June 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: alone here miming songs to myself
by Scott Plagenhoef 02 Jun '00

02 Jun '00

hi: Vicki questioned Nick's hope that B&S becomes the new teen dream: Are you kidding? Don't you remember those teenyboppers (the girls that end their name in "i" because ys are ugly) in high school? Once they get wise of the Sinister list they'll clog up our inbox with messages like "Oh, Stuart looks SOOOO cute with that earring on the NME cover." and "Who are The Smiths?" Well, I'm not sure that they will clog the Sinister List, but if they listen to Belle and Sebastian and turn around and then wonder "Who are the Smiths?" (or Orange Juice, Felt, the Clientele, the Velvet Underground and so on) that's good -- and I reckon that's exactly Nick's point. Way back when there was a bit of scuttlebutt and/or hullabaloo about the etchings on B&S's and others vinyl records. I can't remember if the mystery of who exactly is Tim D. was ever solved, because I may not have been paying as close attention as I should have, but examination of the Legal Man 7´´ and 12´´ reveals that "Tim D." is present, but the word "masterpiece" which had been scrawled on the rest of the band's work is absent. A sly editorial comment then? Our server has been a bit disagreeable today, so I apologize if this has been covered, but as a boorish American I must wonder if bands typically play live on TOTP. I have seen a few and some reputable types seemed to lip synch (e.g. Pulp). Is it de rigueur to pantomime and the NME is just taking a childish swipe without cause? That said, the lip synching still is a bit disappointing. Oh, I saw Primal, er, PRML SCRM last night and they played "Velocity Girl" and dedicated it to Struan. No, of course they didn't, but they did a lot of shouty sloganeering and I witnessed a girl in a spaghetti-strap summer dress and her investment bankeresque boyfriend snog and dance unironically and unaware to a man shouting "Ooh Aah Hezbollah" at them. Don't Primal Scream have members in their group that won't bother with the press as well? Seems to me that's just like the current state of B&S then except that with our gang the anti-press rhetoric is magnified because its the frontman that doesn't do the interviews. It was noted previously that the beginning on June sees an unnatural convergence of tasty summer sounds hitting the virtual shelves. If the Tugboat release schedule is to be believed, in addition to the out-now Clientele EP, Our Belles, Baxendale, and the UK release of the sumptuous 69 Love Songs, June 12th brings the second single from the outstanding, original Life Without Buildings and the debut full-length from Katrina-endorsed Australian lovelies Sodastream. Yum. sorry to bore, I needed an out-of-work experience. Eight hours til margaritas. Enjoy the weekend, scott. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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Re: Sinister: alone here miming songs to myself
by FoxInASnow＠aol.com 02 Jun '00

02 Jun '00

Scott Plagenhoef wrote: > Well, I'm not sure that they will clog the Sinister List, but if they listen > to Belle and Sebastian and turn around and then wonder "Who are the Smiths?" > (or Orange Juice, Felt, the Clientele, the Velvet Underground and so on) > that's good -- and I reckon that's exactly Nick's point. *sobbing* How come nobody will tell me who the Clientele are? I've got a real reason for asking too. Everybody and their mother on Napster has some song called "Anhour" that's attributed to Belle and Sebastian, but the other day one person on there had it and it said it was by "Clientele." What is the song, and whose is it really? I know how silly mistakes get spread all over Napster - i mean even after the Legal Man single is really and officially out, everyone there who has the third track from it lists it as "Winter Wooly." So i want to know the truth. Also, tho i don't need to ask who the Smiths or the Velvet Underground are i must admit i haven't heard any of those other bands (Orange Juice, Felt, or the mysterious Clientele). This is a pathetic ploy to attempt to get a mix tape without actually asking for one. *smiles coyly* Love, Jess. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 taste of rain
by Mr Smiley 02 Jun '00

02 Jun '00

Dear Sinister, It's been one of those days. To start off with, I woke up to find I had contracted a nasty disease which is known to affect students doing their A levels and is caused by revision - it's called can't-be-arsed-itus. To relieve the symptoms, I wandered into town with a friend. Alas this didn't do me much good, and as soon as I got home I was again feeling restless. At this point I wondered if one of the unknown symptoms of can't-be-arsed-itus was the development of a serious Hefner obsession... it appears that it is. I finally gave up thinking about how much revision I could have done in the time it takes to listen to two Hefner albums, and went out for a walk. I took my camera in case I had any interesting thoughts I wanted to capture along the way. I scurried across the bypass and lo, I was in the countryside. I thought about going to have a chat with the cows, and maybe take a picture of one. The cows were no-where to be seen though. I couldn't remember exactly at which point in the year the farmer takes away his cows and kills them, but I was pretty sure it wasn't this early. I kept walking. I started to cheer up a bit, I was enjoying listening to the birds and I was enjoying the taste of rain. At the end of the field I found the cows. They'd all huddled together where the gate to the little lane I needed to get to were. Now, unlike some people I could mention, I'm not afraid of cows. I quite like them actually. I'm pretty sure they're telepathic, because they always seem to start moving at once. Anyway, even though I fear no cattle, I decided against walking over a load of cows to get to my destination. I thought about taking a picture of one, but then a cow that hadn't had the horns bred out of it yet stood up and looked vaguely menacing. Of course just after this all the others stood up, so I decided I'd be better off turning round and heading home, savouring he taste of rain... and looking over my shoulder every now and then. I still haven't revised for my English exam properly... and it's on Monday morning. Well, I think as soon as that exam finishes I'm *sprinting* to the car park, quite literally burning rubber into town (it doesn't matter that it's pedestrianised, nobody really believes that anyway. That's just what the council think it is) and I'm going to Our Price. Of course, having to park the car might waste time, so I think I'll just drive through the front window of Our Price, stop just short of the counter and say "excuse me good sir! A copy of the new Belle & Sebastian album, if you would". Or I might park at the library and just do things the normal way, I haven't decided yet. Oh and if it isn't in Our Price... well sod the environment, I'm driving to Sheffield. Platonic hugs, Mike ICQ: 73775341 Email - smiley(a)rebelmonkey.freeserve.co.uk The Black Den - http://www.rebelmonkey.freeserve.co.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:55:29 +0100
by Hester, Mark (ELS) 02 Jun '00

02 Jun '00

well, well, well a gorilla on TOTP, that couldn't have happened since ooh, I don't know, the one who played guitar for Wizzard** on "See my baby jive". I'll miss it I'm afraid, since I'm off to Reading to see my friend Ian. He's a meteorologist, but don't you ever, ever call him a weatherman! He put his webpage into German and back again on Alta Vista babelfish, which is good for a laugh. http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~swr99icr/indexg.html OK, a very small one. A smirk then. We're going to a Thai restaurant, which is something I've never done before. Maybe it'll be a bit like Indonesian, which is fabulous I can tell you. Or at least the one I went to in Amsterdam was. Well, I thought I'd be going to Niagara on Monday 12th, but it looks like it's going to be Tuesday instead because Stereolab are playing in Toronto on the Monday and I can't risk not getting back to Toronto in time. Trust Ms Sadier and co to go and mess up my plans. Tsk. Do you think if B&S *hadn't* decided to mime then the other acts would have come up to them shame-faced and apologise for having mimed? The way Human League and U2 did when New Order were on in the 80s?* Incidentally, if anyone knows of an internet cafe in Toronto where I can check my Hotmail, please let me know. Cheers. Mark. * likely to prompt a few mails saying "how old are you?" ** guaranteed to prompt a few mails saying "how old are you?" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 *MIMING* on TOTP
by Jason Andreas 02 Jun '00

02 Jun '00

I'm sorry for the minimal mail, but am I alone in being rather disillusioned with the fact that they mime to Legal Man instead of actually *performing* it. I always thought they'd have more guts than the likes of Cher (etc). I don't know if I can watch it now - this sucks. --Jason Andreas If nice guys finish last, then I'll never finish at all... ICQ: 45821217 AIM: RadioJase +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: part two : crusaders.
by Jamie Holman 02 Jun '00

02 Jun '00

Im so sorry. List abuse I guess...... This list should be about like minded people with good taste in music, so here goes.... I know that some of you like us ( Jordi! ) and some come to see us...so this is for youse.......... tompaulins ep " my life as a car crash " is out on Monday, ignore the B+S stuff in the press, I think we are agreed that most journos are lazy to say the least. If you havent heard it...its ok. Please no angry mails about list abuse to my personal mail this time......thanks for reading micktravis --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints!

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Sinister: me,b+s and seagulls
by Liisa Kallio 02 Jun '00

02 Jun '00

cŽest moi again.first i was feeling a wee sad,cos i was hoping to receive this one mail, but then i thought about b+s and decided to take a chance and see if fyhcywlap would be in this record store and eeek :)there i saw this yellow angry twin cover! i grabbed it and paid for it and went to my fave park and sat on the park bench reading the lyrics. so imagine kids, here i am in southern lapland,in finland and you can find your b+s cds at the record stores, so it isnŽt such a bad place after all!iŽm feeling happier now:). itŽs friday now and everybody knows what that means :)listening to fyhcywlap(and maybe watching Žplaying the fieldŽ:) and some nice vid) bye! love yŽall hugs, me ps.m.l.pls write:)! WARNING!!!!WARNING!!!!b+s quote from fyhcywlap ŽiŽve been feeling down iŽve been looking around for someone just like me... iŽve been feeling blue and i donŽt know what to do and i never get a thrill... i want poetry and music and some laughs and i donŽt think itŽs an awful lot to askŽ Žfamily treeŽ ps.pls donŽt kill me for quoting this:)! ---- Soittoäänet ja ikonit matkapuhelimeen! http://www.iobox.fi/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Priapism!
by Peter Miller 02 Jun '00

02 Jun '00

I think everyone who appears on B&S sleeves is a nutter. Although under three minutes long, "Legal Man" feels like the "Infinity and Beyond" sequence of "2001 - A Space Odyssey". But I'm beginning to dig it. I'm particularly keen on Chris's long-overdue Clint Boon tribute. I think they should have turned the fuzz guitar up to eleven though, and drowned everything else out with it. Alix, Fuzzbox are great, aren't they? I like the one with star-shaped sunglasses best, I bet you do too. I know Fluffy does. I'm enjoying this B&S media circus. Richard seems a bit confused in "El País". He seems to think B&S have been the victims of some kind of music press conspiracy, yet I can't remember many bad reviews. In fact I can remember far more good reviews than any band can normally expect. It's a shame that they have to resort to this victim mentality, makes them sound like spoilt soppy tosspots whining to their mummies. That's not the Dunkirk spirit. Why do so many indie bands want to be associated with Sly and the Family Stone? Surely Amon Düül II would be a closer analogy. I often have that dream about Chris Leonard being a Lesbian. 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: Arlington/Washington DC listening party
by FEHBP Training Account 4 02 Jun '00

02 Jun '00

Hello, (This is short for a first post but.. ) I don't know if this has been written yet, if it has I am sorry. Was reading the city paper yesterday and noticed a add for now! music. They are having a B&S listening party and midnight sale on monday (June 5) at 10pm. It is at 3100 clarendon blvd in Arlington. next to the metro I think. I don't know if I will be going people are scary. Love to all. Alix. "Isn't sanity just a one-trick pony anyway?...but when your good & crazy the sky's the limit!" (the tick) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Gorilla attacks Belle & Sebastian on Top Of The Pops debut - NME
by Warrander John - FML 02 Jun '00

02 Jun '00

Hello Sinister List, So Steven Wells attacks Belle And Sebastian on TOTP! http://www.nme.com/newsdesk/20000602113938.html Mmm, maybe sad old men should just bog off and rot honourably in a dark, damp corner somewhere. That's what I did. And look at me now. I shag birds and father sprogs and everything. I really do. And I'm such a sad git I even have pictures to prove it. www.warrander.co.uk When I read chapter 2 of my HTML book things will be even better. I actually thought Steven Wells' article was quite funny. Surely making him really, really angry is top of the list of pop priorities for any half decent pop combo. Making him confused is even better. I'll bet Steven Wells hates the Pastels too. Stupid cunt. Murdoch's letter was quite good though. Quite the little slanging match building up there. Wouldn't it be great if Murdoch and Wells had a fight and Murdoch kicked the shit out of him. Possibly not as funny as Stephen Pastel kicking the shit out of him. But still pretty good. Anyway, sorry for being several years behind everybody else but fuck it, I'm a dad now, I'm allowed to be a prick. Somebody called Colin I think said something about an el records compilation being shit. I would strongly disagree with this if I had the energy. Particularly the slur on the good name of the Wood-Be-Goods. Top poptastic tunes with a nice bit of smart-arse 60s Brit cultural name-dropping for the train spotters to get excited about has always been a hit in my house. Bands on el being allowed to record whole albums was often a mistake but el compilations were smashing. If I remember correctly. I could just be being talking nostalgic bollocks here. But take that anyway Mr so-called-Colin. Don't mess with the Sinister massive. And Mr Miller thinks living above a bra shop is promising. You should try hanging out at parent and child groups mate. Boobs popping out left, right and centre. It's like Carry On fucking Camping in there. I'm glad there's a huge Sinister presence in Helsinki. I'm going there soon and I expect each and every one of you to buy me a pint. Or at least sub me a fag. I've been reading the Moomin books for an insight into Finnish social culture. If everything in Finland is as good as Moomin Valley then I'm staying. Does reading Moomin books on the bus wearing a puffin club badge make me twee by the way? Didn't somebody on this list say something about supporting Aberdeen FC recently? Fucking sheep shagger. I used to like nothing better than spending a Saturday afternoon at Pittodrie watching Willie Miller strutting around, commanding the penalty box like a ruthless Roman god of war. The only problem is you end up in the fucking Venue watching some shit psychabilly band every week? There's a moral here by the way. I think it's something to do with Aberdonians all having funny squat heads. Which reminds me, is anybody on the list from Stoke? Apparently Stoke has the least divergent gene pool of any British city. Fancy that then. Saturday afternoons were meant for staying at home and watching Carry On films. Watching Babs boobs I tell you. Babs boobs. Goodbye Sinister List, Love...John xxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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