July 2000 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: "Dance all night like you're a soul boy (or girl)..."
by David White 26 Jul '00

26 Jul '00

Hello folks, Here's an email that I got sent to me at www.belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk "Just saw your website & I thought I'd drop you a line as in a couple of weeks (4th Aug.) Chris Geddes & Andy Symington aka Andy Divine (B & S sleeve designer and gig DJ) are DJ'ing @ my club 'Beatnik Butterfly' in London. The club runs once a month at The Garage in Islington and we use the upstairs function room, not surprisingly called 'Upstairs @ the Garage' and it's very small cosy and nice. The club holds only 150 people which makes it a very inimate affair and very easy going. Andy and Chris will be playing for around 3 hours after the guest band for the evening have performed who are called 'Casino' - and they're very good. Beautiful harmonies and uplifting 60's fuelled mod pop tunes. This will work very nicely with Chris & Andy's set which will probably mix Northern Soul with Funk, Psychedelia & 60's pop gems. The club starts @ 9pm and is £5 before 10.30, £6 after. Nearest tube = Highbury & Islington (Victoria Line)." That's all for now, hope this is of interest to somebody (and if you do go, tell them where you heard it first!) Cheers, Dave david(a)djwhite47.freeserve.co.uk www.belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Some help from Berlin listees + my familiar relation with Peter Miller
by Jordi Trenzano 26 Jul '00

26 Jul '00

Hello hello......... First of all, I need some help from listees from Berlin: a friend of mine is going there this august, and he wants to have touch with some people from there......if any Berliner wants to help him, e-mail me at jordi_trenzano(a)teleline.es (not here !!!) and send me your telephone numbers, as long as he is not able to check his e-mail.........and please do it before friday, as long as on saturday I begin my holidays, and iŽll be off-line since then......... As busy as iŽve been, I havenŽt been able to write to the list about the most interesting sinister-facts that have happened to me since the first Bowlie.......... So well, we had a lovely lunch on a tacky restaurant near the Ramblas , along with Annabel, a listee from Manresa (town which is an hour far from here), her boyfriend (both of them made me envious with their GRATE drawings, even though thereŽs the chance of a collaboration with the mighty "Segundos de luz" fanzine), the sinisterite Annie and her friend Yi-Mee and............please, drums.........me and Mr. Peter Miller !!!!! which was completely undistinguishable (right word ??) from the rest of the foreigner tourists coming down here........and we had the spirit of Pink Floyd flying over our heads...... Well, Starry wrote: >Peter Miller, I've HEARD about you. I know where you live! Jordi, why didn't you take a photo >of Mr Miller? OOh the suspense! The carefluly crafted recluse act! Recluse act...she thinks... >who else do we know who plays upon an air of mystique and mystery? YES! Our Struan! It's >TRUE! Miller and Struan are one and the same...unless Peter and JORDI are the same. ><>Or... maybe Peter and CAROL SMILIE are the same... it's getting rather freaky now... In fact, I must say that me and Mr.Miller are in fact brothers......if you can call this to be the result of David GilmourŽs wild nights during their holidays at the late 60Žs and 70Žs...:) Love and big inflatable elephants Jordiet Sinistre +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 empire strikes back
by Mark Hester 26 Jul '00

26 Jul '00

Last week I went to a gig by Holy Roman Empire, who are my favourite Oxford band at the moment. The felt-tip pen drawing seems to be more low-key these days. The first time I saw them the singer, Ste, had drawn a heart on his chest with black marker pen. As I was watching from a fair distance I thought that he either had a heart-shaped chest wig or had shaved his chest hair into the shape of a heart. This time he limited himself to a few red streaks on his arm. But, "arkk!", cymbal player Martin has abandoned his cymbal (apparently it was too much of a hazard when it fell into the audience) and now just poses around behind a keyboard draped in leopard skin, though he still waves the stick about. More about them on http://www.bejo.co.uk/lpeach/html/hrehome.htm, if you're interested. The gig was also notable in that I met a former colleague who told me that the computer system I used to look after had crashed and they had to have an crisis meeting to try to sort it out. I couldn't resist emitting the kind of YAAAAY that only someone in possession of a redundancy cheque and P45 can muster in such situations. Then on the way home I met an old housemate who told me that her college won't let her have her degree until she pays them the five thousand quid she owes them. I suspect that this will entail a very large number of shifts in the Quod Bar. "Who are the Blue Aeroplanes?" asked Sarah. The Blue Aeroplanes are unique. Gerard Langley is more of a poet than a singer and has a very particular vocal style which is complemented by rodney allen's more conventional singing. IMHO, Beatsongs was their best album, with Rough Music a close second, though Swagger is very good as well. Their latest is called (I think) Cavalier, though I haven't heard it. Has anyone else....? Mark. ________________________________________________________________________ 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: insect repellent recommendations welcome
by Viks 26 Jul '00

26 Jul '00

Really. Only good ones though. A friend tried one and instead of being repelled all these flies were attracted to her and then died when they stuck to her legs. Like a living fly paper. Urggh. Anyway, sorry, how rude of me, Howdy all, how are you? Living in a place so un-B&S as I do, and still not having a dream about them, dispite all that cheese before bedtime, I never usually have anything relevant to write. However! scary thing... I was wearing a badge I bought from a Salako gig (3 for £1. Bargain.) It had a pretty picture of a happy smiley Jeepster bee on it. Anyway, evil big ugly monster of a bumble bee flew along (probably from hell, I bet it ate other bees for breakfast), making the same noise as a angry lawn mower and landed on my shirt. I don't know much about interbee relationships but I swear this thing, dispite no obvious come-on from my badge, tried to shag Jeepster bee. It wouldn't go away either, so for 10 minutes I had to watch Evil the Bee have it's way with a piece of plastic. I think he may have been repressed or something, perhaps the badge was the equivalent of an inflatable doll. See? scary. still not particularly relevant, Viks. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: watch out for that tree...
by adventures as an angel 26 Jul '00

26 Jul '00

well, this angel has completely lost his wings. ugh, had a bad accident on friday involving gin, a shoe, a staircase, and my poor face. punishment for drinking like a fool is supposed to be hangovers, but i don't get them. this was one helluva hangover my dears. my mom saw me, and even after my one eye opened a little, is convinced that i was beaten up. she can't believe that her little sonny jim could possibly be at fault...i made a little girl cry when i went to the doctors...my friends laughed at that, i was nearly in tears myself. i took a picture so that work didn't think i was playing hookey...now there's a body parts page pic...(kidding.) well, i finally got my b&s mugs. i gave one to my bestest friend, cuz well, i've been stocking him up with b&s...i got's him his box set, gave him one of my badges...lent him my FYHC (which i finally got back.) i like beyond the sunrise, i think i keep stating that. but upon listening to TBWTAS today, the song i can't stand came on...a space boy dream...ugh...but, anyway, mugs is good...tea and cookies... ummm...hello to matt, debs, and diana...it's boring here...i miss you... i'm reading glamorama at the moment, mr easton ellis is fun to read, american psycho was a blast, but to read other fiction afterwards takes some getting used to...well, unless is davis foster wallace or something... a. The crudity and sparness of life is to be found in public lavatories." -Leoni Orton-Barnett, sister of Joe Orton. ________________________________________________________________________ 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: Sunny Scotland is waiting for me
by francesca 26 Jul '00

26 Jul '00

hi, today I saw a friend (it's since June that I haven't seen her). so I'm really happy, but now we all go on holiday and till September we won't meet again.... sigh talking about my holidays I'll go to Scotland. I'll be there on Saturday :) so I was writing to have some advice about places to visit, gigs, etctec... (sorry for the list abuse) so if you can mail me giving some information, oh I'll love you forever :) byebye (my summer wasting is calling me) 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: enchantment under the sea
by sophie harris 26 Jul '00

26 Jul '00

morning stargazers and pop pickers heres a thing that might interest some of you - new september Select has a two page 'spread' of our very own (ahem) mister murdoch. 's touted on the front as a b&s interview as in 'stu breaks silence' kinda thing - and i flicked through fast my fingers could carry me, through the bizcuity 182 rubbish and the like - and found........... the max the car article! the very same! and not brand and spanking new feecha at all. i was utterly disappointed, and i cant help but think its a bit shit that select can't pull off their own feature, hmmmmm. *however* - accompanying the piece is a *looooverly* grainy winsomish pic of struan in caff type place, and then a little insert pic of stru at the wheel (ooh upper arms....) looking tres dapper. golly, we've just changed the cd to a lady called 'vashti bunyan'! and nadja and robert are playing the 'would you rather shag....' game and the choice is (splutter) bill wyman or ringo starr. horrid. we all settled for ringo, reluctantly. vashti is quite lovely - ever so pretty and wearing a little scarf and an apron, standing in a cottage doorway. 'ccording to the sleevey notes, she was 'ejected from art school in 1964 for failing to choose between writing songs and painting' aaww - she dallied with decca for a bit, then set off roaming round england in a horse drawn cart - yay. i thoroughly recommend vashti. actually she reminds me a bit of the songs madeleine used to sing in bagpuss, only not quite so annoying. anyhoo, those are my wednesday tuppeny bits - hope today brings you all sparkly joy, and happy listening. lovelovelove xs p.s (they do seem to be all the rage just now) - i say aye to the house of love. that guy chadwick is a horror and looks like a rectangle, *but* destroy the heart is special, and goes very nicely after mbv's strawberry wine on a tape... however, my 1st h.o.l (the one with christine) is on vinyl, so i cant play it, and my butterfly album is on tape, and it's snapped. so i may be listening with rose tinted ears.... pps (they are nice aren't they?) another aye to more londenny outings - twood be splendid :) ________________________________________________________________________ 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: Odds and Roddds
by Michael Jones 26 Jul '00

26 Jul '00

Attention Earth-Humans, Though I split my days roughly equally between trips to Rome lobbying for the canonisation of Terry Scott, lengthy spells in a psychotropic trance under three inches of gravel close to the A433 outside Cirencester (in future perhaps I should actually take the time to *read* the small print in my employment contract), and bursts of near-silent communication with Anti-Climax (the young anarcho-gamelan trio in my charge; they're keen but messy), this list has not completely vaporised in my head-chamber. Indeed, twice in the last week my ears have been singed by fanciful mention of my God-given name. Although, in one instance I was implicitly accused of writing something I didn't write, and in the other comments were attributed to me which I never made, I take this as a sign to write again. Press [Delete] now. Last night, in a green room, I met a man who used to be in Genesis when they 'good'*. I say 'met', but really I just gazed at his (bronzed, bulky, grey-shaven) neck for a few seconds and then brushed lightly against his waistcoat. I was in a fix - ask the WOMADic one about his Phil Silvers tribute or just plead for some of his cash? Ultimately, I did neither - shuffling out of that humid box with a stolen bottle of Becks. (* I'm using 'good' in a deeply relative sense. I know nothing of the Archangel's pre-1975 work, but I cannot conceive of anything worse than Buster's back-catalogue. I am prepared to have my preconceptions challenged here, however.) Miles above, on the lunar surface, three men and one woman had just breezed, crawled, stomped, sashayed and glittered through 27 Love Songs. And an oldie. Oil is too small a word. We call it liquid engineering. In other news, I see airy dismissal of the Later 'Lab has become de rigueur in these parts. I'm not having it. Bathe in the moonglow of "The Emergency Kisses", let "Escape Pod..." comb concrete dust out of your hair, gambol up staircases of sparkly wax to "One Note Samba", plunge headlong into hot souffle with "The Flower Called Nowhere" and hip-grind yourself into trouble wiv da law alongside "Anonymous Collective" and *then* come back and tell me you only need Boob Bubblegum Disko in yr life. No shirking. Elsewhere, a boy called Brown opened his closet and the skeleton of Green Gartside fell out. No embarrassing bag of bones this. Step forth increasingly regular list contributor S. Reynolds (1988), to tell us of "eerie spaces, opaque, dazzling surfaces, asphyxiating sweetness" with a caveat that "beauty can be terrorising". Why isn't this stuff taught in schools? "Because it's rubbish", bellows a sturdy character in a 1954 World Cup t-shirt. Unless I've been skimming posts even more than usual (and I have), I don't think there's been over-much examination of the brief, swimmy, piano-led instrumental which shares track-space with "Judy Slap" on the ex-hit single (CD version). I think Chris Jones mentioned it, to a deafening wall of indifference. I think it's comfortably the best thing on there. Does this have a name of its own? Shall we give it one? "Sticky Farrago". "Grief Jollies". "The Path To Rushmere St Andrew Is Gloomy And Unyielding". I know you can do better. I'm going where a lost cause can be found... Mike x. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.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: I saw those twins from the cover yesterday
by jarkko frantila 26 Jul '00

26 Jul '00

Yes, I did. Those two girls played here in Finland with their band Mum (the letter u in the middle has this funny thing above it), and they very pretty good. Ugh, but you don't want to hear about it. Picture the scene. Me standing there, drinking my beer. Remembering that Mum are at the same record label in Iceland as are Sigur Ros: Bad Taste Records. Ooh, discovery numero one. Then my girlfrind (howdy) saying: "Hey, aren't those the girls from the cover? And Bowlie?" Well spank my arse and chew my erect nipples: Yes they were THOSE girls, and I couldn't help myself. I continually stared at them the whole evening through. Now THAT was weird. Not me staring at them (I stare at beatiful people all the time, until Maria hits my kneecaps with an iron bar so that it really, really, really hurts), but the idea that I went to see the band without even knowing that those twins would be there. And hey, all you sexy boys out there, who think of picking them up and becoming engaged to either of them: forget it, They looked so good you'd never have the nerve to go and talk to them. I thought about that for a second: going up to them and saying that I've seen them before, then trying to be funny, possibly grinning at my joke, then asking them if they've had fun here and... then fucked off. I've always wondered this: Do people actually get something out of the fact that they've talked to this bassist or that singer? We know that groupies do it just for the fact that they get a kick out of saying that they've shagged with someone "WHO'S IN THAT BAND, YOU KNOW?" Maybe people who (just) want to talk to the members of the band are groupies on a mental level: they love it when they know they've talked to that singer "FROM MY BAND, YOU KNOW?" And then they can tell their friends and write to various newsgroups and mailinglists that they've chatted with the singer, "who was really nice, by the way, and did I mention it was so great, he's really down to earth and..." Spare me. But hey, you don't get syphilis from being a mental groupie, so that's nice. @--->--- Jace "I'll Have To Get Myself A New Nick Since This One Isn't ThaT Good" le PetitE ________________________________________________________________________ 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: Not a brilliant begining...
by maria sierra 25 Jul '00

25 Jul '00

Hello! erm... I'm just writing to tell that I didn't want to unsubscribe myself from the list. The thing is that I always get twice every single post and I was wondering what i coudl do to receive just one copy of each e-mail. I thought that perhaps if I unsubscribe once I would get only one copy of every post and when I did it I sent the e-mail to the address of the list... That's the reason why you got that stupid post. Sorry about that! I hope you won't be ungry with me because of that... I will never unsubscribe from the list! Sarah wrote: Peter Miller, I've HEARD about you. I know where you live! Jordi, why didn't you take a photo of Mr Miller? OOh the suspense! The carefluly crafted recluse act! Recluse act...she thinks... who else do we know who plays upon an air of mystique and mystery? YES! Our Struan! It's TRUE! Miller and Struan are one and the same...unless Peter and JORDI are the same. Or... maybe Peter and CAROL SMILIE are the same... it's getting rather freaky now... I could never stop laughing if Peter was mister Jordi :-))))))))!!!!!! Does he dance the 'sardana' and drinks 'cava'? Is he a Barcelona supporter? Perhaps Peter and Gaspart are the same... But I don't believe our lovely Stuart lives in Catalunya! maria ________________________________________________________________________ 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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