May 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: My wandering days are over before they ever began...
by Jason Andreas 13 May '00

13 May '00

Hi Twee Majority, >>>>>>>>LONDON<<<<<<<<<<<<<< I am now officially unable to attend. This is because I have been struck down with a very nasty case of called-in-debtitis.... yes, my mother (lovely woman that she is [sarcasm]) has decided to call in the £300 left of my debt that only two weeks ago she had told me she was willing to leave until I get a job. I didn't have a place to stay either, so I suppose things always manage to balance out somehow. Many thanks go to Ally and Calumn for giving me permission to follow them down there and wander along behind them looking lost <grin> pity I won't get the chance. I hope you guys make it to the Edinburgh one - this goes for all of you, especially the mummy I've never seen.... <grin> >>>>>>>>>>SOULWAX<<<<<<<<<< I dragged Mr. Owen "I am NOT Hugh Grant!!!" Lowry (I hope I spelled that right) along to see Soulwax (being supported by King Adora) at King Tut's on Thursday night. I think he vaguely enjoyed it, and I bluddy loved it! The Soulwax guitarist has *the* coolest guitars ever..... his Casio guitar has to be seen to be believed. King Adora were great, and Owen especially liked the fact that they sampled a movie (Godzilla Vs. King Ghidora) which had been dubbed. "King Ghidora is in your area!!" When I was younger, I always did think the monster's name was Kinky Dora...... >>>>>>>>Jeff Buckley<<<<<<<<< I finally got off my lazy ass and bought a Jeff Buckley CD (Grace). Wow. The guy's voice has more pain in it that Thom Yorke could ever hope for (Radiohead are my favourite band, so me saying this is praise indeed). I think Last Goodbye could be my favourite song of all time. Can any Buckley fans tell me (a) Which CD should I buy next - Sketches or Mystery White Boy? and (b) Is his dad any good? >>>>>>>Comic Books<<<<<<< Has anyone ever read the Preacher series of comic books? They're great. There's an Irish Alcoholic Vampire called Cassidy in it who is possibly the finest comic book hero ever. For instance, after being (a) shot, (b) hit by a truck, (c) burned and (d) kicked in, his very next line is "That fella's got a face loike an arse.." Genius. >>>>>>>>Sinister Gear<<<<<<<<< I was really being serious when I suggested the idea of a Sinister t-shirt, btw. I think it'd be cooler than cool... James 'Rosebush' Thorniley said: >><Jason style GRIN> I'm glad to see I'm becoming famous (notorious?) for something, anyway <grin> To tell the truth, my <grin>ing ways began on the Radiohead Mailing List (which is dying at the moment) because there were a few people who were totally unable to spot sarcasm, so I started to <grin> every time I was sarcastic, and that sort of spread to me <grin>ing every time I say *anything*, which sort of puts me back at square one really.... <grin> <smile> <giggle> <chortle> (Over hill and) Glen said: >>Lamacq kept reffering to the band as "THE BELLES", which for some >>reason makes me shudder I would make you shudder a lot then, cos I either call them B&S or The Belles....<grin> >>>>>ITCH<<<<< I shaved my armpits because I thought it'd make my vest top look a little better, but they itch like all buggery. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to stop the itch? <pleading look> >>>>BIG ERECT PENIS<<<<< The tree on the bodyparts page looks very like something....I can't think what though... <giggle> Pamela "Study At Stow" Tait said: >>Hmm, better still, anyone ever freamed about The Judderman? I misread this to say "Anyone ever creamed about the Judderman?" which almost made me fall off my chair... <grin> I talk too much, don't I? Well, I'll shut it now.... --Jason Andreas If nice guys finish last, then I'll never finish at all... ICQ: 45821217 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: WE ARE NOT INTELLECTUALS, WE WANT TO BE ON TV, EH WHO'S SPEARMINT?!
by Elisabeth Zachariassen 13 May '00

13 May '00

hi, I never write but some might remember me from those early picnics....ahhhh those were the days. I have translated this interview for someone else so I thought I might just as well send it to you as a response to the selling out debate. The interview also had a nice picture of mr jackson and his (?) drawings of the other band members, and featured in the cultural supplement of one of Norways biggest newspapers. I guess Stevie would have made the cover if Motorhead hadn't released a new album as well and a lovely picture of Lemmy is on the cover. Urgh! Please overlook the spelling and basically the language,-) Its not true that B&S play with their backs to the audience, nor that they are so bloody intellectual, nor that they never do interviews, here is one for example; SHYNESS AND HONESTY I am going to be completely honest with you. I am only doing this interview because I like flying. I am also able to go places Ive never been before. Saying yes to doing this interview with you, not that I mind, gave me the opportunity to fly to Norway and explore Oslo. After this interview Im going out in the city with my girlfriend. B&S guitarist SJ is sitting with his legs femininely crossed in a darkly lit room at a record company on Karl Johan. Hes got pale Scottish complexion and black clothes. He has let us interview him and that is supposed to be a rarity, we are supposed to be grateful. They sure are weird these Scots, they rarely play gigs and when they do they play with their backs to the audience, and the singer Stuart doesnt talk to anyone and they are all really well-read and intellectual and they refuse to be on telly. No no no, nothing of this is true Stevie carefully shakes his head. He blushes. Excuses himself. He doesnt mind journalists. Its just that they write so many things that arent true. Firstly we do not play with our backs to the audience. Its not like we jump around or anything but we do not play with our backs turned! When it comes to this thing about intelligence I am definitely not an intellectual. I did go to college for a while, but thats a long time ago. Stuart is maybe the only one who went, Im not sure. Thats one in seven, which doesnt exactly make B&S an intellectual band. And when the British press wrote that we didnt want to perform on the Top of the Pops then. Pause -Then? Then they were completely wrong. We would have loved to be on TOTP! I cant understand where they got that from. The band who refused to play on TOTP it said. And with those headlines of course no one ever asks us to do TV. WE WANT TO BE ON TV! We want our music to get into the charts, thats our goal. And then I read in a mag that our new single Legal man is our first attempt at being mainstream. What nonsense! -Why? Why! Pause. What is it people think we are doing? Do people really think that we make music that we only want a few to like? That we ask our record company to withdraw all our records when we have passed 4000 sold? I cant understand that people are disappointed when we say that we want to make hits. -How does these myths come about if nothing of it is true? I dont know, we dont set out to make myths. We dont play many gigs and we dont give many interviews. Thats just the way we are. The Scots have made their 4th album fold your hands.and it sounds like their former albums. Minimalistic, vulnerable and acoustic. We havent changed,» says Stevie. There are quite a few expectations from your audience, like here in Norway for example. «Why? Are we big here? -You were no 7 in the album charts with your last album. Really? Wow. What do you think people are expecting from us then? We would like to give people what they want, we wouldnt like to disappoint anyone. We are going to do our best, but were not people to run around to fans and papers and scream PLEASE LOVE US! -No youre not. We are just trying to be honest with ourselves. -Yes, you are. Its not like we try to keep up with the new musical trends. Yesterday someone asked me what I thought of Spearmint. Spearmint! He thought it was incredible that I hadnt heard about them. Have you heard about Spearmint? -No Thank God! I thought it was just me! -What do you listen to? I like pop. And musicals. When Im drunk I like to do a couple of songs from Guys & Dolls and West Side Story. And I like Madonna. And Miles Davies. And the Beatles. So I am not really down with the latest trends. -No? No. We are just ordinary people that live in Glasgow. We dont hang out in the party crowd in London. We go in the studio, make records and when we are finished we go home again __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! 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Sinister: 1..2..3..4..
by James Thorniley 13 May '00

13 May '00

Hi again sinister folks, (be brave) Sorry this is so long.. BEGINNING*** It has been a while indeed. Since last time I posted I'm 16 which is nice I spose, and I'll soon be finishing my school term to do my GCSE exams (^^yay^^). POINTLESS EXPLANATION OF SUBJECT LINE Don't you find the the bit at the beggining of "Mayfly" where he goes "1,2,3,4" so catchy? PICNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCC oo oo oo it's sinister picnic time again. Or if you're me moaning about how you're mum won't let you go to sinister picnic time again*. I've come up with a shockingly devious plan that's so shocking that the more twee of you may find it difficult to comprehend how devious it is, and should thus look away now... I'm going to LIE HARHAR <evil laugh> I'm so evil and more so because I am ranting so much. Anyway I hope I will see many of you luvly peeps there the day after school breaks up HURRAH. YOURE JUST A BABY BABY GIRL You're Just a Baby has just come round on my hi-fi. Was someone saying this wasn't such a good song? Don't be silly now, this song ROCKS. The lyrics might sound a bit cheesy but I really like them actually, I really like that about B&S lyrics... they often sound tacky but at least they mean something. Here'ssomething else vaguely B&S related - hopefully I've got my facts right, but think about this: May 1998, two interesting events occur in the P!O!P! world, Geri Haliwell leaves the Spice Girls, and Mick Cooke joins Belle and Sebastian.. hmm, come to think of it.. you may have seen Mick Cooke and you may have seen Geri Haliwell, but have you ever seen Mick Cooke and Geri Haliwell *together*? UNIFORMS Sinister uniforms seem to be the hot topic at the mo.. I had an idea for a t-shirt design - we could do one of those montage things.. that's where you get a big picture made up lots of small pictures like you get on some posters and on those BT ads where it zooms out from the lots of different people and you see this picture of ET. Anyway you could do that from all those millions of pictures mummy has and make them show a fox or something (maybe a bit more imaginative than that) and that would look nifty I think. Of course we would make the girls versions extra tight and the boys need only wear theirs in bad weather to satisfy Pookie and Velocity. Maybe we could have a posh sinister uniform as well for when we want to look special when the Queen is presenting us all with our knighthoods for being so fantastic. GUILDFORD FESTIVAL Another thing I wanted to talk to you about today is the GUILDFORD FESTIVAL. I thought since people set up those siniglasto and sinireading egroups that I would set up another little egroup for and sinistereens who might be coming to GUILDFORD this year: www.egroups.com/group/siniguildford. It's a GRATE little festival in sunny Surrey here in my home town. This year the headliners are Idlewild, Motorhead, Van Morrison and Joan Armatrading... I also spied the fantastic Gorky's on the list (tbc.. fingers crossed). Anyway, it's not really about music, it's about sitting outside in the sun and having a laugh. Tickets are dirt cheap, visit www.guildford-live.co.uk or email me for more info. Go on come it will be grate fun I promise. Gawd that probly counts as awful list abuse even after I've tried to condense it. <Jason style GRIN> I'd better go now before I say something silly. HASTY EXIT (hugs and so on) James Thorniley *Last year I repeatedly failed to appear at the sinister picnics since dearest mother thinks you are a bunch of freaks and drug pushers (don't listen to her.. she says awful things about Liverpool).** **It does seem necessary these days to put in footnotes doesn't it*** ***It's funny how we seem to go through crazes on this list.. like when everyone put headings in capital letters, in fact I think I'll go through and do that now, just for nostalgia's sake.**** ****I am aware that it is not standard practise for the first footnote marker on the page to reference the third footnote, but if you think about it I couldn't really have have made that reference the first footnote because it wouldn't really have worked.***** *****Don't worry this isn't going to go on forever.. in fact I think I'll end now. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: last call for londoners!
by brand new shoes 13 May '00

13 May '00

okay, i didn't get many people want ing to meet me in london... (though i got a couple and i thank you for those, very sweet. i'll bring the cookies) if anyone wants to have a sinister get together or something, or has a couch for me in other parts of the UK :) , i would be most excited. i can cook a lovely breakfast, and always bring gifts of wine and such. not a psychopath, you can ask Mary (little arsonist) she's met me. or sugar dave. anyway, if not, i don't take offense. fat awful americans. not to just talk about my day, but i had a very ego-thumping one, so a quick complaint... A.) i didn't get an award that everyone told me i was absolutely going to get, so i am let down. and it was for my artwork too, on which my whole ego is based! grrr B.) some boy got a show at this space in pittsburgh that has told many people that they DO NOT show student work, and he isn't all that either, i am annoyed. i think he did it with connections, networking, gross. C.) the camera that i really really want is no longer made. that just stinks. okay that is enough... on a happy note, i am done with everything and i played on the radio last night and it went very very well. if anyone heard, i would love to here what you thought. also: all you music buffs, i would like some advice on a song premise: do you think it might be a nice idea to base one of my songs on the song that the little choir boy sings in The Cook, the Theif, the Wife, and Her Lover? i am considering it and i can't tell if that is to strong a reference to pull. any advice would be accepted and greatly appreciated. okay, i love you all. as usual i have no B+S news or anything, b/c i am stuck on the slow continent in a city ten years behind the world. sorry love, sam ________________________________________________________________________ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Let me be your little dog till your big dog comes...
by Melissa Williams 12 May '00

12 May '00

I am fairly wallowing in trepidation. I'll bet I'm not the only one, either...there's got to be SOME good reason why no one's writing anything. Well, I'll take my chances that this is a stupid post, as it's for the good of the list! Yes! I will go down in a blaze of glory, singing "Ode to Joy," or else "We Are the Champions..." I'm feeling a little revolutionary and wild-eyed today, yes indeed. Okay, enough of that. I just wanted to say that, although it's true that this list is not a forum for people to delineate their personal philosophies, I for one joined the list in order to meet some like-minded people, and read about what they were interested in writing about. I imagine a lot of people signed on for the same reason. I mean, I think that the list probably really would die if all that people wrote were astute and well-reasoned essays on Belle and Sebastian. Don't get me wrong--I _want_ people to talk about the band, and I most emphatically _don't_ want people to post without thinking about it. But there's no use in making people afraid to write anything, for fear of unpleasant consequences. Plus, my favorite posts so far (I'm new, admittedly) have been the ones where people write about their lives, or what they like besides Belle and Sebastian, or stories that they've dreamed up. Am I alone in this? I don't mean to sound like a vitriolic axe-grinder, but I feel pretty strongly about this. Better a lot of posts with a certain percentage of irrational crap than only a few posts with a certain percentage of irrational crap. Okay, I'm pushing "Send" before I revert to my usual demure state. All of you write! Come on! Melissa 'There was something they meant to say, but didn't: "And if we put the statue of the rhinocerous next to the tweezers, and walk around the room three times, learn to yodel, shave our heads, call our ancestors back from the dead--" poetrywise it's still a bust, bankrupt. You haven't scribbled a syllable of it.' --James Tate, 'Dream On' ________________________________________________________________________ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: twee in the park
by amy_jackson0 12 May '00

12 May '00

howdy folks, sorry for the crapness of my subject line, but i have been revising and my poor wee brain is not a happy bunny, so that's all i can manage...well, t in the park. i can only go on the sunday (cos i am too skint to go to the whole weekend, so i can't see looper *sob*) but i really would like to meet up with some fellow sinisterines for a day of debauchery. and i have decided to go crowdsurfing *for the first time*, but i dunno when to do it.....travis or idlewild, travis or idlewild...i can picture myself floating on top of the crowd during the cool guitar solo to "writing to reach you" or maybe "happy", but then again, i do wanna go at idlewild, and my lovely partner in crime Loopy Laura will only put up with me surfing once, "in case i lose you and i'll be stuck in a field with thousands of people that i don't know and i won't find the picnic!" her words, not mine, bless! so, as i said before, if any of you want to meet, email me at amy_jackson0(a)tinyworld.co.uk it will be the first time i have been to a festival, and i have no idea what to wear. maybe my b&s colourblind t-shirt (which *still* hasn't arrived), or maybe a cute wee summer dress and denim jacket, or............oh i dunno, i'll decide when i get there! any ideas? staying at a b&b in perth i think on the saturday night, which should be interesting to say the least..... *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* i read princess honey's post earlier.....hmm, not sure what to say. i know some (if not all) of my earlier posts were pretty daft and probably not very relevant to any of you, but it's just that i don't really know what to say. i think i'm slowly getting better now.....so honey, if any of my posts, past or future are stoopid, then let me know.....sorry in advance.... *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* as for the twee debate, well i agree wholeheartedly with young Jen. Being twee may be dictionary defined as being a flopsy bunny hugging cardie wearing whimsy, but i don't care for proper definitions. i try to be nice to everyone, i am a dreamer, i take things to heart, i am extremely shy and i do tend to "get out of the wrong side of the bed" (i.e. i'm in a bad mood) most (weekday) mornings. and i don't care if i'm labelled twee, i'll wear the badge with pride. ahem...that's enough of that i think............. *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* heard "the wrong girl" on lurpack's show the other night. i like it, it's nice and bright and summery and everything a P!O!P! song should be. can't wait for FISHYCLAP, it's gonna be the soundtrack to my summer.... *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* well, i should go now, i don't want to bore you any longer.... if you've got to the end of this, then you're a star and i send you many virtual hugs, adios, weebelle XX (revising the art of being idle) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Wake up, it will be a lovely evening!
by elenita99 12 May '00

12 May '00

Hello Sini-people! Well as this long Friday-afternoon in the office is not ending, I have at least 15 mn to write you a little post :-) (my Word program just changed my kit-smiley as a all-done-and-nice one, isnt it weird??) Anyway, spring is in the air, la la la la like in the song, I am very excited about London picnic next week cos I am going meet some of you nice peopleWell I have already met some of you but I mean many of you the same day, lots of emotions!! I hope well see photos of all these picnics, take your cameras people! Its almost like a world-wide B&S day, I like this idea Someone wrote a while ago that new Elliott Smiths album was great: well yes it is, I suggest it as well! And another top-CD of the week is that Jeff Buckleys live that went out a few days ago: it is really brilliant, even if I already now most of the tracks I was happily surprised, I hope some of you will as well (and if some of you dont know J.Buckley I will be really please to copy it or another of its album for you, email me!) I still havent heard Legal Man but finally I didnt do anything for it or stayed stuck to my radio: I will just wait some 9 days and go and buy it (twice, very possibly)Oh and I also ordered some badges, so in a few weeks time I will be a recognisable listee on the streets of London, how exciting! Joannas film is a brilliant idea, I am with you on this! I am not really sure of what role I would like to play though, so Ill think about itBut Id like to be on when shes losing it is playing, at least! Well I guess that is almost it for today, hope it wasnt too boring if you read that far I wish you all a very nice and sunny week-end Love and large smiles Elena ________________________________________________________________________ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I bought in a mall
by Kenneth P Y Chu 12 May '00

12 May '00

Hi all, Just noticed that virtually no one has posted for the last two days, probably a result of Honey's e-mail making everyone scared of posting.. Oh come on, I'm sure mummy's idea is not for us to post absolutely nothing at all, cos that's not only the best way to a list death it IS the list death itself. So I'm going to break all your silence by posting this wonderful e-mail which is gonna be TWEE and P!O!P and BLUDDY GRATE. And the 15 minutes thing? Easy.. you just have to keep trying to spell pneumatic drill or something equally tough (such as the word "tough") and it'll take 15 minutes at best. Only joking though. Just like to say welcome to Liisa to our list, hmm, we already have a "Lissa" on the list and now Liisa too, are we being taken over slowly with people with all different spellings of Lisaa? :-) I hope they are benevolent invaders who don't torture there POWs! :-) I just found out legal man comes out the day before 2 of my exams.. which means I'll have a choice of listening to wonderful legal man or revise for 2 terrible exams. I think I know the answer.. Of course, it also means that I won't be able to go to miles away London or a few more miles away Glasgow for the world twee day :-( But if any sinistees in the Nottingham/Midlands area wants to spend a sunny afternoon in the park (and/or the pub) on the 20th then we can form our own massiv' in da land of da merrymen. I guess that's all for now.. Free pool and red bull! Ken p.s. any idea why the merrymen are the merrymen, rather than the "happychappies" for example? Have they been round the pub too much?? ====================================================================== but if you're feeling sinister, go off and see a minister he'll try in vein to take away the pain of being a hopeless unbeliever - Belle & Sebastian +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Talking to myself in dreams
by The Narrow Wizard 12 May '00

12 May '00

word up (I've always wanted to start a post like that...dunno why) just thought I'd mention the fact that the new looper long player came out this week and so I bought it. Its really rather good, very different from up a tree but really rather good. There's less spoken word stuff this time and the loops used are more electronic and beat driven than melodic. The only big disapointmnet is that the childlike innocence of vision seems to have been lost from many of the tracks. Its being sold for a reasonable price in most shops though so all of you who haven't should go out and buy it (you can read the end of this post before you buy it if you wish, you don't....oh well). Anyway the standout track is the second one "on the flipside" which could become a list favourite cos its really great/grate (spell it as you wish). oh... on the subject of the sinister uniform its gotta be a tracksuit this is cos at the glasgow pubnic there were a group of about 40 people who walked past us in matching tracksuits and it was then that I said to jason that sinister should all get matching tracksuits. perhaps to keep erica happy we should have fur collars on them or something, that would be tres cool. big ups to honey for running this list and not throtling anyone who is on it thank you for being you time for a random lyric quote I feel I rush in where fools have been if love's the answer don't I need a question too no heart can tie what the fates undo. I've a feeling that the last time i randomly quoted a lyric it was also damon and naomi but they are too good not to quote so you'll have to put up with my love of them. sorry for wasting your time with my rubbish love and comfy chairs owen With that the narrow wizard waggled his bushy eyebrows and disappeared in a flash of blue flame leaving behind only a faint smell of cinnamon +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Roscoe! You got splinters in the windmills of your mind?
by Nick.Dastoor＠guardian.co.uk 11 May '00

11 May '00

All a bit quiet round here - has someone parped? It is a testament to my old man radio listening ways that I still haven't heard 'Legal Man' properly. I turned on London Live and heard the last ten seconds. I thought "What's this indie-boy attempt at a summer sound? Is it Dinosaur Jr's 'Take a run at the sun'? No. Is it 'Wake Up Boo!'? No." and then Robert Elms said "That's Belle & Sebastian - Legal Man. Hardly!" Still not sure what he meant. Anyway I'm sure it's very good and everything. I'm looking forward to buying it twice. I'm actually starting to get a bit cross that there's this mythology of 'Internet B&S obsessives are worrying that the band are selling out' spreading like wildfire. That debate-that-never-really-was inevitably gets represented as 'elitist-bedwetters worry that the band are getting too popular' and obviously we don't want any of that nonsense. People believe what they like to believe; even the band it seems. I do like the idea of a bedwetting elite though. Endless debates about whether the doubly-incontinent should be allowed in. As for TOTP, if anyone needs persuading that the band have always wanted to appear on the show, here's a reminder: From: Daily Record 07/05/98 The Stow-aways. Students chart a popular business Stow College is a world of new and exciting opportunities! We want to give you a glimpse of just some of the options that are available for adults and school-leavers here. [...] And at Stow College, music-mae course is a man who knows all about the business - Alan Rankine, who formed part of the great eighties pop band The Associates. [...] Bands discovered after the College quest include current critics' favourites, Belle and Sebastian. They have made Alan a firm promise that they will wear college T-shirts when they debut on telly's Top of the Pops. So there. Alan Rankine can justifiably accuse them of selling out if any of them break this promise and appear in some kind of designer fox-skin number. Harry Hunt, who has a *good* name said: >How come NO-ONE when questioned lists You're just a >baby, as their favourite B&S track? It's a delight. Hmm.. well I've always thought it's a pain in the arse. I like it when it gets to the 'there must be a reason for all the looks we gave' chorus (although the words make little sense to me), but the shuffling boom-ba boom-ba of the verse is a huge clunking comedown after the biff-pang-pow of the first three wondertrax. And the lyrics are annoying. Everything that follows the line 'You're just a baby, baby girl / so..' seems a non-sequitur. 'You're just a baby, baby girl so kiss me on the cheek before you know what's sweet' Eh? It's one of the few Belle & Sebastian songs that I often skip. So BabyChris has hung up his crystal balls and gone wee-wee-wee all the way home? It's a shame he got in such a lather over the Toby Titwank London set. I blame Alasdair's malicious gossip. The 'sequin studded' bit makes me think he might have got the B&S London Sinister Scene mixed up with the Gay Scene. I can understand the confusion, what with both being well known for wearing nappies. I'm strictly non-scene myself, but sometimes wear ultra-thin Pampers under my trousers for a forbidden thrill. The Angel Blackwell fessed up: >i have fell in love with lil' mr drake...then i fell >in love with a certain listee who burnt all his cd's >and sent them to me just because i was a fan... Good heavens, the things boys do to impress! Don't quite understand it though - was it some kind of iconoclastic statement or just a terrible accident? Nick 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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