June 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: London Picnic....on the 15th
by elenita99 19 Jun '00

19 Jun '00

Hello London listees (and the others if you read this) OK, OK, I hope you didn't planed already all your holidays around the picnic because after some emails, chats and concertations it appears that the 15th of July would be a much more convenient date. Why? I have to say for my defense that this change is not depending on my personal will, but...that some visitors coming from Greece and Scotland will join us, and as they are coming from far away to meet some Sinister kids it seems fair enough to make it convenient for them... I will of course be pleased to answer any insulting email about my organisation manners, or even to defy you on a cricket game during the picnic, so I will prove that continentals too can play cricket. Have a good day, see you on the 15th! Love 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 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Thousands Call To Save 'Unwanted' Stray Sadie
by stephen hewitt 19 Jun '00

19 Jun '00

...was the headline on Saturday's Gloucestershire Echo and referred not to everyone's favourite 82 year old maiden aunt but to a dog. But it made me smile so i thought i'd share :) WEIRD DREAM OF THE WEEK OK so i'm looking at all the cds my mother has bought for a party and some of them are quite hip (well, hip for my mum anyway), but one of them is a REMIX of the FLORAL DANCE by terry wogan and then Tezza himself turns up and starts singing it and it's like a hard techno version but i can't really hear it, and tezza is smiling and i'm sure there was a remix done by pulp on the cd too, then i woke up... GLASTONBURY is only two days away and i'm DEADDEADDEAD excited although i am slightly wary that we'll all die of sunstroke rather than trench foot. Anyone who is coming but who isn't on siniglasto ( http://www.egroups.com/group/siniglasto which now boasts a whole dozen members) there is to be a fantastic Sinister Glasto meet-up (no, really there is). It is FRIDAY afternoon about 4.30pm at the MEDICAL CENTRE near the FARMHOUSE. Please bring an inflatable object of your choice. PICNICS It's good to see summer picnics proliferating across the country and indeed the globe. I will endeavour to get to Primrose Hill, have to see how the finances are holding up. Unfortunately my sister is coming to see me the weekend of the Sheffield one cos it would have been nice to go to that one and meet midlandy type people. Oh POO, the London one's going to be the 15th as well now POO POO POO, curse the greco-scottish alliance :) Wonder if my sister fancies a daytrip to London..... *steve works on fiendish plan GRATE BIG TENT Radioheed are using a GRATE BIG TENT to do their gigs in this summer. Maybe a certain other band could borrow it after they've finished with it, tidy it up a bit, cut it in half and use it for their gigs, on the off chance that they actually get round to BLIMMING WELL DOING SOME. On the bright side, hopefully they won't announce the dates until i've got my redundancy money, then i can do silly things like go to Nude York to see them. OXFORD Speaking of redundancy, plans move ever forward for a move to Oxford, to the point where I've actually got some application forms to fill in for jobs in Oxford and have some numbers to ring up for some more, WOW, we might get there for christmas yet... HEADINGS seemed the most appropriate way to say "bye, trous" Has anyone else notice Jo Brooker in goal for Holland? (I think it was holland anyway, all these football matches are blurring into one now, all I seemed to do last week was watch football and this life) Applying the factor 40 xoxo CarsmileSteve +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Stand By Your Man
by Warrander John - FML 19 Jun '00

19 Jun '00

Hello Friends, I'm a bit shocked that any list of great song writers with the initials SM failed to mention my hero Stephen McRobbie. When you talk about GREAT songwriters though it has to be married couples every time really. Greenwich & Barry, Goffin & King, Ike & Tina Turner, Nancy & Lee, Leiber & Stroller, Chip & Evie, Bacharach & David.....the list is endless. The Pastels have obviously cottoned on to this and the immanent nuptials of Stephen and Katrina and Aggi and the other one bodes well for the next LP. Stuart and Isobel should get married really. I wonder if Isobel would call herself Murdoch or Campbell-Murdoch or just stick with Campbell? There are so many things you just can't take for granted in the 21st century. Like England getting knocked-out by the Germans. I'm sure I was meant to be writing a gloating mail this morning? See what happens when you join the Euro. I watched Walkabout right to the end last night. Not cos Jenny Agutter spends most of the film in the buff - which is what my favourite magazine TV Quick said - but because I wanted to know where it was all filmed. According to the closing titles it was filmed entirely on location in Australia. So that was helpful. I nearly had to chin an old woman in a Little Chef at the weekend too. She was smoking in the no smoking area and I've got a foul temper. Fortunately for her she moved to the smoking area. It's been quite an exciting weekend all-in-all though. I'm not sorry by the way, Love...John +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 Associates "Sulk"
by Lawrence Mikkelsen 19 Jun '00

19 Jun '00

***PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT*** On the basis that it will no doubt be woefully underpromoted when it is released, I though I'd tell the list about the reissue of Associates' landmark album, "Sulk" on Monday 19th June. (Probably "today", depending on when you read this) More astute members of the list will recognise the name Alan Rankine as being instrumental in the early rise of Belle & Sebastian's career, and his involvement in the Stow music course. Alan was also, in the early 80's, the musical genuis behind post-punk band Associates first two albums. Along with fellow Scot Billy Mackenzie (vocals.lyrics), they made one of the most incredible albums ever made. Belle & Sebastian have, in the past, covered "Partyfearstwo" when playing live, which was the lead single off the album. Also, "William It Was Really Nothing" by The Smiths, is widely regarded as being about Billy, who Morriseey was quite taken with. Anyway, to give you an idea about the album I'll quote from the Melody Maker's Paul Lester, in his liner notes from "The Radio One Sessions" album. They describe the music more eloquently than I could: "Associates were described by one magazine as "the most modern ban of the 80s", and with good reason. Their astonishing music had no basis in the grubby old roots of rock'n'roll, soaring high above th grit and bluster of Chuck Berry or the blues. No, Associates drew on pre-rock traditions and non-rock genres to create a startlingly different kind of noise, one that people with superattuned ears will still be trying to make sense of in the year 2004. Imagine the soundtrack to your wildest dreams, postpunk, krautrock, the blue mood ballads of Frank Sinartra, the caberet historonics of pre-war Germany, Kraftwerk's electronic travelogues, the epic sweep of John Barry's film themes, the motorik torch songs of Bowie's Berlin Trilogy, the digital romance of Giorgio Moroder/ Donna Summer ... Associates too all these and raised them several powers .... Nothing, however, could have prepared us for 'Sulk', Associates second LP. The exquisite turquoises and mauves of the sleeve offered some idea of the impossibly lush and lavish, exotic and extravagant new sound Mackenzie and Rankine, together with producer Mike Hedges, achieved on this shatteringly innovative record. 'Sulk' is arguably the least influenced album of all time - it has few, if any precedents - and one of the least influential: nobody, save prince on 'If I was Your Girlfriend' or Bjork on 'Venus as a Boy', has been able to rival its emotionally overwrought (compliment) 'out of this world' music." Well, I hope that will rouse the interest of at least one of you. I can't say this is the sort of music that you will automaticly like if you like B&S - in all honesty it's pretty hard to get a handle on, and I HATED it the first time I heard it. But it's worth the effort, and if anyone is interested in Scottish poost-punk pop, then 'Sulk' is an album you MUST own. Goodnight kids, 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: Noddy, yeh!
by JENOWL22＠aol.com 18 Jun '00

18 Jun '00

Hewwo, It feels like yonks since I posted to sinister (though it hasn't really been and I say that at the start of nearly every post). I made myself a Noddy tee-shirt with transfer paper and my brothers printer. It reads "Noddy sez: Go on postman pat, make my day". and it has a picture of noddy standing at a postbox. I like Noddy, I think I will marry him. I tried to get a noddy pencil case for school, but I couldn't so I got a postman pat and jess the cat one, which is red and blue and very nice. And it's really grate, because no matter how many penises the hard kids draw on it, it still wipes clean. I'm working on the school show but I'm doing backstage work, because no one I liked was in the chorus, and I can't dance anyways. But it means I have to run errands with heavy stuff, mother all the chorus girls, do make up and take abuse from all the other backstage hands, who are boys and think I shouldn't be doing it. But I get out of class and I don't have to wear my uniform. My friend got groped by a couple of the hard kids and she wanted to get even, but she didn't want it to be traced back to her, so she told the head that they were bugging me instead. So everyone sort of thinks that I'm a grass now, which isn't fun. I watched Four Weddings and a Funeral, and I love Hugh Grant. He is so cute and foppish. (Foppish is such a grate word). My fringe is getting too long. I really really like the Chalet Lines. But I like Women's Realm, The Model and There's Too Much Wuv as well. I'm not that keen on Waiting for the Moon to Rise, but everyone else seems to be. Whenever I get a new CD I have a thing about learning it by heart (is this normal?), but on most CD's there's always this one song that refuses to stick in my mind, and so I just keep on skipping it, like if I listen to it I'll feel guilty because I don't know it by heart, and it ends up sort of giving my a headache, and Waiting for the Moon to Rise is sort of that song. I kinda found Mayfly and Saymour Stein a bit like that, only I have the first three albums on tape (because I didn't get a CD player till I was 14), so it's not as easy to avoid songs when you can't skip them just like that. I kind of felt bad about not getting Fishyflap on tape because all the other B&S tapes are really cool, except Tigermilk. IYFS is red and shiny and Twattybus is green and plasticy looking like a nursery rhyme tape I used to have when I was little. Tigermilk was bluack and a bit boring. Did anyone get the new album on tape and can tell me what the tape looks like, because that used to be half the fun of buying a b&S album for me. (Music? Pah!) I'm going to go now. Hugs, Jen +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is Ok
by David Moore 18 Jun '00

18 Jun '00

Hi Gauche Ones, Mr Miller, I'd like to second that emotion. The list without Trousers is just pants. I also guess that Friday's was the last Sinicentric event down the Pocaff: an event tinged with sadness but not lacking comic moments. I hope that the everso slightly squiffy Stevie T made it home OK. Nick (BTW, terrific make-up job in those LineOne ads) said: "David was funny with his like/don't like ratios for all the albums. I can't imagine not liking that many songs of my favourite band. I like 8/11 songs on the new one but to me that's a pretty poor return. I don't like having to sit tight and take the clunks or use the skip button." Liking even 60% of an album is pretty good for me nowadays. In the last couple of years the only records I can remember liking ALL of are Va Va Voom & The Great Eastern. Some of my favourite artists have whole decades during which they only released a few good songs. There's only one good one on the new Neil Young, for example. Can't take the clunkers? Just tape the ones you DO like. I still reckon Belle and Sebastian are doing fine - my record collection contains very few second albums, let alone third or fourth ones. I too will never be able to watch EastEnders in the same light again: how far in advance do they record it? Just whose territorial pissings is Wellard sniffing in that little park in the middle of Albert Square? Rrrespect to DJ Fatslug & the Basingstoke massive for the Splatney Paws track. Can we have a Red Catsuit Mix next, please? I hope next week is as good as the last: we got to see Cinerama, Mary Lorson & The (augmented) Pines play good gigs. Nice. Farewell, Farewell, David Moore Chelmsford, 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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Sinister: intro
by Matthew Broome 18 Jun '00

18 Jun '00

Dear All, Just left the 'nursery' and have dutifully read the FAQs and admired all the beautiful photos of everyone. Having a boring hot w/e in London indoors over a computer working when I should be outside with a glass of Chablis and some quail's eggs watching the world go by. Hey ho. I guess I can't claim to be a veteran B+S fan - bought 'Tigermilk' just over a year ago when I first moved down to London. Reminded me of when I first heard 'The Smiths' as a teenager and 'Liberation' by the Divine Comedy when a young undergraduate. A thing of beauty. Getting too prosaic - look forward to hearing from you all and getting to know you. _______________________________________________________ Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite Visit http://freelane.excite.com/freeisp +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Roman's realm
by Kenneth P Y Chu 18 Jun '00

18 Jun '00

Hello all, Hmm.. things been quiet around here, I guess probably because all the students (myself included) have gone home leaving only the saddo bedroom devotees* and techheads* behind. I just remembered that Milton Keynes is a really boring place.. even when a huge big funkoff indoor ski centre is about to open here. I just got my results for my exams and they went okay.. but all the marks were in complete opposite to how well I thought the exam went.. but still who cares. (I should, I guess :-)) IF YOU ARE FROM LONDON CLAP YOUR HANDS! ======================================= Hmm.. okay I'll admit this e-mail has an ulterior motive, well, I have got a lucrative job placement in Liverpool St. in London from 3rd July until 8th September (10 weeks), and I am wondering if any Lovely London Listees would have a spare room that they can rent a very well mannered boy. Please please please say yes! I am also willing to pay big bucks plus my soul** plus a few cans of Redbull for it. Please e-mail me soon if you have got anything at all :-) otherwise I will have to find houses from evil landlord people :-( or commute 2 hours every day :-(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( That's all for now, there goes a cow! Love, gopeds and redbulls Ken * myself included ** well actually Jeepeter already own my soul so you'd have to fight them over it.. ====================================================================== If you think you see with just your eyes you're mad, Lisa learned a lot from putting on a blindfold, when she knew she had been bad She met another blind kid at a fancy dress It was the best sex that she ever had - 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 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: There are some songs which............
by HopelesslySmitten 18 Jun '00

18 Jun '00

There are some songs which the record buying public should never have the misfortune to hear.............. Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi Gimme All Your Lovin' - ZZ Top (Just Like) Starting Over - John Lennon Jump - Van Halen and I could go on and on and on (as I'm sure some would say I already am) but maybe worse than any of these is "Beyond the Sunrise" - I keep waiting for the backing vocals of Bing Crosby and David Bowie to come in with Little Drummer Boy...........in the words of a friend of mine, "it sucks"...........this could possibly be the worst song i've ever heard.....(no, that's Whispering Grass - Windsor Davis & Don Estelle) but there are some great songs on this album The Model Don't Leave the Light on Baby The Wrong Girl Chalet Lines Nice Day for a Sulk just my opinion.................... HS and if you've never heard Hefner - The Fidelity Wars, you're missing out so go hear it today +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 09:05:23 +0100
by James Glossop 17 Jun '00

17 Jun '00

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