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Sinister: It's Changed To 'Breakfast'
by P F 24 May '00

24 May '00

The car park was American-sized; built, or stretched, on a scale once unheard of in London. To cross from the station and petrol pumps at one end to the gleaming hangar at the other was something akin to crossing a desert, or so it felt to those who hadn't crossed a desert. Supermarket windows seemed to bat the sunlight back out into the air. The entrance was at far left: spacious and inviting, almost excessively so. How is it, Harriet wondered, that on a 'shrinking planet' certain uses of space seem to be magnifying themselves, well-nigh exponentially? As she grazed the newspapers and the fresh NME, Harriet reflected on what had happened to her name. It seemed to have regained its e. She wondered if she might have been living inside some kind of Perecian formalist narrative, in which the letter 'e' was forbidden in names. It had probably been written by Tim Hopkins. But he'd never admit it. The NME carried a lead letter, so-so, not great, not dire, sticking up halfway for Belle and Sebastian, but nonetheless demanding that they 'speak up'. This seemed a lamentable concession. The NME savaged the fellow anyway. Thank heavens she hadn't been so rash as to write to them herself. Making Life Taste Better, said signs. Life was blue and orange - no, they were its piping, its supplementary colours; brilliant white, as pure as the sunlight outside, was the primary hue of the fresh world. She moved through the aisles and scanned some produce. Lettuces that would freeze themselves into turgid inedibility once refrigerated. Flavours of the world. Baguettes with poppyseeds. Why did they cost the same as, rather than more than, ordinary unseeded baguettes? And why didn't every branch stock them? Marmite. Bovril. Yeats extract. I will arise and go now And go - No, hang on, the Yeats extract was just in her head. But what about its real-world counterpart, the yeast extract? Where was that? Lou Reed remarked in 1989 that human life in America was worth little more than infected yeast. Yet *extracted* yeast, that was something to value. Toast wouldn't be the same without it. Marmite is a kind of yeast extract, it seems. But where was the yeast extract that wore its nature on its sleeve - that was called 'yeast extract', manufactured by, or for, J Sainsbury? A woman passed in the appropriate uniform. Harriet could hardly tell if it was workware or the latest indie-kid fashion. For a minute she thought it might be Alix Campbell. But no. She called out to the assistant and studied her more closely. She was not too tall, yet not tiny. Her face mixed the winsome and the sour. She looked different without an axe strapped on, but there was no doubt about it. It really was Juliana Hatfield. - What's happened to the Yeats extract - I mean, the yeast extract? Juliana affected a 'British' accent. - It's been discontinued... when we had a refit... a whole bunch of brands had to be stopped. No real Brit would ever say 'a whole bunch of', would they? Unless they were discussing bananas. - That's a pity... I always used to buy it. - Yeah, well, we've had some complaints - so you never know. She exited the aisle, sheepish yet sharpish. There was no doubt that it was she. In the coffee aisle Harriet came upon still another puzzler. Wakey Wakey coffee's orange and yellow packaging was intact, yet its name had been changed. It simply said 'Breakfast'. Juliana Hatfield passed. More queries. - What's happened to 'Wakey Wakey'? - It's changed to 'Breakfast'. - Yeah, I see. But why? I mean, what was wrong with 'Wakey Wakey'? - It's about product differentiation... strategies were developed at a high level with regard to naming brands. To bring that product in line with the rest of the strand - 'All Day Long', 'After Dinner', and the like - it really required a more literal name. Plus, I figure that people felt 'Wakey Wakey' was patronizing. 'Breakfast' is just being straight with the customer. That's our aim. It's kind of like when we released 'Come On Feel The Lemonheads'. That was a straight down the line title. We didn't call it 'Have Your People Contact Mine', or 'Ask Park Rangers Where You Should Park'. It says on the box what you get on the CD. Come on, buy the CD - and hear the Lemonheads - which means, feel them - with your ears - right? Something about the story was unsatisfying to me. Unsatisfying tout court, possibly, to a continent of readers; or simply unsatisfying to one gentleman (if I can so call myself) at a railway station in Central Europe. The prose had been acceptable enough, but no more. But the characters of the girls alienated me with a thoroughness which I still find hard to convey. Why must they prattle and gabble so? Why did one speak in a version of the detestable corporate speech of the so-called modern world (advancing towards barbarism with each step of the clock hands, as Teddy once remarked to me, though I pointed out that clock hands do not, strictly speaking, take steps)? I closed the flimsy book, glanced around me, and listened to the conversation of my similarly retarded and ensconced fellow travellers. Travellers on the journey of life itself, no doubt, as well as some more literal jaunt through a portion of the playground which the old cemetery called Europe has become. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. 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Sinister: Mugs
by honey＠missprint.org 24 May '00

24 May '00

More news from Ms Katrina in her swivel chair at B&S central. The new merchandise shop is now online at: http://www.myspace.co.uk/belleandsebastian/tshirt.html including some rather smart looking mugs which I intend on getting (how about some B&S teabags? Ceylon I think). Also, there are some stills from the Legal Man video improbably at the Blake's 7 WWW site at: http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7/news/Belle.html For people who weren't conscious in the 70s (you lucky beasts), Blake's 7 was a plasticky UK sci-fi series with wobbly scenery, which seems to still exert some strange charm over people called Linda, and the star in it appears as a drunken old sot of a judge in the Legal Man video. These sci-fi fans are on the button aren't they? I'm going to get in big trouble for using the word "plasticky". Telepathic hate mail from the planet Cygnus Alpha. The site also has a "Sevencyclopaedia" with entries for anything that's ever appeared in the series. I particularly like: HARMONICA (C-11: MOLOCH) A harmonica was heard to be played by one of the prisoners from Kalkos aboard the T-16 transporter taking them to Sardos. They've also got 3 (THREE) mailing lists, including one for "adult" content. Mmmm naked aliens... "Bishops love sci-fi, Ted." Honey x -- "unbelievably naive... appallingly dishonest... stupendously dull... intellectually insulting... elitist... perverse... self-conscious... petulant... intensely irritating" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: There Are No Third Parties Involved
by P F 24 May '00

24 May '00

London's crossings swirled with pink, silver, sequins, the kind of things you've heard about. The sign above King's Cross had a two-decade-dated look. Harrit looked at a picture of Elizabeth Hurley on a news stand. Hurley seemed to have been around for ever - that film in 1987, that gala in 1994, that scandal of 1995, they're all illusions to her now. Yet she looked - dignified, wry, experienced, yes; but angelic too, ravishing, in fact. How did she manage it? As the train pulled out of King's Cross Harrit wondered what had happened to her name. Music seemed to be playing somewhere: from the singing wires, the tracks, the embattled beige seats, the patches of grass out of the window? She tried to place it. It was - yes, it was from Powell and Pressburger's 'Black Narcissus'. Already it lent the journey a haunted air. Someone had left a book on the next table along. It was only slightly tattered (people don't seem to care for books), and entitled Zopyra. The author was W.G. Sebadoh. Idly Harrit thumbed through it. It opened at a creamy page. She read. While riding on a train going West through Central Europe I was detained at a small village station for a matter of two hours. The sky was of the kind of blue one expects in this part of the world at this hour of the day, although in all honesty I was no longer sure of the hour, or even of the part of the world, in question. Nonetheless I had some confidence that the sky was likely to be relatively appropriate to the hour of the day and the region. If not, then so be it. It was not, in truth, terribly important, for whether the prevailing weather conditions were or were not typical of the geographical and temporal situation (note how the use of the French 'temps' would help, and yet also hinder, at this point), they were such as I found them, and my stay was not, as I have already remarked, an extended one, save by comparison with sojourns and stopovers less extended than my own. The station café opened on to a paved courtyard fringed with wrought iron. The patterns reminded me of a fence I had seen in a park, or 'parc', in Paris at least sixteen years ago - possibly more, probably indeed, in fact certainly, over sixteen years previously to the incident (if such it was) in question here. The park had made an impression of sorts on me which I would like to explain further, and which I may do once I have described the matters which awaited me at the anonymous café which I mentioned, but did not name - out of necessity, though even if spared the pressure of necessity I can offer my reader no guarantee that I would go into details about the establishment's name - a few short moments ago. I sat at a table on a chair made of iron akin, if such an organic term is permissible, to the railings surrounding us. Us, yes, not 'me' only, for the other passengers of the relevant train had, of course, also been prevailed upon to disembark while matters of refuelling, remanning, or some other affair of replenishment, were seen to, or at least seen to have been done. Around me, indeed, I could see a number of other waylaid wayfarers sipping bootlegged Orangina, black coffee, or the local tipple, of which I promise to tell the reader more before the close of my narration, if such it can be legitimately, or even illegitimately, dubbed. I pulled out the paperback that I had purchased in Krakow (to give it for the nones that spelling, one only among a sometimes dizzying variety of options, not least to the multilingual, among whom I would only sometimes count myself). It was a collection of short stories by 'youthful' writers of both Eastern and Western Europe, and indeed - not to 'exclude the middle' - Central Europe too, that all-too dispensable fiction whose ending is quite unknown save that it impends, as Milan once called it while we awaited a taxi-cab on the way to the second day of a conference in Palermo. One had already captured my attention. It was by a young Scots writer and entitled 'Fold your arms, son, that'll get you the girl'. I must confess that my understanding of the fellow's text had only been partial, due to his use of local dialect and an apparent penchant for 'in-jokes' which, as Professor Levin remarked to me in 1979 apropos of the third part of Finnegans Wake, must have been more illuminating for the author than for his eager (yet anxious) readers. Yet withal I had found something in the fellow's style that had drawn me in and encouraged me to seek further enlightenment, or at least a diversion from my circumstances, in some of the other pieces in the collection. I made a note to myself to try a tale by a lad who sounded somewhere between English and French, named as he was Marc Bloomfield. Its title was 'There Are No Third Parties Involved' - a vaguely clever use, I felt, of 'legalese' or the standard patter of the legal man, or indeed woman, for that ancient profession, like so many others, has felt a new wind blowing through its oaken doors in the few decades since I myself began my itinerary. Yet before trying that tale I fancied sampling another one, perhaps because of my 'café-bound' situation at the present time, entitled 'It's Changed To "Breakfast"'. I flicked the flimsy pages to 149 and began to read. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.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: Jerry Singer
by Robin Stout 24 May '00

24 May '00

Hello If you were listening, you may remember that I wrote a few days ago about my Inventor's Kit that I'd sent off for. Well, yesterday the wonderful world of invention turned scary. I was doing the washing up when the phone rang. The voice on the other end was a very well spoken American, sounding a little like Troy McClure. "Hi I'm from the Inventor's Agency. I'd like to know if you have an invention you want to send us." "Er, well, I hadn't thought about it really" At first I thought it was a practical joke, but he took me through the forms I'd been sent, told me lots of official sounding things to fill in and I decided that if it was a joke it was far too clever for any of my friends. So I started to get scared. Actually, there was one thing that was a bit strange. He told me to write a number on the form, and then to write his name which was Jerry "With a J" Singer. "Jerry Singer?" I asked, "Are you sure?" "Yes," he replied, in a voice like he'd heard it a hundred times before, "Not Jerry Springer" So I had my doubts, but it was all too uncanny not to be true. Then he told me that he'd phone back in two days, to see if I've had any ideas about my invention. So now I have a dilemma. Either I think of an amazing invention in two days or I admit to him that I'm just a silly boy who phoned up for his Inventors Kit as a joke. I'm not looking forward to either option. Oh well, it's my own fault I suppose. feeling like a dufus Robin x +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: patches
by fiona 24 May '00

24 May '00

sorry, i always curse people for posting like this, but i just thought... if i buy an exciting sew-on patch, do i have to sew it on upside down? love and yet more jaffa cakes, fiona. enjoy enid blyton? join http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/thefamousfive enjoy twee scottish pop? join http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/worldofirnbru +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: see you at resits
by fiona 24 May '00

24 May '00

hey kidz, i've just left a two hour exam after one hour and not having managed to answer any questions at all. i'm really not stupid, though, i just didn't realise how much work was involved in mathematics and as a result did none at all. now i see the error of my ways. can't believe we've lost the narrow wizard and erica in the space of a few days, i can feel the pressure mounting up now to write good posts. aaaaaaaargh its all too much!!! loved chirpy eileen's post, its coming from yorkshire that does it you know, my dad hates the fact that me and my brother were born there and he frequently berates us, although what he expects me to do about it, i don't know. my dad also tells me never to buy fish'n'chips from anywhere in the south or west of england because they are rubbish. can anyone confirm this as i don't dare buy any to find out. my plea for mcdonalds tigger movie characters received no response, so just so that you know, i'm not speaking to any of you until someone sends me a piglet. so nurr nurr nurr. i think nick d'astoor may have nearly hit the nail on the head with his comments about the single, but i think its all a dick (slap) d'astardly-esque cunnigng ploy. you see they release a single, knowing that we'll all rush out to buy it in the first week and they'll take the charts by storm (although the sonique single's out this week as well), appear on top of the pops and (here's hoping) in smash hits. however, the nature of the lead track is such that on hearing it there probably aren't going to be that many new converts to the cause, so the band can remain in relative obscurity without appearing to want to do so. aaah, you see, i've got them sussed. pleeease stop talking about the london picnic. i don't mean to be rude, but its really boring and it makes me very jealous. i want a picnic. i want one now, mummy, /fiona stamps feet and sulks in a corner for a bit. anyone fancy helping me organise one a bti nearer to the middle of the country, preferably manchester or leeds? or is the best way to do it just to say meet me here at this time? i'm not very good at this sort of thing you see. but if anyone is going to offbeat in sheffield on friday i shall see you there unless some dreadful disaster befalls me, which i have no doubt it will. you could even email me and we could meet up. hey look!! i got to the end of the post without saying i bought legal man and its great / rubbish / why didn't they release middle distance runner instead? shit! thats spoilt it. raaaaaa love and jaffa cakes, fiona enjoy enid blyton? join http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/thefamousfive enjoy twee scottish pop? join http://clubs.yahoo.com/worldofirnbru +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: the lonliness of a New Zealand B&S fan
by Lawrence Mikkelsen 24 May '00

24 May '00

For all the people who, unlike me, won't lower their standards and buy the 'nu-metal' fanzine known as "Melody Maker", I have transcribed the highlights (ie. everything minus the tiresome attempts at humour by the hacks at said magazine) of their "Famous last Words" column from last week, featuring the lyrics for 'Legal Man' ***L-O-V-E LOVE*** Do the lyrics of 'Legal man' point to a new hippy direction for Belle and Sebastian? "I'd just been to see Al Green play" says Isobel "and my favourite song was 'LOVE Love', so that influenced me when I wrote the lyric. Anyway, what's hippy about love?" Stuart: "Love is all around". ***IT'S COMING BACK*** "I sat around desperately trying to write a hit single" Stevie explains "and I had this line 'Love it's going away' and I thought it had to be more positive, it took me two and a half minutes to write the lyrics". ***LEGAL MAN*** No arch irony here, as Staurt explains: "The rest of the lyrics are in context, it is about a legal man". ----------------------------------------- That's it ... so from that it's difficult to construe whether Stuart had any involvement in the writing at all, or whether is't purely an Isobel/Stevie song. Either way ... I'd like to know. I think it's a bit sad that we get so little Staurt on this single. I'd also like to add my thoughts to the 'Lonliness' debate. I think it may be a deliberate ploy to release the single AFTER the album. I think 'Legal Man' is more likely to generate interest, rather than chart success. The album will (I'm sure) get good reviews, and after it is relased, when more people know about the band, they can release a "chartbuster" single. At least ... that;s what I hope will happen. Goodnight all .... Lawrence Mikkelsen http://www.akn.quik.co.nz/mikelsen/aboutme +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: it was the best sex that she ever had
by Blake 24 May '00

24 May '00

i'm very sorry for posting so much and i'll try to work on it in the future. listen: the new lp is outstanding. i will say that it does have highs and lows. but, the highs are the highest highs in the b&s catalog. honestly. 'the model' and 'i fought in a war' are two of the best songs i've ever heard. swear on my mum's hairspray. not that she's worn any in a loooong long time. the lp as a whole is quite frankly, amazing. listen: 'i fought in a war' does sound like a popular british group's hit 90s song (i think). but if i reveal this band and this song, everyone will hate me for it. so i'll just keep my twee mouth shut. for now. bwa ha ha. listen: the sinister chat room is buzzing. it's yummy. so everyone needs to always visit it. unfortunately for me i've been somewhat out of the loop for so long that i don't know everyone who comes in and out of it. although, i did happen to talk to the (sadly) now departed lovely Erica MACARTHUR and she wooed me. ditto with miss marie elia. she told me i was her first list crush. i have the tendency to be wooed very easily. not to take anything away from the misses. listen: marie made me realize that i need to relocate somewhere with strong indie tendencies. so i need to move. help me out, someone. i need to go somewhere. i am going to philly for only a few days, this summer, but i AM staying with a listee, that's if she doesn't bail out on me. hmmm. i hope she won't. silence is the sound of the wind masturbating. blake xoxo the nerdy shy eyed pacifist +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: The Miller, His Son and Their Ass
by Martin Robinson 24 May '00

24 May '00

Hello people, I thought the end of the world was nigh when I heard the distressing news that Noel had left Oasis and was not to return. What other raison d'etre could I have? But then I was reminded that Status Quo are about to go on tour and once again every cloud has a silver lining and I wasn't quite so down, down anymore. As for this Belle & Sebastian band I agree with everyone, even that Nick Dastoor geezer, but I like Legal Man loads and glad it's been released and glad it's not on the album as I'm sure it would get my goat when I was in the mood for the other songs on there. And I've already had enough trouble with legal men and my goat. We're just good friends. Honest... And as for one of our more prominent tranvestite scarlet nail varnished list members being our only footballing talent, apart from that lucky keeper Robert Smudger, I'm afraid we are indeed all crap. But we foul like demons and dig out results a bit like The Wombles of old. Bagsie I'm Tomsk though, as he's my hero. He knew that berk Lee's phenominalism was just the feeling you get when you collect shiny things on common's. I don't care what Orinoco says. I really don't... Talking of being ignorant I went to the Tate Modern art gallery and made the mistake of emailing a friend about it, who then gave me a review of the whole bleedin' place and has now asked me what I liked. Am I gonna seem stupid if I said I like the shiny ones? Ho hum... Actually I did like the video of Gilbert and George just standing there, one smoking a fag occassionally. Much better than this Legal Man video nonsense I've been hearing about it. Keep it simple. Like Jim Rockford's files are, all ordered alphabetically and everything. Big Gay Ally also mentioned that he was interviewed for some radio station. I was also questioned after I inquired why they were sticking their microphone over my head while I was having a conversation with an acquaintance, I should have done a Liam and grabbed and stomped on their recording equipment. So if you want to hear my detailed eloquent theories such as "you're my best mate you are, no it's not the drink talking, you really are" just tune in... Actually don't as they asked questions like "do you think B&S are selling out", to which I replied "hmmm... interesting question..." whilst laughing. Surprisingly, it was quite a short interview... And also you'd have to go to the Sheffield area to hear it, which has the museum of pap you know. Oh what a day I've had. I nearly left the house once but thought better of it. Right I've just stopped my stopwatch and this post has taken me 67 hours to write, mainly because I've had to translate it from Volapuk first. Te ra, Martin P.S The Relict and Camera Obscura are grate. I just thought I'd mention that, no reason. The latter of which are on some tape that's on it's way to somewhere called sweetbread or something like that. P.P.S I saw that Poetry Parrot down the pub the other day pissed as a newt. Which was quite confusing as his mate the Neoplatonist Newt, who couldn't handle his ale, was as a sick as a parrot. Anyway, apparently said parrot has got bored of prose and has taken up DIY, which is nice. He's coming round next Tuesday to put up some shelves. So if you want him after... P.P.P.S God this is droning on, but can anyone enlighten me on Billy Maconie? e.g whether they're any cop, and if they are what I should purchase. I'm off now honest... +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: D'oh
by David White 23 May '00

23 May '00

Greetings, **NME** I bought this weeks NME to read the Stuart M interview and I have to say I'm a bit pissed off about it (the NME not the interview in particular). I used to buy the NME every week five or six years ago but stopped for a reason I can't honestly remember and I couldn't help but notice that these days they seem to be obsessed about politics in music. Feck that. I listen to music cos it makes me feel good or cos it holds memories for me not cos I want to be preached to by a bunch of tossers who happen to have a record contract. I remember a few years ago a mate of mine used to say that music like Blur's 'Girls & Boys' which I was listening to in the car at the time was shit cos the lyrics didn't mean anything worthwhile and didn't have any message and that really annoyed me. Surely there is more to music than as a medium for spreading a political or moral message. The whole attitude of the NME in the interviews I read (which were the ones with Stuart M and with the Super Furry Animals) was that a band must have some axe to grind in their lyrics with frequent references to Primal Scream and Asian Dub Foundation both of whom I choose not to listen to (although Screamadelica is cool). I get enough fecking politics everytime I open a newspaper or turn on the telly without having to hear it on the radio or on CDs that I buy. I like Belle and Sebastian cos they make nice music. It may not start a revolution or encourage people to 'reclaim the streets' but it makes a train journey more pleasant and is enjoyable to listen to after a day of stress and that's all I want. **Legal Man Video** Oh dear, it's a bit shit is it not. I love the song but the video sucks. It is just a mess. I'm afraid it looks like it was thrown together without much in the way of an idea behind it. I've never been a huge fan of videos for songs. I reckon once you've seen the video, the song tends to be forever tainted with that particular image though I hope I can erase the Legal Man video from my mind while listening to the song. I agree with whoever said it's like the Spice Girls 'Wannabe' but it's not even as good as that. It's too messy, too many people in the shot and too much to distract from the band and the song (although this may be deliberate.) I hope the song does really well in the charts and gets the band the success they deserve but I don't think the video will do them any favours. **New Album** I'm really looking forward to June 5th. I can't remember the last time I was looking forward to the day an album was released, must be getting old cos it used to happen regularly or maybe the music these days just isn't as good as it was back then. Hmm next I'll be saying that the music on Top of the pops all sounds the same (come to think of it...). Right that's about 15 minutes up, <<Dave>> PS visit www.belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk and contribute to the ever growing but still slightly 'sad' Discussion board PPS I'm currently in the process of updating the aforementioned site and need ideas from YOU as to what should be added/removed from the current site as I want it to reflect what the fans want. I'm also looking for people to write reviews of their favourite tracks/albums/EPs/memories etc. so feel free to contribute. david(a)belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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