May 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Splashy picnics and the pizza debacle
by mummy i've grazed my knee 08 May '01

08 May '01

Hmmm, where to start. It has been a busy week for me and I'm feeling weary now, only Drumstick lollies and csndy sticks are keeping me awake, but i must must report on events. YORK PICNIC Most of you probably don't realise, but this took place on the very same day as your own fair Primrose Hill event. We had no kites (although we watched someone else flying one) no football and no Tigermilking, but we did have a great time. I can imagine Lucy sniggering as she reads that there were only 11 of us, but i think it was the perfect number! There were enough to make for vibrant sing song and conversation, but not to many so as to leave some poor shy soul stranded on their own, drowning in a deep sea of inaudible chatter. The sun shone bright and the daisies looked lovely as we tucked into our party rings, ribena and that very english delicacy, the jaffa cake. After the initial quiet while people decided they didn't know anyone and didn't have anything to say, the party picked up. I was rather pleased at the quality of non Yorkites who turned up. There may only have been three, but James managed to get from Leicester, Jules from Newcastle and Ryan from Illinois, sort of. Rachel and Feather Boa kindly provided a guitar, which was played for the most part by Mr. S.Hallifax, and I provided album sleeve lyrics and a small violin accompaniment. Everyone sang very nicely, especially Gina, Jules and the quiet singer next to me. When it got cold, we went into the bar, ordered a pizza and dispanded to allow Chris, Stuart, Feather Boa, Dangerous Mike, Rachel and myself to go and cover Is It Wicked Not To Care? Sinister picnicsa are hard to leave though, and before long James was back wanting a room to stay in because he'd missed the last bus/train back to Leicester. It was a lovely day, thank you to all who turned up. PADDLING AROUND ASTRID On Sunday I went to Astrid at Fibbers, who were absolutely brilliant, almost as brilliant as meeting Splash from support band The Asylum Seekers, a sinister member and long time fan. PIZZA DEBACLE Now Stu D is no longer in Belle And Sebastian and what with Peacock Johnson's law suit, he needs a bit of extra cash. I never thought i'd see him working for Ali's Kitchen delivering pizza though! A skinny moussy man whith a whispy beard and wooly hat delivered my pizza the other night, and I was sure it was him, then tonight, as I walked up to this very room, I saw him again, and he was speaking with a wee Scottish accent! That's all I have to say about that. Chris Jones. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: californ I A
by Hannah Brown 08 May '01

08 May '01

Well, it has to be said i had a top time at that there picnic. every single one of you were lovely and one day i hope we can all live in a big house together and grow lots of strawberries. yes i did meet graham coxon, he signed my purse, and i breifly met that tindersticks bloke who is on one of the front covers. All in all it was a very strange day. Peter carter is brilliant and i think he is sponsored by GSYBE because he mentions them quite a bit (proof in the latest messege). I would have talked to pf more but he scared me.The tigermilkin was ACE i just wanted to cry when they played b&s, they even play a tindersticks song, snif. And i seem to remember being escorted to my bus stop by a limping sweety, who could that be then???????? Thats bout it, hello everyone hopefully this film will look fab. er, yeh muchstuff hannah b +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: debut
by Hugo Shannon 08 May '01

08 May '01

Hello! A thousand and one apologies if this has gone to the wrong place (my intention is to post to the list), though it is my debut. I'm even making a special effort with capital letters and grammar (but possibly not spelling). All rare things in my e - mails. The picnic in London sounded most excellent fun, I was almost tempted to go, but was a bit scared, and had a wedding to go to as well. Next time definitely. I havn't kicked a football in anger in about 5 years, but I still fancy myself as a bit tasty at the beautiful game (on a tiny pitch and 10 minute halves). Someone mentioned a drink called a sidecar(?) or similar. What is it? - the effects sound interesting. Someone also mentioned stepping on groups of three drain covers. I used to avoid them religously, but some bad things happened anyway, then I stopped avoiding them and nothing particularly bad happened, now I think better safe than sorry, and avoid them when I can (but I don't go to extreme lengths). I've heard that if you step on a single drain cover it will cancel any ill effect of stepping on three drains, and its a good thing to step on two drain covers. I haven't seen any proof of the efficacy of any of this though. I've just heard it from several different people who don't know each other. So just be careful everyone. I'm thinking of taking a week off work (then quitting - another office summer? - Poo more like!)and following the 'seb (sorry!) around for a week of English dates. This is the thing I've most looked forward to in ages. Anyone else have similar plans? Goodbye! Hugo _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: nme.com b&s interview
by karren 08 May '01

08 May '01

for those of you who haven't had the chance to read it yet, here is the link for nme's *exclusive feature*/interview with belle and sebastian they promised a while ago: http://www.nme.com/NME/External/Features/Features_Interview/0,1420,27944,00… its longer than i expected! enjoy, karren +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Charleston, phones, SCAD, and me.
by Ozma . 08 May '01

08 May '01

On the subject of Charleston and pretty phones, here I am. I do not live in Charleston, NC---I'm deeply sorry, but I will have to miss that picnic as I live on the opposite side of the United States of America. Isn't Charleston a dance? I think I've always wanted to learn how to. Also, SCAD. it's a lovely acronym, and the school sounds interesting. When you mentioned all the nifty girls it caught my eye---maybe the nifty-ness would rub off if i journeyed to Savannah, Georgia from my plaid perch here in California. To someone who said they have a pretty new phone (i pressed delete before I was aware of the sender), I wish I could call and cheer you up but these (insert swear word here) calls cost so much money and these (insert another swear word) phone companies rip everyone off. The world would be a much happier place, if you could just pick up the phone and dial and perhaps make a new friend from anywhere. Rather than the secluded calls that take place these days. they say i'm a dreamer, -Me* _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.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: where's my post vocalic /r/?
by Alix Ure Campbell 08 May '01

08 May '01

hullo i've rejoined on this email address. i haven't unsubscribed on the other on though so really the equation is 'list members = x minus 1' .Or maybe minus lots, depending how many people felt it necessary to subscribe more than once. Anyway, down to business. I should be writing up my assignment right now. It's about Ally Cook and his funny scottish voice. I recorded him saying things like 'douse louse mouse cow' and i have to comment on the significant features. mainly, it's him giggling. only 1500 minus 549 words to go. shit. peter, whom i don't know, said this: >Ah lovely spam which cheered me up. carol prior said: >The Careers Service will be giving a talk on "What to do after an >Art >Degree" on Tuesday 8th May at 12 noon in Lulham. All art >students >welcome. but that wasn't on sinister. I hope the picnic was fun. I was a few miles away at the time, slicing cooked meat and moving boxes around in sub zero temperatures. it seems that i missed meeting lots of new people, but i don't really care. but, hey, i did meet honey. well, i've been listening to a lot of jon anderson's solo work. they tend to be songs that are shorter than 15 minutes. maybe i should have played some at tigermilking. lucy alder appears to be preoccupied with her breasts. i don't blame her. i like the missy elliot song. tomorrow i am going to thorpe park. i want to be scared on rollercoasters. you know, i've never been on one before. the only things that still amuse me are spelling errors and anacoluthons. of people leaving. my flatmate is going back to israel, and i'm sad. they know things, like how to say 'sinai' properly. we are going to get a new hoover though, and name it after her. back to work. fetch me the pro plus, the coffee, the red bull, the speed and the pure adrenalin shots, now! alix.x +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: It's just like watching Terry Gilliam's Brazil
by Mark Casarotto 08 May '01

08 May '01

Hi again, Sorry to bang on, but if any Lahndoners (including girls! Especially girls, in fact) do fancy playing footie every now and again, please take a sec to join the spankin' new and terribly original *Sinister Fitba* YahooGroup by emailing sinisterfitba-subscribe(a)yahoogroups.com <mailto:sinisterfitba-subscribe@yahoogroups.com> - that would be smashing, ta. Once we've got a few more players we'll actually see whether we're capable of organising a piss-up in a brewery, or similar. Oh, and Robbo - can you declare the Greenwich picnic date (unless you've done so already, thus rendering this digestive a greater fool than ever before)? Thank you! BG Mark xxx ********************************************************************** HIT Entertainment PLC, Maple House 149 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7NF Tel: +44 (20)7 554 2500, Fax: +44 (20)7 388 9321 The contents of this e-mail from HIT Entertainment PLC are confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy or further distribute this e-mail; please notify us by telephone on +44 (20)7 554 2500, and delete this message from your computer system. This e-mail has been checked by our anti-virus system before leaving us; we accept no responsibility for the e-mail and any attachments once they leave us. www.hitentertainment.com www.bobthebuilder.com www.hitwildlife.com ********************************************************************** +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Can I get a picnic?
by Mark Casarotto 08 May '01

08 May '01

Hello there, Is there a Glasgow picnic organised for Saturday 16th June? If so, how did I miss it? Can someone send me the info, and if they can't, how about sorting one out? Can I meet Jenowl? Chris Butler, who is far better at footie than an American deserves to be, suggested playing every couple of weeks. YES PLEASE! I tried to get people interested in this a few weeks ago, but got quite a poor response. If you're in London, are male or female, and fancy a semi-organised game of football every now and then, let Chris and I know and we'll sort something out. I reckon we need a dozen definites to make a go of it. Robinson? Trousse? Brooker? Chu? Taylor? Jones? Smith? Dastoor? Strange? Brown? Parkinson? Norman? Pallis? Come on, there must be hundreds of you! Thanks to everyone who came to TM on Saturday - there were about 70 people there, which isn't bad for zero flyering, three days notice and a venue with no name. Cheers for making it special, y'all :-) Big love, Peter Cetera xxx ********************************************************************** HIT Entertainment PLC, Maple House 149 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7NF Tel: +44 (20)7 554 2500, Fax: +44 (20)7 388 9321 The contents of this e-mail from HIT Entertainment PLC are confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy or further distribute this e-mail; please notify us by telephone on +44 (20)7 554 2500, and delete this message from your computer system. This e-mail has been checked by our anti-virus system before leaving us; we accept no responsibility for the e-mail and any attachments once they leave us. www.hitentertainment.com www.bobthebuilder.com www.hitwildlife.com ********************************************************************** +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I am the best
by Peter Carter 08 May '01

08 May '01

matchmaker. *** Warning, this will probably be the longest e-mail I ever write to this list and most of it's rubbish/things other people have already said/things people who didn't go to the picnic will have no interest in*** Well, I went to the sinister picnic and, I must say, I have never met as group of more intellegent, interesting, diverse and downright friendly people. Way to go you. I'm currently considering coming down from Blackpool for the last one... if I can. I'd recommend anyone going, it's the best experiance I've had since my first GYBE! concert (magical). I went back to college, and everyone I met asked "How did it go", to which I replied "It was terrible... *long pause while I recieved hugs, sympathy etc*... it was full of Belle and Sebastian fans". One person even replied "Well, what did you expect!?". Ah, I love my friends. Ok, from start to finish. Well, I got on the tube to Kings Cross (changing for Camden Town) and saw a girl in flares, a woolly jumper, with headphone of and a bag of picnic stuff. I asked her if she was going to the picnic on primrose hill, to which she replied "No" and ran away. I got the the Odion about 13:45 and met up with a few sinisteries. All of whom seemed pretty damn great. Much kudos to Hannah for meeting Graham Coxon and the guy from the tindersticks... and bringing the super 8 camera, we await the results. Any chance of posting it in realplayer format and a huge .mpg? I'm a big fan of low speed downloads for film, realplayer sreams are just downright unwatchable. The picnic on primrose hill was also brilliant. As was tigermilking. I was a little disappointed with some, but that's just me being a maul content, because it was actually the best music I'd ever heard in a club. The whole atmousphere was wonderful, the entire place singing along to the rude bit in LLPJ. Erm, thanks to Rob for getting me those drinks I still owe him for, and Robert Smith, for giving me a lot more confidence in my own opinions, and generally being interesting. Oh, and at tigermilking I did a great bit of matchmaking. HannahB, and that Sam guy from Nottingham, were obviously made for each other, and I figured that the two deserved a little bit of happiness. And by the end of the night they were together thanks to me. I think I scared The Boy G, with my constant 'How much do you love me!?' comments to the pair, so I'll shut up about it now. I think that's about it about the picnic, other than the fact that I also did the whole honey groupie thing. I was a little drunk though, though not as much as I deserved to be, given the amount I drunked. Oh, and many many many thanks to Eric for putting me up AND finding by mobile. You're a star. Hopefully I'll be able to get into contact with my lovely Kara soon, before she disolves in her own tears thinking I've deserted her. Ok... on Sunday I went out again. This time to my union. It was full of drunken rugby players who decided to strip halfway through the night. The word for the day is inches, and the number is 2. Anyway, one of my friends had his friend down (called Joe), who is also in a band who are great (Fear of Drugs), and I ended up getting on really well with him. We then proceeded to scare the shit out of a girl called Beth by screaching very loadly to the chorus of 'Maria', at witch point she got really annoyed and said "You're ruining this song", so I said "You love me really" and she said "I'm not drunk enough to say that" and scowled. I followed this up by singing along to the chorus of 'It's raining men' with 'It's raining rain'. Which amused a few people, pissed off a few more and annoyed Beth even more. Later in the night me and Joe drank several Sidekicks, following up quickly by throwing the empty containers into a corner and shouting 'Damn your eyes'. Which was fun. On a totally unrelated note, I have decided to join the capitalist ranks with my own line of t-shirts. Possible ideas for slogans include '......... and only Kevin Costner can save the world.', 'My radiator is leaky', and the complete Great Western Trains emergency instruction. I am not letting the fact that everyone consulted made it perfectly clear that under no circumstances would they buy these items. I'm looking on it as a challenge. Peter +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Slugs and snails and puppy dogs' tails
by Lucy Alder 08 May '01

08 May '01

Hello everyone! I will try not to make this post too short. First, a big thank you to everyone who came to the picnic and Tigermilking on Saturday. You all helped to make it what it was, which is to say that it was was a very, very good day indeed. Being picnic secretary, I managed to bring home a few items of lost property. If you are no longer in possession of a hood, a jumper or a kagool, please get in touch with me. No hoaxes please - there are certain pieces of information about the items mentioned above which have been witheld - I WILL know if it's your kagool or not, you will not pull the wool over my eyes, no sir! Sam Walton said > Lucy Alder (WHAT A SET!), Sam, I hope you were talking about the records I was playing ;-) This reminds me to say thank you to Vu for my lovely Sillustration. You gave me a more delicate nose and smaller boobs than I could ever hope for and you are, therefore, my very dear friend. I noticed on Ebay the other day that somebody was selling clocks with the IYFS album cover, featuring the lovely Ciara, on the front - not too expensive, but probably in contravention of numerous copyright rules. I went back to look for it today and it was gone! Sigh, maybe they'll make some more. But then, what should I notice but this - an original Tigermilk, currently at a relatively cheap £62 (it hasn't met its reserve yet though). Anyway, if you're interested, this is the place to point your mouse: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?viewItem&item=1429406453 Finally, I don't think anybody has mentioned that the delightful Miss Lander is a list mum in her own right - she's set up a Yahoo Club for people going to the Glasgow gigs, so if you're getting all excited and want to babble away about what colour flares the boy Geddes will be wearing, do join up! It's also quite useful for practical information like names of good B&Bs. And it's also fun! Here's where it is: http://uk.clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/tenbiggestwanks You will notice that the club has a rude name. But of course! Juicy Lucy ===== We're going out! http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/london-indie ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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