January 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: "I never seem to come out as the princess I *know myself to be*!"
by David Moore 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

Hi All, The Future Pilot aka album came out today & is liked. Hard to describe after just one listen. Good though. Belle and Sebastian content: Stuart sings on track 11, Om Namah Shivaya (& you get nearly 10 minutes of his beautiful chanting, unlike the abridged version on the single) Isobel blesses track 2, Ananda Is The Ocean with her copyright breathy vocals & plays piano on the 3rd number, Witchi Tai To (although its hard to find in the mix). Stevie Reverb & Neil The Manager get specially thanked (as does at least one fragrant Sinisterine). Fascinating sleeve notes too. The new Arab Strap single is dull. Stephen Pastel is a mobile-free zone. Love, 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: You can't touch this
by Nigel R. Townshend 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

as i write this i'm listening to set a drift on memory bliss by PM Dawn, a song i loved along with MC hammer's you can't touch this when i was ten. ahhh happy memories. Theres was lots of tlak of fraggle rock the other day, i have been to fraggle rock lighthouse, its in falmouth. It was a bit of an anit climax, no margie the compost heap, oh well. As everyone seeems to be going to see Grandaddy i thought i'd just say that they were so cool when i saw them on saturday although they didn't play everything beautiful is far away and jason forgot the words to one of the songs, i forgot which one but he looked so upset. and the elliott smith song they did while soundchecking wasn't played which would have made my night. but a fun was night had balancing on one leg, as i was suffering sore foot syndrome. i had dream about stuart murdoch being the manager of sheffield united the other night. i dont think i need any further explanation. so i shall leave Nigel Love ------------------------------------------- Post Scriptum: Who's ya daddy ? http://www.lundwood.u-net.com/bettysclinic.htm www.wwf.com daddy knows best +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Staring at the pink formica
by Robin Stout 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

It's a strange sense of guilt you feel when you sleep in someone else's bed and they don't even know about it. I stayed at my friend's house at the weekend and slept in the bed of the christian fundamentalist who usually lives there. Normally I wouldn't mind, and maybe it was because I'd been reading the Bible by his bed, but I suddenly felt very guilty about sleeping there. It's almost like wearing a stranger's pants without them knowing, isn't it? In Leviticus, I'm sure you'd be smote for that. My sister is very excited at the moment because she's organising her friend's hen night. She phoned me up telling me how she's found a brilliant hotel which is covered in plastic fur and pink formica. I'm a little worried about her enthusiasm and visible reddening about wipe-clean surfaces. What sort of party could she be thinking of? I hope it's going to be a tupperware party. At least we know where Erica's faux-fur has gone to. Personally, I'm reddening at the prospect of Belle and Sebastian Downtown style. When I was eight or nine Petula Clarke was my favourite singer. My sister and I used to record radio shows on our tape recorder and introduce songs from Cliff and Bros and lovely, glorious Petula. One of us would listen to the radio and the other would talk for a while into the recorder, then when a song came on the radio we'd quickly flick the switch and record it. For a while things were great, when we had the batteries we'd do a roadshow, and they used to call me the furry rice-crispie. Then Caroline came home with Dinosaur Jr Records and old-style DJs like myself weren't wanted anymore. I recorded my last show, span Downtown for one last time and dreamed of busy streets and plastic raincoats. Robin 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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Sinister: Fox in the Know
by Peter Miller 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

B&S producer Mike Hurst has not only worked with PP Arnold, the First Lady of Immediate, he's also worked with the First Lady of Big Knockers, former top model and forces sweetheart Samantha Fox. I wonder if he told Isobel? Here's the evidence, as supplied by private detective Stiffy Magoo: http://www.zakstarkey.com/sfx.html Hursty also produced The Buggles, thus influencing Trevor Horn and changing the face of pop. So fear not, Robin Stout. Pet Clark cool is just a small part of Hursty's career. I take back what I said about "I Heard It Through The Grapevine". It was really stupid, even by my standards. I've only seen two Hal Hartley films, one was OK, the other was a bit ropey. Brier, I only heard about twenty seconds of "69 Love Songs", so yes, I suppose I was kidding. Sort of. On Saturday we had a fantastic Sinister picnic. Jordi wore his Gentle Waves badge, I wore my bus t-shirt. Maria gave me chocolate, for which I will be eternally grateful. Noisette, no less. Isn't that half of a Cocteau Twins song? Elenita99 is going to London, so get ready. As usual, we talked about YOU. We decided that you were a right bunch of puffs. On Sunday I saw "Billy Elliot". Up yours "Gregory's Girl"! It's nice to see that great band Tompaulin getting a few mentions on the list again. A few weeks ago I mistakenly called them "sad sack of arse bastards". I hope I didn't cause any offence. I was, of course, referring to those insufferable puddings, It's Jo and Danny. Baxendale for Prime Minister! 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: whether you're rich or whrther you're poor, it's nice to be rich
by chris perriman 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

god, it's nearly february big stu asked about kings of convenience: i don't know about the album but i bought a copy of the 'playing live in a room' ep because of the quality of the boys' flares in the photo in the NME when they appeared in the on section, i thought anybody with brown flares *that* cool must be worth a try and i'm glad i did coz it's fantastic. i was looking through the archives and decided to round up all my own posts and copy them to my computer so i typed in pez (my name if you hadn't figured it out) and expected my 6 or 7 posts to appear on the screen BUT NO!!! instead i got a load of SMUT written about me from before i even joined the list, i investigated and found out some of you had a conversation about pez candy back in '98, but i got a shock non the less. here's a selection of the aforementioned SMUT - you've all made me desire pez. i've never had any pez - around 7:10 or so..with pez of course - pez is pretty good - i don't have pez!! i've never eaten pez in my life and i don't know how to - created specifically to meet society's pez needs - maybe i will eat some pez one night and wear daisies another night - i never said 'poo on the pez - I like my pez - the same as not rubbing your pez - taking your pez out in public - Pez Body Parts and not only but also, this popped up too PS - PEZ - TORONTO - B&S SHOW THE 24TH OCT 'not too special' i hear you cry (i also hear 'sod off you wierdo' shouted from somewhere on the outskirts of edinburgh, but i am quietly ignoring you) but the fact is that october the 24th is my birthday - now if *that* ain't freaky. talking about smut, aren't our own abbreviations, FISHYCLAP and TWATTYBUS, a bit rude in their own right? OOH! OOH! who was it who sent a wordsearch? am i the first to olve it? (or the only one) if so do i get a prize? T G W M A R I E C B T P I V O O U A C G W G U Q T C A N I D E E H E R E F E S E L I A H V G T E E I F Y O P L O R E L M V U C E V L K N S A E A S Y W F E K V E A M E J X S A U C E B Y P L U I O Y P C Z N L P E N S C O O P K A V I S I T V E Y W L E P M I F B K W P E D E B A Z S E N E Y E M A R I E T O A U N D R E L H T Y O O L M V N E A E E J S A U C E Y I Y P C O P V I S I T L E Words: Apple, Honey, Love, Majic, Marie, Money, Rad, Sauce, Turtle, Visit, Yo. is that all? i think so, yes well in that case i'll go. seeya Pez* ps, big virtual hugs and kisses for whoever can tell me who the quote in the subject is from _________________________________________________________________________ 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 state I am in" - The movie
by Alexander Bartilson 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

Hi, I haven't written for quite a while, sorry about that (I'm not sure anyone noticed though :-) ) The film Festival here in Gothenburg, Sweden, has started. Yesterday I saw "The state I am in". The moment I saw the name of the film in the catalogue I just knew I had to see it. It didn't have anything to do with Belle & Sebastian though. It was a German movie about a family of (ex-)terrorists (at least I think it was). A mom, a dad and a 15 year old girl. Anyway, it was quite good. I have started a new endeavor. Have you heard the lovely story about Sarah Records? You probably have but I only heard it a couple of weeks ago (If you haven't you can read all about it on this page: http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~shink/sarahhome.htm) Now I've decided to try to collect all of the 100 7" singles. So if anyone has any of thoose singles and their just collecting dust feel free to contact me and we can work something out. Ok, that's all folks, for this time anyway. ///Alexander +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Geddes in Japan
by Miss Dolphin 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

Hi...this is my first post. Just got back from sweet sweet concert of Teenage Fanclub in Tokyo. What I found besides TFC on the stage was Chris Geddes playing keyboards! I got lucky I saw TFC and (a piece of) B&S with just one tix....! Laters, Dolphin +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Grandaddy; what Q?; I-Fancy-You-Can-I-Get-A-Snog-Now Day; And rants of a giver upper.
by idleberry 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

Hi hi, Well, the weekend has calmed me down a bit since last weeks major panic thing. This weekend, me and my boyfriend are off to see Grandaddy at Southampton, that is, if he has got the tickets through the post yet. A few Grandaddy things for anyone who is interested: 1. GMTV have started using Crystal Lake as a sort of background thing for their adverts. 2. They are going to be on Channel 5 on Sunday. 3. I like them. I am bursting to ask you all a question, about something on the telly yesterday, but I feel that it would make me look even sadder than, well, sad. So try and guess what my question is, and I'll quietly admit to you if you are right. So, Valentines nearly upon us, so whats going on with the popularity contest that is the Crush vote thingy? Is it still going? Does anyone still care, and hope that from across the crowded room, someone who is slightly good looking will notice them, and vote? I've been out buying all my valentines pressies already. I felt dead chuffed, but I was a little bit disturbed when I thought of my overdraft. So I decided not to think about the overdaft and concerntrate on the smoochiness of Valentines. I would have found Mark Waudby's post funny, if he hadn't actually told me first. So it sort of had the same effect as watching the same Simpsons episode twice. In a row. And if he had found my ideas funny as well, rather than just, looking at me, and telling me they were crap. SO I'M NOT PLAYING. *sulks mildly* This idea of giving up fags is really not a good idea. It makes me so much more irritable. Oooh, jeez, I really need a nicotine thing. Its a horrid feeling, trying to quit. Even the chewing gum I got doesn't do the trick really. I just munch it with frustrated angriness. I'm trying to do it to: 1. Save money 2. Taste sweeter than an ashtray 3. Save my health 4. cos I'm paranoid now I am in my early twenties, that wrinkles and fine lines are going to be appearing as quickly as spots did in my adolecence. Oh, and also grey bags under my eyes. 5. I don't want to look like my aunt. I tried to give up on Friday, and that lasted all of three hours. Oooh! Must resist, must resist.. ach, sod it, I'm off down the paper shop for some cigs. Love, The withdrawn idleberry ===== http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/corduroysmoke we're all smoking our corduroys in our secret little b+s club- what are you doing?? __________________________________________________ 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: Another year older, and deeper in debt...
by Gardiner, Stuart 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

Ah, the joys of Inca Cola. Peru's very own answer to Pepsi. Except, unfotunately I could never bring myself to use it as a substitute hangover cure instead of Irn-Bru, simply because when you're suffering the last thing you want to drink is something consisting almost entirely of colouring, giving it a bright yellow hue which is clearly not found anywhere in nature. Then again, what do I know, I'm pure and innocent, I would never get drunk and end up with a hangover... (oh look, is that a flock of pigs up there in the sky?) And after Saturday night (spent celebrating the fact that, as of today, I am another year closer to receiving my pensioners bus pass), I am still convinced that The Long Island Iced Tea Cafe may be a pretty decent nightclub, but it's sure as hell a crap name. Anyway, my reason for writing all this drivel was to ask: is the Kings Of Convenience album any good? All the reviewers keep saying they're like Nick Drake or B&S, but we all know how little they know about music... Answers on a postcard to the usual address... Big Stu PS MINT! +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 tried to explain 'wonkey donkey', no-one understood.
by fiona 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

hello sinilovelies, ooh, i'm having a strange sort of day. i took twenty quid out of a cash machine and now i can't find it. not pleased. grrr. today i've actually read some posts and noticed what was in them: vilkas managed to cram ribena and irn-bru in the same email (there are warnings that such a concoction may stain) and i nearly jumped for joy. i am the confirmed queen of irn-br, but lately i have been worried that i've been enjoying ribena a little too much. and some people have real problems. i think that jenny hit the nail on the head when she talked about drifting into being pretty normal, but still feeling a bit like an outsider because of the way stuff like b+s has affected you. i understood, and i sympathised. someone said that they don't make kids tv like they used to, well on the whole, of course they don't, but has anyone seen 'my parents are aliens'? its fantastic, it even has a cute scottish guy who isn't one of the popular kids. but stoopid itv have taken it off in favour of 'the worst witch' just another vehicle for precocious drama school brats talking in posh accents. i remember hating the kids at school who took drama lessons, perhaps it made them over-confident and thus unbearable, or maybe i was just jealous. i always go off on one when i'm writing sinister posts and start writing detailed psychological examinations of myself, until i realise what i'm doing and have to delete huge paragraphs. i mention this here, but i was just about to above, but just about managed to stop in time. sweetie mentioned going to a gig on her own. i haven't done that for ages, i'll have to one of these days, cos it really is an experience. i think we've had discussion about that before though on the list, so i won't labour the point. people sometimes take the piss outof me for being a sinister kid (principally my boyfriend) but then i laugh and remind him of his friend who has transcribed the lyrics to every recorded mansun song and put them on a messageboard. just thought i'd share. ok, enough of me, love and irn-bru (and those new 500ml ready to drink bottles of ribena) fiona. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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