February 2000 - Sinister

Sinister: Gig of interest in Glasgow
by Neil Robertson 10 Feb '00

10 Feb '00

All you Stevie Jackson fans should get along to the Tron theatre in Glasgow on Sunday 20th February, where Stevie will be playing as part of the Bill Wells Trio. Anyone who hasn't witnessed the genius of Bill Wells before would do well to go down and have a listen. Stevie adds guitar and harmonica to Bill's hauntingly beautiful pieces. The Trio are supporting The Telstar Ponies, who are doing their first Glasgow gig in about three years, since reforming. The Pastels are DJing too. Tickets are £6 (£5 con.) from John Smiths or the Tron box office. It promises to be a great night in a fantastic venue. See you there. Neil +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: tigermilk hoarders
by kittenmouse radio 10 Feb '00

10 Feb '00

hi kids, i'm just writing cause it's 1:25 am and i'm supposed to be in bed; i've got studio classes from 8:30 am to 5 pm tomorrow. ugh. can't skip again. just had a medieval art midterm today. it was difficult, but i hope i got an A. that would be super. the main reason i am writing is because i wanted to share an opinion on a subject that slightly irritates me and wondered what you kids thought of it. i was talking to a friend of mine who is familiar with belle and sebastian, right around the time when tigermilk was going to be, or just had been rereleased. she told me she knew some kids who thought they were top shit because they had, something like, twenty copies of the original vinyl pressing of tigermilk. and i was thinking, who brags about that? what kind of arse-hole hoards 20 copies of an album of which only 1,000 copies were pressed? ugh. if i met them i would want to smack them. really hard. who cares anyway, now that jeepster has rereleased it? i hope they're only worth 10 cents now, just to spite those snobby hipster f**ks. anyway, thanks for letting me vent my irritation. luv, 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: The boy with the terrible english strikes again
by Jordi Trenzano 10 Feb '00

10 Feb '00

Hi: ThereŽs a catalan expression which says something like "married man, useless donkey", so be careful, Ailsa. Because I guess that itŽs an expression applicable to every kind of married men, not only the ones from here.....Besides that, congratulations..... I forgot to post something interesting, as long as my posts are really interesting..... but a friend of mine whoŽs also a music journalist interviewed Francis McDonald, and besides telling how much does he love B&S, he laso mentioned that Chris and Stevie were a little tired of not playing live with B&S, and this is why they were helping a lot to the bands from their record label. If this is true, then we know that Stu is still a twee little dictator !!! that was a really bad joke, iŽm sorry... I donŽt mind about Stu D. leaving the band. But will this mean that "Winter Wooskie" wonŽt be on the album ? I love that song...... is probably the most beatle-esque from the band. Sorry for Kin, but I bought Beth OrtonŽs "Central Reservation" for christmas and itŽs one of the most boring records that iŽve heard on a long time. Making the songs 7 minutes long with no sense is something that I donŽt understand, even when you have a lovely singing voice.. At least iŽve got someone else than Beck on my list of personal disagreements with the music press. And they have worked together, so all falls in the place. Love and marriage proposals Jordiet Sinistre ______________________________________________________________ For up-to-the-minute music news, reviews and specials visit http://www.nme.com Get free e-mail (anyname(a)nme.com) now at http://www.nmemail.com The sender of this e-mail is NOT an employee or associate of NME, nme.com or any other IPC magazine. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Kin's Big Day Out report!:)
by Kin WOO 10 Feb '00

10 Feb '00

hello Sinisterinies! Just writing to tell you about my day at the Big Day Out- the best (err actually practically the only!) festival in Australia. And this year had an unbeatable line-up (unbeatable that is for Aussie standards which most definitely do not compare to English festival ones): Beth Orton, Basement Jaxx, Chemicals, and Primal Scream. It was like THE most TRANSCENDENTAL, MIND-BLOWING just plain AMAZING time of my life. It was actually stultifyingly ROASTINGLY *HOT*- a whopping 37 degrees celsius!:( Beth Orton made a joke about "a little English roast-Beth on a spit!" which was an accurate description. The maddening heat threatened to spoil proceedings and since the first band we saw was Atari Teenage Riot- the self-proclaimed loudest band in the world (eat that Korn et al) who sounded like a cross between Rage Against the Machine and Bis (a frightful notion), the mood was not helped. The only words they seemed to know (they're German) were "FUCK" "REVOLUTION" and "Atari Teenage Riot!" all delivered in screaming tones- errgh. Lead singer was good-looking though. After that we retreated to shade for drinks etc The next act we saw was the ever lovely Beth Orton. She seemed to be a great mood despite the heat and was joking and goofing around a lot- such a relief from the other dour Atari. She was really great of course- with the dancier tracks like "Tangent" and "Stars seem to Weep" wonderfully complimenting the rock outs ("Stolen Car") and the devastatingly sad weepies like "Pass in Time". She was wearing a rilly cute hot orange bikini and hot pants combo with a cute blue star on her bottom, so I took a piccie of it!:) She played a remarkably short set-only half an hour but it was still really fantastic. My friend nearly passed out from the heat then- so early in the day. Primal Scream were next in the Boiler Room and boy did a place EVER live up to its name. The weather was 37 degrees but inside the Boiler Room it was at least in the fifties! So packed it was with writhing steaming bodies. Prior to the Primals, the security guards were in a strangely jolly mood and were dancing along to the music and exhorting the audience to do so too-hmmm! Primals were unequivocally the BEST act of the day despite very tough competition. They were evil and brilliant and their music suitably nasty metal machine futuristic punk, which frequently escalated into pure white noise. Mani was off-his-face on some drugs while Bobby G wore sunnies and didn't move much yet oozed deadly cool from every pore. All their tracks boasted subterranean bass levels that reverberated through yr entire body (well I was right up front so I really FELT it!) and sounded so AMAZING, that we all felt like disciples bowing down at the feet of Bobby G, preacher of our modern times. Which I know sounds kinda wanky, but heh! It was that mind-blowing:) We took another much-needed break during Goldie and went back in to see Basement Jaxx who were also excellent and made MASSIVE sounding party music that was just awesome. After ANOTHER break, we went to see the last band on the bill, Chemical Brothers who were yes, you guessed it-f**king brilliant. They had trippy visuals and more importantly sounded blisteringly great. I just kept thinking wow! This is the best 6 hour rave ever:) the best song was "Block Rocking Beats" but their last song "Private Psychedelic Reel" just stunned us with its transcendental majesty and everything was just so *right* about the whole experience. It was like, your feet were aching and it was swelteringly hot but the euphoria and ecstasy you experienced was so undeniable. And that brought to an end a nearly 12 hour day of intense heat and the great feeling that it was $73 very well spent. The next day woke up with a mild case of temporary tinnitus and sunburn but have now completely recovered-yah! What was also really good was that I was able to bring my tape recorder in and made a pretty good bootlegs of Beth Orton, Basement Jaxx and Chems, and a not bad one of Primal Scream. Double HOORAY! Especially considering the fact that they had metal detectors at the gate and was sure I would be caught:) oooh way long letter. ah well hope those who DID make it to the end didn't mind it TOO much! ok luvvies love ya and leave ya Kin Woo +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Photo Jenny
by Guilherme Barrella 10 Feb '00

10 Feb '00

Hi Sinister, Have you guys ever heard of a Japanese band called Photo Jenny? They're lovely. Some guy made real audio files of their music. --watermelon crush--(from Left Bank CDep): http://village.infoweb.ne.jp/~trolley/photo_04.ram --window painting-- (from Left Bank CDep): http://village.infoweb.ne.jp/~trolley/photo_06.ram (He will delete these files 2 or 3 days later) They have two releases: "Tier Quatett" 8 song CDep(Left Bank/Japan) "Painted Kites" 5 song CDep(Minty Fresh Japan/Japan) And here's their email address: photo(a)abox.so-net.ne.jp gui i'm posting too much, i fell bad +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Tales of Brave Andy, adrift in NYC
by spaceboy 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

Dear Sinister, Allo, comrades, this is my first time writing, and since introductory emails generally make me feel awkward I'll keep the "Love me, I'm new!" portion of this letter to a minimum: Love me. I'm new. Excellent, now that that's over with. I recently moved to New York to attend art school in the east village, and I guess that it was only upon my arrival here that my love of Belle & Sebastian turned into something of an obsession. How could it not, really? In a city that's so easily conducive to both melancholic introspection and passionate wanderlust, how could such music not quickly become a soundtrack to your life? Sure, there were other musical participants. Leonard Cohen, ex-Canadian turned New Yorkian (or is that vice versa?), the Magnetic Fields (who I can now proudly call a local band), Chisel (who I used to call a local band before I left DC), Bjork, the ever-present Elvis Costello .. you know the drill. But none of them really left as strong an imprint as B&S. So if in four years I no longer listen to the music I'm listening to today, if I look back upon my Belle & Sebastian days as nothing more than a fad (heresy?), perhaps I can take reconciliation in the fact that they played an instrumental role in my early New York days. And it's still a bit difficult, I think. This is the first time I've uprooted myself so heavily. I went to college in Iowa for a bit, but it was so isolated and inwardly focused that the difficulties associated with acclimation were minimal at best. I've some lovely people here, as I expected I would, but I still feel straddled between two potential ways of living my life: 1) College Community and Very Little More You know the drill, or can imagine it. The entirety of my social life revolves around my friends in school, and most often around school functions. Parties, lectures, that sort of thing. And while such a lifestyle has its draws, I still feel attracted to... 2) Living My Life as an Independent Entity in New York City I'm cheating myself. I live in one of, if not the, most dynamic city in the states. And yet I rarely, if ever, experience it. I never go out to shows, though I used to attend shows constantly back home - I can just never work up the drive here, I think. I never go out to clubs, though I'd like to. And, most distinctly, I have no friends not currently attending Cooper Union. And that's something I'd like to change. ...Not that I'm hitting you all up for friendship. Only sex! Err, sorry, actually, neither. Before I begin, this may get boring for any of you not in the area, so you can skip down to the ending, where I will attempt to find some clever way of signing off. For those of you in the area, though, a question: where're some nice places to go, preferably in the general area of the East Village? Some clubs that play music other than Madonna remixes. Some coffee shops with nice pinball games. Some interesting little hideaway I've yet to discover. If you've any ideas, please respond via direct email, of course. I'd hate to go down in infamy my first week on the list. To the rest of you, I've really enjoyed reading the majority of the emails the past few weeks. Thanks for flooding me with charming and occasionally dirty bits of text, they've been the saving grace of my inbox. Rapidly contributing to the degradation of Sinister from within, Andy (who isn't ready to send kisses to any of you quite yet) PS: Fiona can be awkwardly fit to rhyme "you own," as in: Fiona my joy, you own this boy ...err .. it helps if you slur the "Fiona." And also if you're drunk. -- andy pressman_________________________________________ http://andy.newdream.net : ICQ 12956959 : AOLim Kid Roboto andy(a)newdream.net (would you like me to read it now?) pressman(a)cooper.edu (or shall I get around to it eventually?) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: *so she picked herself up and found that she was in a fairy castle
by JENOWL22＠aol.com 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

Hiya all! First, can I say hi to samantha, my penfriend, who's on sinister somewhere. I think. Oooh. Guess what. I'm going on a real live DATE with a real live BOY. His name's Barry. But he's two years older than me, and he'll prolly think i'm silly. Or i'll go all shy and red, and he'll think i'm insane. But I'm pleased with myself all the same, because I managed to talk to him without running away, or looking at my feet. Belle and Sebastian were mentioned on the priory. But it was a very short mention, and it was only one of the guests saying he liked them. I don't even know who the guest was. In RE class we all had to dercribe each other. So the four people I was with decided I was bookish, mostly sad, shy, serious, afraid, naive and worried. Everyone else got good stuff like funny, or cheerful, or interesting. Iona rhymes with Fiona, but I don't know if anyone would write a song about a little scottish place where it rains a lot. I feel really bad because I was in the tape tree and messed it up a bit by losing one of the tapes. But I found it, so it should be ok now, if the lynch mob don't get me. I have two list crushes. I feel so wanted. It's valentines day soon, and our school's running a valentines delivery service. Which is sweet. Lots of hugs, and flowery love and puke. Jen Ps. I just realised that all the smut can't stop, because i get my sex education off of sinister. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: CLIENTELE
by Andrew CHurchman 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

hey, i keep reading these posts about the clientele/ladybug transistor show. I've been wanting to go but being NYU is about 2hrs away,it's on a thrusday, and i have school the next day, i probably won't make it. For those who do go please let us know how it went. Ladybug Transistor are extrordinary in my opion, their guitarist Jeff is one of the nicest guys in the world too. So those going should have a good time. Oh, thanks to those who e-mailed me about my "girl troubles" it was very nice of you..... but, now that were "just friends" would a Valentines gift be too much?? any help? Thanks for reading. see ya later. ----------- andrew __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Maybe my sinister friends can help.
by Brandt S. Fundak 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

Do you guys know anything about the band Hood? They are playing Cleveland March 10 and I want to know if it is worth my trouble to go see them play. Thanks. Brandt "We live here but we're sightseers." --The Lucksmiths +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: *and the bubble burst and poor Fubble tumbled into trouble
by James Gilmer 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

Greetings again Sinister Siblings, so Stuart David has left the building, eh? Best of luck to him then. I'll admit to not caring for Looper's album upon the first hearing but several Sinister Siblings poked and prodded me into giving it a rehash. I must say that upon several more listens it grew upon me and "Impossible Things #2" has found it's way onto a mix tape of my favorite songs. I've even converted two more people to the Holy Cause that is Sinister and Looper. Come now people!! I'm sure we can supply Erica with some more pictures for her Sinister clothing project! Miss Scarlet is waiting impatiently for all your Sinister styles. The Lovely Laura Llew said; "Not only did Jim Gilmer (who is the Tape God. Someone please make that boy an idol) send me Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs (which is tops)" You heard the lady Sinister Lads and Lasses! Bow down to the Tape God, worship me with sacrifices of firstborn and virgins!! I am come among you to bring passion and music to your lives! I am your living Tape God, praise me or I'll take my infinite love away from this list!! ...*ahem*, sorry about that. Slight case of my rampant megalomania kicking up again into drama queen mode. I was called "normal looking" by someone yesterday, I believe it was supposed to be a compliment. It's a skill really, being able to fit into everyday society while maintaining a life of twee anarchy and Sinister perversions. You know, perversions like reading and listening to music other than Top 40 or country which saturates my little Michigan hometown. While at work I was spending my lunch break reading when another employee came into the breakroom and seeing me engaged in such an odd activity exclaimed, "Oh, a reader!". They are even now preparing a large scarlet R for me even as we speak. Cheers to rachel for recommending the Gormenghast trilogy to me, it's brilliant. Cheers as well to those mad nutters on the sinister chat for help with finding Lucksmiths cd's and choosing reading material for an elementary school project. Spiders do bite though I have not encountered any radioactive ones, the little buggers can leave nasty marks and the bite tends to swell a little. A friend of mine once told me that (according to him, he insists he saw this on Discovery) it has been proven that we swallow about eight spiders a year. They crawl into our mouths whilst we sleep seeking the warm humidity we provide and then they simply get swallowed. Charming thought, eh? Much love and warm fuzzy thoughts to the dear souls who voted for me on the list crush, you're both wonderful whoever you are. Oh, and let's start telling the story already!! Use that bit of wasted space we call a subject line! You'll hurt our Dear Honey's feelings if you don't play these sinister games with us. Recommended reading: Cornelius Chronicles by Michael Moorcock and with that.... Goodbye Rag! Goodbye Tag! Goodbye Bobtail! Be Sinister children... Jim +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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