January 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: looper de do
by keith mclachlan 20 Jan '01

20 Jan '01

mute were impressed over looper's wide range of musical qualities? such talk about a grebo. and the bit about the visual experience was funny too, do they have a more elaborate setup in the UK for their shows? here they simply showed a bunch of poorly made home videos of street signs and linda mccartney david. the story about the guy watching the robbery made me sigh over the spectator aspect of life, this guy(sorry i forgot your name) made all sorts of judgements and pre-suppositions based on a quick glance. the subliminal racism line was precious. i guess he never thought to leave his car and be a good citizen, not that i would either mind. i just saw a television commercial that used bits of the ladybug transistor's 'the great british spring', lovely. too bad their new record has been delayed until april. i am wathing mtv now, what a conceited network, half of their programming is t&a and the rest is documentaries about mtv. how compelling to watch mental giants like dave holmes and john norris wax nostalgic over chumbawumba and rico suave. o course i was once almost impressed that i was eating in the same restaurant as chris connelly. keith m new cloudboy record soon. i bet lawrence from nz will get it before me. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.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: F.Y.I. tangent
by carle groome 20 Jan '01

20 Jan '01

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLOWING IS PASTED TEXT FROM ANOTHER SOURCE. "LOOPER INKS WORLDWIDE RECORD DEAL WITH MUTE Looper, the Glasgow four-piece led by Stuart David co-founder of Belle and Sebastian, have ended months of speculation by signing a world wide record deal with Mute. Looper, who in the last two years have released two critically acclaimed albums "Up A Tree" and "The Geometrid" through Sub Pop (U.S) and Jeepster (UK), recently completed a successful tour of the United States as special guests of The Flaming Lips. Announcing the deal, Mute founder, Daniel Miller said "I am a huge fan of the first two albums so when I heard Looper were looking for a new label it was an obvious one for me to pursue. It's not just their wide range of musical qualities I admire but the really strong visual sense they express in all aspects of their work, this is a very exciting signing for the label." Looper are currently writing new material and will return to the studio later this year to begin recording their debut for Mute which is set for release in 2002." MY OPINION BEGINS HERE my guess is that Stuart might be coming across the pond soon. cheers +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: thanks for the corrections...
by Andrew CHurchman 20 Jan '01

20 Jan '01

hi, I just wanted to thank everyone who e-mailed me or the list to help clean up some of the confusion with the "Hurley's Having Dreams" lyrics I sent. Ecspecially Nick, JenOwl, and Alasdair. I think Alasdair's was right on the money. Sometimes it's hard for my little American ears to understand Stuart's Scotish accent. Maybe we could work on "London Has Let Me Down" next? ok thanks again. -- andrew __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.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: January's little joke
by Alasdair Cook 20 Jan '01

20 Jan '01

Discoveries recently: Cake, by The Trashcan Sinatras, which is a lovely album, makes me want to dance crazy tears, whatever that could mean, as many of the best often do. Having been told of their greatness for ages by Ailsa (see archives: 'soapbox') and more recently The King Of Partick (see Peter Hook fanclub membership #1009), I finally, truly, believe it. Napster (well, not that recently, just since I got home internet a few months ago). It's good isn't it, getting music and not having to pay for it. Like being given tapes and cds for free, which has been happening occasionally lately as well. Anyway, listening to The Negatives (NYC, 1998) do Jennifer She Said so wonderfully reminded me of that festival thingy I went to last year (CS, 2000). Many things seem to. Smiles as ba ba dada da da comes around. Chalet booked for this year. Wonderful. For 22 years now I've been mostly unmusical. There was my wizard recorder playing in primary school (oh, you heard about it?), and I (in)famously sing like a girl (a bad girl, obviously), but that's been about it. Anyway, now I'm sort of learning to play the guitar, only I don't actually have a 'axe' (is that correct terminology?) so I can only practice at friends' houses, but it's a start. Without an end, most probably, but the best things are usually open-ended. I should be playing "chords", apparently. At the moment I'm having only limited success. 'A House Is Not A Motel' is perhaps the easiest thing I have found so far, which is handy, it being a great song. Could anyone give me the "chords" to any of the Go-Betweens songs, preferably those without bar "chords", since I can't play those yet. There don't seem to be any on the modern interweb. I know I'm being boring, I apologise. Thank you. Some people said some things (they always do, and I'm still glad for it). I shall attempt to recount some things which they said. Typed. Here's The Pinefox. I still know of no others. Though even if I did know of others, I wouldn't know of others. >Welthorpe was once, I recall, interested in - was it? - Edward Gorey, who >is also commemorated some way or other >somewhere over there. Not the same, >of course, as S&G's 'Richard >Corey'. Fine things to be interested in. But spare a thought for Jackanory. At a pinch, ...Morning Glory. Or even Tobermory. I always thought the Wombles were common, until I found out it was just where they lived. Tobermory? No, Wimbledon. John Fashanu? No, but he made that clay sculpture over there... Nick Dastoor took us through the various methods of defrosting fridges. Nick, you sound like a good person to live with, I think I might move in with you for a week or so, say around the beginning of Febuary. Would that be OK? The Mousy fellow also said: >you can guarantee >that half of us will say something along the lines of 'well it might >not >be my >favourite album of theirs, but it's still better than anything else > >around'. >This is a sure sign that we've become REM fans. Hey, some of us already are! Le Renard de Pines (encore): >Folk in New York have heard of la Welthorpe, by the way. But they can't > >put a face to the name. Can you? I could, but that's what the photographs are for. However, even those aren't sufficient, damn it, I mean they're all the same; eyes skyward, little-girl-lost. It's time for something new, so lets run a competition to find a new pose for Welthorpe. Answers on a post-it note, just stick them to Nick's fridge. Pinefox also told us not to remember Kingmaker; and we had, until he went and mentioned them. Oh no! On an unrelated note, I thought it was common knowledge that Struan and Isobel used to go out with each other, so why is everyone so surprised to discover they actually had sex? Isn't that normal boyfriend-girlfriend behaviour, or have I got it wrong? Look, it's Iain Hatcher: >My cycloptic colleague Ian with one I Ian Nicolson very kindly sent me >a >package with all the Go-Betweens' albums nestled within. What a nice boy that Nicholson chap is. Can one be a 'boy' and a 'chap' at the same time? And he looks a bit like Nick Cave as well. Iain, be sure to get them wrapped in cotton wool straight away, there's a good lad. You are the luckiest man of the week. Can one be a 'lad' and....oh, forget it... Andrew Churchman was very kind and typed out the lyrics to Hurley's Having Dreams. However, being as anal as I am, when your own ears hear certain mistakes, they must be corrected. So I'll try to. This might not be right either though. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here she comes in the April sun in her dungarees And she's up for fun. Smiling like she's a crazy girl and she makes a Face like she owns the place, and she does. We indulge ourselves in creating a neck of beauty And circumstance. Not to mention her bold intention To keep the band and she's only 17. Now she's 8 months pregnant, in a dress she's so elegant. Does a handstand maybe, though it's not good for the baby. Oh, Hurley's having dreams, little Hurley's having dreams, and He kicks and then he screams, and I can't get to sleep. Oh Hurley I could weep! Hurley dreams of the time when he was a horse in Czechoslovakia. Hurley dear you're a human being, have your fun just now but gonna have to deal. She looks so fantastic, pale blue sun specs made of plastic. How she used to love me, her love goes on little Hurley. Oh, Hurley's having dreams, little Hurley's having dreams, and He kicks and then he screams, and I can't get to sleep. Oh Hurley I could weep! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wake up, wake up, it's that summer feeling again! Soon, soon... Alasdair xx PS Forgot to say WELCOME BACK ARCHEL! YAY! _________________________________________________________________________ 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: I stalk Andrea Corr
by Kenneth P Y Chu 20 Jan '01

20 Jan '01

Hello, Wow, after the longest Sinister mail subject line ever (The gnarl...I am wearing), someone has cunningly beaten it by adding Re: in front of it and cheekily stolen the award! Nice one, I'm going for the award for the crappiest subject line ever, I think I've done a good job. Talking of jobs, woohoo they HAVE reschuduled by interview to some day that is not too far in the future! So I still have a chance of getting this job yet, which pays great cash and apparently sends me to Nude York for a few weeks' training at the start of it! Ruvi Summons talked about his experience with dance and love and PE, which just triggered my youthhood memories too... Back in primary school when I was 10, I was still living in Hong Kong then, I remember there was this girl that I really fancied, pretty as the world could be, she was. She lives in the next block of flats as I was, so we kind of lived quite close. I was never really in her circle of friends so I never really talked to her, except when I walk home with her and stuff. Although it's only a 2 minutes walk home, I treasured every second of it. Anyhow that went on for 2 years and in our class, our seats get rearranged every 6 months, and on my final year of primary school, with some stroke of luck I got put right next to her! That final 6 months was a dream come true. I got to be friends with her and stuff (as much of a friend as my wussiness took me anyway). For some reason, at the final few weeks, she was being really nice to me and she would like tap me on the shoulder and then giggle and run off. I never knew what that meant. After primary school I moved to England with my family, and then a few months into that, the idea has finally struck home. She fancied me too, but, by then, it was all too late... She was probably the only girl who ever liked me! Or maybe there are other girls who do/did, that I am just being an idiot again and haven't realised! The moral of the story is I dunno, that Ken's an idiot I guess. Childhood crushes and Red Bulls Ken ====================================================================== I reminded myself of the looks you gave, when we were getting on and I bet you're making shells back home for a sturdy boy to wear - 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: Jeepster News ...now coming from Auckland, New Zealand, motto: "Where the action is"
by Lawrence Mikkelsen 20 Jan '01

20 Jan '01

OK, firstly, appologies if you've already read this. Secondly, appoligies if anyone has pipped me at the post and sent this to the list earlier today. I get the digest, so I'm perpetually a few hours behind the rest of sinist*r-land. OK, from the NME.com (ie. possible *completely wrong and/or innacurate) ***BELLE AND SEBASTIAN NEWSFLASH*** (formally bought to you by Jeepster News, which now seems to no longer exist. Remember how exciting getting those e-mails used to be? ... c'mon Jeepster ... don't let some fat kind in New Zealand do your job for you .....) here goes .... ******************************* BELLE AND SEBASTIAN have been working in the recording studio with the producer of PETULA CLARK's '60s smash hit 'DOWNTOWN', NME.COM can exclusively reveal. The Glasgow-based group - who scored a Number 15 hit with their last single, 'Legal Man' - recorded two new songs this week in the city's CaVa studios with Mike Hurst, who produced the Grammy-winning classic Clark single, which in 1964 topped the US charts and went to Number Two in Britain. A spokesperson for the band told NME.COM: "They recorded two new songs, which don't have names yet. We approached Mike Hurst, and he was up for it. Everyone's a fan of 'Downtown'." Hurst, who lives in London, was a member of Dusty Springfield's backing band The Springfields and also produced records by Manfred Mann. Describing the new songs as "pop songs," the spokesperson said that the intention had been to record a single, but the band were still undecided what to do with them. They have another new track which was recorded last year while they were doing their XFM charity Christmas compliation album track, 'O Come, O Come Emmanuel'.". ******************************* Cool, although I would really like a new album this year, *something* sure won't go amiss. In other Jeepster news, Ian Maculloch of Echo & The Bunnymen fame, has been signed to Jeepster and will release a solo album at the end of the year. This has nothing to do with the scheduled Bunnymen album also due later this year on Cooking Vinyl. That's it for me, and for Jeepster. Lawrence. PS - Laura Llew, I love you for reigniting my dormant love of The Pixies. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: 3... 6... 8 and a half.... Seconds of Light
by vu sleeper 20 Jan '01

20 Jan '01

I think if you like looking at people as much as I do (on those Sinister photogallery), maybe some of you might be interested in www.antidoll.com or www.makeoutclub.com ? I'm not on makeoutclub, if you were wondering.... It's somewhat similiar to the amihotornot.com website, but these have profiles and I think are more interesting because a lot of these people like belle & sebastian (are b & s emo ?) Random things: I'm addicted to yahoo's Literia, which is basically Scrabble. I've played seventeen games, and have only won one, so I'm very bad at it. I just don't bother with the double word points or anything, I just spell just to get rid of letters. So now I've gotten quite a few people addicted to scrabble !! It's soooo fun, if anyone wants a game, please aim me: sleepercat. Anyroad, I'm going back to lurking. vu +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: notebooks outplayed your lists
by P F 19 Jan '01

19 Jan '01

You may see me around Hammersmith tube at around 6:30 this evening, scratching my head and frantically scribbling something in the usual southeastern scrawl. Don't pay any attention, I'll just be writing down the Magnetic Fields' set-list. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.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: cold mashed potatoe,tractors,the canterbury tales and ornamental fish ponds....
by Desmond Torpey 19 Jan '01

19 Jan '01

hello..... ....thought i would take time off from the giddy social whirl that is my life and drop you all a line...it'll have to be quick though...my silk hankerchiefs havnt been pressed for tonights cocktail gathering,the maid has run off with my yacht and tara palmer tomkinson is lying on the lawn face down in the ornamental fish pond....the above statement may or may not be lies..... ....i'm having lovely dreams about running down every member of the A level exam board in a large tractor..its *ARGH* mock exams in one week and i can safely say that the last eighteen months of college has passed through me like an undercooked chicken korma...i know nothing....but when youre studying chaucer i dont suppose that matters..anyone who has ever had the misfortune to read these paticular works of english will sympathise...oh how the teachers try to sell it to you as tales of murder,debauchery and lewd sexual conduct...in truth they understand as much as their bewildered students.... example: o leeve sire shrewe, Jhseu shorte thy lef! yet prechstow and seist an hateful wyf yrekened is for oon of thise meschances been ther non othere manner resemblances ..theres a packet of slightly melted maltesers for anyone who can find the sexual conduct in that...or indeed understand a word...i'm sure its a very interesting story and the language is very beautiful...but come on now.... ...hmmmmm...square dancing...i had similar experiences....shivering in your indecently short shorts and wishing that you would be paired off with that paticular days most beautiful girl..fickle is the mind of an eight year old...the fact that the hall used for PE was also used for eating lunch and that the lesson was always directly after the feeding frenzy took away the romantic atmosphere somewhat...it was extremely hard to dosie doe when you were in danger of treading in cold mashed potatoe at every twirl..hmmmmm..... ....content? i'll make a vain stab...just to say that i have really grown to love FYHCYWLAP in the last week or so...in my humble opinion it beats the pants (although very chraming pants they are) off TBWTAS...and its the best washing up album in the world...ever!....yes this may sound strange but searching for that last elusive teaspoon while 'womans realm' plays is an experience not to be missed...or maybe my life needs more meaning...probably...but hey..i'll be playing a live gig in just over a month and i'm ridicolously excited...and very,very scared...i'm considering wearing some kind of mask to hide my blushes if i play the drums like a fool...or animal from the muppet babies...i'm far too innocent to talk about the undoing of bras so i'll be going.... ta ta! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.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: Once again, nme.com beats the Jeepster mailing hands down at getting us the news.....
by Lucy Alder 19 Jan '01

19 Jan '01

Alright, alright, I know I've just posted. It is content, though and not, I suspect, unconnected to Peter Miller's inability to post without mentioning Petula Clark. Am I right? http://nme.com/NME/External/News/News_Story/0,1004,13623,00.html Does Honey have spelling-mistake-insertion software? I always read through what I've written before pressing send (anal, moi?) and yet I always spot errors when my posts come back to me. Jiucy Lcuy __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.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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