June 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: i guess i'm just a little too sensitive
by Johan Nilsson 05 Jun '00

05 Jun '00

sappy airport scenario (short version); it's funny how people get inseperatable in short times, i had only known her for about six months. and still that day we felt pretty damn uninceperable. we got three extra hours because the plane was late but what does three hours really do when law probits you from seeing each other the nearest three-five years. i didn't really do any crime. i just stayed with my love, that was my crime. two months past my visa and now i am looking towards about at least a year before we can see each other again and probably at least three until i can go back to america. i don't really miss america that much / i miss some quality products as mandarine and pinacolada slurpees and a resturant in san francisco called golden era. isn't it funny though, how people try all their lives to find a love one; and when we do we are not allowed to be together. well it is time to look beyond it. i was going back to sweden. we had promise each other not to cry. we do so often when we talk about it, but it is really a crime to cry? isn't it just a beautiful way to express emotions? or maybe i am just a little too sensitive. landslide (the song); i totally thought that landslide was a belle and sebastian song. it however appears to be a song by tony clark - which not belle and sebastian is the only band to have covered. if i remember correctly vic godard's subway sects did the same. are stuart a subway sects fan? i know that alan horne liked them. something beginning with o (the book); good book to read on planes. <lv.> johan +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Oaarrr, the cost of an album them days...
by Alan Burns 05 Jun '00

05 Jun '00

What's everyone else being charged for FYHC? I've just returned from downtown where it cost me £9.79 for the CD in Coda. That was kind of the cheapest place I could find; Avalanche, where my loyalties normally lie 'cos of a good bloke I know who works there, are doing it for £9.99, so it's only because of severe financial difficulties that I need to scrimp and save just now whenever possible. Well, to be honest, I just spent the 20p difference on a packet of Polo Fruits. But anyway, Avalanche don't open until the back of 11 anyway. And like I said, it's my sad musical trainspotter nature that demands I buy all the new albums I'm after on their first day of release, and as soon as possible; then thereafter there's a kind of extra special attachment to them, y'know, 'cos of all the older music that I normally listen to, whenever I buy a brand new album it's like I was there at the time it was around at. There's probably a far better way to explain that, maybe one that actually makes grammatical sense to start with, but you know what I mean. In the past, albums I've bought on first day of release include Monster & New Adventures by REM, What's The Story Morning Glory, The Great Escape by Blur, A Thousand Leaves by Sonic Youth, OK Computer by Radiohead, and (whisper it) Blue Is The Colour, at the height of my Beautiful South phase....and there is a special feeling about them all now, and I can remember what I was doing at the time too. Anyway, that was fairly long-winded. Right now, I've had the good fortune to find a free computer in our college computer lab which has a CD player attached to it, so this is my first listen through the album as I type this. Obviously, I can't take it in properly this time, so what I'm listening for this first time through is mostly the musical arrangements, which sound really nice; Isobel's voice, beautiful as ever; and whatever lyrics I pick up. So far, Stuart singing a line like "it was the best sex she ever had" sounds hilariously risible and ill-suited to his wee voice, but no doubt it'll make better sense once I can get a handle on what the song's actually about. And I haven't heard too many vocal harmonies like what I just heard in "Don't Leave The Light On Baby" from B&S before; that was lovely. No doubt it'll all turn out to be a good grower. Anyway, I should go and do some studying towards my Media Studies exam, which is at the "we'll shove you artsy fartsy wasters in wherever there's space" time of half past five this evening. And thereafter bask in my personal life finally settling down again, thank goodness, after a lot of stuff being sorted out the other night. Phew. ________________________________________________________________________ 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: joy joy, its Monday again
by idle berry 05 Jun '00

05 Jun '00

Hello everyone, currently sitting somewhere in Bournemouth at the moment, having spent a lovely week with boyfriend (aka tigermilker Mark ... http://www.geocities.com/idleberry/wedding.jpg ), not doing a lot, enjoying the company in bed at night, and having a great time. And alas, I have to head back to the sunny climes of Norwich later today, and with an exam tomorrow, thought I'd just do a sinister mail. Consider it a holiday postcard.. Take it you all saw B+S on totp. Thought.. thats only one vowel different from titp. Anyway, back to the subject. So, there was Stuart, bouncing away merrily, and I decided he dances like a pal of mine, usually when shes high on something. So where next, for the Secret Seven of the indie world? Heres hoping for at least a bit of Saturday Morning kiddie TV action. And who was the chap in the gorrilla suit, and ideas? This is going to be a busy week for me, I finally get to move out of the house that I share with the flatmates. Asked the folks to come down as soon as possible to collect me, gotta get out, and into the sunshine... And I am excited. Can't wait to leave. Counting the days. Today, I'm travelling, tomorrow, I have an exam, I think, better find out what time and where it is though. ;) Yes, i am that organised. Then its time to pack up little ted (for he goes everywhere I go since 1978), and my candles, and get ready to depart Norwich. Then its a bit of job hunting, cos I'm stealing money at the moment, and really, I need to pay it back. By that, I mean, cashback from the shops cos the cashpoint says I'm all run out. Don't think I'll manage the sinister meet up. :( Unless you lot want to reschedule, but for little ol' me, I doubt it. Next week, I am sorting out my nationality, to tell Norway that I am Norwegian, and can I have a number, cos look, I'm related to my mum. So, today is the day you've all been waiting for... unless you downloaded MP3's, or borrowed copies from friends in the know. Its FYHCYWLAP day! yay! I'll have to wait though. No money. Just enough, I hope, to buy me a pack of fags, something to drink, and bite to eat at the Bowl. So, I'm wondering, what you're all going to think. All I can say is that I heard some of it, and it sounds quite cool. Each B+S album seems to be a move on, a new direction, with the same map, and this is the same. Its quite a loveable album, from what I've heard. And I shall be buying it, cos I think its worth it. I know its not long til I see him again, but I wish I didn't have to leave Bournemouth today. love you later, idles __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: A funny little bit of vulgarity
by Melissa Williams 04 Jun '00

04 Jun '00

"Gray's Anatomy" by William Logan O doctor, dear doctor, my husband, he calls them the rudest names. He calls mine Annie Oakley. He calls his Jesse James. I love to squeeze his Cutty Sark as he rounds my Cape of Good Hope, but why must he leak his fountain pen in my business envelope? And why are these Egg McMuffins, and why is that steak tartare? And why does he say my rack of lamb has the smell of caviar? He loves to lift my Dixie cups. He leaves my bacon charred. He drives my little rental car by inserting his MasterCard. He wants to put his dessert spoon into my raspberry fool or take his New York minute inside my Liverpool, or put his plug in my outlet, his sirloin in my roaster, his dreadnought up my river mouth, his toolbox in my toaster. Whenever we're in the bedroom, he whispers in my ear that I'm his drowning Ophelia and he's my young King Lear. And then he strips me naked to kiss my razor clam or puts his thumb like a diplomat deep into Vietnam. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % ...We wanted to be born % % % % once, don't we want % % to be delivered again, % % even knowing the nothing % % % % love may come to? % % O Lucky and Buddy and Red, % % we put our tongues to the world. % % % % --Mark Doty, "Shelter" % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ________________________________________________________________________ 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: Le Mystère des Voix Welsh
by Peter Miller 04 Jun '00

04 Jun '00

Who was in the gorilla suit? That's easy. What happened was this: - whilst relaxing before the show, Tom Jones caught a glimpse of lovely Isobel and asked if she'd keep a welcome in her valley for him after their respective performances. Isobel replied that she was sorry but she never cops off with Welsh perverts, so sod off you sheepshagging taffy tosspot. Tom, used to getting his own way with the ladies, was naturally fuming, sitting in the corner moaning why can't this crazy love be mine and so on. Ever the ruthless businessman, Staurt Murdoch spotted his chance and went over to whipser in the Cardiff Lothario's ear. He offered to sort him out with Isobel, school uniform and the lot, in return for the chance to do a fantastic LLPJ duet on Tom's next duet album of duets. Staurt's plan was for Tom Jones to dress up in a gorilla suit and attack him during "Legal Man". Staurt would then use his boxing skills to deck the fucker. Isobel, true to form, would think it was a real gorilla and take it back to her dressing room to look after it, and Tom Jones, without ever removing his gorilla suit, would cunningly seduce her and make love to her, or at least get a look at her knickers, before clambering out of the window and shinning up the drainpipe. Unfortunately Stuart hit him too hard and gave him priapism and he had to go and see a Harley Street nob specialist instead of getting his end away. So there, another mystery solved. You say there's a prize for this? Speaking of underwear, a listee who shall remain nameless suggested I make a periscope out of a cornflakes packet and two mirrors. Well thanks, Big Dave, if I had a cornflakes packet that big, I wouldn't need a periscope because I'd spend all day marvelling at my enormous cornflakes packet. An interesting article in the paper yesterday, regarding a new publishing emporium, called Attack Gore. They've published books called "Satan, Satan, Satan" and "Sex, Sweat, Blood", described by The Big Issue as "an attack of sex, drugs and violence that make Quentin Tarantino look like Mary Poppins". The article concludes, "In October, "Tits Out" by Steven Wells will appear." Now there's a turn up. Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Sunday Times article on B&S
by Sam Walton 04 Jun '00

04 Jun '00

Hi there all. I've just read this in the Sunday Times, and thought that y'all might be interested. This Cairns character seems alright after all, and it's nice to see the Sunday Times name-check us lot as a link to look at. Hurrah indeed. That'll be another 200 additions to the list then..... Belle & Sebastian are a pop enigma. Dan Cairns tries to crack the code There can be little doubt that things are shifting up a gear for the Scottish septet Belle & Sebastian. First OK! magazine picked their latest offering, Legal Man, as its single of the week, then Pete Waterman, patron saint of teenyboppers, branded them "cheesy pop stars". Ouch. It's a jungle out there, and nobody familiar with the reclusive group will be in the least surprised if they feel tempted to scurry back inside their Glasgow shell and play their Beatles-meets-the-Smiths indie pop exclusively to each other, never to venture forth again. Yet, with their sitar-drenched single heading for the Top 10 and their most commercial (and finest) album to date, Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant, out tomorrow, there are signs of an unstoppable momentum that will deny the band any say in the matter. This impetus began at last year's Brit awards, when B&S controversially took the best-newcomer prize from under the noses of Steps, whom Waterman, of course, produces. At the time, the man who gave us Rick Astley cried foul, claiming he'd been tipped off by organisers that his act had won, and accusing B&S of rigging the internet vote with the help of their tech-savvy army of fans. Stuart Murdoch, the group's lead singer and chief songwriter, isn't going to let this lie. "They're sort of freaks," he says now of Steps. "They're not like teenyboppers, they're like a strange holiday-camp group." Murdoch is talking in the incongruous, purple-plush surroundings of the 10 Rooms in London, where journalists and fans have gathered for B&S's first-ever Q&A. It's a strangely stilted affair that, far from shedding light on a notoriously media-shy group, serves instead to confirm suspicions and deepen confusion. The slightly unreal atmosphere is reinforced by the physical gulf between audience and band. One of the things that seems to have enraged people about B&S is what they perceive as the band's cliqueyness; that feeling, as a new listener, of intruding on a private gathering between firm friends. Seeing the band sitting behind their raised table, seven talking heads conferring and sniggering like contestants on University Challenge, clearly reopens old wounds for some. Two questioners, in particular, become increasingly worked up, and it is interesting to observe the effect this has on the band dynamic. In what may be a foretaste of the ordeals their imminent celebrity will bring, there are moments when conferral shades into disagreement, while at other times they close ranks in a display of petulance seemingly at odds with their customary serenity. In the process, the door on the private world of Belle & Sebastian is opened just a crack. When accused of dodging the responsibilities afforded them by their fame and status and opting instead for fey, apolitical detachment, the hitherto slightly self-satisfied smile is wiped off Murdoch's face and a fresh diatribe launched, against Primal Scream. Soon afterwards, the event is brought abruptly to a halt. So why on earth are a band who don't give interviews and do their best to avoid being photographed together suddenly volunteering to meet the media? Isobel Campbell, B&S's cellist and co-vocalist, and, with Murdoch, arguably the most watchful guardian of their indie chastity, is blunt. "We thought if we did this, people wouldn't come looking for us when the next album comes out." "We wouldn't get away with this in Scotland," Murdoch adds. "Everyone would be like, who the f*** do they think they are?" Hardly a charm offensive, then, but refreshingly honest all the same. In any case, the band's most important relationship is not with the press but with their fans, the very same people who turned out in such force to upset Waterman. Fiercely loyal and, perhaps inevitably, with a touch of the anorak about them, they march in step with the band they follow. At their own true-believers' get- togethers, which have names such as 200 Troubled Teenagers, they trade tales of how much someone has just paid for a copy of the band's 1996 debut album, Tigermilk, of which only 1,000 copies were originally pressed. And if, as has happened more than once, B&S choose to spend most of a concert either tuning up or chatting with each other, that's fine by the fans. The enraged ticket-buyer who shouted "You'd better be f***ing good" when the band finally took to the stage hours late at a show in London last year was rounded on; not physically, you understand, but with impassioned, hand-wringingly earnest counterblasts of terrifying fervour. The arguments continued, long and loud, throughout the performance. Hang on a minute, you think, this is a pop group we're talking about, not the continuing dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Why are people so exercised by Belle & Sebastian? And what is the band's attitude to their detractors? "F*** 'em," is guitarist Stevie Jackson's succinct riposte. He rebuts critics' claims that the band's coyness is a marketing tactic. "We don't have a manifesto, we don't sit down in a room trying to work out how to intrigue people or piss them off." There seems no reason to dis- believe him, though the choirboy-voiced one-time boxer Murdoch is an altogether more complex creature. Combining a self-consciously ironic demeanour with the look of a pugil- istic puer eternus, this is the man who can just as easily bang on, in his internet diary, about which fish he bought at M&S as write new songs as stark and unflinching as The Chalet Lines - an account of a woman's rape - or as poetic and haunting as I Fought in a War, and Don't Leave the Light on Baby. But maybe that's our problem, not his. Just because he spends his days practising his craft as one of the most gifted and original songwriters in Britain, it doesn't mean he has to go without a nice piece of fish for his tea. Or stop telling us about it on the B&S website. What it may mean now, though, is that he will never be able to push his trolley around the aisles unrecognised. www.missprint.org/sinister (Unofficial) website where B&S fans come out to play Well, it's coverage at least.... love, Sam.x "Caught my brain in my zip, let my intelligence slip" - Stephen Jones ________________________________________________________________________ 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: to sleep perchance to dream
by sp*rkle horse 04 Jun '00

04 Jun '00

Afternoon everyone :) Last night I was have real trouble sleeping, I decided to read about calvinism in france in the 16th century [joyous I know] till about 12.30 and I still couldnt sleep. It was pouring with rain outside and my room kept lighting up from sudden bursts of lightening. So 1.30amd and I was still awake. I put on isobel and then was soon gently waved off to sleep. Cue my b&s dream which I have to share because it was so damned odd. You know when a dream feels so real to you, even when you wake up? Well struan and I were sitting in a jazz café type thing whilst the rest off the band were playing. I thought it was odd that struan wasnt on stage but I didnt query it! Then this is the funniest bit. We seemed to be on the set of something like open house with gloria huniford [arrgh channel 5 sorry!] and remember lee and herring on good morning with richard not judy? well, richard herring was standing there and saying today Im going to tell you all about tiger milk! [for any of you that remember that feature!] It was trés amusant, I was upset that I couldnt think of something that funny myself. <grrr> back to the amths now. Its quite worrying because my exam is on Tuesday and Im STILL waiting for epiphany. I just cant seem to find her anywhere. L-O-V-E hib xx ________________________________________________________________________ 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: the tragedy of the record store
by francesca 04 Jun '00

04 Jun '00

hi listees, it's been a while since my last post... well I haven't any real reason for write this post (sorry honey) a part for the fact that I'm really happy because I'll go to see a lovely group playing tonight. well I've seen them also last week (one of my friend like the guitarist so I think that I'll go to se them every time they'll play....) and I'm thinking that I am their official fanclub....:) they're good and the fact they're so not so famous make me think about belle and sebastian: how were they before being so famous? well my idea of famous maybe it's not normal... but well I started to imagine today one of their first gig: what was it like? there was nobody there with handmade T-shirt with scary phrases on it as 'b&s... I love ...(the name of one of them)'? (we have to do it for a classmate that is go on talking and talking about his group: if you want to know it's called aneurysm and they play something as heavy metal...). this guy is really offensive with people : he laughed at me because I was listening to a century of fakers and started telling me about GREAT HEAVY METAL... well I'd like to talk for a while about b&s. I bought 'legal man' last week and I have to say that I like it (I've seen also their video somewhere on internet but it wasn't too clear, but I'll never see it on tv so I can't go on complaining...). at the moment I love 'winter wooskie' and i go on singing it and all the people around me want to kill me (why? my voice is fantastic :) ) ah and I was forgetting to say that here in Italy in every magazine there are reviews about 'fold your hands...' (oh well is what a lovely magazine said in its review that ended with a great controversy about Italian music magazines and I think it's right but I don't like to read it at the end of a review) ah in my new favourite record store geometrid had a great success (they had finished it and so I had to wait next week to have it... :( ). ah sad thing the one at the record store say that I have to wait until July to have 'fold your hands...'. it can't be possible!!!! please tell me he means June/next week when he said July.... well it's all cheers francesca +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Faggy But Nice
by David Moore 03 Jun '00

03 Jun '00

Hi Priapism Sufferers, TOTP Congratulations to Belle & Sebastian for achieving their ambition of appearing on Top Of The Pops at last. They all looked like they really enjoyed themselves: Struan's dancing & idiotic grin were a pleasure to behold, Isobel smiled (quite becoming, perhaps could be done more often in public) & the others grooved like monkeys too. I never realised that Stevie was so tall. There was a guy playing bongos, was that Jonny Quinn, the conga player on the single? Its just that Sally is quite interested in finding out ... :) GORILLA Who was it dressed in the gorilla suit? mail me privately, please, so that I can win the Jeepster competition :) LEGAL MAN VID Still only seen the 50 seconds from Jo Whiley's programme. Neil has received 2 credits for his dancing talents, how about one for Banchory's own Venus de Milo, Katrina, who I think I can spy frugging wildly too, adorned with a hairslide big enough to outshine Trousers' one at ATP. 1 MIDLIFED-CRISIS 40SOMETHING Gotta agree with Lucy about Calumn's talent for seizing the unflattering snap. However, I don't think that the one of Steve "Soul Boy" Hewitt is the most embarassing: that honour goes to the one of the bloke supposedly watching him dance (but who was probably just wondering what the **** he was doing in a noisy club full of er, young people at 2 in the morning) Well done Mr Shearer. An interesting flash technique, too, bouncing it off handy reflective surfaces... THE VISITORS' album "Miss" is now out on Matinée Recordings (matcd003). So get one, so that you can thrill to the sound of the golden tonsils of the teenaged Tim Hopkins. My favourites so far are Goldmining, Waking Up To Nothing & Housewife's Choice. THAT SUBJECT Was how Mark C's Mum described him at an impromtu mini-picnic outside a Soho pub after the Hefner in-store. An epithet that upon reflection could be applied to more than one Sinisterine. Another quote for the footer, Princess Honey? PLEASE DON'T LET THEM MAKE ME BE A MONKEY BUTLER Is Monday open season on FYHC,YWLAP reviews? All those who have had carefully crafted appraisals of the new album stored in their Drafts folder for the past 2 months, please just be patient for a while & respect the feelings of the I Want To Be Surprised faction. Happy Trails, 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: B&S fandom/sexual prowess
by Lawrence Mikkelsen 03 Jun '00

03 Jun '00

Someone called 'Head In Clouds' said "Is there any relation between the music you listen to and your sexual life? Or is just an abusive statement?" ummm ... I think it kinda is an abusive statement. But, nevertheless, I attach the following article a freind e-mailed me a year or so ago. (Take as a given that The Smiths and B&S have a *similar* sort of fanbase .....) STUDY PROVES SMITHS FANS NOT GETTING ANY A study conducted by anthropologists at the University of Michigan has revealed what many music listeners have long suspected: that teen fans of U.K. eighties band The Smiths have sexual intercourse about one-tenth as often as other teens. "It's not that they don't want to have sex," said Professor Marvin Mitchelson who led the study "It's more a case of their persistent melancholy and lack of self-esteem, which makes them completely unattractive to their peers." The study reveals that while the average teen loses their virginity at or around the age of 16, and have varied sexual relations approximately 10-15 times a year, Smiths fans tend to retain their virginity until at least their second year of college, while those who are having sex do so an average of two or three times a year (but they cry through the whole experience). "These fans spend their time idolizing dead movie stars, sipping tea, wearing fuzzy sweaters and visiting poets' graves. They then go home, and they cry and they want to die," Mitchelson explains. "You can understand why their leader (Morrissey) claimed to be asexual." Local 17 year-old Smiths fan Brian Orzaball said the study findings didn't really surprise him. "I was sort of seeing this girl Becky from the Drama Club for a little while," said Orzaball. "The thing is, she really needs to concentrate on her school and her poetry right now, and doesn't really have time for a relationship." Orzaball added that he "would really like to get some", but acknowledged that the prospects don't look good for at least the rest of the school year. There. And now ..... THERE IS NO NEED TO MAIL ME, VIA THE LIST, OR OFF-LINE, WITH A JUSTIFICATION OF YOUR SEXUAL PROWESS. I will not take kindly to any e-mails saying things like "I like B&S and I'm a huge great stud" or "I slept with 28 men/women last night" etc. The above is supposed to be *funny*. So there ..... Lawrence +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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