few records too. Here's the details: Friday November 17th Hyndland Church Hall, 24 Novar Drive, Glasgow Sodastream Chris Leonard Doors 8pm Advance tickets £3.50 (+booking fee) from Virgin Megastore, Buchanan Street and Missing Records on both Gt Western Road and Wellington Street. Further information can be obtained by writing to dr.daze(a)ecosse.net Hope to see you there, Mick +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: take it off, take it all off
by angel blackwell 09 Nov '00

09 Nov '00

well, just when you thought that belle and whosit couldn't get commercial appeel... i just read this on our weekly rag's site... "Taboo took the boy theme further, with its runway stage -- disturbingly decorated with juvenilia such as stuffed Garfields -- featuring barely legal lads who probably should have been home doing their homework. The age of the spectators here seemed inversely proportional to that of the performers -- definitely a more pedophilic feel. I never thought I'd live to see a male stripper dance to Belle and Sebastian's "The Boy With the Arab Strap," but I did." This peeler bar is in montreal, and how sinister is that??? first isobel having a drag queen impersonate her and now little boys taking their clothes off to stuart singing...and you thought that canadians were boring... ummm...my kewl new hair is fading...lesson learnt, gay men should not dye their own hair... hey all you little #sinister sweeties... a. The crudity and sparness of life is to be found in public lavatories." -Leoni Orton-Barnett, sister of Joe Orton. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: (Fwd) Use the Sinister list for something useful...
by fiona 09 Nov '00

09 Nov '00

hey there sinistereenies, been meaning to post for a while and i haven't really got time to do it know as i have to be in a scary seminar in ten minutes, and i'll get shouted at if i'm late. incidentally, does anyone else have problems with the word seminar? i've given up trying to pronounce it and have started saying cinema instead. anyway, the reason for posting is because i've been forwarding bits of your messages to my boyfriend for various reasons and he's sent me back this: ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: "djpain" <djpain(a)ic24.net> To: <mbbx9ff2(a)stud.man.ac.uk> Subject: Use the Sinister list for something useful... Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 14:02:24 -0000 Big Favour Fiona, Post to Sinister... Manchester Meet Up... Friday 17th November 2000, The Star & Garter. 10pm - 2am... Please! Please! It says in Alive that it's a B&S night you see... So please post to Sinister..... --------------------------------------------------------------------- so i have, i.e. i'm abusing the list to advertise a lovely little indie night next friday at the star & garter in manchester which isn't strictly a b+s night, but i can assure you they will get a few plays. phew, thats my duty done for today, oh i've got so many things to say but now i've only got 6 minutes to get to the arts building, so i'll speak to you again soon. oh, and if anyone knows anything about satire in the first book of gulliver's travels than tell me anything at all,its 20% of my mark and i don't have a clue(well i'm just a bit reluctant to research into too much 18th century politics). thats me for today then, love and irn-bru, fiona. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/worldofirnbru -club for twee scottish pop - see idleberry!!! no, you don't actually see her, that was me saying 'see' addressed to idleberry. nevermind, shit 2 minutes. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Beepsternews: Update
by Gardiner, Stuart 09 Nov '00

09 Nov '00

> Beepster headlines > > As always, you're the first to hear the latest news about Beepster > artists. > > The Christmas album: > This has almost been completed now. Belle and Sebastian are going back > into the studio on Monday to re-record their version of Wham's "Last > Christmas", as they are not quite happy with the sound yet. Due to this > short delay, unfortunately the release date of the album has had to be put > back until February 13th. > > Belle and Sebastian: > No new releases are currently planned. No concerts are currently planned. > But never mind, Stuart Murdoch has organised a charity auction, so we'll > use that to get as much publicity as possible in the meantime. > > Genital Warts: > Their second album will be coming out soon, oops, it's already out, forgot > to tell you about that one, never mind, noone's going to buy it anyway. > > Snow Patrol: > Who cares? > > And remember, if you want any merchandise from any of our artists, such as > T-Shirts or CDs, head down to Camden market. Don't ask us for help, we're > only here to make money out of them. > > And finally, on a sadder note, we're sorry to announce that much-loved > singer-songwriter Nick Drake has died. A tragic day indeed. Still, at > least we are the first to bring you that bit of news. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > |this message originated from beepster recordings ltd > |(the ltd stands for limited usefulness) > |visit our site at http://www.beepster.co.uk/ for bugger all info on > anything > | > |to unsubscribe yourself from this list send a message to > |majortom(a)inter.net with the words 'you lot are rubbish' in the body > |of the message > | > |any problems? tell them to someone who cares > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Power, Corruption and Leeds
by Peter Miller 09 Nov '00

09 Nov '00

Thanks to The Pinefox for calling out to me in my hour of loneliness. It's nice to see a bit of goalmouth action, even though the pitch is weblogged. If you can't beat them, join them. I've got a weblog now, devoted to day-to-day apparitions of The 70s WHO. It's called My 70s WHO Loghouse Project, and it's pretty much cornered the market, I think. So come on, 70s WHO, Let's See Action! So far the only action has been George W. Bush trying to scupper his own chances by using "Won't Get Fooled Again" on the campaign trail. Top one. Jordi Cruyff scored the other day. A goal, it was. I think Barcelona should have bribed Leeds to lose instead of bribing Milan to win. Winning's much more difficult. I had a listen to the German Wrens on a listening post the other day. My word, Isobel's quite the ice maiden, isn't she? She could make Paradise Lost sound like a shopping list. That's Paradise Lost the big poem, not Paradise Lost the death metal group. I must admit I didn't listen to much of it though, I was worried in case some fellow B&S fan came up and tried to talk to me. It had nice strings on it, but man cannot live on strings alone. If I want strings I'll listen to the Krankhausen Quartet. There's some very pleasant musical sequences in the film "Oh Brother!", if you like that sort of thing. Let's face it, Jeepster's new web-unfriendly approach simply puts them on a par with just about every other record label. And no, I wouldn't have thought that Christmas album would make a great deal of profit, due to the wilful exclusion of The Eurythmics. I also found it a bit ironic that the press release for a Christmas charity record should slag off Band Aid. It would seem that indie aesthetics stretch to charity work as well, making it uncool to make loads of money. But what would we do without Jeepster? We'd be lost. Pinefox, I don't know if I'm in Papercuts or not. Trousers is too busy hand-rotating the top of the Post Office Tower. But I'm working on stuff, I'm working on stuff. Based on the homosexual gangster orgy in "Performance". Someone asked about Go-Kart Mozart. It's got some crackers on it, like "Sailor Boy" and "Drinkin' Um Bongo" and another junkie song and some other stuff that doesn't really wear as well. In short, better than "Novelty Rock" but not as good as the others. There's a strong tragic undercurrent to it. I would try and download it for free instead of coughing up for it, if at all possible. I hope Lawrence doesn't go back to his Felt ways, that would be a terrible waste. Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Jeepster website
by kittenmouse radio 09 Nov '00

09 Nov '00

on 11/8/00 6:34 PM, Lawrence M. wrote: > ***JEEPSTER*** > ***WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG?*** I'm also curious to know why my computer crashes or freezes up every time I go to Jeepster's website unless I turn off Java. Did they program it only for Windoze? Anyone else experience this (frequently)? your pal, Andrea +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Sex! The Breakfast of Champions!
by Alasdair Cook 09 Nov '00

09 Nov '00

Sadly not one on which I feast nearly as often as I'd like. But anyway. November 2000. Inspiration is sadly lacking. Lloyd Cole's second solo album almost energised me today, until my walkman batteries ran out. In some way, this is symbolic. List of things to do: Buy ticket to go to London, write things for web-based and paper-based publications, get hair cut, get new watch strap/watch battery (would new watch be cheaper? No), attempt to continue some kind of social life without spending money, gain full-time employment. None of this is very interesting, so instead I'll share with you something I found. Apparently this diary was found pinned to the back of a washed up whale. It makes for fascinating reading, I think. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24th June It has been three hours since the call came to abandon ship, and since the rats naturally were given the first lifeboats, myself and my shipmates Cabbigan, Jodper and Buvvock are, it seems, the only surviving crew. The first Emily Splinters album is currently on my walkman, however it is only making me feel more depressed. I shall switch to the radio. Despair! We cannot receive Atlantic 252. Ironies... It seems that we were attacked by a pirate ship, manned by what appeared to be the entire remaining cast of 'Dad's Army', both wearing Spiderman costumes. Terrifying, to say the least. Pertwee gave the order to fire, and the rest I remember only partly, glimpsed through smoke and onion gravy. Cook had just served dinner. Food and water are at a premium, since there isn't any of either. We cannot eat the sea-water, for it is tepid. If things continue the way they are, we may have to draw straws in order to determine who should be the first to be drunk by the others. This is not a situation I relish. Oh, there is no relish either. We had a sachet of mayonnaise, but it floated off of it's own accord. No islands have been spotted thus far, though each of us has our eyes peeled, if only because it is the only chance we shall ever get to shout 'Land Ahoy!'. If we do find an island, I pray they have a decent shoe-horn. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- That's all for that day. I may print the next bit if I can be bothered to type it out, we'll see. And all of her reports are fine it's just we feel she gets distracted easily by other people crucial yeah she'll have to settle down. Goodbye. Alasdair xx PS Alasdair Neil Cook is quite partial to sweetcorn. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I Don't Believe In The Son
by P F 08 Nov '00

08 Nov '00

My Fellow I spent election night in Maine, Tennessee, hunkered down on a bunker bed with my goodfriend, Albert J. McLeish, the heterosexual lumberjack from Sacramento. We were very disappointed when David Dimbleby, man of the millennium in my book [have you read my book? It's called 'David Dimbleby: Man of the Millennium; pub. Lilliput Press, 2001], so *casually* (in the middle of an interview with an utterly goonish Bush academic!) retracted - not to say rescinded, or even revoked, Gore's Floridan victory. - If you didnae know the resul', mon, said Albert, ye shouldnae hve annoonced it. His protests went for nothing. Someone, somewhere, cried. Youn sure is the head of the Ambiguity Police. She said: >>>I love how 'just' is ambiguous in this line: It's just we feel she gets distracted. PF, if you ever read this, could you please tell us what you meant? Why, have you heard the song? I am a tad mystified at where you are getting your sources from. If I didn't know better I'd think that 'Youn' was a clever alias for 'Ally1996'. (Where is he anyway?) I'm afraid that what I meant was loose rather than ambiguous. It meant nothing more interesting than: It's just [simply / only / merely] that we [her teachers] feel that she [a pupil, aged 18 as it happens] gets distracted [by other classmates, rather than concentrating on her work; therefore, we advise that you, her parent(s), get her to knuckle down (work harder)]. I'm sorry that the result is not more enthralling than that. >>>I can't wait to hear Suburban Light! What's that? Come, Hillary, come. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Clinton be pleased...another Bush in the Whitehouse...arf arf
by Nik Ovenden 08 Nov '00

08 Nov '00

How we (the SW British) have heard that joke so much in the past few hours...can i not se the 'Simpson' scriptwriters having a field day!!! But then...wait? Gore? hmm...maybe clinton is less of a fan of that...but it's another democrat... oh, wait, Bush is in the lead again! or is he? You sodding americans with your confusing electoral system...now it is claimed that servicemen in Korea who are residents of Florida have to return their votes. WHAT'S GOING ON?!! despite this, my new controversial topic has to be the elections. despite the floods in most of our fair country (and apologies to all of you who are onder 15ft of water...), it is safe to say that the Presidential elections are tres nutty. I would rather have Gore, after finding Texas (which is Bush's state) is No1 for executions, polluted city and underinsurance, while it is 47th in state and 50th in medical spending (yee-haw) plus his brutal and unnecessary plans to rape alaska's nature reserves for oil. Comments, texans? i know you've all debated this before, but your news takes a strangled, delayed past to our [rainy] shores... on a lighter note... GENTLE WAVES Much better than last time, i think. Stuie M has done the string arrangements, and they are tres Stuie... JEEPSTER Jeepster's site is slowly decomposing, is it not? In fact, did anyone discover Looper's reason for quitting the label? How much of the xmas album cost will go to the Big Issue? "profits" is such an ambiguous word, since accountants are so good at "cooking with numbers" FLOODS/PETROL CRISIS our Geography class have spotted a wasted opportunity from our dismal government yet again. What if they'd announced "OK, you can choose - reduction in fuel duty or flood defences?" - 2 birds, one stone. In fact, truckers should be entitled to 'red' diesel, and i still fail to see why not. But then, i advocate the use of rail freight (one the bloody privatised rail services get their asses in gear) DROSS i found a Snow Patrol 12" with extra S. Pilot remixes...yippee! Clearlake's website (www.clearlake.uk.com) is grand, if ye havenae heard of them... Select's CD this month has gone all indie on us...PJ Harvey? Snow Patrol? GENTLE WAVES? ALFIE?????????? i mean, lee's a sex god, but his music is soooo not Selectish!! Once again, in true "uh? ah? wuh? puh?" style i put my washable ink on your dear pages, and for this i apologise. Lotsa Love, Niko xxx PS - my arab friend wants Bush to win "otherwise America's VP will be a Jew". How should i respond? I have a bucket of sand and my head ready... PPS - "orange - minge". "silver - bugger it, i cant find a word that rhymes with silver". That good enough? PPPS - i'm really confused about the Chris Geddes thing. is he having the 4 top bidders round, or 4 nights where the top bidders come round, accompanied by three friends? hmmm, i'm scared i paid lots for only one placemat... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: B&S in Mojo and on MTV
by colin thornton 08 Nov '00

08 Nov '00

I just had a chance to read the latest Mojo magazine with articles on Isobel's french film collection and Chris's Northern Soul vinyl collection. They both have very wierd tastes, and the article seemed very random to me. It was still nice to see their pictures, even though Isobel's publicity photo never changes. Belle and Sebastian's "Wrong Girl" was delicately placed in the background of the Real World finale promo on MTV. If you listen closely, you can hear Mick's little trumpet solo that sounds so funky. This is pretty damn cool- my favorite TV show with my favorite musical group. Twee City, Colin _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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